BEARD TO CALL KEY OFFICIALS IN PROBE OF 'STEALTH' LEAKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B00478R000800340029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 16, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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01 PAGIC.
THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE)
16 September 1980
In Probe of 'Stealth Leaks
By Lance Gar.: .
and Walter Taylor
.? Washington Star Staff.Writers ,
The senior . Republican on
House Armed Services subcommit,
tee says he will seek the testimony
of the top aides to- the president's
NatiOnal Security adviser, Zbignew
Brzezinski,: and Defense. Secretary
Harold Brown about rumors sur-
rounding "Stealth"7 technology -
leaks
Rep. Robia Beard, Mena, said
that he has no evidence linking the
two aides to the leaks but wants 'to
investigate "rumors and many com-
ments
He said there hive been reports
of a memo to Brown purporting.to
advocate:leaking the. information
:for President Catte'r's
"I do not have any. substantial
1 evi-
denceta support. these allegations,"'
Beard said.
"Be,aid said that he will ask' the
_investigating subcommittee to call
David. L., Aaron; 'deputy to Brie-''
','zinski, and Peter Hamilton,-a Special
,.assistant to. Brown; to testify on the
; A White House ipokesmari last
night insisted that there was no _
:such memo,
"I'll. give yeti -a flat' denial on
...t?hat,"? the spokesman Said. "It's hard:
;to escape the feeling, that. they are
pursuing this Matter as ,a conscious
political distortion27; , . ?
,r4 Thomas Ross ,.a spokesman for
;Browri, alsbi- denied knowledge of?
any &jai themo.."There WaS no such,
memo he said. 7
'.;.; In the meantittie,..:Sen.'Malcolin
,Wallop. '.R-Wyo., said he wants to
'broaden .the Senate intelligence
-Committee's investigation' into the,
Stealth leaks to other_intelligence
:leaks from the NSCas viell: '
"These leaks are ,too
much," WaI?
lopsaidd:
Wallop: said he was concerned
about 4 report in the c'irrent issue
of New. York magazine that quotes a
:"staff member of the National Se-
curity Council' as saying that since
January 1980 the United States has
been providing communications
:eqUipment and technical advisers
-,to China under the terms pf a se-
cret,-unofficial agreement,....
" The report says that in exchange,
for the equipment and advisers, the
United .States is:getting Chinese
intelligence.about Soviet activities
' and that the monitoring posts on
..the Sino-Soviet border have become
crucial to UIS: bperations,because
,the loss of listening posts in Iran.
The magazine story said the state-,
meats of U.S: officials Were sparked
"by Ronald Reagan's recent pro-Tai-
wan cominents,.which, have _upset
' the Chinese.",,: . ?
Separate irivestigations in the ,
House and Senate into leaks began.
two
two weeks ,ago as ,Republicans
charged that the Carter administra-
tion was leaking information on the
:Stealth technology to demonstrate
,the wisdom of Carter's decision not ?
to go ahead with the B-1._bomber.
Stealth technology reportedly;
"hides" a bomber from an enemy's
:radar screen...,
--- Senate Minority Leader Howard
Baker, II-Tenn., said he is con.:
cerned that there appears to be, a :
; pattern in the intelligence leaks':
-which, he said, may he-politically
Motivated.. If thiS Were, true, Baker
'said, it would be unpatriotic: Seit.
Daniel 1:i.:Moyilihan?DN.Y.,-said he:
also iS-cOncertiedabout some of the!
leaks:
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