NATO FORCE TRENDS DATA BASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00287R001001460001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 29, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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29 February 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Andrew W. Marshall
Director, Net Assessment
Office of the Secretary of Defense
SUBJECTz' NATO Force Trends Data Base
Director, Office of European Analysis
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1. ,The Off ice. of European Analysis recently contracted with 25X1
for the develonment of an hittnrical order-
US NATO forces, particularly the supporting source files
developed for Project 186.
offices will benefit from the exchange. of data.
In the long run, I believe both
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program. The NFTD project--an off-shoot of the LAMN program--is 25X1
part of a long-term effort by CIA and DIA to develop an accurate
historical (lata base, and eventually projections, on non-US NATO
order-of-battle, manpower and equipment holdings. We have
recently associated the.NFTD program with a larger project, the 25X1
Cl.obal Force Trends Data Base, under an inter-agency steering
group chaired by Mr. Robert Schneider of- OSD/PA&E. LTC Garrett Ruhl
of your office is a member of this steering group. 25X1
of-battle data base) I as the
initial phase of our NATO Force Trends Data Base (NFTD)
2. In order to facilitate
it would be extremely useful if
our pilot effort
could gain access to Project 186 data on non-
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