NIC ACTIVITY REPORT, 18-22 OCTOBER 1982

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 22, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
22 October 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : NIC Activity Report, 18-22 October 1982
1. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
NIO/NESA provided memos on the Administration's policy thinkin
regarding Lebanon prior to the DCI's meeting
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NIO/LA provided written items on Mexico and Central America for the
DCI's weekly meeting with Judge Clark.
II. Interagency Papers
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III. Of Special Interest This Week
C/NIC, VC/NIC, and several NIOs attended and participated in
various sessions of the Intelligence Producers Council's conference at
State on Third World intelligence issues.
C/NIC and NIO/Strategic Programs met with Andy Marshall on
19 October to discuss the status of the Joint Net Assessment on
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strategic forces and to talk about getting a joint net assessment on ABM
forces under way.
NIO at Large (Hal Ford) spoke to a visiting Air War College group
on 19 October on "CIA's Analytic Mission."
NIO at Large (Lincoln Gordon), who was in New York on other
business, attended the inaugural ceremonies at Columbia University on
21 October for the W. Averill Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study
of the Soviet Union.
NIO/at Large (Hans Heymann) attended a three-day workshop at Energy
on the nuclear fuel cycle; participated in the IG meeting to discuss the
US walkout from the IAEA; briefed Columbia University graduates on
"intelligence and policy;" and briefed Energy and other officials on
Pakistani nuclear developments. His Assistant participated in the
Western Intelligence Branch meeting and talked
with personnel about their production program.
NIO/East Asia gave a presentation on Chinese politics to a
Department of Commerce conference for oil company executives.
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NIO/Near East-South Asia did a memo for the DCI on current policy
issues in the Near East-South Asian region, and he prepared talking
points for the DCI's meetings with Secretary Shultz and Weinberger.
A/NIO/NESA prepared memos for the DCI on US planning for naval exercises
and the dangers inherent in conducting those
exercises.
NIO/Strategic Programs talked with NSC staffers about the findings
of the Soviet ballistic missile defense estimate and plans to do a joint
net assessment on ABM forces. He also met with BG William Doyle, the
new intelligence Chief of Staff at SAC, concerning Soviet strategic
capabilities.
NIO/USSR-East Europe had a session with the DDO's branch chief
workshop during which a number of DO officers expressed concern about
policymakers' desires to get analysis and clandestine reporting that
support their policies. They thought that this problem, although
endemic in the relationship between policymakers and intelligence.
professionals, had grown worse in recent years.
As a result of his discussions with Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State Palmer and other State officers, NIO/USSR-EE is working with
DI/SOVA to produce an analysis of the Soviet grain situation for the US
delegation that is going to negotiate a new grain deal with the
Soviets. He also attended a meeting at State on measures to keep the
Polish situation before the world public.
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NIO/Western Europe and his Assistant visited NSA on 21 October to
receive extensive briefings and discuss requirements. NIO/WE, along
with former Ambassador to Turkey James Spain, will deliver the keynote
address today to the DI/EURA-sponsored conference on Greece and Turkey
at Airlie House.
IV. Future Activities
The DCI's Political-Military Advisory Panel will meet here on 28
and 29 October to discuss various Soviet and Near East-related
intelligence topics with NIC and DI officers.
NIO/GPF will meet next week with USMC Commandant General Barrow to
discuss the GPF work program and to refine requirements for future
military NIEs.
C/NIC, VC/NIC, NIO/USSR-EE, and NIO/GPF and one of his assistants
will visit the JFK Special Warfare Center at Ft. Bragg on 27 October to
discuss Army unconventional warfare programs.
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Henry S. Rowen
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SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 18-22 October 1982
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1 - NIC/AG
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