WORLDWIDE BRIEFING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001602930269-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 269
• Publication Date: February 4, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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4 February 1983
h1cMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Harold Ford, National Intelligence Officer at Large
National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs
National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose .Forces
National Intelligence Officer for Near East & South Asia
National Intelligence Officer for East Asia
FP.OM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Worldwide Briefing
1. I want to use a different format to present the worldwide briefing
this year. Last year I did a long briefing and then most of the available
time was consumed with questions addressed to me~so that .none of you had.
much opportunity to participate.
2. This year I will plan to give a very general overview of five or
ten minutes describing the five areas of concern. These. five areas. are:
a. The strategic threat, to be developed by Larry Gershwin.
b. The conventional threat, to be developed by Ted Atkeson.
c. The power projection threat which is most likely to be aimed
over the Soviet southern border from Pakistan to Syria, and will thus
be developed by Charlie Waterman.
d. The subversive, creeping imperialism being carried off by the
Soviet proxies which most seriously concerns us in Central America and
Africa, to be handled separately by people to be determined.
e. The use of these military and quasi-military elements t:o give
added thrust to diplomatic, political and propaganda misuse most clearly
exemplified in Europe and East Asia, to be developed by Dave Gries and
someone from Europe where the concern now is a combination of arms
control and European politics.
3. Then there might be two short briefings on the Soviet assets and
restraints in conducting all these activities and another dealing with the
pressures on the international economic system. /'""' ,j ~~.
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William J. Casey
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