SOVIET IS USING TRUCKS U.S. TECHNOLOGY BUILT IN AFGHAN OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100060064-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 4, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/24: CIA-RDP91-00561R000100060064-5
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Re"..C.TE THE NEW YORK TIMES
4 January 1980
Soviet's Usini Trucks
U.S. TechnologY Built ;
In Afghan Operations',
By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH
\
Spada to The New York Tirrtes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 ? TrucksI
produced at the huge plant on the Kama!
River in central Russia that was built
largely with American technology have
been identified with Soviet military
forces in.Afghanistan, according to a con- i
fidential Commerce Department memo-
randum. . ,
The document, dated Dec. ? 31 and I
signed by Homer E. Moyer Jr:, a legal'
officer who on that day was the Acting'
Secretary, adds another element to a
heated controversy in the Administration
over policy on controls on the export of
goods and technology to the Soviet Union.
The agreement under which the United
States provided assistance to the project
contained no restriction on the use of the
vehicles. According to the Russians the
plant produces only heavy tractor-trailer
rigs, but there have been -reports thatl
smaller trucks with possible military ap-
plications are built there. -
The *memo, which went to a Cabinet-i
level interagency panel, the Export Ad-1
ministration Review Board, says the in-
formation was obtained by the Central In-
Those
telligence 1.km___Y.Ic ._._ Those receiving
copie--Fr?,,,ere the Secretaries of State, De-
fense and the Treasury and the. head of,
the National Security Council.
Two Licenses at Issue -
?
The immediate issue before the reviewi
board is whether to revoke two licenses
for computer --.pare parts for the truck? l
plant, which is on a tributary of the Volgai
-550 miles east of Moscow. What is the,
world's largest heavy-duty automotive
works rose with Western European and
American technology and equipment dur-
ing. the mid-1970's, a period of d?nte.
American 'participation was. valued at
inore than WO million- : :_,..,..-._...-,.. - ;- ? I
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/24: CIA-RDP91-00561R000100060064-5