COLBY'S CENSORED SALT TESTIMONY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400400065-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: December 15, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/12 : CIA-RDP88-0131.5R000400400065-6
WASHINGTON POST
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak .
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SALT TesffmonyH
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ministration security censors, refusing to What has puzzled Pentagon experts 13 The reason: Ford 'operatiive regard
make public highly damaging criticism by
Central Intelligence' Director William
Colby of Moscow's conduct under the 1972
strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT I),
has flabbergasted Pentagon arms experts.
Colby's testimony, given tb Sen. Henry
M. Jackson's Senate Arms Control Sub.
committee Feb. 11. raised grave questions
about the "good faith" of the Soviet Union
in following the spirt and the letter of the
1972 agreement Thus it came close to the
heart of the diszute raging here over
whether Mr_ :cow cheated on SALT I.
What's more, it provided ammunition for
Jackson, who has come close to charging
Moscow with outright violation of ti -1972
agreement..
Testifying In secret session, Colby
declared.: "I do nca =wink you could convict
them of a vioiau::c as of this moment (lest
February), hit (?u what they are doing
coris in doubt .heir good faith and their
attempt to reassure its as to their ecin-
pliance, certainly."
Colby's testimony is now Lein; pruned
by administration censors - for security
deletions, following -which it will be made
public (as former Secretary of Defense
James Scales ger's testimony or, the
same subject has just been made public).
The tentative deletion of Colby's aspersiei
on ?Moscow's "good faith" could only be
based on at policy consideration, *;Inca It
contatrs .rot:iir:g remotely touching the
n
militar~ Or intefl--ence security of the U.S.
That consideration, often enunciated by
administration :.ells control K't.1Ci.ni , i3
that both the L.J. and the Soviet Uriori
have a-freed to a', old Public discussion of
hell C:,i1E lions of crcnpliance tinder ter _r of
SA L'I' I.
that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Illinois as by far' their strongest state
himself voluntarily raised the whoia. among the early primaries. Former Gov.
compliance question for the first time in Richard Ogilvie, the Ford state chainnan,
his long press conference.at the State has rounded Lip every pr stigious Illinois-
Department last week. Republican (with the exception of Rep..
If Kissinger can talk publicly to the Philip Crane, the Reagan state chairman).
press about: Soviet compliance with SALT So= Howard H. (Bo) Callaway, the
I, Colby should have at least the came President a campaign manager, has beent
right, Defense officials feel. By virtue of pt irately putting out word that even if .:1r:
his role as the head of the Central Ford loses ln New Ham mshire Feb. 24 and
Intelligence Agency (CIA), Colby might Florida March 9, he will recoup with a
have more right. vengeance in A lirois .,larch lo.
The charges of Soviet cheating, made Actually, It Is unlikely that native
publicly by former Defense Secretary Illinoisan Reagan ever trailed Mr. Ford
Melvin I:.. Laird and other anti-.Soviet there by the 83 to 15 margin once predicted
hardliners, involve two basic allegations: by Callaway. But early polls showed a 2-to-
That Moscow has tested sophisticated 1 Ford edge. The 12-percentage-point lad
radar In a "made" specifically barred by to nx!'1's new poll, reflecting Ford voters
the treaty; and that the Soviet Union has ;;Died? over to undecided more than to
sub Utut?dl ilalge i?tercanli; e ;al mi sit s Itcag. , might not be able to stand up
Ford do-eats in earlier prim :ar ies.
(ICr'*s) for "Ism' +' irk
yt
violation of the treaty but in direct co.*1- .1,Ior.-over, the entire presidenti t lEn'Sir~
traventiar. of a tirilateral Amer'-2!# t Lira- ? Illinois tens from Substantial I ft
derstsiidsr. ?? ar, org young (18 to 25 years c'iclt nod al(t
Sind .1i 'c 1r/ 2r discused the i:u:t?3- (!''. ~r 5) vote ?s. I+ :x Si oil's tl`.e candidate
ab.tot even among Via great mass at voters
prranee question ? ius4eif last w ?l; th .
Only logical explanati!In for deleting i `c+.Vf"2 l 25 fiI;CI a. It'nt or.3l I! iali
Colby's warning i3 administration fear of Ii::cdCrlS3iter3 f'3 re has refused Cljmme
l wilding an aril. Soviet backlash In L MS or tt po!I, 1thich leaked 'v a I li: pis
country at just the time Presier;t r'ord !:elan;
and Kissinger ffek Se'-LT Ii agit meet, A footnote: Ggilvie la r :
are: r.wy
st V ,
possibly at the cost of new con-Sio-e!s to rejected a telepho ne;I offer 1ii!ii state
Moscow. - Rep. Don Totten, Re gun's Illtrois
A. secret poll of Illinois F.^publir:an-s
shows r'residant L'crll
x.-round to I;onaid ri+ea an h" s:ate in-
dilsp ns ri`e i.o rr roirr: ation-
A cu'lt'; iC r survey of C, ,,a Republi?_nm faked ti:-s w?c