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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00680R000100400003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 4, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Acting Chief, Geography Division
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4 August 1959
25X1 A2d2 1. Per your instructions, the following questions and
ccntss on the plan are submitted:
a. Is it intended ass lied, in the 24 J i e -
25X1A2d2 memoo that the exercise focus exclusively
on problems of intelligence production that relate
to support of OCI reporting and C IM estimates? In
other words, are there to be any tasks concerned
with production in support of DD/P-military oper-
ations (up, E and. Z, agent activities) ?
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b. On the face of it, pars. 3c would seem to state a
J-3 rather than a J-2 problem. Is it intended that
the exercise participants actually select the optimum
location, or rather that they advise on the respective
merits of several possible locations that are made
knmm to thus? The last approach is more realistic,
since a War Plan covering hostilities with the USSR
can be assumed to exist. It is recozended that the
problem take the form of an analysis of several loca-
tions which are pre-selected.
c. Instructions covering the determination of an optimum
location for an Invasion should include:
1) Time of year
2) Tactical and strategic objectives
3) Nature of the contemplated invasion -- by sea.,
ground., air, or a canbiuation of these. Any
paramilitary role?
4) Assumptions relating to accessibility through
neutral 33 .tions (Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Finland)
Technical characteristics of equipment as related
to operational limitations (i.e., required bearing
capacity of roads and bridges, temperature require-
ments, terrain requirements)
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d. Will the overall problem include intelligence
production related to Europe? The fact that the
USSR is assumed to have launched a conventional
invasion "ton several European fronts" would new
to Imply a necessity for coverage of this scene,
whatever its status following the nuclear exchange
In what form will reports and maps be prepared?
Will separate geographic intelligence reports be
prepared.. or will personnel be mainly utilized as
ccsuponents of teams which prepare evaluative sum-
manes and estimates?
25X1A2d2
2. As we have discussed, the exercise appears to apply to the
ORA somewbst artificially. This situation follows inevitably from
the apparent limitations of the problem to the USSR and the absence
of practice coordination with the DD/P and the military services. In
the one case, we are prevented from exercising our normal world-wide
responsibilities. In the other case, we are restrained from per-
forming certain major CAA wartime functions (clandestine and uncon-
ventlonai operations support), and are assigned, other functions that
would normally be handled by or with engineer intelligence personnel
of the military services. I mention these conditions because they
bear on the number of GM ,personnel who could actually participate
usefully in- I would recommend that the complement from,
D/GG consist of no more than four (4) persons, unless the answer to
quite d. (uro a is "no"; in such case, the complement can be
reduced to three 3 ) persons.
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