NIE 11-3/8-78, VOLUME I

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2004
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• Publication Date: December 4, 1978
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4 December 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Intelligence Officer for
Strategic Programs
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: NIE 11-3/8-78, Volume I
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1. I think the new executive summary is. outstanding. Thanks. H
2. A few comments annotated. ^
3. I'm not on board with paragraphs 17-24 as yet, although I don't
reject them. They're a lot stronger than my sense of the situation. I'd
like to look at them again i6 a few days, and particularly after Bob Bowie
has a chance to review them. u
4. On the subject of air defense and how we display it, I think
you have done a super job in the text and I won't ask you to go any further.
I will ask you to prepare some charts that we can have for backup in Con-
gressional and other testimony. To begin with. I'd like to lnnk nt 1QR;
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5. I recognize this is not a scientific calculation, and hence
won't put it in an estimate, but I'm perfectly happy to give the decision-
makers some parameterized examples of what they may be facing.
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