TWO FORMER OFFICIALS SPLIT ON SALT PACT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400360076-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: July 12, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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split on SALT pact
United Press International
CHICAGO - A former member of the
joint chiefs of staff said yesterday the
Salt II treaty commits the United States
to "nuclear inferiority," while a former
CIA director said the nation would be
"better off with the pact than without it.
In the first of a series of public hear-
ings on SALT 11, opponent Admiral Elmo
R, Zumwalt charged that the pact permits
the Soviet Union to increase its nuclear
power and is misleading the American
public into a "race toward inferiority."
"I favor a sensible strategic arms con-
trol agreement between the United States
and the Soviet Union. Salt II, in its pre-
sent form, is not such an agreement," said
Zumwalt, who was chief of US Navy oper-
ations from 1970 to 1974.
The pro-and-con debate between Zum-
walt and former CIA Director William E.
Colby at the Union League Club of Chica-
go was the first of 15 hearings to be held
across the nation.
The event was co-sponsored by the
Union League Club of Chicago and the
Foreign Policy Association. Other organi-
zations will sponsor future debates.
Colby, who headed the CIA from 1973-
1976, said at a pre-debate news conference
the United States would be "better able to
manage with the Soviets if we ratify."
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