AFTER SALT-2 PACT CAN AMERICA KEEP TABS ON RUSSIAN VIOLATIONS?

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April 23, 1979
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STAT Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314RIO0100390023-8 ARTICLE APPEARED ON PAGE CAN AMERICA KEEP TAIBS ON IRTUSSIA1~ VIOLATIOIVS? By ROBERT MOSS 11Ir Katz points out that even Would Washington tear up the THE latest coutributian at the time the Salt-1 treaty -treaty? Would it even. matte to the debate on the was signed in 1972. it was the facts public? proposed Second Stra- accepted that the Americans : tegic Arms Limitation had no way to count the U.S. reaction Treaty (Salt-2) between numbers of missiles the These are worryng questions, ltussia and America Russians have-.and there- not least because the gather- comes from Amrom fore no wav to check up inn and distribution of intel- Katz, former head of that the Russians respect licence in Washington today the verification section limitations on the numbers has become highly politicised. of the American Arms that might be a -reed. There is great bureacratic pres- Su to or nlylyiw,hat con report for circulate Control Agency. Launcher scheme ? oo nrms to cur- That job gave him a ringside At that time, the Americans rent Administration policies seat when it came to assessing tried to get round the verifi- -which is, of course, a recipe how far the Russians could be cation problem -trv concen- for poor intelligence and trusted to honour their treaty- weak defences. undertakings. trating on the number of Iris conclusions are sober;n_1`f;,r liked missile launcher; avail- In relation to monitoring Salt, Huse tvha persist in the uaivt able to the hussians sonic of the under symptonis were nsPresident hope that. because Western fhe Soviet launchers then obvious even undco President govermu;:nts are read'-' to re in,,olved thick-walled con foodt when rable . .. efforts v.ere made - as we Soviet leadership is bound to. act the same way. assessing the chances of polic- ing a new arms limitation treaty would be the height of folly. - W arnke challenged lie tales issue with Part Warnke, America's chief Salt negotiator until -his resigna- tion in a political storm late last year, who retains im- portant influence as a consult- Ifis basic argument is that "vie have never found anything that the Bussians have suc- cessfully hidden" and that to, be less cautious than this in underground silos-in other public testimony' of former words. they were fairly con- (1:1 analysts like David :>.Ir l~atzs findings can be stud- spicuous. I Sullivan - tt) hush ut, a ied in a monocraph entitled But there is no reason to mounting body of evidence Verification and Salt that has. assume that the Russians are of Soviet Salt violation:. just been publi