SOVIET REALITIES INSTITUTE

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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 18, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Director of Training and Education
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Soviet Realities Institute
Congratulations on the way the Soviet Realities Institute seems to be
put together. I would like to play as active a role as I can in this as
Stan's memorandum suggests. In reading the memo, I wonder whether Sy Weiss,
now free of his PFIAB responsibilities, has anything to contribute to this
project. I have signed the Agency-wide notice. Go ahead and get it out as
you see fit.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Executive Director
Deputy Director for Administration
Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: Soviet Realities Institute--Status Report
REFERENCE: Memo for DCI, fm D/OTE, dtd 16 Sept 85
(OTE 85-6717), Subj: Soviet Affairs Training
Program
1. Action Requested. That you approve the attached draft
Agency-wide notice--over your signature--announcing the
establishment of the Soviet Realities Institute and encouraging its
support by individuals and managers to upgrade our understanding of
the Soviet collection and analysis target.
2. Background. We are about to launch the Soviet Realities
Institute, the organizational element that will activate the Soviet
training program previously approved by you. (Reference). We have
recruited some of America's outstanding scholars on the Soviet Union
to help out. We have found considerable interest and enthusiasm for
what we are doing.
In particular, we are asking scholars to conduct short (a
week or less) seminars on the Soviet Union. The seminars are
designed to provide an integrated overview of the nature,
functioning and objectives of the Soviet system. To date, we have
commitments from:
27 February - 1 March 1986
.16 - 20 June 1986
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September 1986
October 1986
November 1986
January 1987
We are currently neeotiatinQ with
eing contacte
in our effort to offer eight to ten seminars each
All of these seminars will be videotaped for self-study use.
3. Blocks
Six instructional blocks, each providing in-depth study of
a particular discipline or issue, are being developed for
presentation as full- or part-time programs during 1986. The
scheduling will be staggered to allow for maximum participation by
Agency officers. Each block is directed by recognized specialists
who are present or former Agency employees. The blocks and their
directors are:
Soviet TntA i ence and Active Measures
During his Agency career,
a aris ea e o h the SE Division and the
Counterintelligence Staff of the Directorate of
Operations. His block will focus on the
activities of the Soviet intelligence services,
including counterintelligence, foreign
intelligence collection and active measures,
including disinformation.
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Soviet Military Policy and Forces
Stoertz is the former NIO for-
rategic Forces. His block will provide an
overview of the Soviet military establishment,
programs and forces as a target of U.S.
intelligence collection and analysis. This will
be done through a series of two- to three-hour
seminars offered weekly by experts from the
Agency, the policy and the academic communities.
Where appropriate, the focus will include an
assessment of the utility of various sources and
methods in the production of finished
intelligence on specific subjects.
workin closely w'
viet Internal Politics
is a senior analyst in 'SOYA. His block
consists of a series of weekly three-hour
sessions focusing on issues of political power
and decisionmaking in the USSR. These sessions
will be led by outstanding Government and
academic experts and will be supplemented by
outside reading assignments.
Soviet Science and Technology (Julian
Nall). In his position as NIO for Science and
Technology, Nall has proposed a one-week
full-time program covering Soviet planning,
organization and capabilities in key S$T fields,
and Community concerns in tracking the Soviet
efforts.
Soviet Foreign Policy (Melvin Goodman).
Goodman is senior analyst and special assistant
to the Director of SOYA. This block is designed
as a series of two-hour brown bag lunch sessions
treating the major foreign policy issues
confronting the Gorbachev leadership. In each
instance, emphasis will be given to the regional
implications of Soviet actions, collection
priorities, problems for the Intelligence
Community, and implications for U.S. policy.
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Soviet Economy is
former NIO for Economics and currently a faculty
member of the Defense Intelligence College. In
weekly three-hour sessions, Community and
academic specialists will address the economic
principles underlying a planned economy, then
focus on such issues as Soviet economic growth,
modernization, consumer incentives and the
defense sector.
4. Other New Initiatives
In addition, we will bring in experts from both Government
and academia for one-day discussions of issues of immediate concern,
inviting members of the intelligence and policy communities to join
us.
5. Field Instruction and Self-Study
To reach officers at both domestic and overseas posts, we
have initiated a program of videotaping selected presentations. We
have already taped five presentations in Russian and two in English
(Murray Feshbach, Robert Conquest) and plan to record portions of
the seminars and blocks whenever feasible We have also ordered a
series of taped lectures by outstanding scholars of Soviet affairs,
including Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Vladimir Treml and Konstantin Simis,
for distribution, self-study and/or discussion. We also anticipate
the development of seminars for delivery at domestic and overseas
locations.
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6. Conclusion
This is just a beginning. I am happy to report that there
is considerable support in the Agency for the undertaking and a
strong belief that it is long overdue. We are dedicated to the
single proposition that we must get useful information on the USSR
to the people who need it, which means flexibility, creativity and
doggedness.
I know how interested you are in the problem the Soviet
Union poses to our country today and in the coming years. Nothing
is more critical to our work as an intelligence agency and to our
future as a nation. I encourage you to play as active a role in
this undertaking as your time permits, and we welcome your ideas on
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