SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE BRIEFING AND SUPPORT REQUESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R000900130007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 15, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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15 September 1988
SUBJECT: Senate Intelligence Committee Briefing and Support Requests
1. On 15 September 1988, C/ACSI
met with Gary Sojka and Ed Levine in SH219 to discuss Committee
requests from briefing and other support on monitoring a START
agreement as well as a Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty and a
T?reshold Test Ban Treaty. was present.
2. Mr. Sojka said that the Committee had been briefed by
on ONIR's contribution to monitoring a 75X1
START treaty. made several statements concerning ONIR's 25X1
ability to collect against ASAT and numerous collateral targets.
Mr. Sojka asked for a briefing on the implications of ONIR for
collateral missions such as I&W and support for tactical missions.
Program A would undertake the briefing. 25X1
3. Mr. Sojka asked for a briefing on ONIR monitoring the full
range of space weapons systems as that would relate to monitoring a
START agreement. A third briefing would involve ONIR collection
against non ballistic missiles. apparently nas a
briefing on this topic prepared.
4. Tne discussion turned to TNET and TTBT. Mr. Sojka said that
the Committee needs a work schedule for a series of briefings--three
to six--on the two treaties. He requested to lay out a
briefing scneduie, said that he would provide the
Troika Report which appraises the historical capabilities to monitor
Soviet nuclear tests. Each monitoring source was examined and
baseline capabilities were laid out. also discussed
the response to the HPSCI report on the issue. He indicated that
was preparing a response and described the general
outlines of the report.
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5. Mr. Sojka said that the Committee has been told that the
Intelligence Community is not properly staffed to make monitoring
judgments about the Treaties. said that he was
properly staffed. He described the process by which monitoring data
is collected and judgments are made.
He also
noted that will provide additional reference data to improve
6. Mr. Sojka said that there are people in the policy process
who want decisions made outside the Intelligence
Community. Mr. Sojka said that the Committee wants the data passed
to the Community.
8. Mr. Sojka asked for a paper on monitoring the Nuclear
treaties. He said that the Foreign Relations Committee will hold
hearings. He asked that all agencies sign onto this paper even if
it is only 10 or 15 pages. He said that George Tenet is concerned
about this. Tenet will ask the Chairman to mention it to the DCI.
work program.
said that we would do a paper with NFIB approval. He
also said that we would do a strawman on nuclear treaty monitoring
November.
9. START.I (said that given analytic resource
constraints we do not want to begin briefings on START matters until
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