RESPONSE TO USA INSTITUTE ON PROPOSED ARMS CONTROL TOPICS

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• Publication Date: June 30, 1982
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NOTE FOR: NIO/SP
Colby's call for a joint US-Soviet "war room" (See Sun item,
attached) is another indication of gathering interest in tTe Nunn
ro osal that we talked about yesterday.
so plan to -send-_
a memo summarizing yesterday's discussion about problems
attending a nuclear freeze with a suggestion that he try to fit in a
visit to Oak Ridge.
cc: SA/NPI
C/ACIS
State Dept. review completed
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THE BALTIMORE SUN
29 June 1982
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Ex-'CIA chief favors
nuclear arms freeze
Washington-Former CIA Direc-
tor William E. Colby yesterday en-
dorsed the idea of a Soviet-American
nuclear weapons freeze, saying either
a freeze or an arms limitation agree-
ment "is adequately verifiable for the
safety of the country, and the chance
of violation is minimal."
"The chance of injury to the coun-
try is minimal, and the advantage to
our country and the advantage to the
Soviets of reducing the numbers of
and the ingenuity of these new devic-
es which are progressively more dan-
gerous is well worth that minimal
chance of violation of a minimal de-
gree," he said.
In fact, he said, any nuclear arms
accord with Moscow would make it
"easier rather than harder" to keep
tabs on what the Soviets are doing by
empowering the United States to de-
mand an explanation of any suspi-
cious Soviet arms behavior.
Mr. Colby, who headed the CIA
from 1973 to 1976, made his remarks
at a press breakfast organized by the
nuclear freeze movement.
He said normal CIA intelligence
checks on Soviet compliance-
through satellite photography, elec-
tronic eavesdropping and analysis of
observable Soviet activities and pub-
lications-would come into play. In
addition, he said, the Soviets would
have to consider whether some Soviet
official knowledgeable about the
cheating would reveal it.
He said the Soviets could surrepti-
tiously violate an agreement to freeze
the production, deployment or testing
of new nuclear weapons for a while.
but not for long enough to endanger
America's security to any significant
degree.
"It is conceivable they can go into
one of those salt mines and produce
something and hammer it out all. very,
be able to see it or know about it," h
strike, "we have the problem of in-
sane men getting ahold of them-
that's why we have to reduce them."
said. "But the question has to be
asked, can they do that in a way that
has any strategic significance? And
there I think the answer is basically
? no.,,
His position on verification differs
from the Reagan administration's. In
April, a State Department policy
statement said:
"A freeze on all testing, production
and deployment of nuclear weapons
would include important elements
that cannot be verified. The practical
result is that the United States would
live up to a freeze in all its aspects,
while there would be considerable
doubt that the Soviets would also live
up to it. We simply cannot afford to
base our national security on trust of
the Soviets."
Mr. Colby said that although no
sane American or Russian leader
would use nuclear weapons in a first
He endorsed President Reagan's
proposal for deep mutual cuts in nu-
clear warheads through a strategic
a'*ns reduction treaty.
The assumption that war can be
forever deterred by the fear of mu-
vial annihilation "is becoming more
ants more~esavotTs as a o asis
for g," Mr. Colby said.
e also called for. a treaty that
would establish a joint "war room"
staffed by American and Russian offi-
"We have got to r crisis
communications." he said, adding
that with the two superpowers de-
ploying increasingly accurate mis-
siles. a nuclear crisis "can take place
in a matter of hour., and even short-
er."
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SUBJECT: RESPONSE TO USA
CONTROL TOPICS
2. WHILE WE DO NOT WANT TO SUGGEST THAT DAVYDOV AT USA
INSTITUTE CONSTITUTES AN OFFICIAL CHANNEL, WE BELIEVE THAT
IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO INFORMALLY IDENTIFY TO DAVYDOV IN
GENERAL TERMS FOUR AREAS OF NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION IN
WHICH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENTS MIGHT
EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES FOR COOPERATIVE ACTION: (1)
ENCOURAGING ADHERENCE TO NON-PROLIFERATION TREATIES (NPT
AND TLATELOLCO); (2) TIGHTENING EXPORT CONTROLS; AND (3)
ENCOURAGING SUPPLIERS TO ADOPT A FULL-SCOPE SAFEGUARDS
POLICY. WITH REFERENCE TO QUESTIONS IN REF A, EMBASSY MAY
WISH TO DRAW UPON FOLLOWING TALKING POINTS IN DISCUSSION
WITH DAVYDOV. NON-PROLIFERATION TALKING POINTS ARE LARGELY
BASED ON MATERIAL PREPARED FOR DISCUSSION WITH MOROZOV ON
MARGIN OF RECENT IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNMENTS (SEE REF B).
THE EMBASSY SHOULD ALSO INFORM DAVYDOV THAT SOME RECENT
SOVIET PRESS ARTICLES, HIS IN PARTICULAR, BADLY DISTORT
3. BECAUSE A MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENTS REAGAN AND
BREZHNEV HAS NOT YET BEEN ARRANGED, EMBASSY SHOULD MAKE
CLEAR TO DAVYDOV THAT IT IS PREMATURE TO DISCUSS AN
AGENDA.
4. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT IT IS PREMATURE TO DISCUSS WITH
ANY - T-T ACTION wirw GHT RESULT
R UACKSON-NUNN PROPOSAL.
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-_ AS YOU MAY KNOW, THE UNITED STATES PRESENTED TO THE
SOVIET UNION AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS
GROUP AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION' PAPER PROPOSING THAT NUCLEAR
SUPPLIERS ADOPT A COMMON POLICY OF REQUIRING THAT RECIPI-
ENT NDN-NUCLEAR WEAPON STATES ACCEPT IAEA SAFEGUARDS ON
ALL PRESENT AND FUTURE FACILITIES AS A CONDITION FOR
SIGNIFICANT NEW NUCLEAR SUPPLY.
-- IN GENERAL, THE U.S. IS SUPPORTIVE OF EFFORTS TO
EXPAND THE COVERAGE OF IAEA SAFEGUARDS AND BELIEVES THE
NUCLEAR WEAPON STATES CAN PROMOTE PROGRESS TOWARD THIS
GOAL BY VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTING IAEA SAFEGUARDS ON THEIR
CIVIL NUCLEAR FACILITIES. ACCORDINGLY, THE U.S. WELCOMES
THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY FOREIGN MINISTER GROMYKO ON MAY 15
AT SSOD II IN NEW YORK OF THE USSR INTENTION TO PLACE A
"PART OF" ITS CIVIL NUCLEAR FACILITIES UNDER IAEA
"CONTROL." HAIG
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