STIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00596A000300010018-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 1, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee
STIC Contribution to the DCI's Annual Report
(STIC)[a_ctivities during the past year have include major
contributions to national intelligence estimat s and Presi-
dential review memorandums Las well a;initiatg interagency j
activitie`uon emerging S~,T issues ~o~j nationa importance '
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Fln 1978, the STIC produced five reports designed to aid in
nyO planning future intelligence activities on such issues as
overt S&T collection and non-nuclear energy technologies.]
The Committee also produced #-v Intelligence Community.'
repor A ased on analyses done by components of the Community]
threeiLon the status of selected Soviet directed energy tech-
nologies"4,strategic lasers, pulse power, and particle beams
for potential military use and two reports on military
implications of technology transfer to the USSR.
ETIC participated in the development, implementation,.and
follow-up actions of th~\Technology Trends Colloquium, spon
,cl t f cored bye{Admiral Turner and Dr. Perry, the purpose of which
rr;.,.j wasj to identify the key'. trends in technology''that could im-.
,j~,.,r q' pact US and Soviet military weapon systems for the rest of
, this century:
[STIC and --its- secretariat supporte S 's Science and
(~ Technology Advisory.- Pangl (STAP), whic bfield"'four meetings
during the year andj was heavily involved in support of the
Technology Trends Colloquium and in evaluation of its re-
sults . rn~lo o^ Lope t. o?~ 4f,; iM~ n=4 S bier+~ a "r..? ,,, ~.
STICKidentified apd implemented actions on.,S~,T intelligence
issues [whichj' zeede-d,tgreater interagency attention. To better
understand the status of SFT in the Peoples Republic of China,
STIC sponsored. an interagency orientation day on S&T in the
G3' PRC; published a directory of US intelligence personnel and
products concerned with PRC S&T; and established a working.
group to investigate Chinese leadership perceptions of S&T
modernization. Working groups were also established to for-
mulate intelligence community views on S&T enigmas in the
USSR and on the status and trends of Soviet ASW technologies.
STIC provided the DCI's Committee on Exchanges with Intel-
ligence Community assessments of the technology loss- ,'ntel-
ligence gain on four areas of technology exchange between the.
United States and USSR.
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