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

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• Publication Date: April 23, 1979
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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