PREPARATIONS FOR WEDNESDAY, 7 MARCH, PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING AND FUTURE MEETINGS

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• Document Release Date: June 7, 2004
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• Publication Date: March 6, 1979
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Presidential Briefing Coordinator
SUBJECT : Preparations for Wednesday, ? March. P
residential
Briefing and Future Meetings
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1. Attached are several folders in preparation for tomorrow's
briefing:
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Sudan - Contains proposed talking points.
Uganda - Contains proposed talking points.
Egypt - Contains some of the material given to the DDCI
for his use and an answer to your question
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Syria-Iraq - Contains some of the material used by the
DDCI in preparing his briefing.
E.
Yemen - Some backgrong in case you haven't had
time for this topic.
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2. Thursday morning you have an NIO meeting. Please indicate what
topic you would like to discuss. I recommend we hold to one topic:
A. Muslim Fundamentalism. This seemed to be cut short last
week and you were distracted by telephone calls. Do
you want to revisit it?
This is the topic Mr. Bowie
now plans to cover with the President on 21 March..
C. Latin American Trends. We've made no progress in
developing a Presidential briefing on this and, apart
from Mexican oil and gas, it's been a long time since
we looked at this area.
D. Arms in the Indian Ocean. Events in both. the Middle
East and Southeast Asia have impacted on our perceptions
of how arms control might be implemented here.
3. Also for your general information I am attaching a copy of my
memorandum to the Operations Center Senior Duty Officer to give you
flavor of.the kind of things they try to do the night before each
Briefing.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: SDO
FROM : Presidential Briefing Coordinator
SUBJECT . 7 March Presidential Briefing F
1. The DCI and DDCI will brief the President tomorrow. The
objective is to prepare the President for his forthcoming trip, not on
the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations, but on peripheral issues that may
arise to complicate his mission. Identifying such issues should be the
focus of our search of the incoming traffic overnight.
2. At the moment the DCI and DDCI plan to touch on some or all of
the following topics.
A. Syria-Iraq Rapprochement. Any signs of movement one way
or another would be particularly helpful.
C. Sudan. Any news on Sudan's economy, relations with Libya,
Ethiopia or the Eritrean rebels, or signs of southern
Sudanese dissension would be of particular interest.
D. Uganda. Please be particularly alert for signs of
outsiders meddling in the Tanzania-Uganda war, and, of
course, to developments in that war.
E. Yemen. Please collect late reporting on the status of
fighting, Saudi moves and particularly any reporting
that will shed light on the degree of Soviet and Cuban
involvement.
F. Lebanon. Any reports that tend to support or calm our
concerns for a renewal of Christian-Syrian fighting
would be helpful.
3. I will check in with you about 0700 for whatever you've been
able to collect overnight. The DCI and DDCI will be at Headquarters
during the morning until about 1030. Please inform us of any late
breaking news on the areas listed above or in any other area which you
think merit the DCI's attention. In particular please inform me of any
in preparation. I will be in the DCI or DDCI offices or at
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