DD/I ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH OVERSEAS INTERNAL DEFENSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100140056-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: July 14, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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14 July 1962
t 1E 1QR1 ,,:i DVM i c a: Deputy Chief
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UBJECT DD/I A.ctivities in Connection with
Overseas Internal Defense
1. It appears likely that the OD/1 area can make a number
of contributions to the U:$ overseas internal defense program, but
the exact nature and scope of these contributions will be affected
by decisions which have not yet been made. -s.s a result, we are
unaltle to project fature activities with any certainty. tt a minimum
however, we should be able to continue the type of intelligence
support that we have rendered during the past 18 months.
2. National Intelligence i::vtimatesa address themselves to
pro=alerns of insurgency, counter-insurgency, and related matters
where these are, or might become, relevant to the problem under
consideration. Particular NIE's may devote considerable attention
to these matters as s~iown in recent estimates concerning the
situation a.n Laos#
3. During 1961 the Office of National Estimates began
production of a USI.fi-approved document entitled, "Weekly Survey
of Cold War Crisis Situations".** Matters bearing on insurgency
and counter-insurgency receive close and continuing attention in
this document which is designed to give early warning of fore-
seeablo: crisis situations as well as to provide weekly estimative
* ; 9IL 1 62"C ~rc~ ur.isi Objectives Capabilities, and Intentions
in -joutheaast Asia, " dated 2.i February 1962; -,NIL 58-`-62, "Probable
Corrm,:nist .eactions to Certain r-ossible UA Courses of _ ction with
;Aspect to Laos, " dated 31 May 196w:; and >aNIE 58-5/1-62, "Coma unist
Reactions to :Kdditi.onal US U ourses of :'action in Laos and North
V ie tnaii s, - dated 14 June 196Z
.in example is attached
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comment on previously identified crisis situations. By direction
of t,,e USIB. ONE is also engaged in producing a series of 'uKegional
Estimative Reviews" on the major regions of the world. These will
be coordinated and distributed to recipients of the Weekly Survey.
Whenever problems of counter-insurgency exist they will be
treated in the appropriate regional review.
4. The Office of Current Intelligence, as part of its normal
mission, has published current intelligence on situations deteriorating
into insurgency and on active insurgent movex-ments. In March 1961
OCI produced a 90 -page paper covering in detail the potentially
explosive situations in 31 countries. This paper was prepared at
the request of DD/P to serve as an intelligence annex to a
comprehensive paper on counter-insurgency. In June 1961
this paper served as the basis for a briefing given by OCI to
Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner and a group of 2i representing a limited
war task group organized by the Department of Defense. In
addition. OCI has produced a number of special briefings and
memoranda on counter-insurgency situations with particular
emphasis on Laos and South Vietnam.
5. In order to make the National Intelligence Survey Program
directly responsive to the needs of to US overseas internal defense
program, the Office of Basic Intelligence ''has revised its sc'xedule
for the production of Chapter One and Section 57 on a large number
of countries. These are the section' of the NIS believed most
likely ,o be useful in connection with counter-insurgency planning.
6. Counter-insurgency actions in s=outheast Asia have been
supported by a number of geographic intelligence research studies.
These have dealt with possible relocation sites for the Mao
guerrillas; characteristics and paramilitary potential of the Kha
tribes of t-outhern Laos and Loi tribes of South Vietnam; a proposal
for a possible geographic partition of Laos; and detailed information
concerning t-tte "Ho Cali Minh Trail" as a route for infiltration into
.3ouih Vietnaau. In addition a Geograp -tic intelligence Memorandum
on Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Northeast Thailand was prepared
which summarized and analyzed the significance of a number of
aspectu of the physical and cultural geography of the area that hear
on counter-insurgency actions.
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8. The Geographic Division of LRR is currently engaged in
a broad project, responsive to NSAM 1E2, which is intended to study
11 critical countries
his project is expected to lead to continuing
requirements for support as developmental plans for active exploita-
tion of selected groups are implemented.
9. (aircrew E and E briefing aids for South Vietnam are
being prepared for Agency operational requirements.
10, ii broad program for Latin American studies in supoo
It is temporarily inactive because of other high priority work con-
cerning Latin America, but will be resumed as soon as work on
the other project is complete.
11. hrough its research and reporting on Sino-Soviet Bloc
military and economic assistance to underdeveloped areas of the
Free World, the Economic Research Area of ORR is the primary
contributor to the biweekly and semiannual publications of the
Economic In~elligence Committee on this subject. An additional
important facet of the Bloc offensive analyzed in these publica-
tions are trade agreements, the actual movements of commodities
between Communist nations and Yree World underdeveloped countries,
credit terms, etc. The US~aR has frequently taken advantage of an
international marketing problem, such as Iceland in the case of
fish, to move in quickly and establish strong economic ties with
suc= nations. These Economic Intelligence Committee publicationa
furnish U? policymakers with accurate, current reporting on
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emerging Sine-Soviet Bloc moves with the expectation that, as
possible. counteractions can be taken.
12. Numerous reports have been prepared in response to
requests or ascertained needs including comparisons of Bloc
and Western assistance to countries in which there is Communist
activity. For those areas in which the political situation has
deteriorated sufficiently to actuate trade controls, such as
against Cuba, ERA/OaR furnished intelligence to the Departments
of State and Commerce on the types of commodities which are i ost
sought and on violations of established controls. We are also
engaged in analysis of those international shipping and air
activities in which the carriers are normally employed in the
delivery of supplies and equipment to insurgent groups.
13. In order to study Sino-Soviet Bloc economic activities
in underdeveloped countries and their potential as well as actual
impact in more detail, three new regional branches have been
recently created in the International Division of the Economic
%esearch Area. These new branches also will be concerned with
the role of indigenous Communist organizations, within under-
developed countries, insofar as t.ese organizations are used to
further the "trade and aid" offensive. .'.,Anther branch has been
established in t tis Division to study the institutional arrange-
ments within the Sino-Soviet Bloc for developing personnel, poli-
cies, and programs for the conduct of Bloc foreign assistance,
and for the training of Free World students within CommiFt
countries.
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