· - - - • · •· THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTEUIGENCE -· - National Intelligence Council 19 November 1982 ' · t · r · • NOTE FOR DOC FROM C NIC If you think that there is a significant chance that Shultz and Weinberger have not made a connection between these aircraft and our leverage over the Pak-nuclear program call should be made to Shultz and Wei nbergerAL _ _ __ to call this to their attention Ii- Henry S Rowen · ·_ ' •• Approved For Release 2007 04 05 CIA-RDP83T00966R000100090003-9 - • ApproveQ F or-·R iease 2007 04i05· CIA R DP8BT00966R000100090003-9 T THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTEUIGENCE WASHINGTON 0 C 20505 National Intelligence Council 19 November 1982 NOTE TO DDCI THRU NIO NESA FROM '----L----'IA NIO SUBJECT Pakistan l The first squadron of F-16 aircraft to go to Pakistan did not leave from Texas this morning President Zia maintains his finn position that he will not purchase these aircraft from us without USAF level radar Secretary Shultz yesterday at breakfast asked Secretary Weinberger to reconsider DOD opposition to this sale since this could seriously damage the totality of the US-Pakistan relationship including cooperation across a broad range of matters 2 l e note that the aborting of the nascent US-Pakistan arms supply relationship would remove any basis for pursuing General Walters' conversations with Zia on Pakistan's nuclear program a serious blow to US worldwide nonproliferation efforts 3 As you know an important component of DOD's position against sale of radar to Pakistan has been the intelligence judgment that it was likely to be passed to China It does seem that our policy not to supply this advanced US radar to China nor to acquiesce in its probable leakage to them by Pakistan may cause us to pay a very high price in other aspects of our relationship with Pakistan including nonproliferation efforts 4 We are bringing this to your attention because no single intelligence assessment has pulled these various threads together and we do not believe policymakers have examined this close inkage 25Xl Approved For Release 2007 04 05 CIA-RDP83T00966R000100090003-9