ARMS CONTROL TREATY VIOLATIONS - LETTER DATED 4 JANUARY 1985 TO THE PRESIDENT FROM SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 279
• Publication Date: January 7, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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7 January 1985
Arms Control Intelligence Staff
SUBJECT: Arms Control Treaty Violations -
Letter dated 4 January 1985 to
the President from Senate Budget
Committee
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COMMITTCE ON T14C BUDGET
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20010
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As the new Congress convenes, we commend you for the two
reports which you sent to the Senate last year detailing Soviet
arms control treaty he first report
was your report of January 23, _
of the Presidential Generao on Commission (198450 Between
GAC Report) which you transmitted
the two of these reports, you sent notice to Congress of 21
specific Soviet violations confirmed by the Administration.
Important as these two reports were, we nevertheless believe
that there are at least 43 further Soviet SALT violations
widely reported in the press which have yet to be confirmed
make detailed a in
the Administration. These
would are
this iolations
thletter. . Since
we believe that a review of all of the 43 violations ought to
be included in your report to Congress which has been announced
as forthcoming on February 1 if the meaning and spirit of current
law is to be fulfilled.
Indeed, the necessity avicomplete olationsawasaclearlyaunderlinedwby
of all Soviet arms control
the excellent letter of National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane
dated
to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees,
November 30, 1984, on thetisusethatpMrt1MCFarlane
Soviet SALT violations. It gratifying
quoted you as saying that we must taovietimportant viltons"very
seriously" because they "call into question risks."
benefits from arms control and could create new security
Although some have tried to minimize the imIortanceeof the GAC
Report, Mr. McFarlane evidently does i from
his letter that the Admini~tratifn lc anelnotesbthatrbothtofof
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