COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001001540027-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 18, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman
Technology Transfer-Intelligence Committee
John N. McMahon
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Computer Technology Transfer
e Intelligence ommuni y s
Executive Steering Group for Strategic Planning (ESG/P), chaired by the Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, determined that there were national security
cnncernc assnriater1 with tha nrnhahlp nrnlifaratinn of supercomputers
areas of weapons design, communications security, and cryptanalysis. Efforts
are now under way within the Community to address the discrete concerns
particularly in the
associated with these specific problems.
losses of US licensed technology or Japanese indigenously developed technology
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2. Underlying the whole issue of the loss of US preeminence in the field
of supercomputers and the national security concerns presented by
supercomputer proliferation, however, is the threat that our own advanced
computer technology might--through innocent or malicious technology transfer--
be used to our own very great disadvantage. Based on the advice of the ESG/P
relative to establishing some kind of awareness of the technology transfer
threat in this sector of private industry, I would like the Technology
Transfer Intelligence Committee to explore with the Department of Commerce a
means to educate the US computer industry concerning the threat posed by
to the Soviet Union and elsewhere. The computer 25X1
industry has been queried informally concernin the value of such an awareness
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1T The Director of the IC Staff's Planning and Policy Staff, 0 25X1
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see fit. can be reached on extension 2,125X1
you feel free to take advantage of his contacts and expertise u
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SUBJECT: Computer Technology Transfer
Distribution (DCI/ICS 83-4486/1):
Orignial - Addressee
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - ER
1 - D/ICS
1 - D/PPS/ICS
1 - ICS/PPS Subject
1 - ICS/PPS Chrono.
1 - ICS Registry
DCI/ICS/PPS I(11 August 1983)
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