DS&T WEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR 20 JULY 1984

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July 20, 1984
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Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Next 1 Page(s) In Document Denied Iq Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 20 July 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Executive Director FROM: R. E. Hineman Deputy Director for Science and Technology SUBJECT: DST Weekly Activities for 20 July 1984 Of Special Interest This Week For the White House Crisis Management Center, arrangements have been made to convert FBIS' Special Memorandum of 1 June, "Soviet Public Treatment of President Reagan, November 1980 - May 1984," as well as monthly updates assessing Soviet media treatment of the President to electronic form for search and retrieval. ? The USS John F. Kennedy, operating in Central American waters, has been added as a temporary recipient, from 8 to 31 July, of high precedence FBIS wirefiled materials on Latin America. Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 25X1 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 25X1 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 DDI-04159-84 20 July 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM: Robert M. Gates Deputy Director for Intelligence SUBJECT: DDT Activity Report 16-20 July ALA prepared DCI talking points on Costa Rica for an NSPG meeting. ALA prepared a memorandum for the DDCI's signature to Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, on Brazilian purchases of rocket propellant binders. OSWR prepared talking points and background paper for the DDCI to support his attendance at a Cabinet meeting with the President on the commercial use of space. Of Special Interest This Week ACIS briefed Paul. Nitze on Soviet INF-related activity in the USSR and Eastern Europe. ALA prepared responses to SSCI questions on intelligence collection on political violence in F1 Salvador. At the request of Secretary Weinberger, EiIRA prepared a memorandum on the NESA briefed Geoffrey Kemp, NSC Staff, on the Pakistani nuclear program. OEA debriefed the Ambassador to Vietnam, Michael Pike. OGI briefed Ambassador Designate to Jordan, Paul Boeker, and other State and AID personnel on the regional water issues between Jordan and Israel. SECRETI CL BY Signer nWrr. OADR Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 The SOVA chemical paper was briefed to Brig. Gen. Martin, Cmdr. USAF Intelligence Service and Deputy Chief AF/IN. Looking Ahead ACTS' report to Congress by the President on Soviet adherence to a no-undercut policy is due on September 15. OSWR will participate with the NI0/AL and the HUMINT Committee CBW Working Group Chairman to brief Vice-President Bush on Chemical and Biological Warfare. OSWR will. brief Geneal Abrahamson, Director of US Space Defense Initiative, on potential Soviet strategic defense applications of their manned space sensor research program. Briefings There were 7 briefings at all levels on the Hill this past Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 SECRE1I The Director of Central Intelligence Washington, D.C. 20505 NIC 04199-84 National Intelligence Council 20 July 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM: Herbert E. Meyer Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 16-20 July 1984 I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks Acting NIO/Latin America assisted in the preparation of briefing notes for the DCI's use at an NSPG. NIO/Narcotics (David Gries) prepared a memo on drug Tsar legislation for the DDCI. II. Interagency Papers NIO/East Asia (David Gries) and A/NIO/EA chaired a coordination meeting of NFIB representatives for SNIE 56-84: The Philippines: Impact of the National Assembly Elections. Acting NIO/Latin America chaired a coordination meeting for the Terms of Reference and Concept Paper of NIE 87.4-84: Suriname. A/NIO/NESA Outlook for the-Palestinians. began coordination of NIE 36.11-84: Acting NIO/Western Europe chaired a coordination meeting of NIE 29.3-84: The Outlook for yprus. All portions of this memo are classified SECRET CL BY SIGNER DECL OADR Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 SECRET III. Of Interest This Week NIO/Africa (Montgomery Rogers) chaired an OALA conference on Liberia; NIO/AL (David Low) met with representatives of the State Department to discuss an ONESA project on Pakistani procurement of nuclear equipment; met with Richard Speier, Assistant for Negotiations Policy, Department of Defense, on the same topic; with A/NIO/AL visited NSA to discuss a broad range of nuclear proliferation and CBW issues and collection priorities; and with C/NE/DO, met with Under Secretary of State Armacost and D/INR to discuss the Pakistani nuclear program. NIO/Counterterrorism (David Whipple) attended a meeting of the Hickey Group at the White House. NIO/East Asia (David Gries) briefed a Presidential Trade Mission to Chain; spoke on East Asia at the National Defense University, and hosted a luncheon for Ambassador William Sherman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Northeast Asia. AIJIO/East Asia and A NIO Economics ~ attended an OUA-ssponsorea conference to discuss internationalization of the Yen and the probable impact on US-Japan trade. also attended a TTAC-OEA discussion on the Presidential rade fission to China and the US/China Joint Commission on Science and Technology. A/NIO/FDIA met with the C/WSSIC to discuss mutual support of DDAC and WSSIC. Acting NIO/Latin America met separately with ith the Ambassador to El Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 SECRET NIO/SP (Lawrence Gershwin) met with Dennis Smallwood, OSD, and SOVA personnel to discuss methods DoD may employ to deal with uncertainties in estimates of Soviet weapon system characteristics; met with NSC Staff member Ken DeGraffenreid; and met with Ito discuss his views of Soviet efforts at strategic deception. A/NIO/SPI (met with Air Force personnel to negotiate their provision of data for NIE 11-2/3-84: USSR: Air Defense of the Soviet Homeland; and met with Andrew Marshall to coordinate intelligence inputs to the DoD Long-Term Nuclear Strategy Study. NIO/S&T (Julian Nall) and A/NIO/S&T met with Dr. Tom Rona, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, to discuss SNIE 11-1/7-84: Prospects for the Transfer of Space Technology to the Soviet Union, and to review other space-related S&T intelligence problems; and with D/OSWR NIO/USSR-EE (Fritz Ermarth) met with Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Richard Perle to discuss the status of US-Soviet relations; and discussed SNIE 11-9-84: Soviet Policy Toward The US In The Short-Term, with NIC consultant A/NIO/USSR-EE and a SOVA analyst discussed Soviet leadership developments at a meeting chaired by Ambassador Matlock of the NSC. prepared a memorand DCII prepared material on the Duarte visit to Western Europe for the ; Staff; and chaired a collogium with Dr. Steve Flanigan, a Council of Foreign Relations Fellow and former SSCI staff member, who presented the findings of his IISS Adelphi Paper on NATO's conventional defense improvements. Herbert E. Meyer Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Next 4 Page(s) In Document Denied Iq Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER A copy of OMB's 2 July memo on controlling year-end spending was forwarded to the Deputy Directors and AO/DCI for information and appropriate action. The Comptroller stressed the importance of completing FY 1984 actions on a measured and timely basis. FY 1985 -- As you know, our in 'gene oversight committees have reduced our 1985 manpower request by positions. Three alternatives accommodating this reduction have been produced by this office and forwarded to all four Deputy Directors for their consideration. Given congressional concerns about our manpower growth, the Deputy Directors were also asked to consider whether this reduction should be carried into the 1986 program. -- At the request of I Director, Program and Budget Staff, IC Staff, briefings have been scheduled for Tuesday, 24 July and Wednesday, 25 July on several issues in the 1986 program. Five GAO staffers came for the second time to discuss year-end funding in particular transfers to the DDI to a e available to them the financial files support external analysis). We made' at our disposal and copies of the Agency's relevant regulations. They read everything, copied nothing, and agreed to allow us to classify their notes if necessary. They will return on Tuesday to read some documenta- tion that we did not have available at the time. They did not read the product of the external analysis that was funded. At this point they are quite impressed with our financial recordkeeping. They are particularly interested in appropriate certifying signatures and the dates on which contracting activities took place. Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 Approved For Release 2008/p09//g119 : CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5 ilUKL1 20 July 1984 DCI WEEKLY PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE Bob Gates provided) kith an excellent briefing on the DCI's leadership and support of the improvements made in the Agency and Intelligence Community's intelligence analysis and production processes. seemed genuinely impressed. This briefin was in connection with a profile of the DCI he is doing This coming week I will lunch with to ascertain what vibes he is getting from the media about the Agency. will also lunch with says his editors want him to do in depth story about the Agency. I will turn down the proposal which I believe is probably connected with the effort to collect background information for some uncomp ernen ary stories about the Agency. Visits and Appearances will represent the DCI at the 29th graduation exercises of the photographic course on 2-3 August. The DCI met with the Girl's Nation Delegate (an American Legion Auxiliary Program), and she received a briefing on the Agency and a tour of points of interest on the 1st floor. This is the 7th year the Agency has participated in this program. 25X1 25X1 25X1 LJ/~ I Approved For Release 2008/09/19: CIA-RDP86M00886R002700020009-5