CIA RELATIONS WITH THE AIR FORCE ON ESTIMATES OF SOVIET INTENTIONS. 3 PP.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200040010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 23, 1943
• Content Type: FORM

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Subject: elations with the Air Force on Estimates ~OCATIONI
of Soviet Intentions
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RBSTRACT This memo concerns the actions of the ad hoc committee established during
the March "war scare". Mr. ~ described the various papers pre ared b
this committee which he headed. Reassessment of Soviet Intentions for the y
Nest 60 Days (16 March '48), Possibility of Direct Soviet Military Action Dur-
ing 1948 (ORE 22-48), ORE 58-48, and appendices to 58-48. He then
the procedures followed in goes into
producing these apers and the comments made by the
AF on ORE 58-48 and ORE 22-4$. Mr.
impossible to get completely objective estimatesmfromdtheaService departments 25X1A
as they base their reports o?n potential rather than taking into account vari-
~us other factors, like economic and psychological, that would influence a
a foreign nation to go to war. He said the AF was far more alarmist than any
one else involved and that the Army recommended the resum tion of the draft Z5X1A
and universal military training to pre are
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