PROTECTING THE SOVIETS WHILE KISSINGER IGNORED CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400400059-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: December 29, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

otectin the Soviets
Approved For Release 2005/01/12 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000400400059-3
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By GEORGE F. WILL
IVASHING;ON - Two recent
events - a press conference, and
some testimony in Congress ?--? dem-
on strate why distrust of Secretary of
State Kissinger, once'a small rivulet,'..-' is a roiling river.`
Kissinger's Dec.' '9 press conferrence
was, primarily,. -a response-.to.
charges-- (some -Trade' to Congress)
that .he has-been lax about insisting
on Soviet' compliance with the s 'a-
tegic arms agreement. Kissinger
began by: saying: ."I will' not deal
with specific testimony that may have ?
been- given except to, note that no op-
portunity, was-presented to any' mem-
ber of the aticainis_atioa'to-.present
the trut`t."
But ? since : Nlarcb :issinger..has I
-ducked repeated invitations to testify
in closed session on compliance ques-
tions. Defense- Secretary Schlesinger
and CI1::Director'Colby (both fired)
testified. Kissinger blocked release of
even a severely censored version of
Colby's testimony, even though Colbyy
agreed -to the eas of it.
'?io_:i,. consider--Kissinger's'....press "??
conference -treatment 'ot the suspicion.
the= Soviets. have-- -evaded the intent
of:the SALT I provision that neither 'I
side may build new "fixed lard-based -
intercontinental: missile launchers." ?
Since signing the??ag::eament- the: So-
viet:have buiit at least 150 silos that 11
are th'e'precise?size of the SS