JOINT PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01154A000200060003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 16, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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16 September 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to Director, Basic and Geographic
Intelligence
SUBJECT : Joint Projects 25X1A9a
dated 9 September 1971
1. The Geography Division has participated rather extensively
over the past year in joint projects with other agencies. Only the
Intelligence Map Program (IMP), however, actually results in a
jointly published product (with TOPOCOM); most of the other inter-
agency participation consists of consultation and coordination
initiated and carried out at the working level. Products published
by other agencies following such consultation and coordination
generally do not indicate concurrence by CIA.
2. Geography Division participation can be divided into three
categories: (1) long-standing relationships with other agencies
that involve more or less continual consultation and coordination;
(2) representation on inter-agency committees; and (3) participation
with other agencies on specific projects or groups of projects.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) -- GD
support to ACDA began with advice on the concept of
inspections in the Antarctic Treaty (1959) and has
continued, at the working level, with continual support
to US inspection teams -- including joint assessment
of need for and timing of inspections, periodic
consultations on developments related to inspection
problems, briefing of inspection teams, and written
reports on Soviet activities in the Antarctic.
Defense Intelligence Agency, Mapping and Charting
(DIAM -- primary area of coordination with DIAMC
occurs through the COMIREX MC&G Working Group where
GD provides expressions of Agency interest in planning
and programming in the MC&G field and in obtaining
assurances that DoD MC&G plans and demands on collection
facilities are justifiable and reasonable.
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Another area of cooperation and coordination has
developed over the years in the assistance provided
by GD in the assessment of Soviet and Chinese MC&G
capabilities. Coordination has ranged from joint
authorship of intelligence studies to interchange of
views on various policy support questions involving
the propriety of granting or denying Soviet access
to US geodetic and gravimetric data, instrumentation
(export control actions), and access by Communist
geodesists to US research organizations and to ICBM
complexes.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA -- The Geography Division ref tons i1p with
NASA, initiated by NASA in 1968, involves frequent
intelligence assessments of Soviet developments in
satellite geodesy and earth satellite resource
surveying. These are used in developing policy for
the expanding US-USSR space research cooperation.
Support is provided in the form of written and oral
comments on various NASA actions and proposals,
informal consultations with NASA officials at their
request, and papers prepared for other purposes but
believed to be pertinent to NASA interests.
National Science Foundation (NSF) -- Support by
GD to NSF's Office of Polar Programs has continued
at the working and office director level since the
beginning of Soviet Antarctic activity in 1954. It
is used by NSF primarily to help devise cooperative
and exchange programs with the USSR and includes
reports on Soviet plans and programs and periodic
consultations on new developments.
Department of State -- Regular support is
provided at the working level to the Bureau of
International Scientific and Technological Affairs
(SCI) in connection with Antarctic Treaty affairs.
It includes written reports on Soviet programs
and performance related to the treaty, with
emphasis on identification of problems on which
State can take corrective action, and comments
on US policy proposals. Continuing informal
consultation at the working level on Law of the
Sea matters has been in progress over the past
year with State's Office of the Geographer.
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REPRESENTATION ON COMMITTEES
A GD officer has served as the CIA representative
on the Interagency Task Force on Weather Modification
and participated in the preparation of a report by its
Military Uses Working Group.
Another GD officer represented CIA on the NSC
Ad Hoc Committee on US Arctic Policy and participated
in the preparation of its report.
SPECIFIC PROJECTS OR GROUPS OF PROJECTS
Current interest in the narcotics problem has
resulted in continuing consultation and coordination
with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Three GD reports issued during the past year were
coordinated with both BNDD and the Bureau of Customs
as well as within the DDI. A GD report on cocaine
was used by the Director of BNDD in preparing for a
UN meeting, a revision of the same report was
distributed at a NATO/CCMS meeting, and a large
section of it is used verbatim in a recently
completed BNDD compilation of information on cocaine.
GD's preparation of a map of command and control
facilities in the Moscow area has involved exceptionally
broad coordination and over a period of several months
with DIA, National Security Agency (NSA), and other
elements of DoD, all of whom had been working on various
aspects of the same problem.
In connection with research for a GD report on
the Indian Ocean, informal contact at the working
level has been maintained with both the Department
of State and the Office of International Security
Affairs in the Department of Defense. As a part of
this contact, the GD analyst was asked informally by
the Policy Planning Staff of State to review the
draft of a policy paper on the topic.
Information on geologic, soil, and marine
characteristics of several areas near Soviet
submarine bases was recently supplied to DIA
for use in their vulnerability estimates.
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In connection with, the production of a GD study
on the Aswan Dam, our officers had extensive discussions
with representatives of the Department of the Interior,
the Army Engineers, TOPOCOM, and the Office of Naval
Research.
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