BRIEFING OF(Sanitized)BY DIAAP-1, 6 OCTOBER 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00148A000200150018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 20, 1965
• Content Type: MFR

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SUB T: Briefing of General $e-ynelds by DI.AAP-1, 6 October 1965
1. The Commanding General DIA Production Center
lintroduced the briefing.. Be stated that he wished to
present with an overall view of the photographic
exploits on Doing clone on China by the Production Center by briefing
on several programs.
2. OIAAP-IM briefed on insufficient coverage
against priority targets in south China. He reviewed specific first
priority targets (primarily intelligence indicator type) and illustrated
the or coverage of these targets during the last year.
stressed the difficulty in producing good intelligence wn*n
there was a complete lack of information.
3. DIAAP?- provided a background briefing
on the extensive logistics support study which the Production Center
completed last year (Reference: SAO/ It 465/2-1-65, "Military Logistics
and Capabilities: Communist China", Tabs A through 1, with map
supplements). This study used analysts brought in on IDY from field
commands and officers assigned at 1)1A-headquarters._ It was aimed at
providing a basic intelligence support study on the ability-of the_____
Chinese Communists to support military operations in various peripheral
areas. Each of the Tab [studies undertook to cover a specific front
such as, Tibet-India, Burma-Thailand, Vietnam-Laos, Taiwan Strait,
Korea. The study on Tibet/India has been updated and is due out
momentarily. The studies on Burma-Thailand and on Vietnam are currently
being reviewed. All of these studies concerned primarily transportation
and storage capabilities, but also covered generally such other military
Items as locations of barracks areas. It did not delve deeply into the
overall problem of order of battle of the Communist Chinese military
establishment.
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4. DIAAP-IC presented a background
briefing on the methodology being used to study Soviet ground forces
order of battle. This was essentially an updating of the briefing
given during the summer to the Board of National Estimates. It covered
the study of high resolution photography of ground force installations
and ground force support facilities.
5, DIAAP-1C briefed on work now underway
in the Production Center to integrate photographic information into the
analysis of the Chinese ground forces problem. He noted that work
during 1964 and early 1965 was primarily directed toward support of the
logistic capability study and that it was only recently that any effort
was devoted to using photography specifically on order of battle analysis.
The military logistics study had included a barracks count, but additional
research in depth was not attempted. (The graphics used In this
presentation were essentially the same graphics that had been used for
the Board of National Estimates briefing in the early summer.)
systematic way. The Kunming Military Region is now being looked at in
depth and all military establishments are to be analyzed.
er than confirming the location, has not been undertaken in a
6. During the question and answer period the subject of increased
effort an order of battle was discussed, and
DIAAP-IC, indicated that it was planned to integrate p-55YU-Tnterpreters
with the analytical component to allow analysis in depth against the
order of battle. The plan called for a. combination of 6 analysts and
2 Pis working as a team on the Chinese ground forces problem. Three
analysts are now assigned to the problem. He hoped to recruit additional
personnel in the near future and complete an inventory of Chinese
ground force installations within a year. General Naples reiterated
that Production Center had the ground force problem well in hand and
could handle it with no outside assistance.
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7. DIAAP-IR briefed on a series of "regional
military petroleum storage facilities". He presented a map showing
16 such facilities, with a total of 539,000 metric tons of petroleum
(14% of the total storage capacity of China). He noted that there was
some correlation between the locations of these sites and known ammunition
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He pointed out tfat
in addition to analysis done locally on this subject, an Army reserve
petroleum intelligence group from Dallas had been called in.
8. in ending the briefing, indicated that there
He was leaving for Europa that afternoon and would not be back before
the end of October, but hoped to schedule the additional briefings
shortly thereafter.
were several other brie ings he would like to give
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