'AREA TRANSFER PROBLEMS: NEED FOR MORE RESEARCH', THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 1979

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000200190018-2
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 30, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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NFAC #2896/79
30 May 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
FROM : Associate Coordinator for Academic Relations, NFAC
SUBJECT . "Arms Transfer Problems: Need for More
Research", Thursday, 14 June 1979
1. On the Director's behalf you are invited to participate in a
discussion/dinner on the above subject in the DCI Conference Room (7D64)
on the date and time appointed. Our purpose is to focus on the impact
that greater European participation in NATO defense production' will
have on the alliance. The probable economic, political, and military
consequences of this to both European and US defense interests will be
considered. The analytic contributions the intelligence community can
make will be of particular interest.
2. The following have been invited from outside and have accepted:
f?5"`_jProfessor Paul Hammond, University of Pittsburgh
OProfessor Geoffrey Kemp, Tufts University
~-'' Professor Edward Kol odzi ej , University of Illinois
+Lucv W. Benson. Under Secretary for Security Assistance,
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Control Bureau, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
(2Ellen L. Frost, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
Economic Affairs, International Security Affairs,
Department of Defense
Gerald D. Sullivan, Staff Assistant, Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
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NFAC #2896/79
SUBJECT: "Arms Transfer Problems: Need for More Research,"
Thursday, 14 June 1979
3. Jerry Sullivan will lead off our discussion. Attached are
some questions that will be addressed and an interesting paper prepared
by William Perry, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
4. The plan for our evening is as follows: The company will assemble
in the DCI conference room between 5:30 and.6:00. Refreshments will be
served. Our discussion will begin at 6:00 and continue until 7:00 when
dinner will be served. After dinner, or about 7:30, we shall resume
discussion and continue until about 9:00. If you are unable to attend,
please call extension F7]
Attachments: 2
As stated
Distribution: (all with attachments)
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Some Questions That Might Be Addressed
1, How important to the future of the NATO alliance is Europe's
major participation in NATO defense production?
2. How vital is a viable European defense industry to the US?
3. Are European defense industries capable of providing NATO with
the modern weapons systems they need for the 1980s and 1990s?
4. How important is intra-NATO industrial cooperation to the
European defense industry?
5. How important is the Third World market to the Europeans?
6. What analytic efforts should the Intelligence Community make
to support policymakers in this field?
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