(UNCLASSIFIED) PROPOSAL FOR A SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000700070125-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
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13 DEC 1951
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE e. C) ~ '
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SUBJECT: (Unclassified) Proposal for a Special Intelligence Estimate
1. In view of the expected visit of the British Prime Minister
to the United States in the near future and the anticipated inclusion of
an item on his agenda relating to written formalization of the US-UK
agreement on employment of UK air bases by the US Strategic Air Force
units, it is considered appropriate to recommend the preparation of a
special estimate on the following subject:
"British Intentions with Respect to the Employment of
UK Bases by US Strategic Bombers in the Event of General
War or an Emergency Requiring Their Use in Atomic Attacks
on the Soviet Union."
2. This estimate should be prepared on a crash priority basis, and
among other things should also encompass:
a. An historical summary of the US-UK verbal agreements which
established the SAC program in the UK and the scale, nature and importance
of SAC activities in Great Britain.
b. A survey of British groups, particularly the Bevan school,
which oppose to varying degrees the basing of US bombers in the UK to
determine their strength and likely effect on preventing or obstructing a
formalized written agreement.
c. An examination of the British understandings of the verbal
agreement which is the basis for the SAC program,
d. An estimate as to the likely approach which the British may
take in formalizing an agreement in writing, i.e., to what extent they
will insist on participation in decisions to employ the bases as SAC
launching points for atomic attacks on Soviet Russia.
A. SAMFORI "
MAJOR GENERAL, USAF
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