VERIFICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R001001410002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 23, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET/NOFORN/WNINTEL
ACIS - 1167/85
23 March 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Intelligence
ie rms control Intelligence Staff
SUBJECT: Verification (U)
1. This "fast-track" memorandum is FYI unless, upon reading the
attached, you want to issue guidance or change some of the text. (U)
2. Attached at Tab 'C' is a copy of the latest version of the draft
joint D/ACDA-DCI response to the President on verification, as required by
NSDD 160 (copy at Tab 'D'). This version is about the twentieth in the
series. There are a few obvious typing errors, which we will correct on
Monday automatically. (S/NF/WN)
3.- I believe this text is quite good and, moreover, it is the best we
(i.e., ACDA and US intelligence) can do at the moment. This material has been
reviewed repeatedly throughout US intelligence, including ICS, and all of our
important changes have been accepted. (U)
4. This paper tracks closely in its major points to your 21 December
letter to the President on verification (copy attached at Tab 'E' as
background), but the focus in this paper is on the basic ideas and process.
This paper has in it what I believe to be our most important and most
fundamental points:
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Puts verification in the policy process early.
Treatsverification consistently from subject-to-subject.
-- Integrates military significance/risk into verification.
-- Inte.gratessafeguards, including intelligence enhancements, into
verification.
-- Put