U.S. AND PEKING JOIN IN TRACKING MISSILES IN SOVIET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100050043-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: June 18, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEV YORK TIMES
18 JUNE 1981
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Station _ n China Replaces
krnran Pds Last in
_ WASHINGTON; June 17-'-
The United
By I'HIL:IP TAUB1riAN
In Peking yesterday, at the conclusion
at talks with Chinese leaders, Secretary
of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.: an-
-.noticed that the United States had de-
cided in prlnciple,to sell arms.to China.
The United States had previously ? sold
China bnlynonlethal military equipment.'
Operation of the facility, which was not
electronic intelligence-gathering station,I are a ready seriously troubled by - the
in China to monitor Soviet missile tests, ` g relationship between Ashi let
ton- :and Peking. They said the . Soviet
accordiagtoseniorAmericanofficials Union may already know about the fa-
Thefacility was opened last year hi a l cility but had not felt it necessary to re-
remote, mountainous region of the 7Cin spoad because its
Prey-rice was not a pub.
Jiang UighurAutonomous legion in west-=~ lic embarrassment to them..
ern China,`near the Soviet border. ?Tti- Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Am
key Soviet missile-testing bases are at `~ bassador, in a meeting with American of-
Leninsk, near the Aral Sea, and at S.ary-: ficials at the State
Deparitner~t: today.
S:tagan,near Lake Balkhash. condemned United States plans to lift re-
The establishment of the listening post strictions on the sale of arms to China.
involved a far deeper level of military. Disclosure of the monitoring post, offi-
cooperation between Washington and Pe- vials here said, could also tmsettle inter-
king than either Government had -pub-! nai affairs in China, where moderate
Iicly acsnowledged: r r? - V lea may be vulnerable to charges
CFrflit;,,.xtrr:?o..7].ytl-fit- -ts_ TT... ~cymade secret deals with the
Intelligence collected by the station is
shared by the United States and C
off hina,,
icials said'-.The.fscility is furnished,
with Ameri
canequipctent and is manned)
by Chinese. technicfans. Advisers from
the Central Intelligence Agency, periodi-
American. officials sought to keen the
existence or the station secret, fearing
that' disclosure could- adversely? affect
relations between .the Soviet Union and
the United States, Sand heighten tensions
-between the Soviet Union and China. In
;recent days, however, information about
openly here.
Statue and China are aov ]eaaers, Am erican officials said,
jointly operating an r _ 1. _
Surveys for Two Sites Made , ` .
According to information pieced to-
gether from officials in the last eight
months, the idea to set up listening posts
in China was first proposed to the Peking
Government in 1978, before the establish-
Meat of diplomatic relations. Initially,
the Chinese were reluctant to agree, ap-
parently concerned about cooperatin
to
g
o
nations into a-, sensitive, secret military I closely with the United Stales.:
of
relationship the Carter Adm. The idea S pressed again after the
during overthrow
of Shah Mohammed. Riza
tration. r } Pahlevi in January 19". This time, offi-
? Officials said .the post'-has ! fi`e d a cials said, the Chinese agreed, provided
-critical vacuum created when frriilar the facilities were manned by Chinese
stations in Iran were abandonedf uring"I technicians and built and operated in se-
the-Iranian revolution two years ago : cret ~'.
They described .the facility as one of ! Surveys for two facilities were made.
Washington's most,sensitive and tnpor : The Chinese eventually agreed to permit
tans intelligence operations. - t iY !j?fflY one, Officials saidTh site in i
Chizia
deal, officialss sated, becauseI it allows
:
monitoring of Soviet missile tests from
launch through flight owrr Siberia to dis-
persion of warheads. It does not permit
monitoring of the final stages of flight, in-
cluding the re-entry of the warheads.
The monitoring of missile tests is criti-
cal to- the verification of Soviet compli
ance with key provisions of strategic
arms agreements. It permits the United
States, for example, to detect wheL':er
new missiles are being developed. -
The performance characteristics of
missiles are detected in a number of
radar and mononitoring data mtransmitted
by radio si gnals.
Typically. the-United Staten would b
e
cu
T o ". `ry~
vehicles that ~~
carry the warheads. Araly-
nI 41 .. t-t~_.__.?_
the missile is anew or old model or a vari-
ant.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28`: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100050043-9