PROCESSING AND DISPOSITION OF DOCUMENTS ACQUIRED BY US FORCES IN GRENADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00303R000400590039-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: November 15, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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 THE WHITE HOUSE
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..MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE GEORGE P. SHULTZ
THE HONORABLE CASPAR W. WEINBERGER
The Secretary of Defense
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CASEY
The. Director of Central Intelligence
GENERAL JOHN W. VESSEY, JR.
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
SUBJECT:.
THE HONORABLE CHARLES Z. WICK
United States Information Agency .
processing and Disposition of Documents
.Acquired by US Forces in Grenada (S)
The President has approved the attached National Security
Decision Directive on.processing and disposition of documents
acquired by US Forces in Grenada. (S)
FOR THE PRESIDENT:
Attachment
National-security Decision
Directive 112
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November 13, 1983
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It is imperative that measures be taken now to ensure full
exploitation of all aspects and implications of this-material.
Therefore, I direct the following actions: (S)
1. The immediate protection of all documents obtained in
Grenada.. Each document will be copied, indexed, and cataloged.
The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of
Central Intelligence (DCI), shall ensure the assignment of
appropriate-control procedures, and sufficient resources.to
accomplish this task expeditiously. (TS)
2. Questions of the return or further disposition of the
documents in this archive shall be considered only after all
other issues concerning exploitation and other utilization have
been resolved. No documents are to be returned prior tomes
A6 is' on this matter.
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PROCESSING AND DISPOSITION OF DOCUMENTS
ACQUIRED BY US FORCES IN GRENADA
The documents acquired by US Forces in Grenada represent a
which is of significant potential value to US-
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. ?national security interests. It is vital that this resource be
protected and carefully utilized to obtain maximum benefit.
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..-Initial assessment of the quality and quantity of the documents
.-suggest that they will add substantially to.our detailed
understanding of.-the anatomy of the creation of a Soviet/Cuban
? third world proxy. .It Is imperative
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exploitation of this material,
dedicated, and well suppor ploitation
order to fully develop that understanding. In addition, it
appears that there is a significant amount of intelligence
information available in a variety of related areas. Finally,
public disclosure of certain of these documents could add to
public and allied understanding of this phenomena of Soviet/
Cuban foreign policy. Furthermore, it is likely that full
understanding of what is contained in this archive will not be
-known until after dedicated analysis of the material. This
long term analysis by the -intelligence community could take
considerable time. (TS)
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Soviet Bloc countries, Cuba, North Korea, Libya, and any other
non-Grenadan Marxist/Leninist groups to obtain influence in
Grenada and use Grenada for the export of subversion.. This
analysis will be seen as a first look and will provide insight
for the larger indepth analysis to be described below. (TS)
RDpuigtion of Grenada from. March 13, 1979 to October 24, 19831
obtained from Grenada on two toiDics: (a)- the methods and
3. - Within the next three weeks the intelligence
community will produce an all source analysis of information =
:?inimum the following considerations, topics,- and issue: (TS)
Soviet/Cuban and Bloc modus operandi in
developing Grenada as a,potential political and military base
against US interests. (S)
Detailed examination of the anatomy of the
development of a Soviet/Cuban proxy in the context of lessons
for US policy. (S)
Examination of how the New Jewel movement and
the government of Grenada worked together to discredit the US,
.as well as governments, parties, and individuals friendly to
the US in Europe and Central America. (TS)
Full counterintelligence examination of these
documents as they relate to. the hostile intelligence-.
threat. (TS) -
4. An* interagency mechanism for intelligence
.exploitation shall be established. The DCI, in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense and in particular the Director,.
Defense Intelligence Agency, who has custody of these
documents, shall develop a plan for the immediate and long term
interdisciplinary and intergeogranhic intelligence analysis of
this material. This review of the archive shall address at a
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Determination of which Central and Latin
American, European, and US organizations and persons had been
penetrated, controlled or influenced by Soviet/Cuban/Bloc and
Grenada. -(TS)
- Forensic'examination of the documents
themselves, e.g., the kinds of paper,-ink, copy machines, etc.,
used and what these indicate about the Soviet/Cuban Bloc's
modus operandi-in political action, active measures, and other
intelligence operations. (TS)
of the sources of these documents. (TS)
- Exploitation of cryptographic materials. (TS)
Careful examination of US classified documents
found in the Grenada archive and investigation and exploitation
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Determination of the extent of Grenadian
involvement in international drug trafficking.. (S)
Aa interagency committee for public disclosure and
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information shall be established under the Secretary of State.
It shall develop plans for the short and long term exploitation '
for public information and political action. This shall
Build broad international understanding and
support for the concerns of the Eastern. Carbe an supportive and
use this to project. a better understanding for upp r
actions. (S)
Expose the degree of Soviet/Cuban and Bloc
involvement in the internal affairs of a sovereign -state. (S)
Expose the use of Grenada as a base for
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political action and subversion in the region.. W.,
Demonstrate communist use of Grenada as a means
to subvert and manipulate political and regional movements,
including the Socialist parties and Socialist international.
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'potential value for public exploitation shall be made available
to this interagency committee. In accordance with the action
plans described above, this committee shall determine which
documents should be disclosed and how disclosure should be
made, and shall cause necessary implementing actions to be
taken. Disclosures shall be coordinated insofar as possible
with cooperating regional states (e.g., OECS members, Barbados,
Jamaica). (S) . .
7. The Secretary of State and Director
nterim reforCentrai
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Intelligence, respectively shall provide implementation of the NSDD to the Assistant to the Presi ent
for National Security Affairs not later than January 1, 1984r
and periodically thereafter. (U)
-Develop measures to ensure the credibility of
the documents, including access for US scholars and
journalists. (s) ?
f all docmaents identified as having
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Demonstrate the human rights violations of the
Grenada regime and the concomitant Cuban role. (S)
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