YOUR MEMO ON NORTH KOREA (AND OTHERS)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00423R000100040040-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 2, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDI #01774-84/1
2 April 1984
NOTE TO: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Your Memo on North Korea (and others)
1. In response to your note, you may have missed two recent
papers on North Korea that provide economic, political and
sociological information about North Korea providing us with
early warning information. Indeed, Dave McManis sent a special
note to the authors on the value of these papers (which I
attach). Beyond these two papers, you should be aware that our
East Asian Office is drafting a paper on North Korean activities
around,the world which we expect to have by the end of next
month.
2. In addition, we have a number of papers underway which
are responsive to your suggestion that we develop a catalogue of
the nature and capabilities of a number of other countries such
as East Germany, Cuba, South Yemen and Bulgaria for
destabilization, fostering and supporting insurgency and so on.
I attach a note from that details all of these papers
that will be done during the course of the next six months. I
think they are fairly responsive to your concern. The question
we might look at is whether to do a summary/overview paper this
fall taking the essence of all of papers. That may be a
worthwhile undertaking. F--]
---Oates
Attachments:
North Korea: Assuring Civilian Response to
Military Needs, dtd2lFeb84, ICy 17
Factors Driving North Korea's Behavior, dtdMar84,
EA 84-10045, SECRET
D/OGI Memo, dtd30Mar84
SECRET Cl By Signer
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SUBJECT: DCI Memo on North Korea (and others)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: North Korea
Ambassador Dixie Walker was in for lunch yesterday, full of ideas.
He pressed particularly on two things.
The first is to mine more carefully for economic, political and
sociological information about North Korea which provides us with early
warning information. There appears to be reams of material which are not
worked over. I inquired about the South Koreans yesterday on this. They
apparently don't do much and his view is they would see it through a
different kind of prism and that it is something to which we should pay
more attention. Both were there and took 25X1
this on board so you can strike tnat tram your is . I will expect that
that issue will be addressed satisfactorily but you might want to follow
up on it.
Secondly, Walker has said that we are missing an opportunity to get
a better understanding of what it is that has extended North Korean
activity and influence so widely around the world. What things they offer?
What is the nature of their protective security and security services,
their economic and construction activity and their arms sales? What did
we learn about their rationale and the contribution of the 17 or so North
Koreans who we found in Grenada? What can we learn from other countries
who had them there and kicked them out or otherwise terminated the relation-
ship. What will all this tell us about where they will be next, what they
are likely to do, what we can do to counter or head it off? Your Directorate
just did something close to this on Libya. I would like to suggest that we
develop the same kind of comprehensive catalogue of the nature and capabil-
ities of the Libyan, North Korean, East German, Cuban, South Yemen, Bulgaria
capabilities for destabi1iz inn, ~teri:n nd supporting insurgency, a'nd
securing the hold of Marxist governments that you have just completed on
how Iran, Syria, Libya, the East Bloc, Cuba, et al, foster and use terrorist
organizations around the world. This would be a companion piece on an
equally serious threat, both of which are somewhat intertwined in nature
and purpose.
William J. Casey
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