NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE 85.83 CUBA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE MILITARY BUILD-UP AND IIM: CUBAN MILITARY ACTIONS IN A NATO-WARSAW PACT WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R002400030050-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: May 29, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2008/12/03 : CIA-RDP86M00886R002400030050-1
The Director of Central Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Coun l
FROM: John R. Horton, National Intelligence
Officer for Latin America
MG Edward B. Atkeson, USA, National Intelligence
Officer for General Purpose Forces
SUBJECT: National Intelligence Estimate 85.83
Cuba: Implications of the Military Build-up and
I M: 5-ban Military Actions in a NATO-Wiarsaw Pact War
1. For the reasons set forth in the attached memorandum, we wish to
combine the subject community assessments into a jointly-chaired NIE 85/4-84
The Cuban Military Build-up -- Options for Castro. Not only will this merger
save considerable intelligence community analytic and coordination time, it
will provide the consumers, particularly the Navy, with a more complete
assessment of the multiple opportunities and perils among which Castro would
have to choose should he be, emt o use his burgeoning armed forces in a
Attachment:
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Director of Central Intelligence
Edward B. Atke'son
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