SDI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R002004470072-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: August 7, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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Reagan pledges
to deploy SDI,
not trade it away
By Mary Belcher and Warren Strobel
THE MMSHIN0TON TIMES
President Reagan yesterday promised to
deploy the Strategic Defense Initiative once
research and testing are complete, denying
reports he would bargain away the proposed
missile defense in arms talks with the So-
viets.
The president's announcement followed a
meeting with 17 Republican lawmakers, sev-
eral of whom said they still believe the White
House is going too slow on the missile de-
fense program.
The meeting "was basically a failure,"
said Sen. Malcom Wallop, Wyoming Repub-
lican, who has been one of SDI's most ardent
supporters.
"I still think there's a real weakness in the
administration's understanding of the con
sequences of their actions;' said Rep. Jim
Courter, New Jersey Republican.
Messrs. Courter and Wallop both com-
plained that the White House staff had
"blurred" the conservative message they
sought to bring to Mr. Reagan by inviting to
yesterday's meeting congressmen who are
less ardent supporters of the SDI program.
Initially, eight lawmakers considered
staunch supporters of SDI requested the
meeting and were to have attended. But the
guest list was subsequently expanded at the
last minute to include a number of others.
"We thought that this would be a meeting
of those who asked for a meeting;' Mr.
Courter said. "I felt that the meeting did not
have the clarity and the focus because the
people in the administration didn't want it
to.,.
Mr. Wallop said: "They succeeded in pour-
ing enough water on it that they couldn't
taste the vinegar.... They [the additional
legislators) were sort of to leaven us and they
succeded"
Mr. Reagan's offer to postpone deploy-
ment of SDI, popularly known as "star
wars;' for 71/I years is part of a larger pro-
posal in a June 25 letter to Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev calling for a 50 percent
reduction in U.S. and Soviet offensive nu-
clear weapons.
see REAGAN, page 10A
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