JOINT RESOLUTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89G00643R001100200043-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 43
• Content Type: REGULATION

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16T ~ESSIO'~
. J. RES. 120
To Void certain a~reement~ reiatin~ to the cite of tiie ~o~-iet t-nio;;'~ Eniht~~~~~ in
the District of Co;an;b~a.
E~ THE 5E'~_~TE OF THE t-'~ITEI~ ~T_-ATE
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~41r. B~-hrM~ (for himseli and Mr. BFRL) introduced the foL'o~rin~ joint resolution:
~~hich ~?a~ read tv~-ice and referred to the (_ ommittee on Forei~r, Relation
JOINT RESOLUTION
To ~?oid certain agreements relating to the site of the ~o~?iet
L'~nion's Embassy- in the District of Columbia.
1 RFSOIz,ed by the Senate anal House of KE~~rresc'~;tatiz~Fs
2 of the United States o{ America in Conc;E~s:~ a-cs~~~zi,lE-d,
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Embass- agreements ana certail: rec'ri .izc' ?~~,-r.
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1 a large part of the new American Embassy in Moscow,
2 the construction of which has cost American taxpayers
3 tens of millions of dollars;
4 (3} it is well known that Soviet espionage agents
5 intend to use the new So~~iet Embassy in this country
6 as a platform to conduct highly sophisticated electronic
7 surveillance of the United States Government offices
8 and even private telephone calls of American citizens;
9 (4) the purpose of this surveillance can be none
10 other than to undermine the national security of the
11 United States and further the expansionist ambitions of
I2 the Soviet Union;
13 (5) the location of the new Soviet Embassy at a
14 site nearly three hundred and fifty feet above sea level
15 is ideal for this type of surveillance, having been of-
16 fered to the Soviets at a time when electronic surveil-
17 lance techniques and potentials were not fully under-
18 stood in the VOest.
18 (6) subsection (b) of section 4304 of title 22,
20 United States Code, specifically allows the Secretary
21 of State to "require any foreign mission to divest itself
22 of . .real property .where otherwise necessary
23 to protect the interests of the United States"; and
24 (7} Congress, through enactment of such subsec-
25 tion, has clearly expressed the desire that the Seere-
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1 tarti exercise such authority ~?hen necessary- to protect
2 the ~-it.al securit~? interests of the United Mates.
3 (1}1 '.~E~'~- AGREE'~SE'~T ~~ ITI-3 ~tt~"IE'T L tiI:}':,--TtIE'
4 President shall-
5 (1) void the current Embassy agreements: and
~ C2) enter into ntg~~tiatior.s fora ne?~ agrecrr_er,t
~ under u"hich the Sn~"iei L r~ion z~-il; more it= r,e? Em-
~ bassy to a site in the Dis;r,ct of Columbia than is not
9 more than ninety feet above mean sea leyei.
10 (cl E'~iBASST AGREE?~SE'~T~.-For the purpose of this
11 secti~~n the term ``Elr~bassy a~~eements" ir:eans-
1~ fl- the "~~reelr~ent bet~~~een the United ~t~.te~ o
I3 America and the L~~nion of ~o~-iet ~ociaiist Republics
14 on Reciprocal Allocation {~or L: se Free of C~'harge of
15 Plots of Land in R1oscov~- and ~'~ ashin~ton". ertrred
16 into force on Ma~? 16. 1~~6~+: a~~d
1 ~ (`~} the "A~reement b:~t~~een the tnltcd `~;~ite~ of
1.~ America a.nd the t nion o` So~-iet `ocialist KNt,;:~~1~:_~
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