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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA:Director for National Foreign Assessment
C. Ames
National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia
Meeting ofSecurity Framework'
Action Requestpd: None; for your Information. (U)
This was the thirderies of meetings onframework and there willourtharch. It wasthe meeting would be limited to one hour rather than the scheduled
two Although Pakistan was the most urgent Item, the papers on it were nnfreceived in tine for review, so it will be We first item in the next SCC. JS
following agenda item were covered:
and Economic Presence. We must stressin arms deals, or we'll end up with the samehad in Iran. The Embassy Is not being very helpful It just passes on arms requests without trying
to filter out the unreasonable ones. Dr. Brzezinskl stated that we need to improve the Internal security appreciation of Saudi Arabia. To do this we need totrategy. He asked the DCI toaperrogram.
Presence. We ought to keep what we have in theafter the Afghan crisis. He might considerin configuration after the hostage crisis, butnot want to give the Soviets any wrong signals bymove. Something betweennd Option IIOption I) looks Hfce the best bet. One carrier
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could be let go if we could have periodic TACAIR squadron presence. Egypt would probably be willing toquadron from time to time. Oman would need moreig leaf prior to approval.
Garcia. Go ahead and brief thethen Congress that we are planning to haverefueling stops on Diego Garcia. In thewillon-stop2 recce flightIndian Ocean.
Deployments. The UK and Australia are on board.
The UKay deploymentestroyersrigates. We have to bring the French on board. Perhaps this can be accomplished by having them take on an enhanced Mediterranean role while we redeploy vessels.
Enroute Basing. The State paper was accepted as submitted.
f. Aid. New language was drafted for the Presidential letter to Oman. ppears best at this stage. Option II will be reviewed when the survey reportn. Particular attention will be given to the development of the Musandam Peninsula. On Somalia, we will stand pat on Option I.
f. MAU. Decisions taken at theebruary SCC meeting were reaffirmed. (S)
4. The remaining items, stressing Pakistan, will be covered atarch SCC meeting. (C)
Robert C. Ares
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