LETTER TO THE HONORABLE RICHARD HELMS(Sanitized)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
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• Publication Date: May 13, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
Washington, D.C. 20451
Established by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act of Sept. 26. 1961
Dear Dick,
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This will confirm my invitation to you at breakfast
yesterday to meet with the Committee on May 28 to consider
our overall strategic intelligence capability.
We have revised our draft agenda along the lines of
our discussion. I do think that the Committee should have
the benefit not only of your over-all judgment but of direct
contact with the specialized organizations as well. With
that in mind, we shall count on you to give the Committee the
total picture at the outset and oni to tie up any
loose ends at the end of the specialized presentations. If
you would like to have ith you to
start us off, that wou .
Could I also ask you to arrange for someone from the
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about their speciality from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m.?
I am enclosing our agenda and a full set of questions
as a guide to the Committee's particular interests and as an
aide to reducing overlapping presentations. Our questions
are intended as a general outline and I hope that you will
feel free to adjust your remarks to the Committee as you think
best to give us the basic understanding that we want to acquire.
If
there re details to arrange, your staff can discuss
The Honorable
Richard Helms,
Director, Central Intelligence Agency,
Headquarters Building.
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Thanks again for coming down for breakfast and giving
us the. benefit of your advice.
Sincerely,
Enclosures:
1. Draft Agenda. (SECRET)
2. Guide Questions. (TOP SECREI',CW)
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Place:.
General Advisory Committee
May 28, 1970
Operations Center Conference Room - 7514
.Department of State, Washington, D. C.
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Appraisal-of U.S. Intelligence Resources and
Significance for SALT, Mr. Richard Helms,
Director, CIA
Electronic Intelligence Collection and
Processing, NSA
Aerospace Intelligence Operations
Lunch
Aerospace Photography Interpretation, NPIC
Strate is ntelligence Interpretation, Mr.
Director for Strategic Research, CIA
Executive Session
Adjournment
Acting
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 General Advisory Committee
Questions for the
Meeting of May 28, 1970
Electronic Intelligence Collection
and Processing
(NSA)
1. What is the magnitude and nature of the COMINT/ELINT
effort directed against the Soviet. Union
2. What kinds of information, with
is provided by the COMINT technique?
3. What kinds of information,
is provided by the ELINT technique,
with
and China?
concrete examples,
concrete examples,
including telemetry
our ability to overcome
5. Can the U.S. keep pace with the expanding volume of
4,. What confidence do we have in
improving Soviet security measures?
Soviet communications?
.7. What advances are being made 'n collecting, processing,
6.. In what ways does communications monitoring;' relate
to SALT,and the development. of strateg'c weapons?
and analyzing electronic data on Sovie
radar research and testing?
could prevent the United States from
collected in their missile and radar
and Chinese missile and
he Soviets or Chinese
'8. What are the prospects that t
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General Advisory Committee
,Questions for the
Meeting of May 28, 1970
Strategic Intelligence Interpretation
(CIA)
1. Taking account of all sources
of information, how
reliable is U.S. knowledge of Soviet and Chinese strategic
weapons R and D, production, flight testing and deployment?
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2. With what confidence and with what quickness can we
3. What is the relative contribujion to our understanding
of strategic weapons of the different types of collection and
which of these might be impaired by increased Soviet security.
detect changes and improvements in Soviet and Chinese
e.g. MIRV or SPRINT type of ABM?
testing as contrasted to. oo tinuedunr stricte.dweapons research
intelligence of a strategic arms limitation agreement with
.cooperative means of verification
_. provisions affecting weapon
4. What would. be,the effect, upon 'the reliability of our
development?_
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General Advisory Committee
Questions for the
Meeting of May 28 , 1970
Military Intelligence and Special
Collection Operations
(DIA)
1. What types of data are collected and analyzed by
the Defense Intelligence Agency and the three military
services about the Soviet Union and China, particularly with
respect to strategic weapons?
2. What kinds of area surveillance operations are
directed at the Soviet Union and China or carried on around
the borders,. including both overt and
peripheral or "ferret" reconnaissance'
operations such as Early Warning and b
3. What are the collection, capabilities of the U.S.
Navy, both active and passive., ,with re
attache collections,
and remote technical
ackscatter radar?
s.pec,t: to.. S,o:viet. and
Chinese shipping and especially seaborn strategic weapons?
4,. What other special sensors an
,have,-been used or are technically feas
that could be used to observe specific,
--strategic weapons operations?
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ible and available
Soviet and Chinese
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Satellite Intelligence Operations
(NRO)
What systems have been or are now in operation that
provide data on the USSR and China?
2.
What additional contribution
systems operated by the.
3.. What are future
they be augmented in the
projections of
coverage and how might
event of a strategic arms agreement?
4. What types of remote sensors applicable to strategic
weapons monitoring are under development?
5. What steps can be taken to oveircome.Soviet or Chinese
deception, camouflaging or other counter measures?
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Questions for the
Meeting of May 28, 1970
Satellite Photography Interpretation
(NPIC)
1. What information can satellite photography provide
about developments in the USSR and China and especially about
'strategic weapons development and deployment?
.2. How does satellite photography,,draw upon and
contribute,to other information collection methods?
3. How frequent, comprehensive and detailed is our
coverage of Soviet and Chinese strategic weapons facilities
and deployment?
4. What are the limitations and v?lnerability of photo-
5. What can be done to improve the quality of photographic
graphic intelligence?
6.- Could an added photographic' intelligence effort
significantly increase our confidence 3. our knowledge of
Soviet and Chinese strategic weapons development and'
intelligence?
May 12,, 1970
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Questions for the
Meeting of May 28 , 1970
Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence Resources
and Their Significance for,SALT
CIA
What has been the post war evolution of intelligence
collection and evaluation techniques as ajwhole which have a
bearing on Soviet and Communist Chinese strategic weapons?
2. What is the extent and the nature of the resources
of all kinds currently available to the United States and'its
allies maintaining surveillance of the Soviet Union and
mainland China with particular regard to their strategic
weapons programs?
major strategic weapons programs?
from primarily technical intelligence? Does this spectrum of
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-efforts reduce Soviet confidence in their ability to conceal
to our interpretation of strategic weapon developments.derved
3. Does broad knowledge of the Soviet Union based on
conventional collection and analysis contribute significantly
4. What are the principal areas of uncertainty and
r effort against
weakness in our collection and evaluatio Soviet and Chinese strategic weapons? - .
5.. How would future intelligence operations be affected
by either an arms control agreement or by failure to agree to
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 6. How confident can we be that our total intelligence
resources, present and projected,. would provide timely
warning of a significant Soviet, violation of the type of
agreement that. we are iow attempting to negotiate in Vienna?
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MEMORANDUM F(B: Executive Director, NPIC
THROUGH : Special Issistant, NPIC
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1. Per our conversation,
Director.
NPIC on 19 May 1970. Visitors will arrive at 0930 and will be
introduced to you at that time.
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