DDI ACTIVITY REPORT 2-6 DECEMBER 1985

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CIA-RDP90G01359R000200050025-6
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December 6, 1985
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 DDI 06002-85 6 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 2-6 December 1985 DCI/DDCI Assigned Tasks SOVA and NESA prepared talking points activity and for the DDCI's meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Taft. NESA prepared talking points for the DDCI and the DDI on monitoring the status of border tensions between Libya and Egypt, and on Pakistani domestic and foreign policy issues for the DCI's meeting with Ambassador Hinton. Policy Support OEA provided off-the-shelf items on the Korean military balance fir Vice President Bush OEA briefed US Ambassador-designate to Wellington, Paul Cleveland, on developments in New Zealand and the South Pacific. EURA provided Secretary Shultz short briefing papers on the political and economic situation in West Berlin, Hungary Romania, and Yugoslavia, and EURA 25X1 25X1 25X1 LDAI 2r 5N/ A X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 SOVA prepared five short briefing papers for Department of Commerce representatives attending the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council meetings. OCR and SOVA talked with Mark Parris, Director of EUR/SOV, Department of State, to get an impression of General Secretary Gorbachev and other Soviet Summit attendees. Mr. Parris attended the Summit as part of the US delegation, OSWR met with the Defense Department's Director of Space and Defense Policy, Dr. Kent Stansbury, to discuss the President's "Open Labs Policy," which will be part of the upcoming round of DST talks in Geneva. OSWR briefed the Director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency and his staff on special materials and technology transfer. ACIS has started an effort to write three sets of papers in the next three weeks to better prepare our NST intelligence representatives to deal with any verification topics that might come up during Round IV. A special NESA Review issue on the Persian Gulf in 1986 has been published. This issue includes individual country articles as well as an overview of the Iran-Iraq war and a political risk assessment of Gulf region countries. 25X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 I I MPS' unofficial final figures reveal that the DI exceeded by $22,000 its CFC goal of $92,358. Participation rate was about 40% and the average gift was about $93.00. A EURA manager participated in a "Public Diplomacy Simulation" exercise run by the NSC. Three teams -- Red (Soviet), Blue (US), and White (US and West European public opinion) -- evaluated the Geneva Summit, likely strategies for the next summit, and public reactions. A SOVA officer briefed the Combined Air Warfare School at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, on probable Soviet air operations in the opening days of a European conflict. SOVA hosted a brown bag lunch discussion of Gorbachev's foreign policy style and agenda. OSWR, ALA, and the NIO/AL briefed Ambassador Richard T. Kennedy on the recent Memorandum to Holders to the SNIE on Brazil's nuclear program. Ambassador Kennedy had a number of questions regarding how the paper might be used to help him in his forthcoming trip to Argentina and Brazil. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6 OSWR organized and co-hosted with NPIC an interagency meeting on chemical and biological weapons It was 25X1 sufficiently productive that quarterly meetings are planned. Briefings on the Hill There were 21 briefings on the Hill this past week. OIA and NESA briefed Congressman Wilson on the Afghanistan analysis project, Mujahadeen successes, and current trends and future prospects in Afghanistan. SOVA briefed Congressmen Dornan and Smith on the Soviet Politburo, and an SSCI staffer on the impact in the USSR of the war in Afghanistan. ALA spent a lot of time on the Hill this week. It briefed the House Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee on the political, economic, and military situations in Nicaragua, joined Assistant Secretary of State Crocker in briefing the SSCI on Angola, briefed Congressman McEwen of HPSCI on Guatemala's runoff election, and briefed SSCI staffer Natalie Bocock on the economic situation in Panama, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile and on the debt25X1 situation in South America. Robert W. Gates Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/18: CIA-RDP90GO1359R000200050025-6