CONTINGENCY GROUP MEETING ON LEBANON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000500120026-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 11, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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February 11, 1982
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Thomas
Bearg Dyke
Wheeler
B. Cormack
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John Stanford
Edward Bucknell
SUBJECT: Contingency Group Meeting on Lebanon
Attached is the Summary of Conclusions for-the-meeting
held on February 8, 1982.
Executive Secretaj.ty+
Attachments:
1. Summary of Conclusions
2. Attendance List
State Dept. review completed.
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SECRET
CONTINGENCY GROUP ON LEBANON
February 11, 1982
PARTICIPANTS: List Attached
DATE ANP TIME: February 8, 1982, 3:05 p.m.
PLACE:' Deputy Secretary's Conference Room 7219, State Department
SUBJECT: Contingency Group Meeting on Lebanon
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
A small senior working group convened February 8 for the
purpose of tasking contingency papers on the situation in Lebanon.
Morris Draper of State briefed on recent diplomatic contacts with
Middle East governments and on the Sharon Plan. It was agreed
that CIA, JCS, and State would contribute inputs to a cable mes-
sage to Secretary Haig summarizing U.S. measures aimed at preven-
ting or containing a crisis. No further meeting of the working
group was scheduled-pending review of the- papers.
ACTION ASSIGNMENTS
CIA was tasked to provide a summary of Soviet motives and
possible involvement in a regional crisis.
JCS was asked to provide a'U.S. force posture, including
assets available to support an evacuation of American citizens
and to reinforce .the area.
State was assigned to integrate the CIA and JCS papers with
a State assessment of diplomatic options in Europe and the Middle
East, and to summarize the package in a cable to Secretary Haig
by COB February 9.
SECRET
GDS 2/11/88
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ATTENDANCE LIST
Contingency Group fleeting on Lebanon
February.8, 1982, 3:05 p.m.
D Conference Room 7219, State Department
CIA
Mr. Walter Stoessel, Chairman
Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, S/P
Mr. Morris Draper, NEA
Mr. Arnold Kanter, PM
Mr. Tain.Tompkins, Notetaker
Mr. Geoffrey Kemp
Mr.. John McMahon
Mr. Noel Koch
Mr. David Ransom
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LTG Paul Gorman
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