INMAN REPEATS WARNING ON SOVIETS, U.S. TECHNOLOGY

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WASHINGTON POST
Inman Repeats Warning
on Soviets, U.S. Technology
By Philip J. Hilts
WaehlrKWn Poet Staff WrIWr
Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, deputy.
CIA director, acknowledged yester-
day that scientific papers are only a
"very small part of the problem" of
the "hemorrhage of this country's
technology" to the Soviets.
But at the same time, in speaking
to two House subcommittees on sci-
ence and technology, he, again
warned that there is a "massive So-
viet effort" to acquire U.S. technol-
ogy, and if scientists do not volun-
tarily censor some of their papers on
sensitive technology, "I think in six
months, a year, or 18 months, as the
government begins to see the full
magnitude of what the Soviet Union
gets from the West," there may be a
decision to impose restrictions.
At a January meeting here of sci-
entists, Inman warned that if they
did not voluntarily let the govern-
ment review some of their sensitive
papers, tough restrictions might re-
sult.
Yesterday, Inman said he re-
gretted using the phrase "tidal wave
of public outrage," but added that
then and now he was trying to
"goad" scientists into acting before
the government does.
Also testifying for the administra-
tion yesterday was Lawrence J.
Brady, assistant secretary of com-
merce, whose remarks were re-
strained compared with what he said
later at a luncheon with the Associ-
ation of Former Intelligence Officers.
There, Brady said the Reagan ad-
ministration , has "aggressively
stepped up our enforcement efforts"
under the export administration act
in the past year. He cited criminal
prosecutions in two California cases.
One case involved a shipment of
copper water-cooled mirrors used in
high-power lasers. The shipment to
the Soviet Union was made through
an intermediary in West Germany.
The California company's president
drew a 10-year prison sentence, all' but six months of it suspended. .
Brady said the Soviet KGB has
built an industrial-espionage net-
work of frightening proportions, one
that he said has "blanketed the de-
veloped capitalist countries ...
sucking up formulas, patents, blue-
prints and know-how with frighten-
ing precision."
He said the administration is still
trying to develop a critical-technol-
ogies list that it hopes to make "the
kingpin of the whole system" of pre-
venting seepage of sensitive data and
equipment. But at least a few in the
audience of some 450 seemed cha-
grined by Brady's suggestion that
the role of the multinational firms in
the transfer process is "going to be a
public policy issue in the next de-
cade."
"How long can we wait?" one
questioner demanded. "This has
been going on since 1956."
At the House hearing, Inman said
that he believes that 70 percent of
the problem of the "outflow of tech-
nology" comes from Soviet espionage
activities, and that only a small per-
centage of the other 30 percent can
be attributed to the failure of scien-
tists to keep sensitive work secret.
But he said he expects the Soviets
to concentrate on the other 30 per-
cent much more in the future as the
administration succeeds in halting
more of the Soviet espionage.. I
Rep., Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.)
questioned Inman's arguments and
said. the United States should "not
take even the first step down that
road [of a closed society] that makes
Soviet research so pitiful."
Robert Rosenzweig, a. vice pres-
ident of Stanford university, said
the premise of the administration-
that there is 'a threat to national se-
STAT
curitp from open scientific es-
change-9is wrong. We should reject
it .... It has always seemed risky to;,
run an open society, perhaps that ib
why there are so few of them."
In a related development, officiab
at Commerce said yesterday they are
investigating conflicting accounts of
a shipment of $960,000 in water-pu-
rification equipment to Libya that
the Customs Service seized un
Brooklyn on Friday.
Customs spokesman Louis Gerig
sad his agency determined that the
shipment had not reached the Wa-
tertown, Mass., loading docks of the
exporting firm, Ionics Inc., until
after the administration's embargo
on high-technology exports to Libya
took effect March 12. A Commerce
spokesman said "we were given as-
surances by the firm that the stuff
had gone to the docks on March 11!
Staff writer George Lardner Jr.
contributed to this report.
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