DAVID B. LOW, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AT LARGE, AND CIA OFFICERS HAVE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS BRIEFED THE VICE PRESIDENT THREE TIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00029R000400680024-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2009
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• Publication Date: August 2, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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2 August 1984
David B. Low, National Intelligence Officer at Large, and CIA officers
have over the last few months briefed the Vice President three times.
On April 14, 1984, Mr. Low, of OSWR, and
of ACIS, briefed the Vice President iin'his home prior to his
departure for Europe to present the U.S. draft treaty for a worldwide ban
on chemical weapons at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The
briefing constituted a general review of chemical and biological warfare
issues, treaty monitoring and how the draft treaty would complement the
existing Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1975) and the Geneva
Protocol (1925).
On July 23, 1984, the same three individuals together with
Chairman of a CBW Working Group of the Intelligence Community
Staff's HUMINT Committee, and
of OSWR, briefed the
Vice President on recent Intelligence Community studies of means for
improving CBW intelligence, the upcoming schedule for the production of
National Estimates in this field, and selected current issues. This
briefing took place as the featured part of a visit by the Vice President
to hosted by
Director, Intelligence Community Staff.
On May 3, 1984, National Intelligence Officer at Large, David B. Low,
briefed the Vice President in his White House office on developments in
in anticipation of the Vice President's visit to
the region.
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