SOVIET ENTRY CURBS URGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000504840005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 20, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Soviet Entry
Curbs Urged
Weinberger Seeks
To Thwart Spying
By Michael Weisskopf
and John Mintz
Washington Peet Staff Writers
WASHINGTON POST
20 September 1985
they have managed to obtain and
copy. One intelligence source e-
scribed the findings as a -windfall
alerting the United States and its
a ies where to focus their coup er-
intellience efforts.
much of the in ormation in the
report came from rare viet e-
ense industry documents passed to
Me French a Usti agent who has
since disappeared in the Soviet
Union and is presumed dead, ac-
cording to an inteintelligence source.
Other significant data was ob-
tained from the former deputy i
rector of the Romanian intelligence
service, Ion Mihai Facepa, who de-
fected to the United States in 19714,
and from FBI investigations of two
Americans convicted in recent
years of selling defense con-
tractor secrets to Poland, the
source said.
The report discloses the intricate
workings of the Soviets' Military
Industrial Commission, which di-
rects thousands of Soviet and East
European agents who hunt for mil=
itary secrets by hiring Western
smugglers and targeting U.S. uni-
versities, defense contractors, gov-
ernment agencies and scientific
conferences.
An elite cadre of 300 "Line X"
a ents directed by the commission
and military intelligence of-
ficers operates abroad under t Fe
cover of science and commercial
branches of Soviet embassies,
viet trade missions and suc organ-
izations as the Soviet airline, Aero-
flot, t Fe report said.
Weinberger, alleging that the
large number of Soviet represent-
atives in the United States "widens
the availability and possibility" of
technology leaks, suggested that
they be limited to the number of
Americans living in the Soviet
Union.
"We have to bear in mind, and it's
only prudent to do so, that the So-
viets don't send people to countries
like the United States unless they
are fully equipped, fully trained and
they're part of the KGB," he said?
"We have to understand how dam-
age can be done by the gathering of
this material set forth in that re-
port."
Weinberger did not say if he
would achieve the reductions by
attrition or expulsion.
According to the State Depart-
ment, 980,Soviets live in, the United
States, including embassy and con-
sulate officials, journalists and. U.N.
and commercial representatives.
There are 276 U.S. Embassy offi-
cials, journalists and businessmen in
the Soviet Union.
The report said the Soviet tech-
nology-gathering apparatus increas-
ingly relies on East European
agents, who arouse less suspicion
among Americans, to tap U.S. gov-
ernment agencies and universities
for unclassified documents.
Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger called yesterday for
"reductions" in the number of So-
viet representatives permitted to
live in the United States, asserting
that Moscow sends only people who
are trained to hunt for U.S. military
secrets.
Weinberger told a news confer-
ence that suc reductions wou d-Bi
one way of blunting the carefully
orchestrated Soviet campaign to
acquire Western tec no o that
was ivu in an intelligence re-
port Wednesday.
U.S. intelligence experts, mean-
while, said that the report's unusu-
alIX detailed findings represent a
major breakthrough for the Wes tin
understanding the type o technol-
ogy that the Soviets most nee ,
their methods for acquiring it and
the advanced estern equipmen
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