CONFIDENTIAL
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 DE PENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
 WASHINGTON, O.C,  ID301
 Genea.a1 Defense
 intelligence Program
 C-059/DG
 The Honorable Joseph P. Addabbo
 Chairman, Defense Subcommittee of the
 House Appropriations Committee
 Room H-401, Capitol Building
 Washington, D.C.  20515
 Dear Mr. Chairman:
 25 April 1983
 The conferees on FY 1983 intelligence authorization directed that if
 GRILL FLAME were to continue after FY 1983, it should be outside the
 National Foreign Intelligence Pro ram.  This letter is a report to you
 on what we are doing to comply. (C)
 The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering has
 agreed to use Program 6 funds to continue the current GRILL FLAME
 research capability until DIA's report on the project is completed and
 can be evaluated fully.  Your committee will be given a copy of the
 report and, at your convenience, a briefing on its conclusions,
 recommendations, and implications for U.S. and foreign intelligence.
 (C)
 The transition from the NFIP to Program 6 will begin this year.  The
 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will add about $200 thousand
 to the existing contract with Stanford Research International.  This
 will be enough to maintain the current capability until the Under
 Secretary's review has been completed and he decides whether to continue
 Program 6 support in FY 1984 and beyond.  (C)
 The GDIP, of course, will continue to meet its intelligence produc-
 tion responsibility of following Soviet and other foreign activity.  (U)
 SG1J
 Director, GDIF Staff
 cc:
 The Director of Central Intelligence
 The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
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