FOURTH MEETING OF STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SIG

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2007
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• Publication Date: September 21, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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21 September 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Chairman Technology Transfer Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT Fourth Meeting of Strategic Technology Transfer SIG
1. The fourth meeting of Strategic Technology Transfer SIG
was held on 17 September. Mr. William Schneider, State, the new
SIG Chairman resided over the meeting. (Copy of Agenda is
attached). u
2. The Progress Reports were made and approved without
comment. (Copies of the Training and VISA reports are attached)
The New Agenda Items were covered with little group discussion.
The US Trade Rep's member asked why they had seen no draft
material on the COCOM List Review preparation and had not been
invited to accompany the bilateral teams visits to COCOM capitals
prior to the beginning of the negotiations in Paris. Chairman
Schneider answered that they would receive the material and their
interest would certainly be looked out for during the trips.
(That's all that was said.) The DDCI covered the second agenda
item rather completely, leaving little for the SIG members to
question. The one comment that did surface centered around the
Chairman's observations that the foreign Ambassadors he had
talked with about the technology transfer problem appeared to be
rather ignorant of the key role played by Soviet Bloc
Intelligence Services. Mr. Schneider asked that the Intelligence
Community consider what might be done to help allied intelligence
services better educate their high-level policymakers on the
problem and also ways that the ould help their own export
control communities better.
State Dept. review completed
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SUBJECT: Fourth Meeting of Strategic Technology Transfer SIG
3. The Fourth Agenda Item consisted of a short talk on
Soviet Technology Acquisition efforts by
followed by a question and answer period.
The presentation was broad-gauge covering an outline prepared by
the SIG staff co attached
Attachments:
As stated
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AGENDA
1. Progress Reports
a. Committee on Special Projects
-- Visa Denials Question
-- Raising the Priority of Technology Transfer
in US Embassies
-- Training USG Personnel in Technology Transfer
-- Extradition Treaty Review
2. New Agenda Items
a. COCOM List Review Preparations
b. Raising the Priority of Technology Transfer Issues
in Allied Intelligence Services
3. Other Business
4. Personal View of the Soviet Technology Acquisition Effort
5. Close of Business
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INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT
Visa Controls Question
Sept. 15, 1982
The August SIG tasked the Committee on Special Projects
to prepare an options paper on the question: should the
-U.S. Government adopt a policy of denying or restricting visas
or entry to aliens on the grounds that their visit would result
in the loss of strategic technology contrary to U.S. national
interests?
In response to this tasking, the Chairman of the Committee
formed a visa controls drafting unit consisting of Jerry W.
Leach of the committee staff, Diana Morris of the Visa Office,
and Jerry Schroeder of the Justice Department.
This group has made a comprehensive study of all legal
mechanisms which the U.S. Government could use to deny visas
or entry on technology transfer grounds. These are Sections
212a27, 212a28, 212a29,212, and 215 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act. Section 22ig,"previously thought to be a
denial possibility, has been found not to be a live option.
The drafting group has just begun working on the question
of placing restrictions on visits which carry some risk of
illegal transfer.
When the complete set of denial and restriction options
have been pinpointed, the drafting unit will contact all SIG
agencies for discussion of the advantages and disadvantages
of following particular courses of action. Out of this process
will emerge the first draft of the policy options paper which
will go first before the full Committee on Special Projects,
hopefully in October. When satisfied with the paper, the Com-
mittee will pass it up to the SIG for decision.
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DISCUSSION PAPER
TRAINING USG PERSONNEL
IN
t'ECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MATTERS
Under the auspices of the Committee on Special Projects,
a Working Group on Training USG Personnel in Technology
Transfer Matters was convened-on August 31, to address these
issues (the list of attendees is attached).
Except for State's Foreign Service Institute* there are
few other formal?training programs in technology transfer
issues programs for USG representatives going abroad. This
is the result of the small numbers of representatives from
other agencies going abroad and the randomness of their rota-
tion cycle. As a consequence, members of the Working Group
agreed that it would be useful to establish a resource base,
containing both training materials on technology transfer
issue and points of contact throughout the bureaucracy, that
USG personnel could use prior to their departure overseas.
State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (Office of Tech-
nology Transfer Assessment) volunteered to establish and
maintain this resource base for use by all agencies.
The Working Group members further agreed that they would
exchange materials used in training their personnel in tech-
nology transfer issues. At this meeting the CIA shared some
materials that could be useful in meeting this objective.
Finally, the Working Group discussed the idea of estab-
lishing a mini-course on technology transfer (lasting one
week) that would occur four times per year. This mini-course
would focus on training representatives from agencies con-
cerned with technology transfer and who work at the inter-
section of domestic and foreign technology transfer issues.
If implemented this mini-course would establish a pool of
representatives who understand both the national and interna-
tional issues associated with technology transfer and the
various instruments which the USG has available to address
this problem area. While increasing the awareness of these
representatives, an additional benefit is the broad personal
contacts that these personnel would make with others associ-
ated with this field.
While it was agreed that each agency would have to pay
for their own personnel who attended this course, a more dif-
ficult problem is which agency would have the role of sponsor-
ing the school. The Working Group will attempt to resolve
this issue at its next meeting.
*The Working Group Chairman is working directly with FSI to
enhance the technology transfer content of several courses.
Attachment:
List of Attendees.
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WG on Training
Bill Rennagel (chair)
State/PM 632-4231
Roger Diehl
FBI 324-4646
John McCaffresr
FBI 324-4713
CIA
OJCS
Attendance at August 31 Meeting.
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3u461=0EO our1 i4uE POX .
1. Soviet organizational attention to Western technology
A.
How the following Soviet institutions
function in the process of acquiring
Western high technology
1.
Politburo
2.
Ministries
(particularly Trade)
3.
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4.
Armed Services
II. Soviet priorities for the collection of Western technology
A. Priority technologies and equipment
1. Why is the prioritization assuch?
B. Priority countries targetted for Soviet
acquisition efforts
C. Soviet organization(s) which formulate
collection priorities
III. Soviet technology collection in the U.S.
A. Collection duties of the following
Soviet organizations:
1. KGB
2. Washington Embassy and
San Francisco Consulate
3. Soviet academic and business groups
4. U.S. academicians and businessmen
visiting the U.S.S.R.
B. How intelligence information collected
in the U.S. is:
1. Processed in Moscow
2. Used to support Soviet technology
acquisition efforts worldwide
C. Why the U.S. is continuously targetted for
collection of information on strategic technology
4N ;or%t` t%% S-a,TATI.. Jdiot.'ti a,~ vs *iet~
IV. Soviet resource dependency strategy to acquire V
strategic technology
A. The case of Japanese resource dependence on the U.S.S.R.
B. How the pipeline may be another manifestation of
this strategy
V. Summary observations on possible USG actions to
inhibit technology leakage
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