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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
? Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass., a sys-
tems engineering company, named
as chairman James R. Schlesinger,
former Secretary of Defense and of
Energy as well as Director of Central
Intelligence.
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Could Lead to a Reduction in Oil Lrieps The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
By 'VIECHAEL SICONOLFI
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The growing political rift between
OPEC's two largest producers threatens
the cartel's fragile stability and could lead
to lower oil prices in the coming months,
some oil specialists say.
Nobody is talking about another free-
fall in prices to below $10 a barrel, as hap-
pened last year. But the current price of
about 319.30 a barrel on U.S. spot and fu-
tures markets probably will fall gradually,
perhaps to about $16, some analysts say.
A supply disruption stemming from the
conflict in the Persian Gulf would, of
course, throw a wrench into any price de-
cline. But analysts say the likelihood of
this happening lessened Friday with the
news that Iran had agreed to negotiate a
United Nations peace plan to end the
seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
This week's cartel committee meetings
probably will have a major near-term in-
fluence on the oil market. But oil special-
ists say the effect of the rift between Saudi
Arabia and Iran Is likely to Intensify later
in the year, as the Organization of Petro-
leum Exporting Countries' full conference
in December draws near.
Indeed, the vuln rabilities of the cartel
Lou d be somew nt ~ t --he
confrontation" ween Saudi Arabia and.
ran, said James Schlesinger senior advtser to Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc.
and former secretary o f de a and of en-
erey, who also served as director oft he
Centra me Lence A envy
Ministerial Meeting
In the absence of harmony, they may
find it harder to come together in a posi-
tive agreement" at OPEC's next full min-
isterial meeting, Mr. Schlesinger said.
A period of relative Saudi-Iranian coop-
eration ended abruptly in July, when hun-
dreds of Iranian pilgrims were killed In a
clash with police in the Moslem holy city of
Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Iran responded last week by vowing to
overthrow the Saudi royal family, and seize
its oil wealth. The Saudis, in turn, have
taken an uncharacteristically harsh line,
denouncing Iran for Its role In the riots.
Philip Verleger, a visiting fellow at the
Institute for International Economics In
Washington, D.C., said, "It's going to
make it much harder for OPEC to hold to
their current agreement, let alone form a
new one, which will drive down prices."
'Erosion of Prices'
The rift "will take away any confidence
in the market about new cooperation
within OPEC, and lead to an erosion of
prices in the months ahead," said Rick
Donovan, head of the international energy
department at E.F. Hutton & Co., New
York. Mr. Donovan and some other ana-
lysts
lysts said prices could drop to as low as 316
a barrel later this year.
Still, some oil specialists say the Saudi-
Iran strains aren't that significant. The
two countries "can be hostile as possible
and still want to maintain OPEC's price
structure," said John Lichtblau, president
of Petroleum Industry Research Founda-
tion Inc., New York. Verbal warfare, he
said, probably won't lead to economic war-
fare. "It would be like shooting themselves
in the foot."
Several oil analysts note that Saudi
King Fahd has hooked his political prestige
on sustaining an official S18-a-barrel oil
price, making the chance of a large price
decline less likely.
In any case, the fractiousness appar-
ently ends a year of cooperation between
the two sides and signals the end of an Im-
proving relationship that had developed
steadily since before last October's ouster
of Ahmed Zaki Yamani as Saudi oil minis-
ter, industry analysts say.
Fixed Pricing
That relationship was particularly sit
nificant because of its effect on OPEC
unity in the last year. OPEC's decision last
December to cut production and return to
fixed pricing, for instance, was cemented
by Saudi-Iranian solidarity, which effec-
tively forged an alliance between OPEC
radicals and moderates. And June's OPEC
conference was the shortest and most har-
monious in years,'primarily because of the
compromise between the two on the car-
tel's output.
Any compromise now, however, would
be unlikely, some specialists say. For one
thing, the Saudis now are less inclined to
agree to raise OPEC's official price in De-
cember to $20 a barrel from the current
$18, a move that would be favored by
Iran.
In addition, Saudi Arabia won't likely
revert to Its swing producer role by lower-
ing its output to offset cheating by other
OPEC members who are producing over
their quotas, oil specialists say.
"The Saudis aren't in the mood to be
beat about the head with a club anymore,"
said Steve H. Hanke, chief economist for
Friedberg Commodity Management Inc..
Toronto. "With the new tension, they won't
be willing, to shore the costs of propping
prices."
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Soviets may be spying
from new embassy site
By Susan Bennett
Inquirer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Congressional in-
vestigators are checking reports that
the Soviets may be using the top
floors of buildings at their contro.
versial hilltop embassy compound in
Washington for intelligence-gather-
ing purposes, a House Foreign Af-
fairs subcommittee chairman said
'yesterday.
"There have been reports, which
are unconfirmed at this point, that
they are indeed using the top floors,"
Rep. Daniel A. Mica (D., Fla.), chair.
man of the International Operations
subcommittee, said in an interview.
"If that is so, it's wrong."
President Reagan and State Depart-
ment officials repeatedly have said
that the Soviets will not be allowed
to use their new chancery, built atop
Mount Alto, until the still-unoccu-
pied U.S. Embassy in Moscow is clear
of electronic listening devices im-
planted in its walls.
But at a hearing of the subcommit-
tee yesterday, State Department offi-
cials confirmed that most of the
buildings within the 12.5-acre Mount
Alto site - a school, a club and 175
apartments - are occupied by the
Soviets. Some of the apartments have
been in use since 1979.
Under an agreement between the
two countries, the Soviets cannot
move into their Mount Alto chancery
- the office building of an ambassa-
dor - until U.S. diplomats move into
their new Moscow chancery.
In response to a question from Rep.
Benjamin A. Gilman (R., N.Y.) about
the possibility that the Soviets were
using the Mount Alto buildings to
gather electronic intelligence, Un-
dersecretary of State Ronald I. Spiers
said he could give no assurances that
they were not, but "would rather
discuss it in closed session."
The subcommittee went into
closed session with State Department
officials and representatives of vari-
ous intelligence agencies, but there
was no confirmation of the reports of
Soviet intelligence-gathering, a con-
gressional aide said.
However, administration officials
were quoted by the Associated Press
as saying that the Soviets are using a
nine-story apartment building at the
complex for electronic surveillance.
The examination of Soviet activity
at the embassy site, 350 feet above sea
level, intensified late last year when
it was revealed that the new U.S.
chancery in Moscow is riddled with
electronic bugs.
Reagan has threatened to destroy
the never-used $23 million building
in Moscow. But members of the
House subcommittee and State De-
partment officials have said they
will make no recommendation on
tearing it down until after comple-
tion of a report b James Schlesin - 6
r former secretary o defense and
ormer ea o the dA.
a report completed in
June, Spurs said.
Spiers and other State Department
officials insisted that their records
show no opposition from any govern-
ment agency to the Soviets' 85-year
rent-free lease on Mount Alto - a
1969 concession likened by some to
the sale of Manhattan by the Indians.
But Mica and Rep. Olympia J.
Snowe (R., Maine) quoted memos
from unidentified U.S. intelligence
agencies, some dating to 1966, that
expressed concerns about allowing
the Soviets to occupy one of the high-
est vantage points in Washington.
The memos also questioned permit-
ting the Soviets to prefabricate, sec-
tions of the new U.S. Embassy in
Moscow, Mica said.
Mica said the subcommittee would
like to tour the Soviet compound at
Mount Alto, a request that Spiers said
would have to be handled by the
Soviets.
In a related matter yesterday, pre-
trial proceedings. resumed at the?Ma-
rine base in Quantico, Va., for Cpl.
Arnold Bracy, a Marine accused of
espionage while working at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow in 1985 and 1986. t
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Model Security
Pledged as Spy
Inquiry Opens
By NORMAN KEMPSTER,
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Former De-
fense Secretary Melvin R. Laird,
presiding over the first meeting of a
presidential panel to evaluate secu-
rity at the U.S. Embassy in Mos-
cow, said Wednesday the mistakes
that opened the way for Soviet
7 May 1987
Hollings to Delay Action on Webster
WASHINGTON (P-Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) said
Wednesday that he would hold up the nomination of FBI Director
William H. Webster to be CIA director until Webster assures him
that there will be a full investigation of security problems at the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Hollings accused the FBI of not vigorously investigating the
State Department in connection with the Marine espionage scandal
at the embassy.
"It is apparent that the FBI has no idea of doing anything,"
Hollings said. "It is apparent that I'm being given the runaround."
He said he wanted a full investigation of how the security problems
developed.
espionage go far beyond Marine to penetration
guards charged with bartering se- host country.
by the spies of the
crets for sex. Joining Laird, the first Pentagon
"This is not just a Marine prob- chief in the Richard M. Nixon
lem . . . it is a national problem and Administration, on the commission
one that we are dealing with in the were former CIA Director Richard
deliberations of this panel," Laird P~ Helms; Gen. 7 on W. Vessey Jr.,
said. "Our responsibility is to find
out what went wrong and how to
improve security in the Soviet
Union."
Wants 'Model' System
The commission, appointed last
month by President Reagan,
opened its first meeting to the
public to comply with a law requir-
ing presidential panels to hold open
meetings unless the members de-
cide there is reason to close them.
After about a half hour, the four-
member commission voted to go
into closed session because of na-
tional security concerns and Laird
indicated it will not meet again in
public until it completes its work in
90 days or less.
Laird said the panel hopes to
devise plans for building and staff-
ing a "model" embassy system that
would be as impervious as possible
ornf fierier chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff; and Diego Asencio, a
former ambassador to Brazil and
Colombia.
Reagan told the panel to report
in three months on whether securi-
ty systems and procedures at the
embassy in Moscow were adequate,
whether the procedures were
properly implemented, and wheth-
er information was available that
could have warned the staff about
security problems.
The panel is only one of a long
list of Administration and congres-
sional committees investigating the
situation in Moscow following
charges that two Marine guards
were seduced by women working
for the KGB and allowed Soviet
spies to roam around the embassy
at night.
A State Department commission
headed by James RR.Schlesinaer.:
another defense secretary and CIA
director in the Nixon Administra-
tion, is scheduled to report soon on
Soviet efforts to plant electronic
listening devices in the $192-mil-
lion U.S. Embassy building under
construction in Moscow.
The Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee and the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee have rendered
their decision on the new embas-
sy-they have said it should be
torn down because the listening
devices are so pervasive that the
building never will be secure.
Other Inquiries
Congressional inquiries are also
being conducted by the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and a
subcommittee of the House For-
eign Affairs Committee.
The President's Foreign Intelli-
gence Advisory Board also is in-
vestigating the situation. The Na-
tional Bureau of Standards recently
told Congress that the new embas-
sy building needs at least $1.5-mil-
lion worth of repairs before it
would be safe for occupancy.
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CONGRESS IS CONCERNED
Some Call for Scrapping the
$190 Million Project Oveu
Issue of Security
for gains in arms control, Administra-.
tion officials said.
On the new building, a report by two
staff members from the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee disclosed
that the American architectural com-
pany designing the embassy had hired
a Soviet engineer who returned home
after completing his work. The Senate
staff members tried to find him for in-
terviews, the report said, but the State
Department had been told by Soviet of-i
ficials that he had died of a heart at-
tack.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont
Democrat and former vice chairman
of the Intelligence' Committee, con-1
tended that the security of the new em-
bassy building had been compromised.
some
have found only what they want us to,
find and maybe that was only three
fourths or one-half of what there was." '
Mr. Mica is scheduled to leave this]
weekend for Moscow to inspect both;
the building under construction and the"
existing embassy building.
Several experts said the State De-
partment could deal with the problem
by installing special secure rooms insu-
lated with copper and lead. An intelli-
gence official said buildings recently
completed at the National Security
Agency, which seeks to penetrate for-
eign communications and to protect
American ones, are clad with copper to
frustrate attempts by outsiders to pick
up emanations from computer and
communications equipment. {
"is to tear it down and start an over, with remarkable expertise in desigNng
ossible toll listening devices. This expertise helps
o wa
i
y p
s n
again. There
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG make that embassy secure." , explain why officials are pessimistic
sew to The Now vatTimee That view is not universally held. A& about the damage caused when the two
WASHINGTON, April 4 - Some ministration and Congressional offi- Marine guards purportedly allowed
members of Congress and intelligence cials said that although there were still Soviet agents to enter the embassy.
officials say they believe that a new dissenters, the consensus before the intelligence officials said the agents
United States Embassy building under case of the Marine guards was that the might have left behind equipment that
new building could be salvaged. Those would allow them to re-enter secure
construction in Moscow is contatui- officials contend that it would be more, areas at will and leave listening de-
noted with Soviet eavesdropping de- damaging for the embassy to remain in vices that could pick up signals from
vices and that the entire $190 million its present quarters. typewriters or coding machines.
project should be scrapped. Last year, Secretary Shultz asked Such signals, which are emitted each
According to Government officials, James R. Schlesin er a ormer Direc- time a key is struck or from the elec-
the security problems in the new em- for o ra n e Bence, to study the tronic field around cables, can be used
bassy building stem from a decision in security of the new building, which was to intercept communications. The Mos-
to have much of the building as- to be occupied in 1989. The study, which cow embassy has secure rooms spe=
1972
1972 toe from prefabricated modules is expected to consider Soviet means of dally sealed to prevent emanations!
penetration and American counter- from escaping, but intelligence offi
manufactured at a Soviet site not open measures, is likely to touch off further cials say that if a listening device were
:to American inspection. Listening de- adverse reaction in Congress. placed inside, the protection provided,
vices were placed in the steel beams, Representative Daniel A. Mica, a by the walls would be defeated.
the officials said. Florida Democrat who heads the The National Security Agency be-
House Foreign Affairs subcommittee came suspicious in the late 1970's,
Debate on Finding Devices that monitors embassy security, said: when other Western embassies in Mos-
riter bus The
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Embassy security has become a big{
issue in connection with the arrest of
three Marine guards, two -of -them
charged with spying, and hai touched)
off a debate among American intelli-!
gene analysts on whether experts cane
find all the devices reportedly.planted;
in the new building, under construction
since the early 1970's.
Congressional and Admin tration+
critics of the State Departme is se-
curity practices view the const tion;
project as a symbol of the attitudes
that culminated in the recent security
breaches in the present building.
While officials are weighing whether
to move the embassy into- the new,
building, a dispute has erupted over.
Secretary of State George P. Sh dts't
scheduled trip to Moscow next week,
when he will have to use a house trailer
outside the embassy for sensitive con-
versations.
Some officials wanted the trip to be
deferred, but Mr. Shultz prevailed, ar-
guing that the timing was opportune
.
ype
"What you have is a brand new facility cow uncovere
that you cannot move into and an em- ' agency dispatched a team to check for
ls believe the Russians
ffi
i
b
bassy you cannot whisper in. It Is really
a nasty situation."
He said technical experts who be-
lieved the security flaws in the new
building could be remedied estimated
the cost at $20 million to $40 million in
addition to the $190 million already
spent on the project. The new building
was originally scheduled to be com- ?
pleted in 1983 at a cost of $90 million.
Because of the delay and the security
problems, Representative Mica said,
the United States will have to spend
tens of millions of dollars to replace
much of the equipment in the existing
building.
The dispute over the new building;
centers on whether it is reasonable to
assume that all the listening devices`
can be disconnected or neutralized.
"The problem is, we think we have
found a great deal of what they put in
and therefore we think we can disable
them 11 Represenative Mica said. "But;
a
c
ut o
ibugs,
were alerted when the trip was men-
tioned in embassy cables, and the tech-
nicians found nothing.
Bugs Were Found in 1984
In 1984, technicians were dispatched
again, this time without notification to
the State Department, and they found
devices planted in several embassy
typewriters, Government officials said.
One was reportedly used by the secre-
tary of the deputy chief of mission, the
second-ranking embassy diplomat.
The signals were sent out through the
power cord at a frequency calibrated
to television band width. That was done
because Soviet agents knew that Amer-
ican detection equipment was then not
able to pick up emanations in that
range, Government officials said.
The 15-year history of construction;
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volved a series of security lapses and'
miscalculations, some officials say.,
One former official recalled that the
Nixon Administration agreed in 1972,
over State Department objections, tol
allow the prefabrication of construc-
tion modules. In contrast, the Soviet
Union insisted that its embassy in
Washington be built with components
made on site and under its observation.
Soviet Embassy on a High Site
According to the Senate staff report,
the Soviet Union's new building here
was built high on a hill suited for elec-
tronic interception.
"Common sense would tell the aver-
age American citizen, without benefit
of security or diplomatic training, that;
it would be foolish to allow a United,
States Embassy to be designed and;
constructed by Soviets," the Senate re-
port said.
In August 1985, the Soviet contractor)
was removed from the building, which'
had also been plagued by shoddy con-
struction unrelated to security issues.;
Marine guards began to watch the con-'
struction site.
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, a former'
high State Department official, said:'
"I don't want to debate it. We in effect
got snookered, and that is the responsi-
bility of every Administration from!,,
Nixon on up."
He conceded that there were severe
problems of trying to construct an em-
bassy in Moscow and that it would have:!
been difficult to use American work-,
ers. He said the Soviet Union should not
be allowed to occupy its new embassy
building here until the problems ini
Moscow were solved.
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WASHINGTON POST
9 March 1987
Talking Points
Chiles Play ...
Sen. Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.), chair-
man of the Senate Budget Commit-
tee, plans to hold hearings on what
he calls the "fiasco" of the U.S. Em-
bassy chancery in Moscow-and to
add a new twist by looking at the
implications of the much-delayed,
far-over-budget building for the
planned construction of five other
embassies in Eastern Europe.
Chiles, who sponsored an amend-
ment last year seeking a probe by
the National Bureau of Standards
into the Moscow construction prob-
lems, will hold his hearings after the
bureau's report date of April 15.
The senator
l_Comed the State
Department's appointment of
f James R. ScIlesinger.f rrmer- de
ferise secret ry and 1A irertnr. to
conduct a comprehensive_r yi "w of
the security and construction. proh-
lems_at the Moscow embassy, and
said he would like to see him _ex-
pand__ his investigation to those
_Ilanngd in East Europe.
"Given the history of the fiasco at
the Moscow embassy, is that some-
thing we're going to have to re-
peat?" he wondered.
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LOS AI`TGELES TII~?ES
11 October 1984
Mond.ae Seeking to Exploit Issue of War
douses on Public Anxiety With Help of Broad Range of Advisers
1 By ROBERT C. TOTH,
Tir? tax. Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Fear of war,
Mondale in his memoirs. And, at
the other end of the ideological
spectrum, former Secretary of
who has
Vance
State Cyrus R
.
,
according to most opinion polls,-is
been called the leading dove of the
second only to unemployment as a Carter Administration, is rarely
voter concern this year. And Wal- consulted.
ter F. Mondale has sought to Aaron, who was on Mondale's
capitalize on public anxiety-to Senate staff in the mid-1970s,
exploit the "war and peace" issue, r served as an intermediary in set-
as he calls it-with the help of a t ting up Mondale's session with
broad variety of foreign and de-, Grom ko He said that on Sept 12
fense advisers drawn largely from.
the Administration of former_Pres;'.
idant Jimmy Carter.
T hanks in part to the efforts of
some of those advisers, he met with
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Grornyko a day before President
Reagim saw the Kremlin's top
diplomat. Thanks in part to those
same advisers, he has been empha-
y . ? ,
the same day that Reagan ?an-!,
nounced his forthcoming meeting
with the Soviet foreign minister, he
got word from a ".Soviet academi-
cian" that Gromyko would also be
willing to talk with Mondale.
Aaron said Mondale discussed
the matter with his immediate staff
and spoke by phone with several of
including Christopher
his advisers
,
,
sizing his over. commitment to a
sizing U.S. defense. now a Los Angeles lawyer, before
Mondale's closest foreign policy, thauthorizing Aaron e overture wasrea to l determine if
expert is David- L. Aaron, who was Aaron quickly made contact with
Carter's deputy national security ~ the top Soviet diplomat then in
d
i
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d
a
v
s
r w
on
a
e serve
as
e
Carter's vice president. Aaron in
turn draws on the views of many
part-time advisers chosen from
among a group of political figures
and specialists who make up Mon-
dale's national security. "brain
trust"".
Washington, who corifirrned within
a day or two that "they were
willing if we were willing, a kind of
dance of the cranes," Aaron said.
The resulting Mondale-Gromyko
session partly diluted the political
value to Reagan of his. first session
These. advisers not only offer- with a top Soviet official and gave
counsel on campaign strategy,-, more credibility to Mondale's com-
"hey sometimes bolster the cam plaint that the Reagan-Gromyko
paign effort by attacking Reagan meeting produced no tangible eas-
directly. And, if Mondale is elected, ing of tension.
they could take over the top na- Aaron himself told a university
tional security jobs in his Adminis- ;audience last week that Reagan 's
tration. session with the Soviet diplomat
.1 IF
Central Intelligence Agency chaef
James R. Schlesinger; Rep. Michael
15. Barnes (D Md.?, chairman of i
the House Foreign Affairs subcom-
mittee on Western Hemisphere
affairs; and more than a score of
others.
Notably absent from the list is
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's chief
national security adviser, who was
the most hawkish member of the
Carter team and who disparaged
They include former Defense was a zero. Although Aaron
Secretary Harold Brown; former. maintained that he was not speak-
Deputy Secretary of State Warren ing for the Mondale campaign, he
Christopher; former Pentagon and 1 said that "nothing really bold was
put on the table," implying that a
Mondale Administration would
have better seized upon the Gro-
myko visit to advance peace.
Although Mondale is clearly less
hawkish than Reagan on Soviet
relations, he has also sought to
broaden his appeal to independents
and conservative Democrats. For
example:
-He is calling for an annual
increase of 3% to 4% in defense
spending, after inflation-a goal
that would leave defense spending
not far short of Reagan's projected
growth of 7.5%.
-He belatedly endorsed last
year's Grenada invasion after ini-
tially criticizing it; he and Aaron
credited Barnes with this new
position.
-He acknowledged that "Amer-
ican security interests" are in-
volved in conflicts in El Salvador
and Nicaragua and said he would
be prepared to "quarantine" Nica-
ragua if necessary to stop that
nation from aiding leftist rebels in
El Salvador.
-He accepted the principle of
retaliation against terrorist acts by
saying he would support any "ap-
propriate countermeasures" that
Reagan might take against the
latest U.S. Embassy bombing in
Lebanon.
-He invited and then publicized
the attendance of Schlesinger, a
moderate Republican, and Max
Kampelman, a conservative Demo-
crat, at a secret national security
briefing for Mondale by Reagan
national security adviser Robert C.
McFarlane.
Kampelman, a Washington law-
yer active in Jewish community
affairs, led the U.S. delegation in
both the Carter and Reagan admin-
istrations to the last international
conference to follow up on the
Helsinki agreements of 1975. He,
like Christopher, has been men-
tioned as a possible secretary of
state if Mondale wins in November.
Schlesinger held Cabinet posts in
the Administrations of Richard M.
Nixon and Gerald R. Ford as well as
Carter and, Aaron said, is the man
Mondale looks to most for advice on
intelligence matters.
But, however much he may call
on these advisers, Mondale, a vet-
eran of 12 years in the Senate and
four as vice president, is well-
versed on most of today's major
national, security issues and estab-
lished a lengthy public record that
follows him into the campaign.
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Schlesinger may be his main
inieTligence adviser, or example,
but on a e was a key in-Emb er of
the en igence o m- -
tee--an Aaron was his-To-p- s
mem er-.ar intelligence affairs=
during its exposure of CIA and
oot1 erin a ,i ence excesses.
AS a resu t, aroma Mondale
calls on his counselors largely for
their reaction to new developments
in their field and for comment on
his planned new overtures. Aaron
himself is almost always at hand for
immediate help and advice.
Mondale's running mate, Geral-
dine A. Ferraro, receives the same
kind of full-time advice from Barry
Carter, a Washington lawyer who
worked with Aaron both on the
national security council staff un-
der Henry A. Kissinger and later on
the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Earlier this month, for example,
Carter was called on to help Ferra-
ro after she confused two arcane
concepts of nuclear war; "first
strike," or surprise attack; and
"first use," or a nuclear response to
a Soviet conventional attack on
Europe.
In addition to former Pentagon
chief Brown, Aaron said, Mondale
counts among his defense advisers
William Perry,.a California invest-
ment banker and engineer and_
former undersecretary of defense
for research and engineering; and
Robert W. Komer, Russell Murray
II and R. James Woolsey, also
former high Defense Department
officials in the Carter Administra-
tion.
On military affairs, he calls on
David Jones, retired chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and retired
Air Force Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis,
former chief of the Strategic Air
Not all of these men agree with
all of Mondale's positions. For ex-
ample, Brown and others support
the MX missile, which the Carter
Administration proposed but which
Mondale wants to kill.
In arms control, key advisers are
Walter B. Slocombe, a Washington
lawyer who was .director of the
Pentagon's SALT II task force in
the Carter Administration, and
McGeorge Bundy, the top national
security official in the Kennedy
and Johnson administrations, who
has advocated no "first use" of
nuclear weapons in Europe.
On Soviet affairs, Mondale val-
ues the views of Arnold are i ,
director of the LA Cen-
ter for the Stu ay of Soviet n erna-
tiona a avior and or -CrA
nationa intelligence officer or Tie
Soviet CTnion in the Car ear-Adm2n-
istrnion.
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