NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL MEMORANDUM: "SOVIET POLICY AND AFRICA"

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 17, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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NFAC #1332-81
17 March 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
FROM . Richard Lehman
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT . National Intelligence Council Memorandum:
"Soviet Policy and Africa" 0
1. I am pleased to forward the analytical paper you requested
on Soviet activities in Africa. Your questions and concerns about
the Soviets in Africa are addressed in the overview XL4e
clip. You need read no more of this paper than that summary.
2. In preparing the paper, however, we saw an opportunity to
serve the entire policy community as well as the senior policymakers
by providing a detailed accounting of Soviet political activity and
economic and military assistance in Africa, their own military
activities based in Africa, and their objectives in the area. Thus,
this paper will serve as a useful reference document for a large
number of policymakers and their senior staff as the Administration
considers its own policy with respect to the Soviets in Africa. To
assist in this deliberative process, we have for the first time
included a specific section -- both in the key judgments and in the
body of the paper -- setting forth the implications for the US and
what we believe to be key Soviet vulnerabilities in Africa subject
to exploitation by the United States. II
3. In addition to the normal wide distribution the paper will
receive, I recommend that you sign the attached notes of transmittal
to the other members of the National Security Council, calling their
attention to the key judgments of the paper and especially the section
on Soviet vulnerabilities. II
Attachments:
As Stated
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT . National Intelligence Council Memorandum:
"Soviet Policy and Africa" (S)
DISTRIBUTION:
Attachment is NIC M 81-10003J, TCS 3078-81, "Soviet Policy and Africa"
Copies of attachment will be transmitted as follows with a cover note
from the DCI
#2 - Vice President
3 - Secretary of State
4 - Secretary of Defense
5 - Counsellor to the President
6 - Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President
7 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Further Distribution of this Memo (NFAC #1332-81)
with copy of DCI cover note
1 - DCI, w/att. Copy #343
1 - DDCI, w/att. Copy #344
1 - ER, w/att. Copy #345
1 - DD/NFA, w/att. Copy #346 1 - DD/NFAC, w/.att. Copy #349
1 - Chairman, NIC, w/att. Copy #347
1 - NIO/USSR-EE, wo/att.
1 - NFAC Reg., w/att. Copy #348
ActingNIO/USSR-EE
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