U.S. TO CONFRONT SOVIETS WITH CHARGE OF TREATY VIOLATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504850058-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: January 3, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'Treaty Violation
Former senior U.S. officials
McGeorge Bundy, George F. Ken-
ran, Robert S. McNamara and Ge-
rard C. Smith cited the Siberian
radar construction in a Foreign Af-
fairs magazine article in November
as "one quite clear instance of
large-scale construction that does
not appear to be consistent with the
ABM treaty."
This statement took on particular
significance because the former of-
ficials otherwise were sharply crit-
ical of administration programs and
policies, especially President Rea-
gan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
A Soviet-affairs specialist outside
the government said that, although
the Soviets have not been respon-
sive, they might be willing to make
that published reports of administration attitudes make
him "pessimistic" that the United States will agree.
Raymond L. Garthoff, a former U.S. career diplomat
and a member of the SALT I negotiating team, said the
"key question" in the Shultz-Gromyko talks will be "the
relations between the offensive and defensive [in stra-
tegic-arms issues] and what the United States will do
on the defensive side."
"There is a possibility of getting the Soviets to agree
to some substantial limits and reductions on the offen-
sive side if we do agree to some restraints on the de-
fensive side," Garthoff said. He added that, if the United
States is not prepared to negotiate seriously on space-
based defense, the arms-control dialogue faces "a pos-
sible collapse" as early as next week.
Helmut Sonnenfeldt, State Department counselor un-
der Henry A. Kissinger, described the Geneva meeting
as "talks about talks" that at best could lead to addition-
al contact between Shultz and Gromyko.
He said he places major importance on whether the
Soviets are willing to discuss restrictions on their de-
fensive programs, including the disputed Siberian radar.
It is "conceivable," Sonnenfeldt said, that Gromyko
will come to Geneva with specific demands that the
United States agree to restrict antisatellite or antimis-
sile programs in space, which would make for "a pretty
rough meeting," although not necessarily its collapse.
and Don Oberdorfer
Washington Post Staff Writers
The Reagan administration plans
to confront Soviet negotiators in
Geneva next week with a charge
that a sophisticated radar installa-
tion being built in Siberia violates
the 1972 anti-ballistic missile trea-
ty, administration sources said yes-
terday.
Officials said the alleged Soviet
violation, heatedly contested by
Moscow, is to be raised in talks to
emphasize its severity and a U.S.
determination that the Soviets must
be more compliant with past ac-
cords before new agreements are
possible.
State and Defense Department
officials reportedly agree that Sec-
retary of State George P. Shultz
should raise the contentious issue
next week with Soviet Foreign Min-
ister Andrei A. Gromyko.
If the two are going to discuss
defensive and offensive arms lim-
itations, an official said, it is neces-
sary to talk about what has hap-
pened to existing defensive limits.
In 1983, U.S. intelligence re-
ported that a large phased-array ra-
dar was being constructed at Kras-
noyarsk deep in central Siberia.
When the issue was raised in dip-
lomatic channels, the Soviets said
that, when construction is com-
pleted in 1988 or 1989, it will be
clear that the radar is intended to
track space -vehicles, as permitted
under the 1972 ABM treaty.
The administration, though, has
taken the increasingly strong view
that the radar is in the wrong place
for such a function and that it is re-
lated to antimissile defense. The
ABM pact forbids erection of anti-
missile radars, except "along the
periphery" of each nation.
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Soviets With Charge
some accommodation on the radar "if it appears the
United States is serious about arms-control issues in
which they have an interest."
The Soviets, he noted, have been complaining in tit-
for-tat fashion about alleged U.S. violations of arms
agreements.
Officials said Shultz also may raise the issue of Soviet
encryption of telemetry, the encoding of radio signals
from missile tests in space. The unratified SALT II
strategic arms control treaty, which both sides have
I pledged not to undercut, restricts such encoding to
some degree. The administration argues that Soviet
encoding goes much further than is allowed.
In a related development, Brookings Institution ex-
perts described U.S. willingness to restrict defensive
weapons in space as essential to progress in arms-con-
trol negotiations and perhaps even to success in next
week's Shultz-Gromyko session.
John D. Steinbruner, Brookings' director of foreign-
policy studies, told reporters that "space must be dealt
with or there will not be any progress anywhere" be-
tween the two nuclear superpowers.
Steinbruner said he believes that it is "overwhelm-
ingly in the interest of both sides" to forge some re-
strictions on direct military applications in space but
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