SCC MEETING OF 22 FEBRUARY ON "SECURITY FRAMEWORK"

Created: 2/26/1980

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCEJ

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

FROM:

SUBJECT:

C. Clarke, Jr.

Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment Robert C. Ases

National Intelligence Officer for Sear East and South Asia SCC Meeting ofebruary on "Security Framework"

ction: None, FYI.

meetingollov-up to theebruary SCC and will.be followed up by an SCC onebruary. The Agenda was coveredrapid, aliaost cursory. Banner, with several Items deferred to the

ebruary oeetlng. Before getting Into the Agenda, the question of Somalia's activities in the Ogadeo arose. uick call to Headquarters, the DCI was able to assure the SCC that Siad Barre's panic over Ethiopian intentions was another case of Siad crying wolf.

following were the naln points covered in the Agenda:

have toittle thought to how we keepwith the Saudis going.

is desirable toontinuous naval presence lnOcean, but the size of this presence depends on whathave and our ability to sustain this presence in thewill require porting and material storage facilitiesthe size of our presence, tfe canarine Amphibiousand carrier battle group (but this will draw down onor ve canarrier there half timeavalthere the rest. Brown favors the latter but noted thatcase this would cost us anyear.

SUBJECT: SCC Meetlne ofebruary on "Security FraaevorV

On KAU exercises, we aay end up with no Jointflrat tia* around and have only individual port callsboats. The laportant thing is to get tha region usedpraatnce of MAf's. We'll decide no later thanto ask Egypt, Kenya or Omanoint exercise.

will proceed on discussions with tht Britishup Diego Garcia, but will deter2

o. On the question of the neutralization of Afghanistan, Dr. Brresinski asked that the following questions be addressed:

"What would real neutralization loolc like and what would make it "fly"?

'What would be the public relations aspects of this?

*What tine frame are we talking about?

would be the likely Soviet quid pro quo?

h* deferred iteas, plus the question ofactions in Iran, will b* discussed at th*ebruary SCC.

Robert C.

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