START WORK AGENDA

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 21, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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DAVID L BMW. OKLAHOMA, CHAIRMAN Rec' d in ER 4 Oct 188 y ~~wJ,~j~.
WILLIAM S. COHEN, MAINE, VICE CHAIRMAN i~
LLOYD BENTSEN, TEXAS WILLIAM V. ROTH. JR., DELAWARE
ERNEST F. HOLLINGGS. SOUTH CAROLINA FRANK MU KO SKI ALASKA 88-3794X
BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY ARLEN SPECTER. PENNSYLVANIA
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HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, OHIO
ROBERT C. BYRD. WEST VIRGINIA. EX OFFICIO
ROBERT DOLE, KANSAS, EX OFFICIO
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON. DC 20510-8475
IN RESPONSE
REFER TO: 88-3501
GEORGE TENET, STAFF DIRECTOR
JAMES H. DYKSTRA. MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
KATHLEEN P. M?GHEE, CHIEF CLERK
September 28, 1988
The Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Judge Webster:
As you are aware, one of the Intelligence Committee's
most important and continuing responsibilities is the
oversight of U.S. capabilities to monitor compliance with
arms control agreements while, at the same time, fulfilling
other important responsibilities. Although a START treaty
will not be signed this year, and significant disagreements
remain between the United States and the Soviet union, we
believe that sufficient progress has occurred in the START
negotiations to warrant comprehensive attention on our part.
Enclosed is the Intelligence Committee's work schedule
to keep the Committee staff currently informed and fully
prepared to address START and START-related intelligence
issues. The work schedule, which has benefited from
discussions with your Arms Control and Intelligence Staff and
other experts, is based on the Committee's experience with
the INF Treaty. While that treaty was still under
negotiation, the intelligence community provided the
Committee staff with a series of formal, on-the-record staff
briefings that served as the basis for the Committee's
hearings once the treaty was submitted to the Senate for
ratification. These formal staff briefings were of great
benefit to the Committee's deliberations, placing the
Committee in a solid position to evaluate the intelligence
implications of the INF Treaty.
We believe that it is particularly important that the
Committee staff begin its work on a START treaty now, since
the monitoring and intelligence issues surrounding such a
treaty are potentially much more important and complex than
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The Honorable William H. Webster
September 28, 1988
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those associated with the INF agreement. We therefore
request that the CIA's Arms Control Intelligence Staff (ACIS)
assist our Committee staff by preparing or coordinating the
preparation of briefings tailored to the enclosed work
schedule.
As always, we appreciate your support and remain
airman
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MEMORANDUM 21 Sept 88
TO:
FM: Gary L. Sojka
Ed Levine
Subj: START Work Agenda
1. Enclosed is the revised START work agenda based on the inputs
from players in the intelligence community who responded to our
solicitation. Based on your comments, we are looking at starting
the process on a weekly basis in early November.
2. Please note that we have replaced the word "session" with the
terms "subject" or "subject area," although we hope the new terms
will equate to sessions. Nevertheless, as you work the schedule,
you may find it appropriate to reduce but more likely to increase
the number of sessions to deal effectively with the subjects and
issues surrounding them.
3. We wish to point out that subjects 2/3/4 of the START work
agenda are gray areas. We are not really looking for the policy
makers to tell us what the treaty says; rather, we are looking for
a detailed description of the monitoring tasks that flow from
specific treaty provisions. Therefore, we are looking to the
intelligence community to give the briefs, based on its
interpretation of the treaty, citing specific provisions where
appropriate. If you foresee difficulties here, let us know.
4. Also please note that the START work agenda, significantly
more so than the INF work plan, goes well beyond the issue of
monitoring Soviet compliance with treaty provisions into the
world of intelligence support to our nuclear forces in a START
regime. Indeed, the number of issues to be addressed on this
latter subject are as many as on the former. This is not an
idiosyncratic or Committee interest only. We believe that it
truly reflects how the Senate will look at a START treaty. Unlike
INF, which to many members was at the margin, the Senate's
evaluation of START will look heavily at its impact. Thus, we
feel strongly that we must understand how START will affect
intelligence support to our nuclear forces and how Soviet legal
developments may affect the balance in a START environment.
5. Although some may argue that evaluating the impact of START on
intelligence support to our nuclear forces is not a traditional
ACIS responsibility, we believe it clearly is and thus feel
comfortable requesting that you organize the briefings in this
area. Indeed, we think ACIS is particularly appropriate, given
its national level character, because we wish to expand the
players within DOD intelligence to include both Naval Intelligence
and SAC intelligence. Both organizations are aware that you may
request them to brief. In addition, although they are aware its
your call, they have identified areas of interest or expertise
(SAC/NAVY -- I&W and nuclear security; Navy -- Soviet developments
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in ASW [I'm sure OSWR will want to play also]; Navy -- the future
SSBN force mix under START; SAC -- support to SIOP targeting
[We're sure DIA will want to brief here too; Navy may wish to
brief their SSBN adaptive targeting effort]).
6. Again, if we can be of help, please let us know.
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