REQUESTS FROM THE OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (OTA) FOR BRIEFING AND PUBLICATIONS ON BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: December 6, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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OLL 84-3073/1
6 December 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
VIA: Chief, Liaison Division, OLL
FROM:
SUBJECT: Requests from the Office of Technology
Assessment (OTA) for Briefing and
Publications on Ballistic Missile Defense
1. As you can see from Sharfman's letter of 28 November,
he does not accept our refusal to give OTA access to NIE 11-3/8.
After extensive research of Agency files and the questioning of
Agency personnel, I have to assume that Sharfman and several
other OTA staffers were allowed to read 11-3/8 in 1980 in
connection with OTA's study on MX Missile Basing. OLL records
show nothing beyond the paperwork leading to the granting of
codeword clearances in 1980 to
specifically for their MX study. Of the dozen or so DI
sta ers I have queried, no one can recall the particulars of
OTA's 1980 access., (C)
2. With regard to OTA's request for a briefing on Soviet
attitudes toward ballistic missile defense, DI/BONA is prepared
to provide a briefing in accord with OTA's two page outline of
questions. This is scheduled for 1330 on 10 December at
Headquarters. I so informed Mr. Rocklin of OTA on 5 December.
I also told him I had no new response to Sharfman's reiterated
request for 11-3/8. (C)
3. Sharfman is almost certain to continue pressing for the
documents. ays Sharfman's legal citation does
not require us to concede. However, Sharfman is likely to
pursue his request at higher levels. (In 1980, he had the
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