LETTER TO THE HONORABLE THOMAS L. HUGHES FROMMARSHALL []. CARTER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 18, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
WASHINGTON
June 4, 1963
An analysis of vulnerability and stren;ths :
geographical and topographical characteristics; leadership
strengths and limitations; ethnic, religious and other social
differences; historic jealousies; the desire for non-Indian
alternatives; indigenous capabilities for conventional and
counter-insurgency defense; other factors.
Indian policies and practice:
a summary analysis of Indian policies and practice toward
each area, with particular reference to Indian efforts to
deal with these vulnerabilities.
(3) Communist Chinese strategies
Communist Chinese strategies for dealing with the border-
lands, including strategies already visible and those which
are plausibly within Chinese capability and intention.
(4) Conclusion
I am writing to ask on behalf of our Department whether CIA would
be able to undertake a project for which we understand the Agency to be
particularly well equipped. We believe it is time for a careful analytical
review of the situation in the Himalayan borderlands, and we hope very
much that you will see your way to undertaking the project.
Our picture of the scope needed is along these lines. Each segment
of the area might be dealt with separately, to include (a) Ladakh, (b) U.P.
Tibet frontier, (c) Nepal, (d) Sikkim, (e) Bhutan, (f) NEFA, and possibly
(g) Nagaland.
Among the relevant considerations for each might be these:
(1)
(2)
Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter,
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence,
Washington.
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(4) Conclusion:
identification of the most important vulnerabilities and an
estimate of Indian capacity to deal with them.
We should be very glad to help in any way we could. It might be
specially useful if the executors of the project and appropriate ]NR staff
were to exchange notes on the elements of items (2) and (3), which deal
with Indian and Chinese strategies and policies.
Perhaps as a first step you would care to designate some representative
who knows the field and who could talk with our staff on further elaboration of
the details. The project would, I think, be eagerly received and it would be aN
most creditable product for the Agency. %
Sincerely,
Thomas L. Hughes
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