LETTER TO GEORGE LISKA (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00529R000200190043-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: August 28, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
28 August 1980
Dr. George Liska .
I am delighted that you will be able to participate in the seminar
on policy issues between the US and Western Europe in the 1980s that we
are holding at CIA Headquarters in Langley on 18 September. We believe
that what kind of relationship we may look toward with Europe will be
among the most important questions the next Administration faces. We are
eager to learn your perspective on the various elements.that enter into
that relationship, and I hope you will find of interest the issues we are
pondering.
Attached is a summary of the questions we hope to address and a pre-
liminary agenda for the seminar. We would propose to examine the first
five main topics for an hour or so each during the morning and afternoon
sessions. I would like to ask you, together with Dr.. Andrew Pierre, to
lead off on the discussion of the international context with a 15- or 20-
minute statement. We would plan to devote the remainder of the hour to
discussion. In the evening session, we will invite participants to relate
their earlier remarks more directly to the policy issues that the evolving
Atlantic relationship seems likely to pose.
As I believe I explained when calling you, the seminar will be
attended by about twenty European specialists from the intelligence com-
munity, Department of State, and NSC Staff, in addition to the discussion
leaders. The morning session will begin at 10:00, lunch will be served
at 12:30, and cocktails and dinner beginning at 5:30. The evening session
will end no later than 9:30. Might I'have a note confirming your attendance
by 8 September? If you are staying over in Washington after the evening
seminar, we will be able to pay you up to $50 per day (the standard US
government per diem for Washington) for meals and lodging, in addition to
travel costs and the usual consultant fee of $192.72. (An accounting form
is enclosed.)
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Again, I am so pleased that you will be-participating. Should you
have any questions, please. call.collect at
Yours sincerely,
Acting National Intelligence Officer
for Western Europe
Enclosures:
Issues outline
Preliminary agenda
Accounting form
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POLICY ISSUES BETWEEN THE US AND WESTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980s
18 September 1980
I. The shaping economic and social forces in Europe today and
tomorrow
-- will the organization of production, the sharing out of the
economic and social product,.and economic management have
the same overriding importance in the 1980s that they acquired
in the 1970s?
-- in what ways will the dominating problems (inflation, low
growth, access to resources and markets, structural obsoles-
cence) and the potential new advantages (better conservation,
new technologies, relative social tranquillity) look different,
or, remain essentially the same?
-- what will be the dominant trends in the search for more effective
approaches to these problems: reassertion of free market prin-
ciples, social management, neo-corporativism, industrial democ-
racy?
-- in what significant ways might new social (or cultural) trends
impinge on economic management: e.g., aging populations and
generational gaps, retreat from consumerism, quality of life
movements, environmental enthusiams, etc.
-- what major divergences could appear among the Europeans as
those trends unfold, and with what consequences? might.tradi-
tional social and economic idiosyncrasies gain new vigor? how
would Europeans respond?
II. The international context -- Western Europe's global interests and
perspectives in the next decade
in what ways do we see the changing currents in Europe's. internal
situation translating into fewer, more, or a different set of
interests abroad?
-- looking both backward and forward, do the Europeans see their
evolving relationships with the rest of the free industrialized
world becoming more competitive or more cooperative, or both?
- how do the Europeans perceive developments in the US and in
their relations with the US affecting the American dimension
in global affairs: a declining but still preeminent factor,
competitor but essential partner, recuperable manager of the
international system, etc.?
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National Intelligence Council Seminar
POLICY ISSUES BETWEEN THE US AND WESTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980s
18 September 1980
10:00-11:15 The shaping economic and social forces in Europe today and
tomorrow
Discussion leaders: Dr. Amitai Etzioni, Dr. Robert Lieber
11:15-12:30 The international context -- Western Europe's global inter-
ests and perspectives in the next decade
Discussion leaders: Dr. Andrew Pierre, Dr. George Liska
12:30-1:45 Luncheon: Executive Dining Room
1:45-3:00 The security dimension -- alternative emphases in West
European secuiiLy policies
Discussion leaders: Dr. Stanley Hoffmann
3:00-4:15 E.ne:gent political trends in Europe in the 1980s
4:15-5:30 The prospects for "Europe" -- what kind of Western Europe
the US will be dealing with in the next decade -- how
oranized it viii be in dealing with its own problems and
with the US
Discussion leaders: Dr. Ronald Inglehart, Dr. Peter Katzenstein
5:30-7:00 Cocktails and Dinner: Executive Dining Room
7:00-9:30 .. ...__.r..'_ areas of conflict and convergence between the US
and vvesi:ern Europe
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