DISCUSSION WITH BILL LANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000200150011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 21, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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21 November 1974
Subject: Discussion with Bill Lang
I met with Bill Lang and his Mutual
Security Assistance Working Group in re the
contributions CIA might make. (15 Nov 1974)
The areas in which they hope we could
contribute would include:
1. Economic data or economic studies on
the effects of inflation on mutual security.
support countries, particularly with the view
to providing judgments on the ability of LDC's
to pay for their own defense programs.
2. Chinese and Soviet use of military
assistance as a policy weapon in the LDCt s.
3. French and British role in the military
sales and military aid field.
On the above, I told Lang that we probably
do not have too much on No. 3; that I thought we
were in good shape on No. 2, and that on No. 1
for a lot of the countries we would be in good
shape and others we might not have too much.
I also told him that our economics people were
up to their eyeballs and that our effort would pretty
much be providing studies that were off-the-shelf
or data that was readily available, but that we
could not take on very much in the way of new
research projects. He said he understood and
agreed.
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He asked what we could do in terms of
that part of an outline which talks about
congressional or US criticism of the program.
I told him that would be a "no-no" for CIA.
He agreed.
Some of the countries they are concerned
about are Indochin -
-and base right countries Portugal,
Spain, the Philippines, and Thailand). They
do not want definitive studies on each of these
countries, but stuff pertinent to the question:
How able are they to pay their own way?
They wanted each member of the Working
Group to file independent papers--their views,
not official Agency views--on a concepts part
of the outline. I have already asked
lc___~to do. The paper is kind of a free
thinking piece on what were the factors that
influenced our mutual security program in the
past and as we look down the future, how will
the international climate affect future mutual
security programs.
I am under commitment to provide the
Jpaper and to designate an Agency
representative to the Working Group that will
take care of the other forms of Agency support
needed.
PVW
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