NIC ACTIVITY REPORT, 21 - 27 OCTOBER 1988

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 28, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
NIC #03205-88/1
28 October 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Fritz W. Ermarth
Chairman
SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 21 - 27 October 1988
DCI and DDCI Support
Carl Ford discussed developments in North Korea with Kim Chong-Hwi,
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to South Korean President No
Tae U. (NIO for East Asia)
Larry Gershwin will brief Ambassador Ed Rowny, Advisor to the President on
Arms Control, on Soviet capabilities to increase their forces under a START
agreement. (NIO for Strategic Programs)
has ned the National Intelligence Council as
Assistant N 0 for USSR. also continues as Assistant NIO for USSR.
is completing the draft report of the E Career Service Ta
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Force and plans to coordinate it on 31 October and to submit it to the
Executive Director next week. (Director/Analytic Group)
Estimates and Intelligence Memoranda
discuss a paper Jenkins is preparing on trends in international terrorism.
The paper will be used to prepare an NIE in FY 89. (NIO for Counterterrorism)
NATO's "European Pillar": Prospects for Allied Defense Cooperation was
coordinated on October 24. (NIO for Europe
Coordination on Soviet Policy During the Next Phase of Arms Control in
Europe should conclude this week. Coordination of Soviet Naval Strategy and
Programs Toward the 21st Century starts on 31 October.
Final Coordination was:completed for Volume II of Prospects for Ballistic
Missiles.
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As part of preparation for an estimate on Soviet strategy toward the West,
Bob Blackwell will sponsor an academic conference on that subject next week.
(NIO for USSR)
Intelligence Community
organized and chaired an Intelli
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ommun
ty seminar on
Mexico on 21 October, with Delal Baer of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies as speaker. (Director/Analytic Group)
Murat Natirboff chaired an interagency seminar at FBI Headquarters in
Quantico, Virginia on the counterintelligence aspects of INF experiences to
date. It was agreed to form a Community counterintelligence working group
under the deputy director of the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA), to create a
mechanism on counterintelligence issues. (NIO
for Foreign enia and me ligence Activities)
Charlie Allen briefed the 1988 Conference of the Department of Defense
Indications and Warning Planning Grou on the Status of Warnin
Mobilization
Outside Sampling
Director of the Office of Global Issues to discuss lowllintensityeconflict.
(NIO for Counterterrorism).
Marten van Heuven gave the opening lecture at the Foreign Service
Institute's Western European area course. (NIO for Europe)
Larry Budge hoste
selected NIOs on Soviet a airs. for discussions with
(NIO for General Purpose Forces)
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and now at the Council of Aemricas in New York, to
discuss Mexican matters. (NIO for Latin America
Bob Blackwell participated in the Air Force Conference on "The Soviet
Union in the 21st Century" as a discussant o party military relations
panel. (NTn for USSR)
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