TALKING POINTS FOR OPENING REMARKS TO JOINT CIA/AIAA SYMPOSIUM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 1, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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Central Intelligence Agency
Office of the Deputy Director for Intelligence
2 APR 1986
The attached contains
background and talking points
for your welcoming remarks to
the joint CIA/AIAA Symposium to
be held in the Auditorium on 8-9
April 1986. Also attached are
brochures on relevant subjects
that we intend to give to the
participits.
Robert Gates
DDI
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1 APR 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM:
Director of Scientific and Weapons Research
SUBJECT: Talking Points for Opening Remarks to Joint CIA/AIAA
Symposium
1. ACTION: None. Per your request, we have attached talking points
for your welcoming remarks to the joint CIA/AIAA symposium on Soviet threat
technologies. Also attached are copies of four brochures relevant to the
subject of the symposium that we plan to give to all participants. The
information below is background material on the symposium.
2. BACKGROUND: The SOVIET THREAT TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM to be held at
CIA Headquarters 8-9 April 1986 is the second SECRETO conference on
this subject to be sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA). The first was held in April 1985 at Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For that conference, the AIAA
invited eight speakers to talk on Soviet capabilities, major
accomplishments, problems and future directions in a variety of military
systems. CIA made two presentations. The meeting was attended by about
350 professionals from U.S. Government agencies (DoD, DoE, etc), defense
contractors, national laboratories, and academic institutions. The
responses received through AIAA Headquarters, Sandia National Laboratories,
and OSWR were overwhelmingly positive and complimentary. The response was
a clear indication that this type of classified forum filled a need for
regular exchanges of information about Soviet threat technologies.
3. Late last year
la Regional Director of the AIAA,
requested that CIA host and co-sponsor the second symposium. The subject
certainly was relevant to our mission, and, with the DDI's approval, we
agreed. The program for the April symposium here at Headquarters has been
expanded to a full two days with a total of 12 speakers. (The Graphics
Design Center will print the final program.) The content of all
presentations is once again restricted to SECRETO. We are expecting
close to 400 non-CIA attendees at this meeting.
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SUBJECT: Talking Points for Opening Remarks to Joint CIA/AIAA
Symposium
4. The Offices of Logistics and Security have been most helpful to us
in planning for the symposium. The North Cafeteria has changed its normal
operations for the two days and will serve a special buffet luncheon for
the participants. We plan to show several short films about advanced
technologies and the Agency during breaks. We also will have copies of the
attached brochures for the participants' retention--the Tech Transfer White
Paper; the 1986 version of Soviet Military Power; a reprint of the
unclassified Congressional testimony of the DDI and NIO/SP on Soviet
Strategic Force Developments; and the pamphlet on DI careers.) A brief
walking tour of the first floor areas is scheduled after hours on the first
day.
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Attachments:
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1. The Soviets are pursuing an ambitious, large-scale military
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) program. They are
producing an increasing number of highly capable, innovative, and
cost-effective weapons and related systems that will present a growing
challenge to US researchers and designers of offensive and defensive
systems. The fruits of the extensive Soviet program are outlined to some
extent in two documents which all of you have--the 1986 version of SOVIET
MILITARY POWER and CIA's Congressional testimony of last year on Soviet
strategic force developments. As the pace of technology developments
quickens, Intelligence Community inputs to and interaction with US RDT&E
community will necessarily become increasingly important.
2. This symposium fills a need that is not met by any other program.
Although other AIAA sponsored meetings are held at the SECRET level,
none covers the broad range of military technologies that this does;
further, none covers the state of Soviet developments. The classification
level allows an exchange of information that goes beyond open literature
surveys, and the inclusion of Intelligence Community speakers gives
authority to the discussions. We hope to expand on many of the areas of
Soviet military progress that are detailed in SOVIET MILITARY POWER and the
Congressional testimony reprint. Indeed, one of those who testified, Dr.
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Larry Gershwin, my National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs,
will be one of your speakers. The wide-ranging technical dialogue we
expect to come out of this symposium is needed between the engineers and
scientists in the Intelligence Community and those in the defense RDT&E
community (our principal audience).
3. This classified symposium will provide to a large and important
audience a greater appreciation and understanding of Soviet technological
advances and innovations. Many of these are the result of, or were
hastened by, the Soviet acquisition of Western technology, both hardware
and information. The vast Soviet effort to acquire the "best of the west"
is outlined in the White Paper, SOVIET ACQUISITION OF MILITARILY
SIGNIFICANT WESTERN TECHNOLOGY: AN UPDATE, which we also have provided for
you. One of the lectures will be on this most important aspect of Soviet
threat technologies. The speaker , who is
currently the Director of the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research,
and who once led CIA's Technology Transfer Assessment Center.
4. Not to be overlooked in the dialogue we hope to engender is the
possibility for 'reverse' tech transfer. The work of Soviet engineers and
scientists in many of the areas to be addressed in the symposium may merit
consideration by US laboratories and defense industries. This is something
you can tell us.
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5. Determining the nature and scope of foreign scientific and
technical developments is challenging, perhaps one of the most challenging
assignments for an engineer or scientist. The men and women with these
backgrounds who follow science, technology, and weapons at CIA and the
other agencies of the Intelligence Community are among the best. Only by
getting the best together--those from industry, academia, and the
government--can the US hope to come up with timely, effective, and
affordable responses to the Soviet challenge. That's why we are all here
together.
6. You have a full two day schedule. I hope you are able to take the
time to see some of our campus and facilities. If you have any questions
about the Agency or our work, please ask your CIA hosts. Another of the
brochures we have for you explains the type of work our analysts do, the
backgrounds we look for, and the careers in intelligence analysis that are
available--careers that we think make a difference. I hope you enjoy the
next two days here at CIA as well as find them stimulating and informative.
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OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC AND WEAPONS RESEARCH
Directorate of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
The attached contains
background and talking points for
the DCI's welcoming remarks to the
joint CIA/AIAA Symposium on Soviet
Threat Technologies to be held
in the Auditorium on 8 and 9
April 1986. Also attached are
brochures on relevant subjects
to be given to the participants.
STAT
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