SOVIET SCIENTISTS CALLED 'STAR WARS' HYPOCRITES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302330082-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: May 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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pR'fIfLE PSEARED WASHINGTON TIMES
16 May 1985
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By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Richard Perle, assistant secre-
tary of defense for international
security policy, charged Soviet sci-
entists yesterday with "massive
hypocrisy" in criticizing U.S. space
defense research while leading
military development grams ranging from the Soviet's own
"star wars" ballistic missile defense
to the building of nuclear missile
submarines.
He also said American-Soviet sci-
entific cooperation should not be
renewed under the recent thaw in
bilateral relations until the Soviet
Union releases Nobel Laureate
Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
in the Soviet Union.
Mr. Perle, speaking on Capitol Hill
at a meeting sponsored by the
Andrei Sakharov Institute, said the
United States is "on the verge" of
re-establishing scientific exchanges
that were canceled in 1980 after
ev
Sakharov to a remote city where ne r- and nrticle_
reportedly is under virtual house ++sm?eanons research.
arrest. He said he opposed such an hpq effort. Mr. Perle said Soviet hypocrisy
Of the Soviet scientific communi- strategic ten i Soviet defense
negotiat has been i
ty's attitude toward the Strategic
Defense Initiative, Mr. Perle said positions during the Geneva arms
Soviet scientists published a letter in talks. iSince the the Soviet talks began earlier
called lled
the Soviet Communist Party news- th a halt to all et h has defense
paper Pravda shortly after Pres- research while continuing its own
ident Reagan's March 1983 speech ech of strategic defense.
on space defense. The letter, he said, Program the reason "deplored" the beginning of U.S. Sa"Oneooof was x lonsinhy GorkyAndrei
research on strategic defense. because he would not join in that
The U.S. intelligence community hypocrisy;' Mr. Perle said.
was as e o i en t y He criticized the Soviet Union for
Mr. er n sal
"Among the most prominant sign- violating previous arms control
ers of that letter was the man in agreements and specifically men-
charge of the Soviet strategic tioned the Soviet radar located in
defense program, the man who central Siberia. The radar has been
designed the anti-ballistic missile challenged as a phased-array system
system around Moscow, the designer that could only be used for anti-
viola-
of the Typhoon-class Soviet ballistic ballistic the missile i9def Anti Ballistic
missile submarine, the designer of tion
the third-generation Soviet intercon- Missile treaty.
eni Velikov as the ?cemrai u
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