BACK-UP MATERIAL FOR CONSULTATIONS ON THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01013R000100170004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 17
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 8, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL
December 8, 1983
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MEMORANDUM FOR The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of Energy
The Director, Office of Management and Budget
The Director of Central Intelligence
- The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
The Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy
The Administrator, National Aeronautics and
- Space Administration
SUBJECT: Back-up Material for consultations on the
Strategic Defense Initiative (C)
_A short paper to provide you with additional unclassified
information op the strategic defense initiative is attached at
Tab A. This paper has been keyed to.a short briefing based on
the charts at Tab BO The briefing team, if called upon, will
actually use ar-expanded-version of the briefing outlined
here. (C)
cc: The Vice President
Tab A Background paper
Tab B. Charts
J. M. Poindexter
Deputy Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
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 THE PRESIDEW*S STRATEGIC DEYV%SE INITXATSVE
president's Initiative
? on ilarch 23, 1983, president Reagan announced a long-tens
goal of eli>rlinating the threat of nuclear-armed ballistic missiles
through the development of defensive system technologies and
of offoiv* nuclear
(Chart 1) to
thereby t{ e reliance on
sain
? As is first step, the President directed that: (Chart 2)
an assessment be conducted of a broad range of
relevant technologies and
-r an analysis be made of the strategy and erns
control implications.
? This work, has been completed and submitted to the President
for review.
? After the review and consultation with members of Congres:
and our allies, the President will make a decision on a defensive
technologies R&D p=c:4c. . .
Defensive 4echnor es
? ? Recent advances in defensive technologies and rlast thor"h ex~amination
believeethat: (Chart 3) make ~- emer
defensetagainstgballistic devssileseplopmentbleof
and that
a vigorous R&D program, broadly based but highly
result-orientedr should be pursued. This would
permit informed decisions on whether to initiate,
in the early 1990s, a full scale engineering
development phase which ultimately could load to
a deployed defensive capability after the year
2000. -
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 ? Such a system probably would be multi-layeredt that is,
designed to destroy ballistic missiles or their warheads in all
four phases of their flightf boost, post boost, mid-course, and
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