U.S. REPORT SAID TO ACCUSE SOVIET ON ARMS TREATY

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• Publication Date: April 3, 1983
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I.S. Report Said to Accuse-Soviet on Arms Treaty
By HEDRICK SMITH
Speemi to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 2 - An inter.
agency task force is close to sending
President Reagan a report that finds
the Soviet Union guilty of violating the
1979 strategic arms limitation treaty
with recent missile tests, White House
officials said Friday.
Should the President and his National
Security Council endorse the findings,
officials said the interagency group had
prepared several American responses,
ranging from private diplomatic pro.
tests to the Soviet Union, having the
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?" and deployments but never formally ac- tion of an earlier missile rather than a
cased the Soviet Union of violating a second new missile. The President or-
strategic arms treaty. However, the dered a "very intensive technical as-
Reagan Administration has accused the sessment" of intelligence information
Soviet Union at the United Nations of on the test.
violating international bans against the officials said this effort had been hin-
use of chemical warfare in Afghani- dered by the heavy coding of Soviet te-
stan, Laos and Cambodia. I iemetry or electronic data from the
An official declaration that the missile tests, data monitored by Ameri-
United States no longer felt bound by can intelligence and checked to verity
the strategic arms treaty signed by Soviet compliance with the arms
President Carter and Leonid I. Brezh- mot'
nev, the Soviet leader, but never ap. The President told reporters in a
proved by the United States Senate, group interview on March 29 that his
would have an impact on current arms Administration had proposed negotiat.
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President resent the charges `a1
and_evi general, officials said.
dente pu licly, or even declaring that Both or the Feb. 8 missile test and
the Reagan Administration no longer other instances where Washington has
feels bound to observe the treaty. suspected the Soviet Union o f_~ssible
Some officials said President Reagan violations of several arms agreements,
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make ake a speech or issue astate- the United Stat
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as gone through dip-
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Purported Soviet treaty viola- lomatic channels to ask questions of
tions, making a missile test on Feb. 8 Moscow about its compliance. Officials
the centerpiece. But it would deal as said the Soviet Union had always an-
well with American suspicions that swered that it was complying with alt
Moscow has also violated treaties im-
tize arms treaties.
posing limits on underground nuclear
testing and possibly even the antiballis- The 1979 treaty, which-the- Reagan
tic missile treaty of 1972. Administration has said it will uphold
The President's ultimate action, the as long as Moscow does, permits each
Officials said, would depend on the final tinent side test and deploy one new interco*
outcome of two months of techaira' al ballistic missile . Last Novem
~Lnaivsi of intelligence data on the Feb.
bcvie: missile test and policy delibera-
t ons at the National Security Council.
Agree Violation Occurred
Officials said there was already a vir-
tual consensus among Defense Depart-
ment, Central Intelligence Agency,
State Department and White House offi-
cials that a violation occurred. Other of-
ficials said a final report and policy
recommendations were due to go to the
National Security Council soon.
In the past the United States has ques-
tioned Moscow through diplomatic
channels about some of its missile tests
tested a new missile and told the United
States this was the one permitted by the
treaty. But American officials contend
that on Feb. b another new kind of mis-
sile was tested.
Initialiv, some officials suggested
this might be a Permissible modifica-
stringer verification procedures for
the Threshold Test Ban Treaty of 1974
rand the Peaceful Nuclear Exchange
Treaty of 1976, but Moscow had rejected
this approach.
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