WEEKLY REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
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• Publication Date: March 10, 1986
• Content Type: REPORT

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Analytical
-- ORES is working with OTE to set up another running for SISs of the
three-day course "Intelligence Collection in the 1990s" designed to
stimulate dialog between collection specialists and senior operating
officers on new collection systems.
-- NESA analysts continued a series of discussions with outside experts in
preparation for a study of the Near East and South Asia in the 1990s,
-- There were 13 briefings on the Hill this past week.
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Congress
-- Action is underway on obtaining courtesy calls with key members of Congress
for Bob Gates, prior to his confirmation hearing. Although the date has
not been set, SSCI is aiming for mid-April.
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-- The first in the series of SSCI hearings linked to the National
Intelligence Strategy start on 12 March with appearing on
support to military operations. Bob Gates appears on 13 and 20 March on
d Third World issues respectively, and and
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DDA 86-0167/6
7 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Richard J. Kerr
Deputy Director for Administration
Weekly Report for Period Ending 7 March 1986
3. On 24 February 1986, the DCI approved the Experimental Job Evaluation
and Pay Plan for the Agency secretarial occupation, with implementation to
take place on or before 1 October 1986. Between now and implementation, the
Office of Personnel (OP) will be working on administrative procedures for
conversion to the new system. OP is currently working with Directorate
representatives to establish criteria which will be used to convert people and
positions, and to provide guidelines to be used by the Directorates for
developing increased numbers of positions at the new Levels III and IV in
accordance with the objectives of the program. 25X1
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5. Clerical recruiters are continuing to step up their efforts in seeking
qualified applicants to fill clerk typist and stenographer needs throughout
the Agency. They have been visiting local high schools and business colleges
almost on a daily basis to promote interest in Agency careers in the
secretarial field and have been well-received by placement counselors and
students.
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DDI 01215-86
7 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: DDI Activity Report 3-7 March 1986
DCI/DDCI Assigned Tasks
ALA provided a selection of published intelligence on Soviet
and Cuban activities in Latin America to Congressman Brown at the
request of the DDCI.
OSWR and OGI are preparing talking points for an NSC meeting
on machine tools.
trip.
OGI, SOYA, and EURA prepared talking points for the DCI's
CRES provided the DCI/DDCI with a memorandum outlining the
Community minority- b-position on an imagery
decompartmentation issue.
Policy Support
ALA briefed Deputy Assistant Secretary Gelbard, State
Department, on Brazil's nuclear program.
Requests from North Africa watchers at State and DoD
generated typescripts on "Qadhafi's Internal Position: The
Impact of Sanctions," and "Algeria-Morocco: F-16 Politics."
NESA provided material on the Persian Gulf area for Craig
Fuller, Vice President Bush's Chief of Staff.
A NESA analyst met with Director for Nuclear
Nonproliferation Affairs at ACDA, Lewis Dunn, to discuss
implications of nuclear weapons in South Asia.
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OSWR briefed NSC Deputy Director Fortier concerning the
Pakistan seismic event; Ambassador Kennedy and Ambassador
Negroponte concerning sensitive reporting of nuclear weapon
developments; and participated in a briefing for the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Gelbard,
concerning the Brazilian nuclear program.
SOVA met with Jim Giffen, Chairman, US-USSR Trade and
Economic Council, to discuss issues likely to arise in his
forthcoming meetings with. Soviet officials.
OGI met with Judith Hammerschmitdt, Special Assistant to the
Attorney General for Narcotics in preparation for the Attorney
General's trip to Asia.
OGI briefed Secretary of Energy Harrington on the world oil
market outlook before he left on a trip to the Far East.
In response to a question raised by Secretary Shultz, EURA
drafted a short paper on the implications of an unexpected
overwhelming victory by the conservatives in the coming French
legislative election.
ACIS completed a request from Admiral Poindexter regarding
SS-20 monitoring capabilities.
OEA met with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, James Kelly, and also with Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Gaston
Sigur, to discuss OEA's research program.
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EURA published an intelligence assessment, "Spain:
Socialist Opposition to Gonzalez" and also one on "French
Socialists: A Party of Factions," timed to appear on the eve of
the legislative election.
Administrative and Personnel Matters
CRES is working with OTE to set up another running for SISs
of the three-day course "Intelligence Collection in the 1990s"
designed to stimulate dialog between collection specialists and
senior operating officers on new collection systems.
OEA is participating in the Taiwan conventional forces
briefing this week.
NESA and the Middle East Institute sponsored a conference on
Evolving Development Strategies in the Middle East focusing on
Syria, Algeria, and Pakistan.
NESA hosted an interagency conference to look at the
prospects for the Afghan army and the modalities of an eventual
Soviet withdrawal.
NESA analysts continued a series of discussions with outside
experts in preparation for a study of the Near East and South
Asia in the 1990s,
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Briefings on the Hill
There were 13 briefings on the Hill this past week.
ALA briefed Senator DeConcini on Angola and staffers on the
Senate Foreign Relatiosn Committee and the Defense Subcommittee
of the House Appropriations Committee on Nicaragua.
OSWR briefed Congressmen Cheney, Livingston and Stump of the
HPSCI on the Soviet's newest submarine, the Akula.
OCR provided Senator Pell with biographic reports on the FDN
leadership in Nicaragua.
C/ACIS met with the SSCI Staff concerning INF monitoring and
verification.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
NIC #01188-86
National Intelligence Council 7 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Harold P. Ford
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 28 February - 6 March 1986
I. DCI/DDCI Assigned Tasks
NI0/Africa (Fred Wettering) prepared talking points for the Acting
DCI on the Sudanese election.
NIO/CT (Charles Allen) prepared briefing papers for the DCI on the
terrorist threat to the Gulf States, Iranian support to terrorism, and
international terrorist trends.
NIO/East Asia (Carl Ford) prepared talking points for the Acting DCI
on the Aquino government.
Actingg IO/Economics
prepared background material for the Acting
Director on import restrictions of machine tools.
NIO/Euurnnc (rnl. George Kolt) prepared
a discussion item on Spain for the DCI s use
at a meeting with RAUM Poindexter.
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Assistant NI0/USSR I (prepared talking points for the
Acting DCI on the Soviet Party Congress and on Soviet policy toward East
Europe.
II. Interagency Papers
NI0/East Asia (Carl Ford) completed coordination of the Terms of
Reference and Concept Paper of Fast/Track SNIE 56-2-86: Challenges
Facing the Aquino Government; and began work on a Memorandum to Holders
of NIE 42/14.2-81: The Korean Military Balance and Implications for
Hostilities on the Peninsula.
Acting NIO/Economics met with NIC and DI officers
to discuss a possible estimate on Soviet Financial Difficulties.
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt) completed coordination of the draft of
NIE 29.4-86: Malta: New Openings for Our-Adversaries.
NI0/Latin America (Robert Vickers) completed coordination of the
draft of the Fast/Track Memorandum to Holders of SNIE 83.3-4-86:
Nicaragua: Prospects for the Insurgency; and completed coordination of
the draft of NIE 83.2-86: Honduras: Prospects for the New Government.
VC/NIC and NI0/NESA, with A/NIO/NESA completed a
typescript memorandum on The Egyptian Economic Crisis and Prospects for
Mubarak, requested by D/INR; and began work on the Fast/Track
SNIE 34/36.2-86: Is Iraq Losing the War?; and with A/NI0/NESA
met with a contractor to discuss the draft of a Memorandum to
Holders of IIM 82-10004: Morocco: The Outlook for the Regime.
NIO/S&T (Julian Nall), with A-NIO/S&T and NIC/AG
officer discussed NIE 13-7/2-86: Science and Technolo in
China's Modernization with
discussed the same Estimate with
Dr. Nall also met with to discuss
NIE 1-3/5-86: Trends in Free-World Advanced Technolo y along with the
principal drafter of the Estimate,
Associate NIO/S&T and Assistant NIO/SP
briefed the Nuclear Intelligence Panel on the findings of
SNIE 11-24-86: Soviet Actions to Counter the US Strategic Defense
Initiative.
The National Foreign Intelligence Board approved the Fast/Track
Memorandum to Holders of SNIE 83.3-4-86: Nicaragua: Prospects for the
Insurgency.
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III. Of Interest This Week
NIO/Africa (Fred Wettering) drafted a thinkpiece for C/NIC on the
prospects and implications of the Sudan civil war; discussed
developments in Southern Africa with C/AF/D0; met with INR and State
Policy Planning analysts to discuss Liberian prospects; attended an IG
Working Group on Sudan; and with Acting A/NIO/AF
attended a mid-tour debriefin of Col. James Spencer, Defense and Army
Attache in Sudan. also attended a DIA briefing on Namibia.
NIO at Large (MG David Einsel) met with Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Negotiations Policy and the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy to discuss Community
differences on doctrinal use of chemical warfare by the Soviets;
Imet with a representative
of the Office of Media Relations and senior editors of a new journal
that will discuss nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) topics; with
A/NIO/CBW prepared a DCI cable response to Ambassador
Abshire of the US Mission/NATO on Soviet offensive use of CW against
NATO; and prepared a cable response to Gen. Rogers' request for
information on the Soviet CW programs.
Assistant NIO/CBW met with a HASC staff officer to
discuss upcoming briefing on Soviet CW program; met with a repre-
sentative from Army Intelligence on collection activities in Southeast
Asia and Afghanistan; and met with Community representatives to prepare
a briefing package on the Soviet BW program for an upcoming
Interdepartmental Group meeting.
Assistant NIO/Nuclear Proliferation with DI
analysts, attended a Community meeting at State to discuss an export
control issue ; with DI analysts, prepared a response
to questions from Donald Fortier Deputy Assistant for National Security
Affairs-
NIO/CT (Charles Allen) attended an IG/T meeting;
SA/NIO/CT met with VC/NIC (Graham Fuller) and OGC
officers to discuss techniques for prosecuting terrorists; met with
officers of OTS to review the scenario for an upcoming nuclear terrorism
exercise;
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NIO/East Asia (Carl Ford) participated in a panel discussion on "The
Defense Polic of the PRC" with f acult and students of the National War
Colle e;
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt)
discussed Greece and arms
control issues with NSC staff member Col. Don Malley; attended IG
meetings on MLMs and a coordinated Agency response on the next US move;
and with NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth), discussed Kennan Institute plans with
the new Institute Secretary Peter Reddaway;
NIO/FDIA (H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.) met with) and Richard 25X1
Lehman on a joint project; attended CI/CM Task Force on NSDD 196; and
with FDIA staff member met with SE and CI representatives 25X1
on staff project. In addition, he met with PPS/DO and DI office
representatives on initiatives for 25X1
and with C/DDAC met with several NIOs and office 25X1
directors on a DDI-directed project on deception analysis.
A/NIO/FDIA met with the DDA on a DDAC-related 25X1
matter; with FDIA staff member met with FBI Assistant 25X1
Director James Geer regarding Bureau representation on the DDAC; joined
by an OSWR officer, met with the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force
to discuss the establishment of a DDAC-sponsored data base; and met with
representatives of the Director of Naval Intelligence and the Navy's 25X1
Judge Advocate General regarding the Whitworth case.
C/FDIA Staff and FDIA staff member 25X1
met with a SECOM consultant and NPIC, OGI, OIT, and ASG officers
regarding the establishment of a DDAC-sponsored, FDIA-maintained
disclosures data base; and attended a two-day OTE seminar on technical
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NIO/GPF (MGen Stephen Nichols), with A/NIO/GPF 25X1
discussed GPF issues with Assistant Deputy Director of DIA
for Research and RADM Tom Brooks of JCS Support; with A/NIO/GPF L 25X1
hosted a round-table discussion on Libya for 25X1
NIC officers and of DIA with Navy Captain Robert Blakely of
the JCS Joint Operations Division. MGen Nichols and also 25X1
received a DIA briefing on the Military Intelligence Dissemination
System from Director of the Worldwide Data Base and 25X1
Production Management Division.
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NM/Latin America (Robert Vickers)
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Nicaragua; and with A/NI0/LA and a DO officer, attended
an IC Staff meeting of the Caribbean Basin Steering Group.
Assistant NIO/LA met with the US Ambassadors-
Designate to Belize and to Panama.
NIO/Narcotics (William Kotapish), with DI and DO officers, discussed
prospects for drug interdiction operations with the
Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters (INM); with
A/NIO/Narcotics met separately with the Assistant
Secretary for INM and his senior staff to discuss narcotics issues
worldwide, with Ambassadors-designate to Belize and Panama to discuss
Latin American drug trafficking, and with a senior staff member of the
Drug Enforcement Policy Board to discuss Community input to the Policy
Board report to Congress. also attended a meeting of the
Policy Board Intelligence Subcommittee chaired by the Associate Deputy
Administrator for Intelligence, DEA.
Assistant NIO/NESA
with A/NIO/NESA met with ISA Deputy Director Massabni
and other ISA staff officers to Tscuss arms transfers to the Middle
East and other Middle East issues.
NIO/S&T (Julian Nall), with A-NIO/S&T and the Director
and Deputy Director of OSWR, met with Cliff Duncan, the newly appointed
Director of DARPA; and attended a meeting of the Executive Steering
Board of the Journal of Defense Research.
NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth) attended a Council on Foreign Relations
Working Group discussion on US/Soviet relations; consulted with NSC
staff officers Matlock, Rodman, and McDaniel on Soviet developments; and
attended a SIG/I Subgroup meeting on US policy toward Afghanistan.
Assistant NIO/USSR
brie e NSC staff member John
Lenczowski on Soviet re ations with Nicaragua; and attended an NSC staff
working group meeting on US/Soviet exchanges.
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NIO/Warning (John Bird;) discussed warning matters with officers of
the JCS Joint Analysis Directorate; participated in an NI0/GPF
r and-table discussion on Libya; and with NIO/W staff officer
met with NSC staff officers to discuss warning issues.
DD/NIC/AG and AG officer) (recently
received separate Exceptional Achievement Awards as the principal
drafters of NIC Memoranda on The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation and
on Soviet Views of Nuclear Winter, respectively.
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SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 28 February - 6 March 1986
VC/NIC:HF:bha (7 Mar 86)
1 - DC I
1 - DDCI
1 - EXDIR
1 - SA/IA
1 - ER
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC (HF)
1 - VC/NIC (GF)
1 - Each NIO
1 - NIC/AG
1 - A0/NIC
1 - PO/NIC
1 - SRP
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7 March 1986
OCA 86-0674
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Director, Office of Congressional Affairs
SUBJECT: Weekly Report
1. Action is underway on obtaining courtesy calls with
key members of Congress for Bob Gates, prior to his
confirmation hearing. Although the date has not been set,
SSCI is aiming for mid-April.
3. The first in the series of SSCI hearings linked to
the National Intelligence Strategy start on 12 March with
appearing on support to military operations. Bob
Gates appears on 13 and 20 March on Soviet and Third World
issues respectively, and and supporting cast
appear on 19 March on sensitive collection issues.
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