PARAMILITARY AND ANTI-TERRORIST CAPABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003400030024-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 3, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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The Directo"r of CeiitratintelIigence ~Mw
Washington. D. C. 20505
3 November 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Paramilitary and Anti-terrorist Capabilities
1. At the SCC meeting on 26 October there was a discussion
of what our paramilitary capabilities should be. This led into a
further discussion of both FBI and Department of Defense anti-
terrorist capabilities. I would like to suggest that we would
do well to have the SCC working group more clearly define what
potential situations we want, as a nation, to be prepared to inter-
vene in with military-type forces, below *he threshold of full
combat employment of our military forces; and which agencies of the
Government should be prepared to cover which of these potential
intervention situations.
2. I would suggest that defining the conditions we want to be
prepared to meet through some form of quasi-military intervention
could help us insure that-we are looking ahead and anticipating
where such capabilities may be needed so that we build the capa-
bilities today and not in reaction to events. I would further
suggest that such definition and assignment of responsibilities to
various departments/agencies will help each of us to insure that we
are allocating our resources in the most specific way possible.
cc: SECDEF
AG
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