ANNUAL ASSESSMENT OF THE HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R000701170012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 15, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable William P. Clark
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Annual Assessment of the Hostile Intelligence
Threat to the United States
1. In response to your memorandum of 30 December 1982 agreeing to
deferral of our next annual hostile threat assessment until late 1983, I wish
to advise you that all of the action recommendations contained in the March
1982 Assessment as well as the NSSD-2 Capabilities Study (July 1982) are the
subject of follow-up action either in the program and budget process or in the
reviews of the Interagency Groups for Counterintelligence and Counter-
2. I expect that prior to publication of the next Assessment, we will
have completed action on nearly all of the recommendations now under review.
Some of the resource improvements called for were incorporated into the
FY 1984 program and budget, and the remainder are reflected in the guidance
currently under preparation for the FY 1985,-89 program.
3. The IG/CI and IG/CM together currently have about 30 actions under
way. These will be resolved and implemented at the agency level or will be
referred to the SIG-I for resolution. I am concerned that these IG reviews
have taken an inordinately long time, and I am taking steps to expedite their
completion. It is my intention that all the recommendations made in March and
July 1982 will have been addressed by the time we develop the next
4. Your continuing interest in this important area is appreciated, and I
want to assure you that we will press on with these actions to the best of our
ability.
Sincerely,
, William.
William J. Casey
SECRET
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