CHOICE OF CAROLYN STETTNER (ACDA) AS DRAFTER OF SNIE 11-17-83

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00302R000601000024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL 1P
The Director of Central Intelligence
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM
13 May 1983
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : Choice of Carolyn Stettner (ACDA) as Drafter of
SNIE 11-17-83
1. You have raised a question about the appropriateness of our choice
of a person from a non-intelligence agency--ACDA--to be the principal
drafter on a national estimate; an estimate, moreover, that has arms
control policy implications. Our reasons are as follows:
o The drafter-designate, Carolyn Stettner is well
qualified to do the job--she has substantial
technical expertise in the chemical-biological area;
she was a highly effective performer on the State
Department 1982 Round-the-World briefing team on the
"Yellow Rain" issue, and she has written extensively
and incisively on Soviet arms control propaganda
policy. Hans Heymann tell me she is
bright, objective, tough-minded and a good writer and that
if they had had any doubts about the suitability of this
drafter, they would not have initiated the venture.
o Stettner, though not formally a member of the intelligence
community, is more closely associated with that community
than any other member of ACDA--she is acting chief of the
Verification Divison of ACDA's Bureau of Verification and
Intelligence, she is the ACDA representative on the STIC,
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The members of the Working group--doubling as the NFIB reps
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RP CONFIDENTIAL 0
SUBJECT: Choice of Carolyn Stettner (ACDA) as Drafter of SNIE 11-17-83
0 Stettner's drafting work on the SNIE will include
contributions from many parts of the community and
will be performed under NIO supervision and control,
not under ACDA's. The estimate will be a NIC, not an
A DA product. As in all national estimates, it is
the NIO's responsibility to assure that parochial
agency positions are not permitted to distort our
estimative judgments.
2. If there is one thing that the NIO system, which has been in
existence for almost ten years now, was designed to accomplish, it is
precisely the detection and filtering out of parochial agency bias in
estimates, without suppressing genuine substantive dissent.
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