THE PHILIPPINES BASES NEGOTIATIONS: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SUPPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B01072R000300170008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 30, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR : John N. McMahon
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligenc
FROM:
Director o as Asian Analysis
The Philippines Bases Negotiations:
Central Intelligence Agency Support
Attached are the materials prepared in response to Secretary
Weinberger's request for analytic support for the Philippine base
negotiations.
Attachment:
as stated.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Caspar W. Weinberger
The Secretary of Defense
SUBJECT: The Philippines Bases Negotiations:
Central Intelligence Agency Support
1. In response to your request for "a flow of assessments"
between now and next April to support the Philippine Bases
Negotiations, I have examined this Agency's plans for supporting
this negotiation and report the following:
-- Agency analysts prepared the attached memorandum
describing the overall situation President Marcos faces
during the coming months. This memorandum condenses a
large volume of finished intelligence prepared, in
part, to support preparations for President Marcos'
recent State visit.
We also are preparing a summary of the 1978-79
negotiations, with an emphasis on stumbling points,
major areas of conflict, and significant issues/aims
sought by Philippine negotiators, but not achieved.
This should be available in a couple of weeks.
We will provide short, topical finished intelligenc
Bases Negotiations, such as how the Marcos Government
works, how the opposition groups are faring, the
economic/financial outlook, and the possibility of
.serious difficulties in rural areas.
in-depth analyses of issues which will bear on the
In addition, we are performi
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Attachment:
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John N. McMahon
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
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SUBJECT: Assessments of Issues Affecting
Philippine Base Negotiations
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- Executive Registry
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