INTELLIGENCE PARTICIPATION IN INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00100R000100120027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 4, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET
4 April 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Acting, D/DCI/NI
FROM: James R. Lilley
National Intelligence Officer for China
SUBJECT: Intelligence Participation in Interagency
Working Group on China
1. Action Requested: Request you raise with Secretary
Vance at your next meeting with him the participation of an
intelligence officer in an Interagency Working Group on China.
2. Background:
-- It was announced in a Cabinet meeting on 28 March
that, in coordination with State, the NSC had been
meeting with an interagency group on China policy.
-- The Working Group will concern itself with
problems related to China which are not suitable to the
PRM process. This would include issues such as claims
and assets.
-- Currently this type of issue is being handled on
an ad hoc basis between State, Defense and NSC without a
participant from the intelligence community. This was
the case in the previous Administration where a small
select group handled sensitive Chinese issues without
intelligence community involvement.
-- I believe that intelligence community participation
is essential because we need to make sure that the Group
is getting all the facts and getting them straight. Also
the intelligence community should be up to date on policy
developments and thus be producing relevant information.
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3. Staff Position: DDO and DDI concur that intelligence
participation is necessary.
4. Recommendation: I recommend that you raise this matter
with Secretary Vance in your meeting with him on 6 April. If
we do not raise this issue, the intelligence community may well
be excluded based on the past record.
James R. Lilley
National Intelligence Officer
for China
NIO/CH-JRLilley
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Addressee
DDCI
Acting, D/DCI/NI
DDO
DDI
NIO/CH
NIO/RI
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