C.I.A.'S NEW RADAR IN SIBERIA IS 'POTENTIALLY QUITE VULNERABLE'

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1986
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ARTICLE AP4oft.Air NEW YORK TIMES
ON RAGE /1 25 January 1986
C.I.A. Says New Radar in Sibert
Is 'Potentially Quite Vulnerab
STAT
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Special to The New York Times
The Defense Department has
stressed that the radar might be a
"long lead time element" in an even-
tual Soviet nationwide antiballistic
missile system. Such radars "consti-
tute the foundation for any system of
territorital defense," Richard N.
Perle, an Assistant Defense Secretary,
has said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 ? A senior
Central Intelligence Agency official
has told Congress that the Soviet radar
under construction north of Kras-
noyarsk is a "potentially quite vulner-
able" installation. As a result, the offi-
cial said, some intelligence analysts
believe the radar may have limited
suitability for any future Soviet anti-
ballistic missile defense.
The assessment was provided by
Robert M. Gates, the Deputy Director
of Intelligence, in a written response to
a question submitted to the agency
from Senator William Proxmire,
Democrat of Wisconsin.
Mr. Gates is also the chairman of the
National Intelligence Council, which
prepares the Government's classified
assessments of Soviet strategic force
developments.
The C.I.A. response represents the
most complete disclosure to date of
classified intelligence analyses on the
radar's vulnerabilities. The response is
contained in a recently published
record of a joint hearing of the Senate
Armed Services Committee and the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
U.S. Accuses Soviet
The Reagan Administration has
charged that the Soviet Union has vio-
lated an important provision of the
antiballistic missile treaty of 1972 by
building a large phased-array radar at
the small town of Abalakovo north of
Krasnoyarsk, a city in central Siberia.
The 1972 treaty stipulates that radars
of this type must be on the periphery of
a country and oriented outward. The
C.I.A. has affirmed the charge.
Many experts who are critical of the
Administration's arms control policies
agree that the radar is a violation of the
antiballistic missile treaty.
A separate debate has been carried
on within the Administration over the
possible military use of the radar. ?
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