INMAN REPEATS WARNING ON U.S. TECHNOLOGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100140053-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: March 30, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Philip J. Hilts -
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Adm. Bobby-Ray Leman. deputy
CiA director, acknowledged yester-
day that scientific papers are only a
"eery small part of the problem" of
the "hemorrhage of this- country's
technology" to the So~.ets.
But at the same time, in speaking
to two House subcommittees or. sci-
ence and technology, he again
warned that there is a "massive So-
viet effort" to acquire U.S. technol-
ogy, and if scientists do not volun-
tarily censor some of their papers on
sensitive technology, "1 think in six
months, a year, or 18 months,-as the
government begins to see the ? full
magnitude of what the Soviet-Union
gets from the West," there may be a
decision to impose restrictions.
At a January meeting here of sci-
entists, Inman warned that if they
did not voluntarily let the govern-
ment review some of-their .serisitive
papers,- tough restrictions might 'r
suit.. .
Yesterday;.-' Inman said he' _re
gretted using the phrase "tidal wave1
of public outrage,"but added that!
.then and now 'he was- trying tol
"goad" scientists into: acting ' before'
the government- does.
Also testifying for the administra-,
tion yesterday was Lawrence:-J.;
Brady, assistant secretary, of. com-l
merce, whose remarks , were. re-
strained compared with what he`said
later at a luncheon with the Associ-
ation of Former Intelligence Officers.
There, Brady said the Reagan ad-1
ministration has "aggressively I
stepped up our enforcement efforts"
under the export, administration act
in the past year. He cited criminal
prosecutions in two California cases -
One case involved a shipment of
copper water-cooled mirrors used in
high-power lasers- The shipment to
the Soviet,,Union was made, through
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an intermediary in Nest':Gerrriany.~
ompany's .president;
The California company's'
drew a 10-year prison sentence, alll
but six months of it suspended.
Brady? the Soviet ' KGB, has,
built an industrial-espionage:,,, net-I
work of frightening proportions', one!
that he said has "blanketed the" de-
veloped capitalist countries ...
sucking up formulas, patents, blue-
prints and know-how with frighten-,
ing precision."
He said the administration is still
trying to. develop a critical-technol-
ogies list that it hopes to make "the
kingpin of the whole system" of pre-
venting seepage of sensitive data and
equipment. But at least a few in the
audience of some 450 seemed cha-
p pined by Brady's suggestion that
the role of the multinational firms in
the transfer process is "going to be a
public- policy issue in the next :de-
"How long can we wait?"-one
questioner 'demanded. --This , hasl
been going on since 19.56.'.
? At the House hearing, Inman said'
that he believes that 70 percent of,
the problem 'of the "outflow of tech-
nology" comes from Soviet espionage
'activities, activities, and that only a small per-1
-cent-age of the=other-30 percent cant
be attributed to the failure of scien-'
tists to keep sensitive work secret.
. But he said he expects the Soviets
to concentrate on the other. 30 per-
cent much more in the future as the
administration succeeds' iri ' halting
more of the Soviet espionage.
Rep. Albert ' Gore' Jr. (D-Tenn.)
'questioned Inman's arguments and
said the United States should "not
take even* the 'first step down that
road [of a closed society] that makes
'Soviet research so pitiful."
Robert Rosenzweig, a vice pres-
ident of Stanford University, said
the premise of the administration-
that. there is a. threat to national se-
_ l kh iv to "Pond', wimliata to 2.4
curity ' from ' open ' scientific-,
ex
change-"is wrong. We should reject;
it .. - . It has always seemed risky to
run an open society;.perhaps 'hat. is l
why there are so few of them.'
In a related development. oificipLls
at Commerce said yesterday they.are
investigating conflicting accounts of
a shipment of S960,000 in water-pu-
rification equipment to Libya that
the Customs Service- seized in
Brooklyn on Friday. '
Customs spokesman Louis Gerig
sad his agency determined that the .
shipment had not-reached the- Wa- I
tertown, Mass., loading docks' of the I
exporting firm. Ionics Inc.,' until
after 'the administration's embargo
on high-technology exports. to Libya
took effect `larch 12. A Cornrhetce
spokesman said "we were given - as-
suraiices by the firm that the- stuff
had gone to the docks on March 11.'
Staff writer George Lardner?-Jr.
contributed to this report. 1