ADMINISTRATION MUTE ON SOVIET SALT VIOLATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: June 20, 1981
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The 1980 Republican party platform I By.. massive deliberate- camouflage, unto themselves the right to commit
deplores what are called "the attempts concealment.. and deception regarding any crimes, to lie, to cheat, in order to
of the Carter Administration to cover such things- as encoding missile signals, attain a one-world Socialist or Com-
up Soviet non-compliance with arms ICBM testing and submarine produc- munist state."
control agreements" and pledges to end
this. sweeping under the rug of Soviet
violations of SALT and SALT II.
In his first news conference as
President-elect, Ronald Reagan
declared: "I ran on the platform. The
people voted for-me on the platform; I
do believe in that platform, and I think
it would be very cynical and callous of
me now to turn away from it."
But, alas,.to date it appears that
the Reagan Administration is
covering up the Carter cover-up on
Soviet SALT and SALT 11-viola-
tions.
On May-6, at the regular State-
Department daily briefing, I asked: "In
the opirion of the Reagan .-Admini-
stration,. have the Soviets. violated either
the letter-or. the spirit of. the SALT I
. and SALT- It treaties?'",On. May 19,
the. following. written- response was.
given: "A-comprehensive, inter-agency
review.of this question in:under way.
We are examining a number of compli-
ance concerns. but no final judgments
have been reached."
Well n,,)w:= Why haven't any 'final
judgments been reached? According to
reliable sources. the Soviets have clear-
ly.violated both SALT I and SALT: Il..
Here's how:"
By testing surface-to-air missiles in.
an anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
mode,--,.By-,deploying 'ABM .battle' manage-
ment radars;
By camouflaging ABMs; . .
By- falsifying information-=on:?the
deactivation of
By creating a new AMB test range-1
without prior notification;
By developing a rapidly-deployable
mobile ABM;-- ..
By deploying the SS=19 'inter-
continental ballistic missile (ICBM);
By failing-to deactivate old ICBMs
on time, and falsifying official reports;
By keeping 18 SS-19 _. ICBMs at
Tyuratam illegally operational'.'
trop; and Indeed. And in the area of arms con-
By keeping over 1,300 old ICBMs trot, agreements the Soviets have done
stockpiled. all those things. If President Reagan is
In February, 'Newsweek magazine sincere about sticking to the 1980 GOP
'".reported: -"The Soviets are frustrating platform's promises, he will order the
U.S. surveillance efforts by coding the State Department to immediately end
data that their new submarine- its cover-up of Soviet violations. of
launched Typhoon missile sends back SALT I; SALT 11 and a variety of
to earth during test shots. The cod-, other pacts we've signed with them.
ing-or-'encryption' could. prevent The evidence is. there by the ton. it has
the United States from determing only to be released.
'
1 e.carnes more
whether the new mrssr
decoys per-
warheads
and
than
the 14
II
mitted by the SALT
agreement..
re has been no
American experts say the
treaty ? violation yet because early
Typhoon tests have misfired soon after
launch. If the same pattern of encryp-
tion is used in longer flights, however,
violate
it would
SALT II,
which
bans
coding that might prevent verifi-
cation."
Also, earlier this year the highly
authoritative Aviation Week and Space
Technology
magazine reported that
.
Pr,"t'sident Reagan might seek a special
session of a U.S.-Soviet commission to
discuss at least 30 Soviet violations of
SALT I. But in early May, the Wash-
ington Star carried a story-saying that
"a group
of officials. representing
.
government agencies involved in SALT
questions moved away from a finding
that the Soviet Union has.violated the
1972 SALT' I agreement."'
:,t And in late April, one of the staunch-
est Reaganites? at. e- State part-
ment,. David Sullivan; was fired from
rs post as counselor at the Arms 1-
trot and Disarmament A enc .
Su hmn, who is one of. the leading
authorities in the country, is a former
CIA analyst and an expert on - Soviet
SALT violations.He has written
several articles and a book on the sub-
JecL
In January, President Reagan said
that when dealing with the Soviets it
should be remembered that "the only
morality they recognize is what will fur-
ther: their cause, meaning. they reserve
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