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RUSSIAN MISSILE Soviet Missile Test May Chart a New Course or the Arms Talks
CALLED SUCCESS
Procedures, which he said
would be "difficult."
Today, Dr. Schlesinger said
that the Soviet success meant
that it was imperative for the
United States to prevent the
Russians from gaining a clear
advantage by combining their
quantity lead with qualitative
equality.
Information on the SS-18
and its successful test on a
range ending on the Kamchat-
ka Peninsula in northeastern
Siberia apparently reached the
Pentagon from intelligence
sources yesterday.
Dr. Schlesinger, characteriz-
ing as "very adventuresome"
a series of missile tests that
started in May, listed four new-
generation Soviet missiles that
he said could lead the Soviet
Union to "a clear advantage in
counterforce capability" over
the United States.
The four missiles are desig-
nated by United States defense
authorities as the following:
JThe SS-16, a missile pro-
pelled by solid fuel, with a car-
By BERNARD GWETZMAN warheads on their entire arse- a technological lead over the
The announcement by De- nal of land-based and subma- Russians in multiple-warhead
rine-la
fense Secretary unched missiles. missiles, but that the Soviet
James R. Schles- In a sense, the Soviet flight Union had a numerical edge in
inger yesterday that the Soviet test has put the newly-devel- numbers of missile launchers.
Union had finally flight-tested oped, improved state of rela- The two leaders agreed to ac-
an independently targeted mul-Itions between Washington andicelerate negotiations so that an
tiple warhead came as no sur-.'Moscow to its first real test. offensive-weapons treaty could
prise, since :Pentagon leaders' The two nations will have to he signed by the end of next
had been saying for more than decide in coming years whether sear. In crucial language, they
a year that it was only a ques- to carry out their obligations, r1so agreed to be "guided by
tion of time before the Russians in various accords, not to seek the recognition of each other's
News
Analysis
caught up with the nuclear superiority over the e ;ual security interests and by
Americans in mul- other or to let the Russian mis- the recognition that efforts to
.
,
tiple - warhead sile advances lead to another nhtain unilateral advantage, di-'MIRVs it can it nch. In other'Nixon's national security advis
technology. round in the arms race. re'?tly or indirectly, would be words, if the Iussians only er, have predicted that the'
But the unan- On June 21, President Nixon :nccnsistent with the strength- flight test a x head missile, strategic arms negotiators
swered question and Leonid I. Brezhnev, in the nning of peaceful relations b-- thi
ns tha t is unlikely'would have a very difficult
mea
-perhaps
sevnr tween the United States of they, will be a-, it to put a 12- time reaching an accord on
Kremlin much to ta he White, ssummit econd meetin spa of
to the g, signed America and the Union of SO-'head cap on op of their offensive weapons because of
House-is whether the Russians. point document on the "basic,viet Socialist Republics." (launchers. the problems in verifying limits
intend to use the development principles" governing further In other words, both sides on multiple-warhead missiles.
simply to catch up with the negotiations on achieving a per agreed to take steps that would Accepted Lisadvantage But Mr. Kissinger and Mr.!
Americans or to surpass them I manent treaty that would im lead to muutal trust rather Under the f vi-year interim Nixon have both said also that'
in both numbers of warheads, pose limits on each sides of hap mutual suspicion, the
and their destructive power.
This would be conceivable if
the Russians began to put these
fensive nuclear weapons. cause for most of the previous
It was signed in the knowl-: rms races between the two
edge that the United States had nuclear powers.
rarity in ~ignt
numbers talsaid, the Soviet Union is "clos-I It was always clear from
those of the United States.
Noting that the Soviet Union
had already achieved superior-
ity over American missile caps
bility in "throw weight"-big-
ger missiles through bigger
explosive charges-Dr. Schles-
inger remarked: "I think the
Soviets are seeking a strategic
advantage."
Not a Surprise, He Says
He said it was not astonish-
ing that the Russians should
eventually achieve and deploy
multiple - warhead capability,
"whether in several years or
half a dozen years."
"One may have been sur-
prised that they have all these
missiles," he added. "It is the
breadth of development, not the
race, that is surprising."
Dr. Schlesinger said that the
Soviet achievement had great
significance for the current
second round. of talks on limi-
tation . of strategic, arms be-
tween'the Soviet Union and the
United States "because our
ability to monitor is rapidly,
very rapidly deteriorating."
"Once they come through
the flight test the: ability to
verify will be substantially
undermined," he explained,
adding that in the first round
of talks "we repeatedly -insisted
an the ability to verify." The
first strategic arms agreement
of 1972 imposed an interim
limitation on the quantities of
nuclear ? missiles each side
could build but permitted
qualitative improvements.
Now, the Defense.Secretary
rying capacity about that of
the United States Minuteman
-some 30 tons-and possibly
intended as a mobile weapon..
llThe SS-17, also about Min-
uteman-size, but liquid-fueled
and a possible successor to the
standard SS-11.
cThe SS-18, largest of all,
liquid-fueled and planned as
the successor to the SS-9.
!The SS-19, a hitherto un-
disclosed liquid-fueled missile
in the Minuteman range. The
Minuteman carries three war-
heads, each with an explosive
content of about 200,000 tons
of TNT.
Sure of 2 Tests
Dr. Schlesinger said that
the Defense Department was
certain that the Soviet Union
had tested its multiple-war-
head capability on the SS-17
and SS-18 rocket vehicles,
and added, that there was
"flimsy evidence" of such
testing on the other two.
The Pentagon, he said, had
become persuaded that the
Soviet Union intended to pro-
vide all its intercontinental
missiles with multiple, sepa-
rately-targetable warheads.
Judging from past expe-
riences, he said, the new mis-
siles could be ready for pro-
duction and deployment by
1975. By the end of the decade,
he said, the Soviet Union could
have independently targetable
ing the technological gapsltalking with Soviet officials
through MIRV guidance andithat they regarded the MIRV
warheads." as an important weapgpS sys-
reconnaisance a?ellites either
at their land-b, s( d sites or by
spotting submit! ri yes.
But the Mll- V s, placed on
top of the laur -.l vehicles, are
virtually impos ,il Is to detect.
It is not pot dl ale to tell, by
photography, f )r instance,
whether a wa -h gad has one,
three or a doze., i-idividual mis-
siles.
It is possible o ascertain this
by checking the fight-testing of
the United St u s accepted a
disadvantage i _otal numbers
of launchers- ,' 10 to 2,358-
because with :1 e MIRV, the
United States I ac a two-to-one
edge in the .r nber of war-
heads.
By simple a ithmetic, the'
"The United States is not in tem. A senior Soviet of..
a position to tolerate Soviet 1, once said that "we made the
superiority," he went on ^We,mistake of going for an ABM
[anti-ballistic missile] while you
must have some equality.' !went for MIRV."
The Soviet position, as out-i "I wish it was the other way
lined recently by Russian Of- !around," he added.
ficials here, is that the second Now that the Russians seem
round of arms talks would l on their way to developing and
succeed only if the Soviet !deploying multiple -warhead
Union had a demonstrated imissiles, they will have achieved
MIRV 'capacity. The Soviet: their objective of achieving
argument was, basically: "What I technological parity with the
you have we must get and I United States. Will they agree
where you are we must be," !to a formula at the talks on
in world strategic terms. I limitation of strategic arms,
Dr. Schlesinger countered this ! due to resume this fall in
view with the argument that Geneva, which would insure
vantage by "marrying" its
quantitative superiority to
qualitative equality. He added
that phase two of the arms
talks "must prevent imbalance,"
though he cautioned: "The So-
viets are not particularly in-
terested in limitations."
"The minimal point one can
make is that the Soviets are
unwilling not to demonstrate
technology that the United Stat-
es has demonstrated," he said.
"Imagery is important." ) means," a highly complex field
Asked whether the Soviet! involving "spy-in-the-sky" photo
missile success would lead him
to press harder for Congres-
sional acceptance of the De-
fense Department's accelerated
gram, Mr. 'Schlesinger replied: I signed in Moscow in May, 1972,
"No. I thought we were mak-(put limits only on the number
ing a hard pitch. There is no in- of launch vehicles. These
tent on my part to hmakc a launch vehicles-or rockets, to
harder pitch." 'laymen-can be detected by
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that a rough equality could be
achieved, and sufficiently veri-
fied, so that neither Moscow
nor Washington felt at a dis-
advantage?
Visits Are Ruled Out
"here are many possible
ways of achieving this, but the
agreement reached in June
rules out visits by officials of
one country to the missile sites
of the other to inspect what is
going on. Rather, verification
reconnaissance satellites and
various radar systems.
Up to now, verification has
Russians could surpass the!
United States both in numbers
of warheads and in their total i
destructiveness by the end of
the decade, if they chose.
They would have more de-'
structive power - "throw!
weight," in the jargon-be-
cause they have gone in for'
mammoth land-based missiles;
rather than the smaller ones
deployed by the United States.
In the past, officials such as
Henry A
Kissinger
President
the United States and the So-''
viet Union were entering a new!
historic relationship. The rela-i
tionship will be severely tested
in coming months and years by,
MIRV.
PLEASE GIVE.
THE FRESH AIR FUND.
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Cambodians Back Home
To Rubble and Despair
KRANG PONG RO, Cam-
bodia, Aug. 17-Cambodian
refugees who spent months
running from successive bat-
tles and air raids have be-
gun returning to their home
villages, discovering in most
cases that everything they
left was burned or destroyed.
This village, which once
had 3,000 people living in
about 300 houses, was burned
to the ground. The first
handful of women who
walked up the muddy trail to-
day burst into sobs on seeing
the destruction. Many spent
the day aimlessly sifting
through broken roof tiles,
melted bicycle frames and
smashed pots.
Krang Pong Ro, which is a
short distance from Route 3
and about a mile from the
district capital, Kompong
Kantuot, was engulfed in
some of the heaviest fighting
of recent months.
The "tiny's June offensive
cut ol`f the Government gar-
rison at Kompong Kantuot
and then overran the town,
sweeping along the road
toward Phnom Penh, 15 miles
to the northeast.
In the resulting rout
soldiers and families poured
up the road, in many cases
with only what they could
wear or carry. On June 19
Communist troops moved
into Krang Pong Ro and be-
gan fortifying it as an anchor
of their whole front.
Intense U.S. Bombing
There followed a period of
intensive American bombing
of the region. Krang Pong Ro
itself was not bombed, but
the countryside in all direc-
tions is cratered. Route 3, a
well-graded blacktop road,
has been churned by bombs,
shells and monsoon rain into
a cratered, rutted, muddy
track.
Government soldiers said
the Communists had piled
their dead in several of the
houses, setting fire to them
to cremate the bodies. The
fire then spread through the
deserted village.
A United States Air Force
fighter-bomber was circling
overhead this morning, ap-
parently on a reconnaissance
mission. Apart from its roar
the town was still.
Cambodian houses are gen-
PPrally built on stilts to pro-
tect the occupants from wa-
ter and rats. The houses of
Krang Pong Ro, a prosperous
and substantial place, had
concrete stilts and staircases.
Only a forest of stilts and
stairs remains.
There is no suggestion of
battle anywhere now, and
soldiers and civilians here
behave more like people re-
i urrring to a town ravaged by
a passing storm than one still
in the midst of war.
"The Vietcong are all
gone," a lieutenant said,
using the official term for
'he Communist insurgents.
"We killed them and drove
t hem out, and they won't be
hack around here again."
The fortifications left by
' he Communists are remind-
rrs of their martial -skills,
however. Deep underground
hunkers strong enough to
survive even direct bomb and
tirtillery hits are everywhere,
and multitudes of foxholes
c?ttest to the willingness of
the enemy soldiers to dig.
The pagoda, a large con-
',rete building with many
brightly painted plaster im-
ages of Buddha, is almost
ruined. Whole stupas, on
lowers, outside the main
r.tructure have been over-
turned or smashed by heavy
rxptnsions apparently inside
the buildings. There are no
ign of aerial bombing.
c;nvernment officers ex-
plain that the "Vietcong"
committed the sacrilege of
using the pagoda as a com-
mand post, even cooking
meals within it. Government
troops are using the pagoda
as their command post now,
but without cooking inside.
A bulldozer arrived to
clear rubble at about the time
Mrs On Heang arrived on
foot. She had walked most
of the way from a squatter
settlement near the Phnom
Penh airport where she had
been staving for weeks.
Like most of the others
he hurst into tears on see-
ing the place where her
family and two others had
shared a large house, the
stilts of which are all that
survived. Through her sobs
she said again and again,
"Everything is gone!"
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~FN 11 Its
Penagan"s Chief eels of
Moscow Br`eakfhrough
in Multiple Warheads
I ~ t
Schlesinger Speculates on
`a Clear4dvantage' over
the American Arsenal
By DAVID BINDS *
Special to the New York 75obes
WASI TNGTQ?, Aug. 17 --
Secretary of Defense James. R.
Schlesinger announced today
that the $o :iet Uiia.on t s; guc-
cessfuily flight-tested missiles
with rujtip1e 'warheads that
can be directed to separate tar-
gets.
At, a briefin* for newsmen
at, the Pentagon, Dr. Schlesing-
er ssad that one of the
intercon-tinental missiles, designated
the SS-18, had carried at least
six hydrogen warheads in the
one-megaton range. One mega-
ton' is the , quiyalent of a mil-
lion tons of
The United States began in-
stalling multiple warheads --
known as "MIRVs," for "mul-
tiple `independently targetable
lniltetnan'1` missiles in April,
174, and has since spread the
rietworl.
) on 8rezhnev Pledge
On Tune I, in Washington,
President 1evi qn. a1 d Leonio T:
l e irtegrx fEie' Soviet ommu-
"qualitative"_ limitations on
strategic weapons, including
I 1Tes with multiple war-
SedDF#d.SrR[c wea-
by the end of 1974. The first
agreement on limitation of
strategic arms, reached in 1971,
dealt with quantitative limits.
A United States official said
that the Soviet success had
virtually erased American hopes
for a two-way moratorium on
future testing of such missiles
in the framework of a new
agreement on limitation of stra-
tegic arms. Earlier, the United
States had planned to propose
such a moratorium. Now, the
official said, the stress would
have to be on controlling MIRV
deployment and verification
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THE WASHINGTON POST DATE -( f PAGE
er to i m to Oust
Allende Called
en aur'~an Io oTer Zander, 21, is wanted as a pa
t .n he Allende overni rr it rote violator and that a war-
American pa-1 wanted lest was convicted in
ion rough Latin I The Zander on the FBI's
`'edced"'it commlir 1 on May 9, 1972, and given a 10
- - a din nnn r;,,o
?Vigorena, in an interview) to avenp *MPTOW"
w' th the Mexican daily Excels- tlam_on.the gentaur plan bu
ice, char ed that the anti-Ai- a nonetheless conv#niec
I delatt iuhat it is a bogus scliene:*itl
Mexico. tuimo-spurces' heri
Chile, former' ambassador toself employed."
vemen in the Chi-l
ence _ sources,
g - -
led to his death. arose at the Department's
now iiie CIA White Tuesday briefing.
a e ep z'St7tj State Department spokes-
acTfaftl denied any
ars`agb,he said,the Chilean
govetnment did not discover it
until six ` weeks before the
ciup 11 that ous'ied Allende and
orena Wa being d istri -
4.?
jg a fugitive from justice." for the administration, in the
epck ancT- ullabrication, said! The Centaur affair is laden
he tovernm$nt official. "He! with potential embarrassment
It was undestood that State
Department officials were ap
prised of the "Hoax" aspects
of the plan in the event that
lwnsive about dealing publicly
with the matter without corro-
borative documents or other
evidence.
Zander has reportedly left
Mexico and there is no cur-
rent information on his where-
e House foreign attairs in- I can rye CVAClub1Y-.Y cs-
r-aherlean'affairs subcom Iished as a hoax. "What's at
"
e subcommittee in. execu ive
fri but Tie 'tesitifeil puff=
cy that' he understood there
' w.as an individual in Mexico
IRo clattned" he had a dcu-
said
stake here is credibility,
one government officer.
Lastw? the CIA ac-
1c wledged, in_ `3ena e> '~ o"r'
eUu Relations Comnn.. e
e
u'mentt:" hearings, tht it sought to pro-
a. biscfi, said he would! mote economic distre~s,_-; in
refer to discuss the plan With Chile during 1970 in an effort
r Jack B. $ubisch testified
esterday he' understood the
ntaur `lan "was a spurious
ittee, Assistant aecreLdry ut
tote for Inlet-American af-
Wee state Lepaitiuc?-
1. xt`ha 'come fromU-S. Intel=
Once` 'sou ce5 -presumably
The testimony was given by
yzilliam V. Broe, at the . tipie
the CIA's chief of clandestine
serVlcps. for Latin- mel?ica.
.t is,r that reason he C 1`
is now vulnerable to' public
. X spicicros (If, ipter_velltjqU in
The uplle val.. that ousted Al-
elide from office last week
and led to his death.
t1itC-, SLA no
Aamment-on_the Vigorena a le-
decal Bureau- of rrr Ions.
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THE WASHINGTON POST DATE PAGE
T WA,SmNG'TON POST Sauarday. Sept 22, 1441 63
8gton eit'-Go?Touii
oie Seen in Chile Cc W
that ?the United States must on undercover operations. Our of the first to brea .- and to
have had some inkling of the smj es. who have access io'tli throw himself upon mercy
fah osecutor5
o e
r
over has been cited as evidence 1'aaty C:c j ga ses storybook ending. H4 was one
American ambassador to Chile, ,Qperat Witt nit 1hP played the spy role -r Al the
cit .to hlg1 de
from aasumiine Dower in V70,
~tYii ~T -~a'P Plan
ug=papars in many 665-n-ff es
time to come toWashington. worth of credits were granted cruited to do his dirty v ark. His
singer' specified that Davis were known to be anti-Allende. key government v itness
sfiould choose the most quiet - For example, $12.4 million against the Cuban- he re-
v o'laatife situation in Chile, Kis- cause the Chilean generals Now Hunt appears , be the
p
the contrary, we have z e=t deliberations of tide
plot. On
learned that Davis chose that Fsrtycnmmittee,assure usfiat When he told t ,e other
weekend for his visit because I so project.was approved to-Ac-4 Watergate conspiral(' s .hat he
tively calm in Santiago. The Pentagon, meanwhile, cording to prison ourees,
ington by Henry Kissinger, Chilean military, establish- "Keep me aw.,y i r n Kim.
who, in anticip&tion of his cbr- anent. After Allende came to ]Liddy Y growled, ref r-ing to
wanted to assess a few top dip Bred cutting off nili a t aid t' That was.-the. last t :e Liddy`
~fohats for possible Washington Chile. The- decisloii vds made Wand Hunt'have spok a to one,
-Davis, of course, knew about to the Chilean armed forces last flair for the dramatic J=es him
or the , test Tew ? mo iW.~s,
shinaton has Tbeen bom-
the stirrings within the Chilean year for the purchase of U.S., a charismatic sway ov r the Cu-
that "events move slowly in' Pentagon had no direct part,' fandango, an he ret:r ned 10
dts~0 tat p"n p1ott n the Chile, or perhaps better said,
i a ervices. n_ 1t' the day Chileans have great ability to
militaryy 'ft. icer infrorme P't ie
a
U.S. embassy in Santiago WA
'
`
`
coup was
Imninet. 'h w rning,however,wasn't
create as an` more siigni icant
rush to the brink, embrace each
other and back off."
singer, according to our
sources, they spent no more
than five or 10 minutes review-
1114 ells o similar repo, ing the Chilean situation. Most
fiat ave been gassed on o of their discussion was devoted
on recentl a coii'1 to internal State Department
Was
' n_ , e in a vane what e _ t }, 2J d si'b1e'ha
'The sudden ar~yal ins Wash- But the C1A is, orifldden to"in-
inCton of'Naaniei Tavis, the xervene. in any m o T f$n
however, in the plot against Al-'years later to recruit t; em for
lende. the Daniel Ellsberg a ,d Water-
Deadly Enemies-The Water- gate capers.
gate developments have taken With heroic words girt could
an ironic twist which has left have come from one -us own
the two ringleaders, G. Gordon spy novels, Hunt swore them to
Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, secrecy. After their r est, he
deadly enemies. persuaded them.to pl ai guilty
Liddy is a fanatic who offered rather than risk revei i g what
to submit to being gunned they knew in a courts on`Mer -4o^Ronnd 'THE VASHTNGTON POST 'P6 y av. ,103 fl7
. ' of to Tie Hughes, Democrats `ited
By Jack Anderson
Not lon after Bebe Rebozo
took a $,000 ,cash gift in-
tended for. _ President Nixon
from industrialist Howard
Hughes, the President's friend
Joined Ina White House plot to
link Hughes to the Democrats. .
This amazing double-cross is
revealed, in eo , ``;dential White 11 House memos, which we have
utlooe izl tl}e. ourse,gf in-
ves 1 ti, Itebozo's role as a
tit i raiser or' he l'rosx ent.
yc
h-W . , H1X- n? gu It to
plant ,tor, es th press np
last, of two *50 000 installments
paid in $100 bills from,, a
Hughes aide Yet Rebozo p-
part ntl,y. had no hesitation to
help expose the financial ties
.between the phantom billio-
naire and the Democrats.
Rebozo_,was W.eful to re-
quest, l}owever,that_he be kept
a;;ifn ate, .,action b
n l,egard to Hughes"
because of "his own dealings
iththe'ughespeople. "
Both Haldeman and Dean,
therefore, knew of 4006';
dealings with Hughes al-
clear tether bray were aware
the gire h sJ pped Re- -
1000fortha President
L,wer
theless, to go ahead with the
plot even if it meant "ealbar-
rassing" Hughes. Haldeman in-
structed Dean, however, to
keep "Bebe out of it at all cost.,,
Haldeman asked White
House consel John Dean in a
memo, dated Jan. 18, 1971, to
begin "an inquiry into the rela-
tionship between Larry
O'Brien and Howard Hughes."
Dean reported back hi.3 "pre-
liminary findings" on Jan. 26,
1971. Among others,. Dean
spoke to Rebozo.. -
"I discussed the matter with
Bebe Rebozo who indicated
that his information regarding
(a retainer paid by Hughes to
O'Brien) had come from Robert
Maheu, the recently rei.eased
tign," reported Dean.
"Bebe said that this informa.
tion had come to his attention
at a time when Maheu was pro-
fessing considerable friendli-
ness towards the administra-
tion, but that it was not docu-
mented information. Bebe in-
dicated that he felt that Matieu
had possibly retained O'Brien
for his services without any di-
rect knowledge by Hughes
himself.
"Bebe is under the impres-
sion that Maheu had a good bit
of freedom with Hughes'
money when running the Ne-
vada- operation. Bebe further
indicated that he felt he could
acquire some documentation
try to get any information he
could.
"He also requested that if
any action be taken with re-
gard to Hughes that he be noti-
fied because of his familiarity
with the delicacy of the rela-
tionships as a result of his own
dealings with the Hughes peo-
ple."
Dean also reported that Rob-
ert Bennett, son of Sen. Wal-
lace Bennett (R-Utah).repre-
sented Hughes. "Bennett in-
forms me," wrote Dean, "that
there is no' doubt about the fact
that Larry O'Brien was re-
tained by Howard Hughes and
the contract is still in existence.
.. Bennett also indicated that
he felt confident that if it was.
necessary to document the re-
tainer with O'Brien that he
could get the (documents)."
Two days after receiving
Dean's report, Haldeman sent
him confidential instructions.
"You should continue to
keep in contact with Bob Ben-
nett, as well as looking for
other sources of information
on this subject," Haldeman di-
rected. "Once Bennett gets
back to you with his final re-
port, you and Chuck Colson
should get together and come
up with a way to leak the ap.
propriate information.
"Frankly, I can't see any way
to handlethis without involving
Hughes. The problem of 'em-
barrassing' him seems to be a
matter of degree. However, we
should keep Bob Bennnett.and_
,Bebe out of it a- all costs. .
As it happnod, we were the
recipients of the White House
.leak. We re=orted on Aug. 6,
1971, that "H.Whes' lieutenants
offered to s absidize Larry
O'Brien so ht c uld serve with-
out pay as 1 Democratic Na
tional Chai3 m:in during the
1968 campait n. '
We quoted O'Brien, who ac-
knowledged io had been
"sounded o t by Maheu in
1968" but ii si ited he "never
drew a dime fi om the Hughes
interests -daring the cam-
paign." Seve:ai months later,
we reported t i'Brien was re-
tained by Hu h ':is.
We have s x-Ken to O'Brien,
again for an plated comment.
"If they'd v.,nted to know
about my relationship to
Hughes," he aid, "They could
have looked a~ the public re-
cord ... If t'Ae:- didn't want to
look at the p iLlic record, they
could have a:-ed themselves
the trouble )y simply calling
me on the tel: p n one."
O'Brien sa d his fee twas "a
personal ma tt r between me
and my clien But in a letter
to Maheu, dared Aug. 21, 1968,
O'Brien said l as "annual fee
would be $1:U,si00, payable in
monthly inst. I'nents."
Haldeman aid us through
his lawyer tl at he remembers
the exchang = of memos but
doesn't rem r iher the out-
come. Dean x ,d Rebozo ref-
used to comn?-xt.
01973. Uniter area Syndieata
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STA. TeachEs terrorism to Friends
By Tack Anderson ment refused to teach the bomb the curriculum at the Texas front pages. They fou ?id outthat
course when it was set up in hideaway. The visiting police Hunt had eollecte tens of
Bomb and booby trap experts 1969. Therefore, "the Central are also taught bomb squad or- thousands of dollars in behalf
from the Central Intelligence Intelligence Agency agreed to ganization, record keeping and of the Watergate defendants.
Agency have been quietly provide guest lecturers for this a course called "Press Releases But only a few paltry payments
tt #ning foreign ponce to make portion of the training pro- and Press Relations." ever reached them. Ae used
federal school ii . g, TO tu- At the secret school, he says, the decision to help with the own legal expenses.
I U1 flint the demonstrations are given of anti-bomb courses was associ-
triage is so
I
f
_o testi
y
Pentagon has r9ffmA .. to have "the construction, use and ated with terrorist attacks on He is now prepare
against the Cubans ~
.
ors h
I
as th to do it. counter-measures against American personnel and Will-
to
Ells-
'die aid s ofdS~ homemade bombs and explo- ties in foreign land. The recruited to break i; -
We
sors are on loan r Q3 sive devices used by criminal courses are now being re- berg's psychiatrist's a fike, in
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or
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or
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the'Agency for terrorists." The foreign police viewed. re
Developmenti wl It t#ms the also get graphic lectures on SILENT TREATMENT-Last self.
sc_hgol at.,' col" booby traps, "incendiaries" year, the four foolhardy Cubans But perhaps the past straw
A"de y faL Presnos. and otherlethal devices. To de- on the Watergate squad were was the deal he wa .r ?ed from
stence . thg school fuse and dispose of bombs, Har- willing to follow their ring- the Senate Watergate commit-
"State of * e, where eign1 first has to learn all about I blindly. Now they hold him in tion, the committee arranged
traps ag:atnst polft?caf oppo-I Abourezk Snow that most of the not guilty and appeal to the I quarters at Ft. Ho: arird, Md.
neits."Id the film was 165 policemen trained at the jury for understanding. But at Our sources say he cm apies his
onaiy tie reality of the "terror backed regimes such as those wanted to avoid a public trial. chess. F ^-
school' in Brazil, Guatemala, Thailand, a Hunt advised them to plead
Dubious but curious Sen. Uruguay, Panama and El Salva- guilty, and overnight they , The four Cubans, ?f anwhile,
James Abourezk d)-9 '.D) began dor. Only a thin blue line of changed their plan. are still behind bar they saw
a quiet investigation. His confi- cops are trained for the demo- The Cubans sometimes quar- him as he was cas' irg a $100
eential find}ngsraise disquiet- cracies. reled among themselves, but money order just be !ore check
ing questions shout Ariericars AID officials explained to us all four swore by Hunt. They ing out of jail. As,., gesture of
police aid to militaryjuntas. that they have had fewer re. I wept with him when his ' wife contempt, Eugenic Martinez
by Abourezk, Assistant`AAdntin tigations Co from'ceeth . ey would have died for him. out. Then they watched to-
i~rator Matthew Harvey con= cracies. The inb-bu'ildft then tfie sordid Watergate gether in cold sileate as the
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THE WASHINGTON POST llfonday,IIho.24, 473
Nuclear Diplomacy Still Practiced
By Jack Anderson
The, Christmas theme of
peace on earth has been pro-
faned, regrettably, by the men
who control the nuclear
switches.
They still engage in nuclear
diplomacy, and the horror
weapons are poised in their
shipments from entering Cuban
waters. Nikita Khrushchev,
then the cock of the Kremlin,
responded with a blistering se-
cret message,
demonstrated when he faced an
imminent nuclear explosion.
In December, 1971, President
Nixon had an opportunity to
stage his own nuclear show-
moved to embarkation points.
The airlift of military supplies
to Egypt and Srria was sud-
denly halted to make the planes
available to haul the waiting
troops.
A flotilla of warships; landing
ships and back-u,' ships moved
out of the Black Sea into the
Mediterranean. The Soviet
fleet in the D e~iiterranean
quickly swelled o 90 vessels,
one-third more than the U.S.
Navy's Sixth Fle, t. At least 20
Soviet attack submarines ap-
peared on the tail, cf U.S. carri-
ers and other key hips.
Then Soviet it ader Leonid
Brezhnev, in a blunt secret
message declarin:; ' f will say it
straight," called upon Presi-
dent Nixon to joir him in send.
?ing troops to stol- the alleged
Israeli cease-fire violations.
Otherwise, he ti neatened to
send in Soviet troops unilater-
ally.
The President responded in-
stead by ordering a worldwide
military alert. The Soviet forces
never left Russia. Tensions
were relaxed. Bu once again,
mankind had take i a step dan-
gerously close to the nuclear
brink.
1973. United Feltp a yndjeate
los and submarines ready for r 'numb tack into an Atlantic of earth now called Bangla-
thhe e ultimate and ordered the Joint desh, the United States, the` So-
In less s th than a holocaust. dozen , Chiefs to intercept any Soviet viet Union and China issued or-
e e have years, ships that reached the point of ders. Armies and navies with
nuclear confrontations. at least T he lat- three the thumb tack. h\Tdrogen-headed missiles re-
nucl
est occurred only last October, Soviet ship, loaded with sponded.
as Soviet attack submarines Cuba-bound missiles, arrived It turned out to be a limited,
targeted on U.S. warships and at the crucial spot. The Presi- two-week war. But it could have
both superpowers ordered dent called the Joint Chiefs been otherwise. The secret in-
-their forces on alert, back into the Situation Room, telligence reports reveal that
The public has been given Slowly, he withdrew the tack the three superpowers were be
only the sketchiest details of from the map, moved it back log sucked into the vortex of
'the incidents that. could have and pressed it into the map Jwar.
ended in nuclear devastation, again. "Let's give them a little e The world was spared, ~ut
Here are the stark facts, which more time," he instructed. "But none of the big powers can take
men of goodwill would do well when they reach this credit. The war was not ended
point, by the menacing of the
to ponder while the carolers You'll have to stop them." moves Fussians, Americaanns and Chi-
sing of peace top earth: As the missile-laden Soviet Ruse, but, by the spn ofthe
Donat
ry _g he 962 >alissile .,cri- ships approached the second: Pakistani army in Bangladesh.
sis, aft
wor is aware, John thumb tack, orders from Mos- Again, at the height of the lot-
Kennedy ordered our, unclear cow turned them around. forces on red alert. eet Arab-Israeli war in October,
Kennedy's handling of the: the United States and the So.
Pres}dent, Kennedy threw a Cuban confrontation made a viet Union moved their nuclear
naval bloci{ade, around Cuba, deep impression on Richard forces on the world chessboard.
calling it a "quarantine," with Nixon. He spoke admiringly of Seven Soviet airborne divi-
orders to stop Soviet misfile the cold courage Kennedy ba aiio,, oat gear were
Nevertheless, Kennedy I down in the Bay of Bengal,
called the Joint Chiefs into the I While Pakistan and India
Situation Room in the White f fought over the dreary, humid,
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How the CIA Snooped Ins i4a Russia
-$y Jack Anderson
We have been accused of com-
promising an intelligence oper
ation, perhaps even jeopardiz-
ing the We of an agent, inside
the Soviet Union.
Let us set the record straight.
More than two years ago, we
were 1pped off that the Central
Intelligence Agency had man
aged to eavesdrop on the pri-
vate conversations of Kremlin
leaders. Some of the transcripts,
we were told, were quite titillat.
ing.
We checked out the story with
a CIA source who had access to
the transcripts. He confirmed
that the CIA was intercepting
the telephone traffic between
the limousines of , ,Soviet _.b ..
wigs.
Unfortunately, he said, they
didn't hold strategy sessions in
their limousines. The % CIA
picked up small talk, however,
which provided an insight into
the personalities. of the likes of
party chief Leonid Brezhnev,'
Premier,Pllexei .iv is and
President Nikolai l'odgorny.
The transcripts revealed that
the Soviet leaders gossip about
one 'another and , mplainJcurtl
about their ailments. Their fa-1 can't give a clue as to how its
vorite limousine stop was a pri- done. But we can state categort-
ate clinic where they could get Gaily that for years the CIA has
steam baths, rubdowns , and been able to listen to the king-
other physical therapy. `' pins of the Kremlin banter,
Brezhnev, who sometimes bicker and backbite among
drinks too much vodka and std- themselves."
the Kremlin leader i knew their
conversations had been moni-
tored. But he plea e 1 with me
to keep quiet and u g.xi me par-
ticularly never to i 3e ntion how
the conversations were inter-
cepted.
fers from hangovers, told Pod- The following December, we Accordingly, I om tied the r@f-
gorny in a typical conversation quoted from secret White House erences from my bc, k and leftit
that he was suffering from the minutes to show that President to others to revea' no secret
woes and would stop off at the Nixon had lied to Congress and monitoring methor Not until.
clinic for a massage. He men- the public about the India-Pali today, after the li n?uWne-lis-
tioned a masseuse named Olga. Iran conflict. toning operation lad been
"Olga! Oh ho!" chortled. the This brought the President's widely publicized elsewhere,
Soviet President, who appar- gumshoes down on our necks have we mentionetx haw it was
ently was familiar with Olga. with a vengeance. No newsmen done.
Our source said the trap- in Nixondom have ever re- Nevertheless, n z Whits
scripts showed that the Kremlin ceived a more thorough Going House has seized v =n this to
chiefs were aware the CIA was over. The undercover work was
listening to them. Anything they done by the plumbers, the bi- fair to justify the President's
already knew, he agreed, should zarre pare-police unit whose claim of national se u'ity in the
be safe for the American people operatives ran around in CIA plumbers case.
to be.told. wigs and committed foolish This is strictly a e 11-1 herring.
Therefore, ft. should do no crimes. which President Z' 4 .on hopes
harm to write about the eaves- The bewigged ones, among will distract the Watergate
dropping operation, said our other things, began checking bloodhounds. The ?;tth is,that
source. He cautioned, however, into our account of the Kremlin (1) the monitored B -e nlin chit-
that the monitored conversa- bugging. This aroused Richard chat was never an i at_ortant in
tions didn't make clear whether Helms, then the Cu chief, who telligence source; 12) our Sept.
the Soviet leaders had figured invited me to lunch on March 17, 16, 1971, story revs ?d nothing
out how we did it, 1972 the Kremlin leade s didn't al-
We published a careful atpl asked me not to mention ready know; and C. -he Preai-
on Sept. 16, 1971, about &i eavesdropping operation in dent's claim of natif vt4l security
eavesdropping. "For obviousas- my book. "one Anderson Pa- simply won't wash.
y
reasons," we wrote, "we pen." Be acknowledged that ?W73, united FeatureS n' irate, Inc.
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X1.5 Billion Secret in Sky
U .S. Spy Unit Surfaces by Accident
By Laurence Stern
Washington Post Staff Writer
In the arcane and heavily classified
world of "overhead" reconnaissance and
spy satellite intelligence, the existence
of the National Reconnaissance Office has
been one of the best kept, trade top
secrets.
The -name of the organization, in fact,
is top secret, and, according to intelli-
gence officials, has appeared in public
print only once before-by inadvertence.
Yet the NRO, which is funded primar-
ily through Air Force appropriations,
spends an estimated. $1.5 billion a year
acquiring and managing the most sophis-
ticated, elusive and expensive force of
spies that has ever been recruited into
the government's service.
Its customers include the Central In-
telligence Agency, National Security
Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and
the White House. Its operatives bear such
names as SR-71, Samos, Agena, and "the
Big Bird." Its activities are screened off
from all but a relative handful of special-
ists in the national security bureaucracy
who carry some of the highest and most
specialized clearances issued by the gov-
ernment.
Curiously enough, the only reference
ublic
t"rom the "skunk works, as specialists
describe the facility, of Lockheed spy
plane developer Kelley Johnson 141 Ne-
vada also emerged the Ur2 and 1t4i.
"The U-2 was perhaps the only govern-
ment spy project to have a cost under-
run and to exceed the prom-
ised performance stand-
ards," said one exp"r t on
the program. Lockheed was
also the prime conu-a' tur
on the C-5A. which was
plagued by $2 hill on in
combined cost overruns,
In addition to the conil,et-
of-interest issue in Hull, mer's appointment, euncii'$-
sional investigators are look
ing into the possibilities of
overruns in the supersecret
reconnaissance satcli to pro-
grams under NM's jurisdic-
tion.
"I've never hoard of one
of these programs I hat
didn't have enorrnotis eeist
overruns," said one 1)el(Inse
Department. official who has
worked first-hand with some
of the spy satellite opera-
tions. The opportunities for
to NRO that has been made in a 1, breaking cost and perform-
government document was last Oct. 12 in breaking and is are
t r of the citel Related to Secrett and greater in spy satellite pro-
to Stud y Questions grams, this official said, he.
Confidential Government Documents. The cause of the atmnsnhe,-e of
drafters of the report unwittingly breach-
ed security by listing, along with CIA,
DIA and NSA on the concluding page, the
National Reconnaissance Office.
And, more obliquely, Sen. William Prox-
mire (D-W.is.) alluded to the NRO's mis-
sion in a recent statement challenging
the appointment of Lockheed Aircraft
Corp. reconnaissance satellite expert
,James W. Plummer as under secretary
of the Air Force.
In questioning Plummer's nomination
on conflict-of-interest grounds, Proxmire
made a pointed observation:
"Normally, the under secretary of the
Air Force has jurisdiction over certain
intelligence matters and sits on a special
committee that directs manned and un-
manned overhead reconnaissance, includ-
ing spy satellite programs. These critical
projects have run into the billions of
dollars-money that flows to defense con-
tractors such as Lockheed."
Plummer has been with Lockheed since
1955. The California-based firm is the
principal corporate contractor in the
so-called "black" reconnaissance satellite
programs carried out by NRO.
secrecy and narrow titan
nels of accouirlabiiits in
which they operate.
NRO's existence is
shielded from senior con-
gressional intelligence over-
seers. Former hieeh-ranking
-staff members of , he Na-
tional Security Council. who
were cleared for some of the
most, sensitive intelligence
material to reach the t'resi-
dent's desk, acknowlcflc=ed
in interviews that the', had
not been informed about it.
"This is a black )rn.'ran1
and you're not supposen to
know it exists," sire one
Pentagon adminisuntot For
the past several years it.,su-
pervision has noininally
been in the hands o;' the un-
der secretary of ,he \ir
Force. Operation>< rri nrn-
curement ha%r h.,,,, nan-
dled through the oh'i P of
the Secretary of ihi? fir
Force. accordin -z to it -t- nse
Denartment so"t""':
missile t;al ' the early
1960s. The. publicized
use of the cram was to
support 1 1cnt Iienne-
dy's conten t i that the So-
viet I- men installing of-
fensive nil., i in Cuba.
But coP t ional investi
gator,; in t , unpublicized
iuqui! ies e. t raising ques-
tions about r ationships be-
tween tort u tic contractors
and the i ""r-secret pro-
Its intelligence products grams obi :arried out um
labeled L`LINT (for elec- der the ac of N RO and
'trontc intelligence) and other mil a intelligence
COM:NT (for communtca- agencies.
lions intelligence) are par- Pr-nxnrir .'oncern about,
celed out under special code the I'lumn ? Ippointment is
names to the government one exam I ? of this. Air
"consumers"-such as CIA Force Sec, r ,;-y John L. Mc-
or NSA. The users may get Lucas can to the govern-
the product of the secret re- ment fror he Air Force
connaissance, such as moni- think tani- 111TRIS. Assist-
toring of Chinese nuclear ant \ir 1?' ' Secretary for
tests, or radio transmissions p r o c it r ri e n t Frank
in the Soviet Union, without Schrantz t ncs from Boe-
being told of the collection ing,
techniques. This is known as "There
`coinpart.mentalizing" of in- enc~, stir'
telligence data. recent me
Since the inception of the
tive of c
U. S. reconnaissance satel-
lite program in the mid-
1950s to 1970 some $10 to $12
billion had been spent on
the spy birds, according to
an estimate by aviation and
space writer Philip J. Klass
in his book, "Secret Sentries
in Space." Since then the
outlay may have grown by
about $5 billion.
Overhead reconnaissance
has proven of enormous
value in providing more re-
alistic assessments of such
t.: been a
teno- r than ever in
t to put execu-
'r .-actor agencies
in these I positions," said
one veter i )efense Depart-
meet of ii. "Not that
there is ping personally
wrong w ,. hese men. But
all their ; t t udes have been
shaped i, heir experience
working it ontractors.
The la \ilen ,,:lender
(D-ka)t r ,ter chairman of
the Stn \pp"ooriatiuits
Cummrtt was one of the
few incr a 01 Congress
privy to ,rue of ,govera-
missile
fensive
capability, uutu u>
It
and defensive
"If vm
ew ti
much
.
money
%
,peed
and
how
helped,
in fact, to defuse
much
--n o
we
waste in
What( t that amount
might t w,I, probably
never a t' ir in tl~e public
dufflan
ts
knock . t off tour
It' Crlm 1
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U.S. Tapped Top K ussians' Car Pho i yes
By Laurence Stern mon e,lej._oI,I}gy~h ere.-
Washington Post staff writer tapped by the Gamma Qup f
Z11 ILL oyernment vstematically y e Soviet Party General $pgV ary
romtorect t e La:p in rliosgf4op ? f egnJd . Brezhnev, PreslAeat,.,7 ilw1ai
oviet offiicr>,a1S.in M owjirrse.,e veral
ors ending rn 19714axu~ mer intelligent_ L p with
the operation.
The prolett, ,namedG..anlxua
chited by columnist Jack Anderson.
A former inteil enc ~ y
had access to the tr~nscrrptS._of_the
,Mon)torQd conversatnsin M_y scow
bloat.. -valuable intelligencP -Pip?l ?gees
the United ..States had. in the_ Soviet
Luiwl-
duce ill ~"Pce
va
gency in eollaboatzo-4,V1t,
tJ"
on` Security Uency ,.. tlza-~ern-
igxu's and news serv- Star-News editors I , dis
iiin,'rant authors. (A cussed this (natter it`, Mr.
a journalist, usually O'Leary and other sot: ac 's and
,=,,i. who offers news have found no evident a sug
e a piece-work gest that either he or v i~ news-
e s-s organizations paper has been comps ,r,ised.
1:1,1 identified with WASHINGTON, Nov i-On I
etc publication, and ley 1 ,_lYlx_,Colby, t e t,.LA
hum are full-time in irector, assured The N s York
hn Irankly use their Times, in response to a gt+es
r'n)rting as a covis ,on, that nobody c==o tented I
?>rrsence in a foreigi with The Times was n olved ,
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