NIC ACTIVITY REPORT FOR 6 - 10 DECEMBER 1982

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• Publication Date: December 10, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
NIC# 10063-82
10 December 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : NIC Activity Report for 6 - 10 December 1982
I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
NIO/General Purpose Forces met with Generals Faurer, D/NSA; Marks,
ACSI/AF; and Odom, ACSI/USA to discuss issues derived from the DCI's
trip to Europe. Each has been invited to address the issues identified
his area of interest in return correspondence to the DCI.
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NIO/GPF also assembled briefing books for the DCI and SACEUR in
preparation for their meeting on 14 December.
NIO/Strategic Programs testified on 8 December on MX to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. He was joined by Gen. Marks (ACSI/AF)
and of DIA, Chairman of the DCI's Weapons and Space Systems
Intelligence mmittee.
II. Interagency Papers
An IIM on the impact of modernization on the Jordanian military was
approved by C/NIC on 6 December and disseminated today.
We plan to tr to coordinate draft estimates next week on
the high-technology arms market If then cleared
by the DCI, they will be ready for an NFIB meeting the following week.
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III. Of Special Interest This Week
Chairman, NIC met with
weather in the USSR producing bumper crops over the next several years,
and also that improvements in Soviet agriculture are very unlikely
because of problems in industrial-sector support to agriculture.
a specialist in agricultural economics and the Soviet
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economy.
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C/NIC attended sessions of Fred Ikle's Defense Policy Board, which
included an interesting discussion of problems in DOD's management of
technological transfer.
NIO/At Large (Hans Heymann) paid a two-day visit to
headquarters to discuss its collection activities and how t ese might be
strengthened.
A/NIO/AL 0 briefed Sen. Mathias and Arch Roberts (HFAC
staffer) on the Pakistani nuclear program. Sen. Mathias asked for
periodic followup briefings on the subject. A/NIO/AL also hosted a
briefing by Rodney Jones (Georgetown) on defense planning and nuclear
proliferation and participated in the first session of the Wilson
Center's core seminar on proliferation.
A/NIO Africa attended an IG meeting at State on the possible sale
of a Boeing commercial aircraft to Ethiopia. This subject, a
contentious one, may result in a SIG-IEP meeting shortly.
NIO/East Asia gave a talk on Chinese foreign policy at the National
War College and convened the monthly luncheon meeting of East Asia
Intelligence Community managers. A memo was also prepared for the DCI
on DO/EA clandestine reporting on Sino-Soviet relations and preparations
were made for a meeting between the EA Intelligence Community managers
and the DCI to discuss collection and production issues coming up in
1983.
NIO/Latin America briefed USUN Ambassador Kirkpatrick on Central
American developments.
A/NIO/LA attended a three-day conference in Miami on the Caribbean
Basin Initiative and met with some of the US and Caribbean government
and private sector representatives there. He also hosted a briefing of
US Ambassador Hart going to Ecuador.
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A/NIO/Near East-Sputh Asia attended an interagency seminar on
Algeria on 5 December
NIO/Strategic Programs briefed SecDef's Defense Policy Panel, run
by Andy Marshall and Si Weiss, on the Soviet ABM program. Members
present included Gen. John Vogt, Charles Silberman, Fred Hoffman, Albert
Wohlstetter, and Charles Herzfeld.
NIO/Warning and A/NI0/W briefed Diane LaVoy of the HPSCI staff on
9 December on the review of national intelligence warning and the new
DC ID.
IV. Future Activities
(Nothing of special interest to report at present).
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SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 6-10 December 1982
Distribution:
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - EXDIR
1 - SA/IDA
1 - ER
1-DDI
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC
1 - D/AG
1 - Each NIO
1 - SA/NPI
1 - NIC/AG
1 - EO/NIC
1 - DDI Registry
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