To: [Recipients
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From: FRANK KOZA, Def Chief of Staff (Regional
Targets)
CIV/NSA
Sent on Jan 31 2003 0:16
Subject:
Reflections of Iraq Debate/Votes at UN-RT Actions + Potential for Related
Contributions
Importance: HIGH
Top Secret//COMINT//X1
All,
As you've likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge
particularly directed at the UN Security Council (UNSC) members (minus US
and GBR of course) for insights as to how to membership is reacting to the
on-going debate RE: Iraq, plans to vote on any related resolutions, what
related policies/ negotiating positions they may be considering,
alliances/ dependencies, etc - the whole gamut of information that could
give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favorable to US goals or
to head off surprises. In RT, that means a QRC surge effort to revive/
create efforts against UNSC members Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and
Guinea, as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.
We've also asked ALL RT topi's to emphasize and make sure they pay
attention to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and domestic comms for
anything useful related to the UNSC deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have
a lot of special UN-related diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations)
from countries not sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute
related perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognize that we can't
afford to ignore this possible source.
We'd appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who
might have similar, more in-direct access to valuable information from
accesses in your product lines. I suspect that you'll be hearing more
along these lines in formal channels - especially as this effort will
probably peak (at least for this specific focus) in the middle of next
week, following the SecState's presentation to the UNSC.
Thanks for your help
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