LETTER TO VADM BOBBY R. INMAN FROM TOM

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1982
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TOM JOHNSON
PUBLISHER
AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
12131 972-5000
VAIDM Bobby R. Inman
',Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Bobby:
On behalf of Katharine Graham and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, I want to ex-
press my appreciation to you for your excellent
presentation at our 96th Annual Convention in
San Francisco.
Your time, effort and preparation made a very
solid contribution to the success of our program,
and I am grateful.
April 30, 1982
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ON PAG.Z 30 April 1982
CONGRESS PLANS tighter scrutiny of I
the CIA with Adm. Inman departing.
The retirement of the agency's respected
No. 2 -man raises concern about its doings.
Lawmakers generally distrust CIA Director
Casey. They complain he doesn't tell them
what the agency is up to, particularly in the
area of. covert action. With Inman on the
job, Congress could "sleep at night," one
aide says-Now legislators will want to. know
.more.aboutany,"dirty
But- there,'sf, a,Catch-22,',';ki warns a con-
gressional; staffer. sLawmakers expect a
harder time getting information now that In-
man?, their- best source, is, leaving. , They,
doubt that his replacement, John McMahon-,.'
can- challenge Casey on issues or: exercise.
control, over ,the agency. A: possible result:.;
'Casey may get deeper into daily CIA opera-'
tions that Inman has handled.
The U.S. may take-a stiffer stand on -
verification of arms-control treaties. In-
man showed faith in monitoring by sat-
ellite, but other officials think an-site in-
spection is fi must.
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ON PA GE ? "57Z.
NEW YORK TIMES
30 APRIL 1982
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BST Daniel S. Greenberg '
WASHINGTON ? The Reagan Ad-.
Ministration's efforts to Screen un-
classified research from prying for-
elwi apiversaries mie:it usefully be ex-
amined-. by keeping in mind Robert.
Fx..xscs? passage: "Before I built a
wall-I'd'ask to know/ What I was wall-.
ing in privallingcUt...." 1. . ' e. e; ?
Looked 'at that- way, recent' overt
curbs' ..t:by Eastern bloc ree
searcheri and subtle curbs on visits by
Japanese reSearchers, plus demands
for restraints On Publication of "sensi-
tive" scientific papers, 'reflect delu-
sions Of sei en ti nc omnipotence that are
inconsistent with America's actual
position in the world of research.
Weep not for the American scien-
tific eiaterprise, for it is strong in aU
' portant disciplines, and the leader.
in :Many. However, to an extent that
the curtaireel seers ignore, science has
loomed elsewhere, notably in West..
em Europe and Japan, but not insig-
nificantlsr in the Soviet bloc. The re- ,
sult is that we have a lot of company ,
on scientific frontiers that we clonal-
nateiltnr many years. That company,
even if politically friendly, is not in-
dined to collaborate with the Adriiin- '
istration's Myopic scheme for draw- ,
bagits scientific wagons into a Circle.
While the Reag-anites proceed from
an';'. assuniption that we've got the ?
scientifiegoods and thus can choose
whether-to share them, the fact is that 1
the United States accounts for a sure ,
prisinglY.: smelt' propoon ? of - the ' 1
. world's-scientific 'output in the disci- .1
plines at the heart of military andin-
dustrial power. That share has stead- .
ily declined as other countries have
? ei?Panded theirscientifie nroserainss ? ? -
ate.. iblieution of scientifiC papers is a
indicator of scientific prowess. In
physics, our share of papers has de..
dined in recent years to about ao per
cent of the world's total, the Nationam
Science Foundation reports. In che-
istry, we're down to about 20 percent;
in mathematics, SO percent
:Thoogh research papers vary widely
in- 'scientific significance, papers
produced abroad are satisfying a stiff
?
Standard: In increasing . numbers,
they're winning competition for scarce
space. in tightly screened American
scientific journals. For example, for-
. eign paper.; on physics in these journalsincreased from 4,1(X)to 6,000 between
1973 and 1979 (the last year for which
data are available). In that period,
American articles in foreign physics
journals declined slightly.
,With scattershot edicts, various Gov-
ernment agencies have .sought to bar
foreigners from otherwise open waiver-
sity-laboratories, apparently unaware'
that sizeable fields of academic science
would ? intellectually and financially
. _ _
wither without foreign students and
1-teachers. For example, with Ameri? -
cans lured by high industrial salaries,
more than half the Ph.D. candidates in
our engineering schools are foreigners,
as are nearly half the postdoctoral to.
searchers in physical sciences. Both
? groups are major sources of teachers
; and researchers in academe.
, It is legally possible to drape a se-
? minty veil over campus laboratories,
screen out foreign staff, and restrict,:
publication of so-called sensitive re-
? search. But such security tactics, even
if selectively applied, as Adm. Bobby
, R. Inman, the soon-retiring Deputy Di-
rector of Centralantelligence, recom-
-
mends, are so inimical to the healthy
functioning of research that some hi'
the Defense Department's senior
scientists are worried about hard-line
zealots' running free. Thus, a Defense
, Science Board study group, while ac-
.1
kcersviedging a data "outflow" prob-
lem, has warned that if the Pentagon
"vigarteisly attempts to regulate the
flow of scientific information in the
scientific community, it could jeopani-
?' ize the strength and vitality of the very
community it is seeking to revitalize.
for the sake of national security."
The Administration seems to find
? comfort in outdated conceptions of
Soviet scientific backwardness. In
n 'many fields, the Russians ineeed lag
behind the West ?to a large extent be-
cause of the obsessional secrecy thatI
-
hobbles Soviet scientists, despite Iav-:
1 ish budgets and strong poli tiral sup-I
port. But, as Frank Press, president of;
the National Academy of Sciences, bas!
pointed out, in other fields for exam-
ple, electrometalturgy. nuclear fusion,1
physics, and mathematics-- th Soviet,
Union has achieved "world class"!
status. Nevertheless, 'America has!
nearly abandoned its best means fori
looking inside Soviet science: me tree'
;fie back and forth, now virtually ended,.
. of Soviet and Arneric:an exchange-pro-1
?
gram scientists. ' - ?
Prof. Roald Hoffmann of Cornell
University, a Nobel laureate who has
.. lectured on chemistry in the Soviet;
Union, argues that "on simple -;eleire!
teresl grounds... it is essential for the!
' security of our country that we have 1
. people with firsthand knowledge of the I
. workings of the Soviet system."
But high on foolish notions of where
we stand in the scientific world, our
protectionists go on with their wall-
building.
. -
coeptei eine easel 5.0-6Triberg
Daniel S. Greenberg is editor ar d pub-
lisher of Science & Government Re-
port, a newsletter. _
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ON PAPE /
Stealth Secrets
Sold to Poles,
CIA Confirms
By ROBERT C. TOTH,
. ? Times Staff Writer. ,
?' WASHINGTON?A Central In-
? telligence 'Agency report to Con-
gress confirms that "ever 20 highly
classified reports on advanced -fu-
ture U.S. weapon systems," includ-
ing "the quiet radar system for the
B-1 and. Stealth bombers," were
sold to the Communist bloc by for-
mer Hughes Aircraft engineer Wil-
ham H. Bell.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
29 APRIL 1982
The information jeopardizes ex-
isting and advanced weapons of the
United States and its allies, the CIA
said. It will help Poland and the So-.
viet Union save "hundreds of
of:- dollars in research and
development -efforts" on compare-. '
ble weapons for themselves as well
as defensive coUntermeasures ?to
the U.S. systems, it said. The report
did not say how much detailed in-
formation had been passed to the
CommuniSts.? ?
/,'-:.)3e11, then 61 years old. was,sen--
4enced last year to eight years in jail
i?and . fined ..$10,000 after pleading.
guilty ma public trial in _Los An--
geles. He had been paid $110,000
oyer a threelear pericifi farthe.in-
fOrrriationie;sv
t7 Bell's main contact was a Palish
?,Intelligence agent,. Marion Zachar-
ki;.who was sentenced to life im-
:Prisonment for. espionage. "Zaahar-;,
ski 1?posed as a Polish business-,
man initially hi dealing with Bell.
who had financial troubles. .
'?2 The CIA report, which -b -a de.-.
'classificed:versian of testimony by
Deputy CIA..Director Bobby. R. In-
man to allousescience and tech-
nology subcommittee- last ? month,
appears to be the first official con-
firmation of the kind of information.
Bell passed on..
..
Bell told . the.- Ty program60
Minutes" .about documents- on the
-Stealth and B-1 radar, as well as
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other weapon. systems, in a detailed
interview six weeks ago. The Pen-
tagon refused to comment on his
disclosures at that time. ..
The classified reports Bell filmed
and delivered to the Poles, "and
probably eventually to the Soviet
intelligence service," .the CIA re-;
port said, included also:
'
?The "loe'k-doi;iii...!'shoZit:clown 1"I
radar system for the Air Farce F-15
fighter. .z? - ?
?Anafl-weather radar system
for tanks.
?An experimental radar system -
for the U.S. Navy. ?
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?The Phoenix airsto-air missile -
designed for the Navy's F44 fight-
er to use primarily against the So-
. viet Backfirebomber. ?
1.? ?A shipborne sUrVeillance r?-adr.-7
?
?The Patriot (anti-aircraft) sur-',-
face-to-air missile.
?A "towed-array" sonar system.
, .
that is a vast network of equipment
'pulled behind surface ships to des
tect submarines. y .
.. ?A new air-to-air missile.
??The improved Hawk (anti-air-:
-craft) surface-to-air missile. /,';'
- ?TATO - air-defense system.
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pverth row of Shish ; - ?
Some of the secrets may have
previously fallen into Soviet hands
!,.when the Shah of Iran as over- ?
? thrown. U.S. F..-14 fighters and im-
proved Hawk missiles had been sold
:to Iran earlier, for example.
'? The nature of the "quiet radar" '
.for the B-1 and Stealth bombers
"was not immediately'clear. A Pen-
tagon. spokesman said' it yias_"as-
. Sumed the radar emits- pulses at low
!power or pulses that 'are not easily.
/detected" by hostile s 'eterinas. . ?
t
. Neither was it clez? whether the
radar was that of the -1 or the B-
1B._ One official said ttiat the radar
for the older B-1 wasT , uch less so-
phisticated, than for the B-13, .
which is scheduled ta go into- pro- il
duction. However, the radar to be ,
_carried by the B-1B an the Stealth,
, (which promises to be early-,invi--!
sible to enemy radar) s ould presu-
mably be similar and -re y advanced
systems, he said. ?; ?
It
.Bell's information wap reeOurited
-in two paragraphs of Te 15-page
CIA report, which was titled ."So-
viet Acquisition of Weseern Tech-
nology." It was putlised in re-1
sponse to congression Al r.equests for ;
a declassified version of Inman's ;
testimeny; a CIA spok-?sman said. I
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JOHN N. -ki.i-vPqn!, Tr! RFPiPcP INir-1 HPP, WriN NTnEGRAM Jack Anderson
DAM April 24, 1982
SUBJECT Admiral Inman
9:00 AM
smilorq WEAM Radio
Mutual Broadcasting
cIW Washington, DC
JACK ANDERSON: CIA Deputy Director Bobby Inman has
resigned from the agency. Congress is saying privately that
the wrong man is leaving.
Here is the Inside Story.
Admiral Bobby Inman, Deputy Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency resigned this week. But let me tell you
what the congressmen are saying in the cloakrooms. The prevailing
view is that his boss, CIA Director William Casey should be he
one to leave.
Inman wag the only CIA officials who senators trusted.
He was often specifically requested to give closed door brief ins.
You see, Casey has little credibility on Capitol Hill.
Under his leadership the CIA has lost the respect of Congress.
Inman was a personal e5