LETTER TO MORTON ABRAMOWITZ FROM DAVE DURENBERGER

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01007R000100290004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 27, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
IN RESPONSE, PLEASE
REFER TO #86- 0799
BERNARD A. MIMAIION. STAN DMgCTOR
INC 0. NEWSOM. MINOQT/ STAR ONIECT0R
February 27, 1986
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz
Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
On behalf of the Select Committee on Intelligence,
we wish to invite you to appear before a hearing the
Committee will hold on March 20th at 4:00 P.M. The purpose
of this hearing is to address issues relating to planning of
intelligence on potentially critical situations in the Third
World. This hearing is being held as part of the Select
Committee's review of the Fiscal Year 1987 National Intelli-
gence Strategy and the Committee's consideration of guidelines
for the FY 1988 National Inrelli-gence Strategy.
The hearing will be held before the full Committee and,
of course, will be closed. Security considerations require
you to furnish a list of all witnesses and staff who will
accompany you to the Committee Clerk at least 24 hours in
advance of the hearing. We ask that your presentation be
as informal as possible and that any prepared statements be
submitted for the record. Your presentation should not
exceed 10-15 minutes so as to allow ample time for questions
by the Committee Members.
In our hearings, we are examining the entire intelligence
process; the levying of requirements; the collection,
analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information; and
the use of this information by the intelligence consumer.
As a key producer of intelligence on the Third World,
the Committee would like you briefly to outline your near-term
priorities for intelligence collection and analysis on
potentially critical situations that could affect important
U.S. interests there.
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Ambassador Morton Abramowitz
February 27, 1986
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In addition to yourself, we have also invited to
attend our March 20th hearing Secretary of State Shultz,
and Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs, in order to provide the
Committee an intelligence consumer's perspective. For the
views of other intelligence producers we have invited Mr.
Robert M. Gates, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency and LTG Leonard Perroots, Director,
Defense Intelligence Agency.
To give our staff ample time to prepare briefing materials
for this hearing, please arrange for your representatives
who will be Involved in the preparation for the session to
meet with our staff at least ten days before your scheduled
appearance. This will ensure that the Committee will be able
to cover all relevant issues.
If your staff has any questions concerning this hearing,
please have them contact John Despres or Bruce Berkowitz, our
staff members who are handling the':arrangements for this
session.
C
Patrick J. Leahy
Vice Chairman
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