LETTER TO MORTON ABRAMOWITZ FROM CHARLES E. ALLEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00776R000400120025-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 20, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
? Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
20 September 1988
The Honorable Morton Abramowitz
Assistant Secretary for Intelligence
and Research Bureau
Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mort,
appreciate the opportunity of commenting on the INREstimate on North
Korea. I am in general agreement with the judgments drawn and do not have any
major substantive problems. Most importantly, the estimate is readable and
well organized.
Stylistically, the INR estimate reads better than the current NIEs and
appears in many respects to be similiar to CIA's DI assessments. The
graphics, however, are not up to Agency standards. I am certain that you will
find ways to improve the presentational aspects of these estimates.
I look forward to receiving additional INR estimates, especially those
that depart from the views of the rest of the Community. I predict that INR's
entry into the estimates process will produce much-needed competition with
other production agencies as well as with the NIC, although this view may not
be shared by my colleagues. I view this competition as a healthy development
and wish you well.
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