ATTACHED IS A LEAHY-COHEN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE AUTHORIZATION BILL PASSED THIS AFTERNOON BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT

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• Publication Date: June 7, 1985
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Director, Office of Legislative Liaison 7 June 1985
NOTE TO: DCI
DDCI
o Attached is a Leahy-Cohen amendment to
the State Authorization Bill passed this
afternoon by unanimous consent.
o It would make it U.S. policy that the
number of Soviet diplomatic or consular
personnel in the U.S. not exceed the number
of similar U.S. officials in the USSR.
Charles A. Briggs
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DDO
Comptroller
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AMENDMENT NO. ___
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Purpose: To establish'--a policy cf liritirp the number of Scviet
diplomatic and consular personnel in the United States.
IN THE SENATE OF ICE UNITED STATES--99th Cong., 1st Sess.
To authorize apnropri3tions for the Department of State, the
United States Information Agency, the Board for International
Broadcasting, and the National Fndowrrert for Democracy, and
for other purposes for fiscal years 1986 and 1987.
Referred to the Committee on and
orderer to be printed
Ordered to lie on the taole and to be printed
Amendment intended tc be proposed by Mr. Leahy
VIZ:
1 On page 31, after line 23, add the following new title:
2 TITLE VI--DIPLOMATIC EQUIVALENCE AND RECIPROCITY ACT CF 1985
3 SHORT TITLE
u Sec. 601. This title may be'cited as the "Diplomatic
5 Equivalence and Reciprocity Act of 1985".
5 POLICY
7 Sec. 602. (a) It Is the policy of the United States that
9 the number of nationals of the Soviet Union admitted tc the
9 United States who serve as diplomatic or consular personrel
10 of the Soviet Union in the United States shall not exceed the
11 number of United States nationals admitted to the Scviet
12 Union who serve as diplomatic or consular personnel of the
I 5 Sf~ f~ "-' N' r l Cl U '/i
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139912.379 S.I.C.
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1 United States in the Soviet Union unless the President
2 determines and sc__certifles to the Concress that a':diticn?I
3 admissions of such personnel would be in the best interests
4 of the United States.
5 (b) The policy.contained in subsection (a) shall nct
5 apply to dependants or spouses who do not serve as dirlorratic
7 or consular personnel.
8 REPORTING REQUIREMENT
3 Sec. 603. Not later than six months after the date of
13 enactment of this title, the Secretary of state and t1'e
11 Attorney General shall prepare and transmit to the Corrrr{ttee
12 on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence
13 of the Senate and the Co;-mittee on Foreign Affairs and the
14 Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
15 Representatives a report setting forth a plan for ensuring
15 that the number cf Soviet nationals described in secticn 602
17 does not. exceed the limitation described in such secticn..
13 DEFINITIONS
13 Sec. 504. For purposes cf this title--
20 (1) the term "'diplomatic or consular personnel"
21 _ means the members of the diplomatic mission or the
22 members of the consular post, as the case may be;
23 (2) the term "members of the diplomatic missicn" is
214 used within the meaning of Article 1(b) of the Vienna
25 Convention on Diplomatic Relations, done on April 1F,
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2 (3) the term ''members of the consular post'' Is uFec+
3 Within the me3niny of Article 1(9) of the Vienna
4 Convention on Consular Relations, done on April 2u, 1963.
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DAVE DURENBERGER MINNESOTA. CHAIRMAN
PATRICK LEAHY. VERMONT, VICE CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM V. ROTH. JR. DELAWARE LLOYD BENTSEN. TEXAS
WILLIAM S CONEN MAINE SAM NUNN. GEORGIA
ORRIN HATCH. UTAH THOMAS F. EAGLETON. MISSOURI
FRANK MURKOWSKI. ALASKA ERNEST F. HOLLINGS. SOUTH CAROLINA
ARLEN SPECTER. PENNSYLVANIA DAVID L BOREN. OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT. NEVADA BILL BRADLEY. NEW JERSEY
MITCH MCCONNELL KENTUCKY
ROBERT DOLE. KANSAS. EX OFFICIO
ROBERT C. BYRD. WEST VIRGINIA EX OFFICIO
BERNARD F. McMANON, STAFF DIRECTOR
ERIC 0. NEWSOM, MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
'United ~6tates senate
June 6, 1985
Dear Colleague:
During consideration of S. 1003, the State Department
Authorization bill, we intend to propose an amendment to make
it the stated policy of the United States that there be equiva-
lence in the number of U.S. diplomatic and consular personnel
in the Soviet Union and Soviet diplomatic and consular personnel
in this country.
The amendment parallels a provision approved unanimously on
May 8 by the Senate Select Committee on. Intelligence as part of
the fiscal year 1986 intelligence authorization bill. It is in
line with legislation passed last year and signed into law which
expressed the sense of the Senate that equivalence in diplomatic
representation should be achieved with countries which engage in
intelligence activities against the United States.
The amendment would make it the stated policy of the United
States that the number of Soviet diplomatic and consular personnel
in the U.S. may not exceed the corresponding number of American
representatives in the Soviet Union. The President could continue
to admit more Soviets only if he determined, and certified to Congress,
that it would be in the best interests of the United States to do so.
Six months after the provision came into force, the Secretary of
State and the Attorney General would have to transmit to the foreign
relations and intelligence committees of'Congress a plan to carry
out the new policy.
There can be no doubt of the security risks of continued
employment of a large number of Soviet nationals at U.S. diplomatic
and consular facilities in the Soviet Union. Nearly 200 Soviet
nationals work at our facilities in the Soviet Union while only a
handful of Americans work for the Soviets here. It was recently
revealed that for a period of years the U.S. Embassy is Moscow
was "bugged" by highly sophisticated devices implanted in its
typewriters. The Intelligence Committee has determined that the
typewriters and other pieces of office equipment have regularly
been sent through ordinary freight channels and that Soviet
employees in our Embassy and consulates are actually involved in
their assignments and use by U.S. officials.
There is an equally severe security problem caused by the
activities of Soviet diplomats in the United States. In April 1983,
Lt. Col. Yevgeney N. Barmyantsev, acting military attache of the
Soviet embassy, was arrested in the act of picking up classified
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information dropped by a U.S. double agent in rural Montgomery
County. Just last month came the reports of the apprehension of
John Walker and others after Walker attempted to deliver 129
classified documents to a "dead drop" only about three miles away
from where the earlier incident had occurred. Another Soviet official,
Aleksey Gavilovich Tkachenko, a vice consul at the Soviet Embassy, was
implicated by the FBI and left the country shortly thereafter.
It will do no good to increase the resources devoted to counter-
intelligence investigations and security checks within the United
States by the FBI and the investigative services of the Department
of Defense and the separate military services if we do not begin to
control the numbers as well:as the activities of Soviet officials in
the United States. It is estimated that nearly four out of every
ten Soviet diplomatic and consular officials are intelligence
officers. Increased resources made available to the FBI and Depart-
ment of Defense for counterintelligence' cannot alone enable them to
keep pace with the numbers and aggressiveness of Soviet intelligence
officers and their agents.
Our amendment would address the problems of the Soviet nationals
at U.S. facilities in the U.S.S.R. at the same time as the number of
Soviet diplomats and consular officials in the United States. These
problems are closely related; at present, only about 200 Americans
work in our Embassy and consulates in the Soviet Union, while over
300 Soviets work here.
This approach is a flexible one that would allow the President
to address both these problems together. It would give the
Executive branch the statutory directive it needs to resolve the
serious problem of the disparity between the numbers of U.S. and
Soviet officials. The best way to reduce this disparity in line
with the amendment would be for the Executive branch to begin
by reducing the number of Soviets working in the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow and replacing them with American employees. The Adminis-
tration could then raise with the Soviets the need to reduce
their diplomatic and consular representation here to correspond
with the level of U.S. representation in the Soviet Union.
If you have any questions or would like to cosponsor this
amendment, please contact either Eric Newsom or Jim Dykstra at
4-1700.
Sincerely,
atr ick Leahy y1lam Cohen
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