1984 RESEARCH PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: December 19, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: 1984 Research Program
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I have looked through, your research program which I return herewith.
The only real suggestion I have to make is the one I made orally this morning
or, developing early-on a broad picture of the Soviet military-industrial
complex as well as the economy in micro terms so that we can judge what has
happened, how it is affected by the plethora of individual initiatives in
the Soviet studies on the significance of the military-industrial complex in
the "OVA program, and what this portends in future Soviet policies, objectives
and directions. We need a piece which we can improve on at intervals as various
studies are completed in somewhat the same way as the 11-3-8 estimate serves
as a base for evaluating new weapons and strategic programs. To be specific,
what I visualize to be needed is a putting together of the developments in
the programs on (a) the military-industrial complex, (b) the sector analysis
and (c) the Soviet economy to provide a broad look at their capacity to
support their military and political objectives, internally and externally,
and the significance of new economic and industrial initiatives, facility
expansions and responses to external economic pressures.
2. One other point, I take it that the projects on cross-cutting themes
for the most part repeats the projects of the various Offices.
WiI ~asey