LEAD TIME INDICATORS FOR SOVIET MILITARY RDT&E

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A000800160021-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 16, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Major General George J. Keegan, Jr., USAF
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence
SUBJECT: Lead Time Indicators for Soviet Military RDT&E
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1. Thank you for your memorandum of 28 August 1974 requesting that
an increased community-wide effort be devoted to the matter of lead time
indicators in the entire spectrum of Soviet military research and
development.
2. As you know, the various USIt3 committees--in particular, GMAIC
and SIC--comprise already-existing community mechanisms with cognizance
over virtually every Soviet military area. Within their areas of
responsibility, I am looking to these committees to participate in
establishing and observing priorities for community attention to such
matters as you raise in your memorandum. I am well aware that Air Force
Intelligence actively participates in the work of these committees, and
I encourage your representatives on them to continue to stress lead time
indicators.
3. To be sure, there are research and development areas deserving
particularly close attention--such as ASW, new bombers, mobile ICBMs, and
military lasers--because they are subjects which USIB and its customers
have agreed are Key Intelligence Questions having direct bearing on US
defense policy. These are given close and systematic scrutiny in special
studies undertaken by the National Intelligence Officer for Strategic
Programs working within the KIQ framework. The scope of this effort
includes assessment of the indicators of such programs and what they tell
us about Soviet developmental timetables.
4. 1 believe this approach is appropriate'and sufficient to enable
the community to focus its resources as effectively as possible on the
critical aspects of Soviet military research and development.
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W. E. Colby
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SUBJECT: Lead Time Indicators for Soviet Military RDT&E
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(12 Sept 74)
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