DRAFT IIM ON SOVIET POLICIES AND ACTIVITIES IN LATIN AMERICA

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TO: ER No.
NIC 82-1382/1
DATE
19 May 82
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L 2204A & P-206 SECRFET
Draft IIM on Soviet Policies and Activities in
Latin kmerica. Canjments by DCI on overview,
Rey Judgments or suirmary.
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FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
S.UBIECT Draft- LIM,. on_.Sovi.et_ Pol ici es and Activities in
.Lati=n-America
25X1.
1. I thought that the last 40 pages of the IIM draft on Soviet Policies
and Activities in Latin America were quite good. although, like everything
else, it could be improved. The first three pages-of overview failed to do
justice to the material. In addition, it's an important and currently relevant
subject and I Don't know why it shouldn't be put through the community as a
SNIE.
2. The key judgments or summary should be completed enough to give the
consumer, who will only read those first several pages,.a..quick picture of the
following:
a. The nature, significance, and relative importance and targeting
of the-key levers.the Soviets have, i.e., arms relationships, Communist
parties, embassy strengths, size and activities, interplay with Cuban
and other embassies, economic assistance ($170 million from USSR and
$70 million from Eastern Europe to Nicaragua, compared to $25-35 million
for Honduras from the US), orchestration of revolutionary violence.
(i.e., Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala), propaganda (i.e.,
El Salvador as depicted in large DDO paper), trade and credit (Brazil,
Argentina), political efforts such as business to Mexico, calls for
action from Moscow by Chile and oppositionists, educational exchange
programs..-Each of these significant levers-should-get a paragraph in
the key judgments.
b. Then the key judgments should have paragraphs dealing with the
major countries or national groupings, i.e., Mexico, Brazil, Argentina,
the Central America complex, Peru, Chile, the Islands. That should
give the busy policymaker the net picture in five or six pages.
3. Then the rest of the discussion, perhaps beefed up by some of my
suggestions which provide good backup and more deta lee r,ding for the
specialists.
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