LETTER TO MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE J. KEEGAN, JR. USAF FROM GEORGE BUSH

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
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Major General George J. Keegan, Jr., USAF
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence
Department of the Air Force
Washington, D.C. 20330
Dear George:
Please extend my appreciation to the Air Force personnel on Project
Red Fortress for their important contributions to the recently completed
Interagency Intelligence Memorandum on Soviet civil defense. Your
initiative in organizing the project correctly anticipated the interests
of high-level intelligence consumers.
I am certain that the on-going research program of Project Red Fortress
will result in a better understanding of Soviet civil defense when a second
interagency intelligence report on the subject is prepared next year.
George Bush
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LETTER to MGen. G. J. Keegan (ACSI/USAF) re Project Red Fortress (Soviet
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
1 NOV 1976
Major General Harold R. Aaron, USA
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
Department of the Army
Washington, D.C. 20330
Please extend my appreciation to the Army personnel on Project Red
Fortress for their important contributions to the recently completed
Interagency Intelligence Memorandum on Soviet civil defense. I am certain
that the on-going research program of the project will result in a better
understanding of Soviet civil defense when a second interagency intelligence
report on the subject is prepared next year.
Si ncerely,
George Bush
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LETTER to MGen. H. R. Aaron (ACSI/Army) re Project Red Fortress (Soviet
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Officers
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
THROUGH: Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
FROM: National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs
SUBJECT: Attached Letters of Appreciation
1. The attached memorandum and letters recommended for your signature,
acknowledge the contributions of Agency organizations and the joint Army and
Air Force project Red Fortress to our recent study of Soviet civil defense.
(Project Red Fortress was initiated by General Keegan in April of this year
to exploit all sources for information on the Soviet civil defense program.
He augmented active duty personnel with photo interpreters and area specialists
from Air Force reserves and obtained assistance from the photo exploitation
organizations of the Strategic Air Command and Air Force Foreign Technology
Division. In August, General Aaron contributed Army photo interpreters and
analysts to the project.)
2. Also attached for your signature are letters to Dr. Edward Teller
and Dr. Malcolm Currie forwarding them a copy of the IIM on Soviet Civil
Defense and acknowledging their role in its preparation.
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2 September 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs
Draft Interagency Intelligence Memorandum on Soviet
Civil Defense
1. We are about to complete an important interagency paper on Soviet
civil defense. We need your approval of its principal findings and
conclusions. To assist you to focus on it, we propose to send you the
draft on about next Wednesday (after our final clean-u session) and then
to brief you on the paper and discuss the findings. has put us 25X1
on your calendar for this purpose from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, September 10
in the DCI Conference Room.
2. The paper results from the first detailed interagency survey of
data on Soviet civil defense to have been conducted since 1970. It
expresses more concern for the scope, vigor and potential significance of
the Soviet preparations than has been conveyed in previous intelligence
community issuances. The agencies are agreed as to the facts that we know
about, and are agreed that there is much we still do not know. They also
agree on our tentative conclusions about the potential effectiveness of the
program. The Air Force, Army, and Navy, however, plan to introduce alterna-
tive language making a very strong statement about the impact of this Soviet
program on the overall US-USSR strategic balance. 25X1A
25X1A 3. The survey was managed and the paper drafted by an interagency team
under the chairmanship of of DIA. Much of the actual work
2 5X1A was done by OSR in CIA. Much of the drafting was done by
of my office and by F_ I formerly NIO/SA, who has worked virtually
full time on the project all year. These are the people who will brief you.
4. The briefing will, we hope, substitute effectively for detailed
reading of the entire document, which is about two inches thick. It will
use graphics and charts taken from the text itself. It will be essentially
the same briefing we would give to consumers.
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this NSSM. Owing to NSSM scheduling requirements, the draft of the findings
and conclusions has already been given to the study group's chairman with
the caveat that it does not yet have final approval and is subject to
modification.
6. By this memo I am also informing Mr. Knoche, and 25X1
Dr. Stevens of the session we plan for you next Friday, and am inviting them
to participate.
Howard Sto rtz, Jr.
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THE DIRECTOR OF
National Intelligence Officers
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
FROM: National Intelligence Officer for
Strategic Programs
SUBJECT: Soviet Civil Defense
Attached is the final draft of the Principal
Findings and Conclusions of the Interagency
Intelligence Memorandum on Soviet Civil Defense
which I promised to send you. We are scheduled
to brief you on the memorandum tomorrow at 1500.
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