ESTIMATE ON TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001101660070-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: April 8, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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STAT
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 8 APR 1883
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Executive Ragiatry.
83 -/998
T?, Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
1. It has been over a year since the last Intelligence Community
assessment of the prospects for anti-US terrorism (Prospects
for Anti-US Terrorism, March 1982), and almost six months since
the last interagency product on any aspect of terrorism has
been written (PLO: Impact of the Lebanese Incursion, November
1982). I believe the continued political stalemate in the Mid-
East, the prospects of widespread anti-US sentiment in Western
Europe over the nuclear deployment issue, and the continuing
unrest in Central America all justify a reexamination of the
international terrorism issue, with emphasis on the threat
posed to US interests. This assessment should be released as
a Special National Intelligence Estimate and, in order to be
most effective, should be available to key decision-makers
prior to the middle of June.
2. I have discussed this subject with the Director, Defense
Intelligence Agency and the other Service Intelligence Chiefs,
and they agree it is time to assess the terrorist threat again.
HN B. MARKS, Mcii Gen, USAF
Asst Chief of Staff, Intelligence
cc: Dir, DIA
DNI, US Navy
ACS/I, US Army
Dir Intel, US Marine Corps
NFIB Secretariat
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