LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM JAMES A. WILLIAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R001800080018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 8, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20301
Mr. William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20305
Dear Mr. Casey:
your use this week:
110-vi/atsr.orif
8 FEB 1983
The following items of intelligence are provided for
1. The Soviets reportedly have sent six Mi-24/HIND helicopters and a
senior counterinsurgency specialist to Angola. The Mi-24s, which
arrived last November, are to be flown by Cubans until a group
of Angolan pilots completes training in the USSR. The antiguerrilla
warfare expert who arrived early this year is said to be a Soviet
general who had achieved a certain measure of success against rebels
in Afghanistan. Thus far, as of 7 Feb, we are unable to confirm the
arrival of either the Ma-24s CT the Soviet general. However, both
developments are plausible, assuming Moscow is concerned over the
widening guerrilla war in Angola and is intent on demonstrating its
support to Luanda's counterinsurgency efforts.
If Angola has received Mi-24s, this would mark
the first appearance of these gunships in southern Africa.
2. Soviet-made command, control, and communications (C3) equipment has
been noted at Luanda Port Facilities in Angola. Five radio-relay
vans and at least nine radio sets with associated generator trailers
were identified on 1 February on the quay at Luanda.
The arrival of the C3
equipment appears to represent a continuation of recent Soviet efforts
to upgrade its military assistance to Angola. This equipment could
be used for communications support for counterinsurgency operations,
CT for protection of radar sites in the south, a frequent target of
South African airstrikes.
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A standard exercise scenario will likely be followed, including
a NATO attack, the attack repelled, a Warsaw Pact counterattack, and
chemical and tactical nuclear play. The FTX will serve to satisfy
winter combined-arms training requirements while the southwest front
exercises its battle plans. As in recently concluded FTX DANUBE-83,
DRUZBA-83 reflects a continuing trend toward closer cooperation
between Czechoslovak and Hungarian Armed Forces.
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4. A Peoples University contract, signed recently with a US firm for two
large-scale (digital) system computers, is particularly significant
considering the headquarters of the 2d Artillery Corps ((Mina's
strategic ballistic-missile force) occupies the southern half of the
university campus. Although the Chinese state the computer will
largely be used for educational purposes, its collocation with the 2d
artillery headquarters suggests it will be used to enhance their missile
programs as well. Technology acquired with the systems could well
shorten China's lead time in improving the design and simulation of
missile systems, large-scale simulation, high-energy research, encryp-
tion and decryption and development of nuclear codes. Of note, all
of these applications fall into the special categories identified by
US policymakers as constituting a significant risk to the US's national
security.
//JAMES A. WILLIAMS
Lieutenant General, USA
Director
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