DDI ACTIVITY REPORT 16-20 DECEMBER 1985

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G01359R000200050009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 20, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDI 06203-85
20 December 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: DDI Activity Report 16-20 December 1985
DCI/DDCI Assigned Tasks
ALA prepared talking points for the DCI on Mexican political
conditions and prospects
and on Soviet/surrogate (Cuban)
support to Third World subversives.
OEA prepared talking points on recent election developments
in the Philippines, on the military situation in Cambodia, and on
domestic and political developments in Thailand for meetings with
Admiral Poindexter and Secretary Weinberger.
SOVA prepared talking points for the DCI on the implications
of Gorbachev's industrial modernization program
Policy Support
ALA met with NSC staffers to discuss South American issues,
briefed Philip Hughes of the NSC on the economic and political
situation in Mexico, and prepared a typescript assessing the
first year and a half of Ecuadoran President Febres-Cordero's
administration for NSC staffer Jackie Tillman.
ALA also participated in an interagency briefing on Angola
for Assistant Secretary of State Crocker and prepared a
memorandum on prospects for an election challenge in Honduras for
Donald Gregg, Assistant to Vice President Bush.
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OSWR briefed several Department of Defense officials
including: Andy Marshall, Director of Net Assessments, and Paul.
Berenson on Soviet techniques for forecasting future military
systems and charting east-west military-technical competition;
Don Latham, on the Dome of Light phenomenon; Dr. Woodruff
OGI representatives met with Don Eiss, Deputy Assistant US
Trade Representative, to discuss international trade in high
technology.
OGI briefed Ambassador Morris Draper, outgoing Consul
General to Jerusalem, on Israeli settlement activities and land
seizures in the West Bank, and on Israeli activities in East
Jerusalem; and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotha, Shirley
Abbott, on the narcotics situation in Lesotha, Swaziland and
South Africa. OGI also briefed officials of the Department of
Energy on potential threats to nuclear sites from conventional
terrorist ordnance.
OCR analysts met with Dr. George A. Keyworth, the
President's Science Advisor, who presented his impressions of
Chinese S&T and defense officials. He commented favorably on
OCR's reports 25X1
OCR and SOVA analysts met with Ambassador Jack Matlick at
the NSC regarding the Summit. He was complimentary of the
briefing books President and Mrs. Reagan received and said they
were pleased with the video bios on General Secretary and Mrs.
Gorbachev. OCR and SOVA analysts also debriefed Commerce
Secretary Baidrige on his recent visit to Moscow.
SOVA representatives, together with the NIO/USSR, met with
the Principal Deputy for Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office
of the Secretary of Defense, and members of his staff, to discuss
techniques for estimating the value of US and Soviet military
stocks. SOVA also briefed Dr. Kissinger on a CIA analysis of a
Soviet strategic arms control proposal. 25X1
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A SOVA representative participated in the seminar "Soviet
Economic Strategy Under Gorbachev" sponsored by the Kennan 25X1
Institute. He spoke on "Prospects for Continuity."
Briefings on the Hill
Iraq.
There were 5 briefings on the Hill this past week.
NESA analysts briefed Congressmen Petri and Sensenbrenner on
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O,SWR, accompanied by the ANIO/SP, briefed HPSCI staff
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