ISSUES FOR SIC PRODUCTION SUBCOMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

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• Document Release Date: July 29, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 25, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant, Deputy Director for
Science and Technology, DIA
SUBJECT Issues for SIC Production Subcommittee
Consideration
1. There appears to be an increasing number of issues
emerging which deal rather directly with questions of foreign
science and technology in their own right. Oftentimes these
questions. involve several different elements of the intelli-
gence community. Quite frequently they involve concerns of
agencies not within the intelligence community at all. This
has been true recently in the case of questions about the
impact of technology transfer resulting from US-Soviet tech-
nical agreements and their associated commercial protocols.
Though a number of evaluations have addressed this problem,
it is clear that continued technical analysis will be required
in the. future.
2. There are a number of other similar issues that need
to be addressed. A brief listing of these includes:
the state of international energy technology, in-
cluding non-nuclear developments;
the state of foreign food technologies, including
such things as new fertilizer processes, grain
strain modifications, fisheries development and
climate control;
questions relating to the treatment of scientific
and technological matters as part of our foreign
policy, including the generation of information
required to direct our use of such mechanisms as
the US-Soviet bilateral S&T agreements;
assessments of the techological aspects of foreign
developments in such economically and militarily
important areas as integrated circuits, tele-
communications, new natural resource extraction
and so on;
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- assessments of the capabilities of foreign countries
to use new technology in industry;
questions involving levels and rates of technology
transfer and its impact on foreign countries;
- matters relating to foreign research and development
as it may affect new weapons concepts or developments;
- matters relating to the management of foreign tech-
nological development programs;
- questions relating to the state of foreign science,
scientific resources and education, scientific
policy and scientific exchange programs.
3.. The above issues, while not of immediate military
intelligence concern, are the intelligence problems that I
referred to during the last SIC Production Subcommittee.
meeting. Hopefully, a melding of these concerns with the
classic military scientific intelligence problems will make
our report to the SIC more universally useful. In addition,
as I indicated at the meeting, I will forward to you my
summary memorandum on the President's Science Advisor's
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