CIA WARNS OF NEED TO BLOCK CHEATING US WEIGHS PLAN TO MONITOR SALT-

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 5, 1978
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By, William Beecher`} r?"?"
Globe Washington Bureau'
WASHINGTON -The Carter Admin-
istration. is. seriously, considering tough.'
new provisions in the draft treaty to limit
strategic' arms that. would 5e aimed at
preventing cheating;,and.increasing
chan cesfor its passage by the Senate.
Senior officials say the United. States
.,may seek to ban.the coding of any data
.sent back, from missile tests to engineers
on the ground to tell how guidance and
other systems. aie'working. By intercept-
ing and analyzing the data =? or telemetry
US analysts try. to keep tabs, on im-
provements in Soviet weaponry:. -
The draft SALT-2 treaty contains re-
strictions' on certain 'missile improve-
ments. Thus the monitoring of,tests by
spy satellites and other intelligence-gath-
ering devices -is considered- essential to
-ensure the accord is adhered to; the
officials explain -"~
,"Unless the Senate is convinced we
},can verify with confidence.the.terms of a
new treaty," one State Department offi-
cial said. "the chances of ratification are
'The principal impetus behind a ban on
encoding telemetry,' sources say, came
from Stansfield Turner, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, who argued
that without it the United States could
not be confident the Russians were not
cheating
He is known. to -have cautioned .the
White House that:unless Moscow can be
persuaded to accept such a ban, he would ?
'be duty,bound to warn the Senate-during
1ratification hearings- of the immense
!difficulties of verifying the treaty.
But when Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance was in Moscow for SALT discus-
sions in. .October, .well-placed officials
Isaid, the Soviets rejected an even milder
,proposal to ban encoding. it would merely
'have called for a common written under-
standing on what test data could and
what could-not be scrambled.
It was after the Russians turned down
the part-way measure, sources say. that
Turner called fora total ban. He is being
'supported by some ?officials in the De-
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Officials have passeq word to Moscow
s`that unless the Russians provide specific
One of a series of obstacles:` that lia a detail, on compromises they are prepared
arisen recently to bedevil attempts to con rsake;'.there is napoint' in scheduling
Mother" Vance-Gromyko round of talks.
elude theSALT.negotiationsT: ~~ ax t
~Tlie Administration is~coneerned not
Another involves the Backfire bomber ~'" ~,
The Russians'. insist it does not have stra= only; about the Russian technique of -ex-,
tegic range, but all elements of..the US in- peeving new US. proposals vat each high-
telligence community argue it does level`. bargaining session, often without
American ,. negotiators .. have tried