LETTER TO ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER FROM EUGENE V. MCAULIFFE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2004
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• Publication Date: April 14, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
April 14, 1977
Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Many thanks for your letter of April 5. Its contents
were most informative and helpful.
Since the question is clearly one of priorities and
how we allocate finite resources, I have forwarded your
letter to Dave McGiffert who succeeded me as ASD/ISA
on April 1. Whether Dave will decide to pursue the matter
any further I dare not guess.
With best wishes,
,Eugene V. McAuliffe
Ambassador
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The Honorable Eugene V. McAuliffe
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Thank you for your reaction to the recent CIA
report on the Soviet concept for initial military
operations against NATO. It is gratifying to know
that you found it informative.
It is true we have concentrated our resources on
learning more about the Soviet forces in central Europe,
and have given less attention to the rest of the Warsaw
Pact. We do plan to publish a paper in late spring on
the over-all balance in central Europe, and we expect
to publish another later in the year on how the Warsaw
Pact would go to a war footing in central Europe. We
will forward these studies to you and DIA. In the mean-
time we will provide whatever help we can to DIA for the 25X1
work you outlined.
t ers, including
acre ary rown, nave expressed interests similar to
yours, but so far none has recommended any diversion of
resources from the effort on Soviet expenditures. I
welcome your thoughts on this matter.
Yours sincerely,
c c,,,s el1 Turner
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STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
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Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson, USA
Director, Defense Intelligence
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The boas thought this letter was O.K., but
before sending it on he felt that he and the
DCI should have a clearer idea of what level of
resources is being considered in the last paragraph.
Could your people. give him a..few groups on this?
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