SALT VIOLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200980075-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: July 15, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE A??Lp. D THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ON PAGE 15 JULY 1982
SALT violations
Mounting evidence suggests that the Soviet
Union has violated SALT I and SALT II. The
list of respected officials making this charge
includes: former Secretaries of Defense Melvin
Laird and James Schlesinger; Assistant Sec-
retary of State James Buckley; the former head
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Daniel Gra-
ham; and William van Cleave, a member of the
President's Committee on Arms Control.
These and other' critics allege more than 30
specific violations. David Sullivan, for seven
years a CIA analyst, describes many in a recent
book, The Bitter Fruit of LTt Others are
documented in a report from the Rand Corp.
One turned up, apparently by accident, in an
official Department of Defense publication enti-
tled Soviet Military Power.
According to these reports, the Soviets test
and deploy illegal ABM systems, with no
response from the US. govgrnment. Experts
say the Russians have 1,300 to 2,000 stockpiled
ICBMs, quantities that push them above the
SALT ceilings. The Kremlin is said to cover up
these and other actions by interfering with
U.S. verification procedures - a further vio-
lation of both treaties.
. Any of these actions, if authenticated, would
be important. Yet US. policy, for a number of
years, was to look the other way in the hope of
saving the arms negotiations. The Republican
platform of 1980 used the term "cover-up" to
describe the government's response to Soviet
duplicity. A number of officials who were asked
to downplay those violations in testimony before
Congress have said the same thing.
Still, the president has stuck with the policy
of the past, reluctant to point the finger at
SALT violations. President Reagan has gone so
far as to' pledge the US. will not "undercut"
existing arms agreements "provided the Soviet
Union shows equal restraint:'
The implicit suggestion is that there has, in
fact, been restraint. Yet there is evidence .to
the contrary. Rep. Jack Kemp, who was a Con-
gressional delegate to SAIL' II, says the Soviets
have violated both SALT I and SALT II. So do
Senators Gordon Humphrey, Henry Jackson,
and others in Congress who have seen and
evaluated the evidence.
A congressional investigation seems
warranted and may, in fact, be imminent. If
there is to be any hope for the administration's
START initiative, the Soviet leaders must know
that they are expected to comply with the treaty
they sign. A congressional inquiry would air
the evidence fully, yet protect Ronald Reagan
from reckless accusations that he is trying to
undermine arms control. It would help us arrive
at the truth in an area where the truth, how-
eveawful.must be faced.
STAT
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