FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE WITH THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (SYSTEMS ANALYSIS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00967A001000030022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 22, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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22 July 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of National Estimates
SUBJECT : Forthcoming Conference with the Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Systems Analysis)
1. This is to confirm that Alain Enthoven has accepted your
invitation to confer and lunch with us next week. He and 3 or 4
of his assistants plan to arrive here at 11 a.m. Wednesday, 27 July,
and to leave again after lunch, no later than 1:30 p.m.
2. This meeting continues the series of fruitful discussions
between us and the Systems Analysis people which began several
years ago. We have timed it this year to inaugurate, as it were,
the annual series of major Soviet military estimates and the
succeeding National Intelligence Projections for Planning. As
you know, Systems Analysis people are important users of these
estimates, and, the NIPP was initiated at their specific request.
3. At our meeting next week, we have invited Enthoven and
his assistants to express their current needs and interests, and
to speak to the following topics:
a. The substantive questions about Soviet military
forces, weapons systems, and capabilities which are of parti-
cular current concern to Systems Analysis;
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b. Their critique of NIPP '66, including any comments
they wish to make on substance, methodology, format, and
scheduling;
c. Finally, we hope to have same general conversation
on the way in which the NIPP project and the efforts the
CIA/DIA Joint Analysis Group can best supplement each other
in meeting the needs of OSD planners.
4. We are inviting to this meeting Agency officials who play
a key role in estimative work in this field:
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5. Two members of my staff with managerial responsibility
for the NIPP will also attend the meeting. You will need to invite
a smaller group to join you and Enthoven at lunch.
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H. STOERTZ,JR.
Chief, SMT Staff
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