SENATE WANTS HIM TO BARE KREMLIN'S SALT VIOLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301900028-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000301900028-2
NEW YORK POST
ARTICLE APPEARED ~ 26 September 1983
Senate wants him to'
bare'f(~e-~lin's S~9LT
viola~-tions
THB 93-0 Senate vote de?
mending that the Admin-
istration report on Soviet
SALT violations given.
President Reagan what
he really wants but his
diplomatic and political
advisers don't: a rationale
for concisely stated, prow=
able charges of nuclear
cheating by the Kremlin
Reagan has dropped
hints for months that the
time has come to call the
Soviets to account. Writ-
ing on Sept. 12 .to a clone
friend who had com?
platned about mild U.S.
retaliation against the
Soviet Unlon'a ahootdown
of the Koreas airliner,
Reagan acid:
"We have some screws
that can be tightened and
1 have screwdriver in
hand...
There la little doubt that
the President way allud-
ing to Soviet SALT cheat-
ing. But each time he was
ready to go public, advis-
ers intruded.
His diplomatic advieeta
feared that would ruin
U.S.-Soviet arms control
talks, and his political ad?
viaera worried about re-
storing Reagan's Attila
the Hun Image.
The Sept. 22 Senate vote
changes all that, because
a unanimous roll-call
vote is hard to Ignore.
Whatever the State Dcpt.
and White House West
W-ng think, Reagan la
where he wants to be:
under Senate command
to report the disturbing.
pattern of Soviet ?heat?_
in?.
Moreover, even Slate - t
Dept. detenttats are fret- '
ling under escalating ev1?
dense of Soviet cheating. '
"They've ,bunted the ~
13ALT_ agreements,",atop
Foggy Bottom policy-
maker_blurted out to ua. _ ~
In their first effort to
use the air tragedy to get
an Administration ac?
counting of , alleged
$ovlet violations, conser-
vative GOP Sens. James
McClure and Jesse
Helms tried to tack their
amendment to the con-
greeaional resolution
condemning the Soviet
Union for the Korean
airline disaster.
That felled. 45-if0, be? ;
cause of a bipartisan deal
-. orchestrated by the
White House - to accept
. no amendmenta~
But to tailing, the vote
revealed to surprised Re-
publicena alarge rexr?
voir of aupporl from
liberal Democrats.
That led to the second
effort Leaf Thursday,
when the amendment
was tackod onto the State
Dept. authorisation biq.
Son George M-tcheli of
Maine, a widely re?
spatted bearer of liberal
Democratic colors, told
i us:
"This is a matter of
such seriousness that It
has gone tar beyond
slogans."
Support from ~ such
unaccustomed sources on
a aensltive arms control
quoatfon leaves Ronald
Reagan in a position of
DA(- Y~+,~
unique strength t0 over- ~
come nay-sayers in ? hib
own Administration. than 160 kilotons.
He also has the evl? Even though the SALT
dance, thanks ?to the top- trestles are ao notori-
level verification panel oualy ambiguous and po-
aet up last April. The roue that absolute proof is
panel's chairman, -Ida- hard to obtain, the Senate -
tionel security Council means business In de-,
director Wllltem P. Clark mending an accounting;
ordered an Immediate of every piece of non-'
study by NSC staffers compliance evidence
. documenting Soviet ~on? available to U.S. tntelli-
compilance. - genes. The House will un- ~=
That nudy, which has ~ doubtedly concur.
been completed on cur - That Puts the President ~!
rent Intelligence data, de- in an enviable position. ~
tails a long and sorry considering his basic in-
atory: suspected Soviet stfncta. Under congrea-
teating of two "new type" clonal mandate to pro- ;
ICBM missiles, despite s duce, it will be easy tor'.
SALT 'II ban on more him to play the real R?on-
than one; deployment of aid Reagan and send the
what U.ti. intelligence ot- violations report to Cap1-
ficials call s: "battle-Xnaa? tot HIIL
-agement" radar in the Un- . That may cause sulking
terfor part of Sibecl4.~- oh hie White House aRalf
sating the Mtl-Ballistic and in tap drawers bf the
Missile Treaty, consistent . national security bu?
violations of the treaty reaucracy, but it's what
ban on underground teat- the President always has
ing of weapons with an wanted. He now has hie
explosive torte o[ more screwdriver in hand.
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000301900028-2