SCC MEETING ON CENTRAL AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00401R001400120004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 19, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
NFAC-3775079
19 July 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH : Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
FROM : Acting NIO for Latin America
SUBJECT : SCC Meeting on Central America
1. Action Requested: At the SCC meeting currently scheduled
for 1500-1545 hours on 20 July 1979, you may be asked to provide the
latest information on the situation in Nicaragua as well as your assess-
ment of the impact of events on neighboring countries in Central America.
I anticipate that Ambassadors Bowdler and Pezzullo, who were both
intimately involved in negotiating the transition from Somoza to the
Junta, will be present at the meeting. The Chairman may well turn to
25X1 them for this information.
2. The Office of Political Analysis will prepare a paper containing
the most recent information on the situation in Nicaragua, as well as a
separate paper on the impact of events on neighboring countries of
Central America. These papers will be inserted in the notebook tomorrow
25X1 morning as Tab A.
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3. Tab B contains the Agenda for the SCC meeting on Central
America together with associated papers provided by the National Security
Council.
a Sandinista victory. This memorandum appears as Tab C.
4. The meeting was apparently prompted by a memorandum for the
Secretary of Defense dated 25 June 1979 on limiting the consequences of
5. A memorandum from Dr. Brzezinski dated 13 June 1979 reports
the President's approval of the Summary of Conclusions of the PRC meeting
on Central America. This memorandum Summary of Conclusions
appear as Tab D in the notebook.
LrET;
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6. A paper entitled "Shoring Up the Northern Tier", which apparently
originated in the Depart f Defense, and a cable on the same topic
25X1 will be found in Tab E.
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