TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR USIB STEERING GROUP ON MONITORING STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A000200020018-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 27, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT Terms of Reference for USIB Steering
Group on Monitoring Strategic Arms
Limitations
REFERENCE USIB-D-27.5/3, 2 June 1972
The enclosed memorandum from the Chairman of the USIB
Steering Group on Monitoring Strategic Arms Limitations and its
attached Terms of Reference are circulated herewith for the
information of the USIB.
Executive Secretary
GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
SECRET declassification
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27 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: USIB Steering Group on Monitoring Strategic
Arms Limitations- -Initial Meeting
REFERENCE: USIB-D-27.5/3, 2 June 1972 (SECRET)
1. The USIB Steering Group on Monitoring Strategic Arms Limitations
held its initial meeting on Friday, 23 June 1972 from 2!30 - 4:00 p.m.
All members were present.
2. At the meeting the Steering Group approved Terms of Reference
for its work (attached) and appointed Howard Stoertz, Jr. of CIA as its
Executive Secretary.
3. The Steering Group decided to appoint one Working Group to assist
it, comprising representatives of each of the principals. From time to
time as required, representatives of other USIB committees and intelligence
components will be invited to participate in the deliberations of this
Working Group.
4. The Steering Group considered it desirable to move promptly to
produce a baseline report on the Status of Soviet Forces Relevant to the
SALT Agreements as of 1 July 1972, and directed the Working Group to
prepare such a report by the end of July.
(signed)
Vernon A. Walters
Lieutenant General, USA
Chairman
Attachment:
Terms of Reference
cc: Steering Group Members
Executive Secretary, USIB
Executive Secretary, Steering Group
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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR USIB STEERING GROUP ON
MONITORING STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATIONS
1. The USIB Steering Group on Monitoring Strategic Arms Limitations
(hereafter referred to as the SALT Steering Group) will be chaired by the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, with the following members: the
Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA; the Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency; the Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State.
2. The SALT Steering Group will be responsible to the Director o.f
Central Intelligence for guidance to and supervision of all intelligence
monitoring activities required under the strategic arms limitations
agreements with the USSR.
3. Specifically the responsibilities of the SALT Steering Group
include (but are not limited to) the following:
monitoring;
a. the review of relevant schedules and procedures for
b. the evaluation of the effectiveness of intelligence coverage
and analysis for monitoring;
compliance;
anomalies;
c.
d.
e.
the preparation of periodic reports on the status of Soviet
the investigation of possible treaty violations or other
the preparation of intelligence materials for possible use
in discussions with Soviet representatives in the Standing Consultative
Commission;
f. the preparation of recommendations for the Director of
Central Intelligence.
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4. The SALT Steering Group will function primarily as a supervisory
rather than an operating entity and will make maximum use of existing
community assets and procedures to carry out its work expeditiously. To
this end, it may task existing USIB committees or establish such working
groups as the Chairman deems necessary. With respect to those intelligence
community components over which Steering Group members do not already have
command authority, the Steering Group is authorized to levy requirements
and assign priorities as necessary, in coordination with the head of the
component concerned.
5. The Central Intelligence Agency will provide the secretariat for
the Chairman.
6. Should unreconcilable differences on important matters of
procedure or substance arise within the SALT Steering Group, they will be
referred to the Director of Central Intelligence for decision. Unreconcilable
differences on important matters of substance will be clearly set
forth and identified as to origin in any report forwarded by the SALT
Steering Group.
7. The SALT Steering Group will report to the Director of Central
Intelligence and, through him, to the NSC and other designated officials
concerned with the monitoring problem. The State and DIA members of the
SALT Steering Group (and their representatives) will continue to support
their respective departmental representatives in the Executive Branch
coordination process.
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