ITEMS IN THE SHULTZ PACKAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001000030031-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 29, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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29 October 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Intelligence Officer for Economics
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Items in the Shultz Package
Will you draft a'memorandum for me to send to the President on the
relative value of the items in the Shultz package. Offhand, I would place
the highest value on tightening COCOM and make a special effort that we
have a definite commitment on that so that it cannot be said that we are
merely getting some studies for the release of specific sanctions. I would
read the value of the East-West trade study second. I am not quite sure
how I would read the study on western sources of European gas versus the
credit restrictions. Certainly a second pipeline is worth more to the
Soviets than subsidized credits, or at least that's my top-of-the-head view.
However, the value of the study on gas sources I would think would have to
be discounted by the uncertainty that will result in light of the great
probability that Norwegian gas is likely to cost a dollar more than Soviet
gas in 1990 or so.
William J. Casey
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