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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp85b00652r000100050016-3: LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: THE PRIVATE INVESTMENT OPTION

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/01/19: CIA-RDP85B00652R000100050016.3 -' MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. VIA : Deputy Director for Intelligence Director of Global Issues SUBJECT : Less Developed Countries: The Private Investment Option 1. Action. This paper responds to your request of 26 February 1983 for a look at what Western investment could do to help reverse the downward economic spiral in LDCs important to the US. You requested that it be prepared for Secretary Shultz and perhaps the President to focus their thinking on t…