LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM DAVE DURENBERGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R000400570003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 8, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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DAVE DURENBERGER. MINNESOTA, CHAIRMAN
PATRICK LEAHY. VERMONT, VICE CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM V. ROTH. JR., DELAWARE
WILLIAM S. COHEN, MAINE
ORRIN MATCH. UTAH
FRANK MURKOWSKI, ALASKA
ARLEN SPECTER. PENNSYLVANIA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA
MITCH MCCONNELL, KENTUCKY
LLOYD BENTSEN, TEXAS
SAM NUNN, GEORGIA
THOMAS F. EAGLETON, MISSOURI
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, SOUTH CAROLINA
DAVID L BOREN, OKLAHOMA
BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
United *ates senate
ROBERT DOLE,' KANSAS, EX OFFICIO SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
ROBERT C. BYRD, WEST VIRGINIA, EX OFFICIO
BERNARD F. MCMAHON, STAFF DIRECTOR
ERIC 0. NEWSOM, MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
July 8, 1985
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Bill:
Executive Registry
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I read with great interest the presentation given
by Bob Gates to the Armed Services Committee on Soviet
Strategic Force Development. This effort to provide
the public the key judgments derived from our estimating
process is an important milestone for American intelligence.
The American people have a right to know the information
which decisionmakers use to come to their respective
conclusions and providing that information in a substantive
form which does not damage sources and methods is exactly
how it should be done. I have long advocated such an
approach and I applaud the Administration's new policy.
Besides strategic forces, there are a number of
additional policy issues under debate which would benefit
equally by public illumination of our key intelligence
judgments:
o State-Support to Terrorism
o World Oil Market Outlook
o International Flow of Drug Money
o Soviet Global Military Reach
o USSR and the Third World
o Warning of War in Europe
o Soviet Chemical Biological
Warfare Capabilities
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The Honorable William J. Casey
July 8, 1985
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o Arab/Israeli Military Balance
Building on the success of the Armed Services
experience, we will institute regular briefing sessions
for our Committee in which Bob Gates can provide an
unclassified version cey 'mates. We, in turn,
can then provide t m to the Sen to as a whole. Please
let me know what to in July wil be most convenient
to begin with "St te-Support to Te orism."
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