DCI S BREAKFAST MEETING WITH SECRETARY HAIG ON 28 JULY 1981

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 24, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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National Intelligence Officers
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA:
FROM:
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
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24 July 1981
National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe
SUBJECT: DCI's Breakfast Meeting with Secretary Haig on 28 July 1981
1. It is our understanding that the Secretary has indiratpd 'cs
he would like to raise with you at your meeting: first
visit to French Foreign Minister Cheysson in anticipation of the latter's
impending visit to Central America, and second, Assistant Secretary Crocker's
planned bilateral conversations on 31 July on our African concerns.
2. It is our understanding that Tans to brief Foreign
Minister Cheysson in detail on the situation in El Salvador and to seek
clarification of the recent decision by the French to honor their standing
arms commitments to Libya, while suspending delivery of an order for tanks
from Chile. It is to be hoped that a current briefing on the realities of
the complex economic and political situation in Central America will convince
the French to proceed in a cautious and constructive manner, and to participate
in whatever international consortium may be formed to provide a proper mix of
economic and political encouragement to the troubled area.
3. Assistant Secretary Crocker has indicated our concern over recent
French actions such as their follow-through on arms deliveries contracts with
Libya and their indications of a slow approach to Libyan withdrawal from Chad.
Assistant Secretary Crocker hopes in his consultations to touch not only on
the Chad problem, but also on related issues in that part of Africa, such as
Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. He has emphasized that these
discussions would be exploratory in nature, and designed to probe French
intentions. After such preliminary discussions, we would review our own
policies, according to Assistant Secretary Crocker, and communicate our conclu-
sions on these matters to the French government at a later date. It will
obviously be extremely useful to probe more deeply French thinking on this
important area, and we should encourage every exchange which will enable us
better to understand French intentions and reasoning on such matters as arms
deliveries to Libya.
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