MEMO (SANITIZED) FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001304040078-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Content Type: MEMO

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2 February 1983
I would like to get a little beyond a mere cataloguing of Soviet
military capabilities on both the conventional and strategic side in
the worldwide briefing with emphasis on the significance of new or
continuing Soviet increments in strength and deployment. For example,
I would like to cover the significance of the Soviet naval deployment
in the Pacific and the new conventional deployment discussed in today's
editorial in The Wall Street Journal.
Then also I would like to discuss the new tanks and artillery weapons
and their form of deployment in Europe in relationship to and concern
about our smart weapons, something about how they are designed to offset
the Soviet tank superiority which we see gaining strength in equality
and perhaps in numbers and how in turn these weapons would be threatened
by the Soviet battlefield laser which we see coming on. Likewise,
forward deployment, and quantative and qualitative aspects of Soviet and
Warsaw Pact air power.
I think I have the material for this with respect to the new strategic
weapons and will do a first draft of that myself for Larry Gershwin to
review.
William J. Casey
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