NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREEZE COULD BE VERIFIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200980085-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: April 11, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
11 April 1982
::Nuclear Weapons Freeze
ASHINGTON--The-' drariiatic': 'decision last. i
y v wer c oy lour tormer top u.S: officials to break
. -publiciy.with the Reagarl;Administrations de-'
_elazed,wjllingness to be the first to usenuclear weapons
In the event .9f g eonveentianal. war in Europe is perhaps'
:the ifiost significant . sign' yet of" the seriousness' of the'
f Xiucleai debate now sweeping Europe and -America: ?
issenting: from .the' Administration's- policy-most
recently articulated.by Secretary of State Alexander M.
;Haig;Jr.=were Rober4 S. McNamara, secretary of de
fence in the Kennedy and Johnson admInistratIons Mc-`
. George Bundy; natior}al security adviser in the Kennedy,
dmtnistration; George F. Kennarl;.former ambassador:
tb the Soviet'Union, and Gerard C..$mith, chairman of
ythiq Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the
Nncon Adniinistration:~z: rt