NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL MEMORANDUM: "SOVIET POLICY AND AFRICA"

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• Publication Date: March 17, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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NIC M 81-10003J
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
NFAC #1332-81
17 March 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
FROM : Richard Lehman
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : National Intelligence Council Memorandum:
"Soviet Policy and Africa"
1. I am pleased to forward the analytical. paper you requested
on Soviet activities in Africa. Your questions and concerns about
the Soviets in Africa are addressed in the overview beginning at the
clip. You need read no more of this paper than that summary.
2. In preparing the paper, however, we saw an opportunity to
serve the entire policy community as well as the senior policymakers
by providing a detailed accounting of Soviet political activity and
economic and military assistance in Africa, their own military
activities based in Africa, and their objectives in the area. Thus,
this paper will serve as a useful reference document for a large
number of policymakers and their senior staff as the Administration
considers its own policy with respect to the Soviets in Africa. To
assist in this deliberative process, we have for the first time
included a specific section -- both in the key judgments and in the
body of the paper -- setting forth the implications for the US and
what we believe to be key Soviet vulnerabilities-in Africa
3. In addition to the normal wide distribution the paper will
receive, I recommend that you sign the attached notes of transmittal
to the other members of the National Security Council, calling their
attention to the key judgm a paper and especially the section
on Soviet vulnerabilities.
L
Richard Lehman
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NFAC #1332-81
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : National Intelligence Council Memorandum:
"Soviet Policy and Africa"
DISTRIBUTION:
Attachment is NIC M 81-10003J, 'Soviet Policy and Africa"
Copies of attachment will be transmitted as follows with a cover note
from the DCI
#2 - Vice President
3 - Secretary of State
4 - Secretary of Defense
5 - Counsellor to the President
6 - Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President
7 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Further Distribution of this Memo (NFAC #1332-81)
with copy of DCI cover note
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. 020505
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Vice President
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
Counsellor to the President
Chief of Staff and Assistant
to the President
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff
SUBJECT : National Intelligence Council
Memorandum: "Soviet Policy and Africa"
I would like to call to your special attention the
attached paper "Soviet Policy and Africa," published this
week by the. National Intelligence Council. I especially
invite your attention to the paper's summary overview
and the section on important Soviet vulnerabilities in
Africa subject to exploitation by the US. I believe
the paper will inform our deliberations about US policy
in Africa and, in its more detailed assessment, will
serve as useful basic documentation of So?~iet activities
there across the board.
William'J..Casey ?
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"Soviet Policy and Africa"
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