INTERIM REPORT ON PLANNING FOR MILITARY ESTIMATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00971A000400050023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 16, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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16 April 1970
SUBJECT: Interim Report on Planning for Military Estimates
1. For some weeks a working group from this Office,
chaired byl has been considering the changes and
reforms that should be made in this year's military estimates.
We have seen the suggestions submitted to you by Messrs. Rogers,
Laird, and Kissinger, talked with Andy Marshall, worked over
some ideas of our own, and picked up other thoughts from here
and there.
2. It is clear that the consumers want, among other
things, (a) much more copious setting-forth of evidence and
argument, at least on the more important and controversial
matters; (b) more history, in order to see how Soviet forces
got to be as they are; (c) somewhat more attention to Soviet
military doctrine, economic constraints, etc. ; (d) more graphs
and charts; and (e) estimates carried out to five years.
3. How far all this can successfully be done will only
be known by trying. We have outlines for various papers, and we
have graphics people already working on the problem. We shall
use numerous Annexes, probably of two kinds: (a) for more
lengthy and detailed descriptive matter, as e.g., for the fronts,
armies, divisions, etc. of Soviet ground forces, and (b) for
technical discussions in detail -- including those involving
disagreements -- as e. g. , on the SS-9 and the SA-5 if these
subjects are still lively issues as of next fall. We are already
engaged in some preliminary drafting.
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