LETTER TO TO EDAWRD J. HEINZ FROM PETER M. DANIHER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89M00699R000800520005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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Weapon and Space Systems Scientific and Technical
intelligence Committee Intelligence Committee
29 September 1987
Lieutenant General Edward J. Heinz, USAF
Director, Intelligence Community Staff
Room 6503
Community Headquarters Building
Dear General Heinz,
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you and selected members of
your staff to attend a symposium on advances in foreign low observable (stealth)
science and technology at the CIA Headquarters auditorium on November 4th and
The Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee and th-- Weapon and Space
Systems Intelligence Committee are co-sponsoring this symposium to bring
together technology and system analysts with national intelligence collection
managers. Our objective is to focus the Community's attention on foreign
(principally Soviet) developments in this strategically significant area. The
symposium will concentrate on aerodynamic systems, but not exclusively.
Counter-low observables will not be addressed, but will be the subject of a future
The main goals of the Low Observable Symposium are:
- To prepare actions to better focus national-level collection guidance;
To identify key areas where current national collection can be used
more effectively;
To define requirements that can be fulfilled by new national capabilities
which soon may become operational; and
To increase the awareness of collectors, producers, and consumers
of intelligence as to what low observable technology is so its
interdisciplinary nature will not interfere with its recognition
as a unified intelligence problem.
The keynote address will be given by Dr. George A. Keyworth II, former Science
Advisor to the President and now Chairman of the Keyworth Company.
Presentations by analysts and collectors will then sensitize the Intelligence
Community to low observables, will broadly define and structure the requirements
picture, and will attempt to resolve some critical gaps in the study of this
important and rapidly emerging technological issue.
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If you or members of your staff plan on attending, please certify our
Your
clearances following the procedures indicated in the enclosure.
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Any inquiries concerning details about this symposium should be directed to the
Executive Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee,
of the symposium's subject, all inquiries
only to "the November Symposium."
Chairman,
Weapon and Space Systems
Intelligence Committee
Enclosure
as stated
Because of the sensitivity
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Intelligence Committee
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LOW
OBSERVABLE
SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday and Thursday
November 4 - 5, 1987
CIA Headquarters
McLean, Virginia
DIRECTOR
OF
CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
Sponsored by
Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee
Weapon and Space Systems Intelligence Committee
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