LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM D. BRUCE MERRIFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001001540055-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: May 17, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Assistant Secretary for Productivity,
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MAY 17 1983
Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
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.I had the pleasure of meeting with Mr. Jan Herring, NIO for Science
and Technology on May 9, 1983. At that time, he explained his role
in this newly established position and his responsibility to you in
areas of science and technology. I also had the opportunity to
discuss with him my own efforts in establishing a program of
research and analysis focusing on U.S. industrial competitiveness in
certain foreign targeted advanced technologies. These technology
areas include electronics, advanced materials, advanced
manufacturing engineering, genetic eerina. satellite
communication and transportation. STAT
I am STAT
encouraged.by what Jan has told me of your efforts?~to raise the
sensitivity of the Intelligence Community to critical problems in
science and technology by the creation of an NIO for Science and
Technology, and I look forward to working with you in this area for
our mutual benefit.
I described to Jan the methods we use in developing a competitive.
analysis and the difficulties in bringing about Government
regulatory changes to aid our high technology industries to compete.
with those foreign industries who are supported in some form by
their governments. I have been working with the Department of
Justice to effect revision of our antitrust laws and with the
Department of the Treasury to bring about changes that will allow
our industries to compete on equal footing. In our effort at Commerce, we have completed a critical assessment
analysis on the petrochemical industry and are just about to
complete one on the satellite industry. I would like to invite
members of your analytical staff to work with. my staff to better
learn our needs and the methods used in developing our_ assessments.
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not openly available, to support our investment and sensitivity
analysis model that is necessary for our development of acritical
assessment; and secondly, to identify foreig STAT
As I told Jan, I can see the Intelligence Community supporting my
.efforts in at least two ways. The first, by supplying input data,
efforts to acquire U.S. high technology at t e critical STAT
stages of the innovation cycle of these emerging technical
developments, the methods by which they are doing this, and how they
disseminate this technology to their industrial base. Also,
examples of the ways foreign governments and industrial companies
are accomplishing this, the particular phase in the cycle on which
they are concentrating their efforts, recent acquisitions that have
been accomplished from U.S. laboratories and private research
centers, and how they have utilized this technology to support their
industrial base would be very useful to me in developing ways to
deal with this problem.
In addition to Jan, I have had the opportunity to brief the Office
of Global Issues' Deputy, and select members of his STAT
staff, meet and discuss my needs with Chief Civil STAT
Technology Industry Division, and be briefed by on oTAT
the Biotechnology Center you will establish in October.
After talking to Jan and others from the Intelligence Community, I
believe that my efforts to bring about a more competitively
effective U.S. high technology industrial base can sae enhanced by
close intelligence support and I look forward to working with you
and your representative.
I promised Jan that I would forward him a copy of our Petrochemical
Critical Assessment, as well as other background documents, and am
passing it to him through you so you can become aware of the work we
are doing here at my Office in the Department of Commerce.
Sincerely,
D. Bruce Merrifield
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