Proposed Revision of the Perspectives Paper

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100160007-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 12, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
Officers
SUBJECT: Proposed Revision of the Perspectives
Paper
1. Attached for your review are proposed changes to the DCIts
Perspectives for Intelligence 1975-1980 which, in our view, are called
for as a result of world developments since July 1974. To be. of
maximum value in the-communityts planriiiigcycl"e, the revision of
this document should be produced in March.
2. The changes proposed for Part I - Major World Problems are
so extensive that a full new draft of Part I is attached. They are designed
to make more explicit three aspects of the world situation which in hind-
sight appear to us to have been underplayed in the original document-.>
the likely economic and political repercussions of the energy crisis
(particularly in Western Europe), the prospect of further disruptive
economic /political initiatives by Third World powers, and the effect
of these developments on detente and the strategic 'balance between the
US and USSR. The changes occur in paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 9.
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4. After you have had an opportunity to review these, we would
appreciate meeting with you to discuss them.
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Lieut ant Geral, USA
Attachment:
Proposed changes
Distribution:
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