INTELLIGENCE AND THE MBFR TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78Z02997A000100010004-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2007/10/23: CIA-RDP78Z02997A000100010004-3
Intelligence and the MBFR Talks
The attached three papers provide background on
the MBFR talks---the negotiations for achieving mutual
and balanced reductions of conventional forces in
Central Europe.
-- That at Tab 1, an excerpt from a recent
study of MBFR drafted by an interagency
group at the request of the NSC Staff,
briefly describes the factors that motivated
the start of the negotiations and the en-
vironment in which they are now conducted.
-- That at Tab 2 examines the intelligence
methods and bureaucratic mechanism in-
volved in reaching NATO-agreed estimates of
Warsaw Pact military manpower--the principal
"currency" in which the current talks con-
template that reductions would be taken.
- That at Tab 3 describes some of the inherent
limitations on the intelligence community's
capability to detect--and, more important,
prove--Warsaw Pact non-compliance with
an MBFR treaty.
Approved For Release 2007/10/23: CIA