LETTER TO RONALD REAGAN FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00472R000200290017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 4, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intellibtnce A .~ncy
4 August 1984
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C., 20500
This note will introduce a new initiative which I hope you will find
helpful. The President's Daily Brief brings you significant new informa-
tion every da
We also search
tor the longer term implications of these developments and how they fit
together.
I believe it will be helpful to you and the principals of the NSC, as
well as a good discipline for us, to crystallize this process of looking
ahead in what we might call a Threat Report. It will be a kind of running
assessment of the chief problems which may be coming at us from around the
world in the weeks and months ahead.
It will vane out of the regular work of the National Intelligence
Council, made up of the National Intelligence Officers who cover the
various geographic areas and functional concerns-such as strategic and
conventional forces, science and technology, international economics,
terrorism, narcotics, nuclear proliferation, hostile intelligence threats
and deception.
The first of these reports is attached. We plan to produce one every
few weeks, adapting that schedule to fit emerging developments.
William J. rasey
Director of Central Intelli
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