SOVIET AIM IS ARMS SUPERIORITY, OFFICIALS SUGGEST

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Defense a d the director of the Central In-
telligence Agency suggested yesterday.
that the Soviet Union may have aban-
doned an arms policy of p:rity with the
Ur,'ae;} States to se,: ;veattnns rurer.'ori'y.
Donald H. Rutnsteld and George Bush
deck-:d direct repeuses on separate
broadcast interview programs as to the
content of the latest national intelligence
estimate compiled by the CIA. Unattribut-
ed press reports concerning the document
prepared for the President said the Rus-
sians are working toward armssuperiori-
sup
ty.
Secretary Rumsfeid on the ABC pro- in view of current trends.
gram Issues and Answers was asked if the
CIA's survey was in agreement with the "There are some worrisome si^r., that
Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, are being looked at very, verb clc_ey,
had been saying; for some time that :worrisome signs that are pelt^.? re!ewed
the Russians were see'.;ir.; superiority. with a ferocity or inceasit ' is wear that
"I can say this much, that it is true that perhaps weren't examined itith tt:e sane
the judgments within the entire U.S. intel- intensity last year." Mr. Bush sa;d.
ligence community have closed and come Mr. Rumsfeld said it was his own Orin-
closer together, and that is good," he said. ion that over the past 15 to 20 rears ,he
On the C -'S program Face the Nation. Soviet military trend has been a+i:erre to
Mr. Bush, the CIA director, was asked for the United States. "If these trends. co,tin-
his personal assessment as to whether the ue and are not arrested and re:'er;-'+,, it
Russians were see%irg superiority or would have the effect of injecting fcida-
:rhet er the i .:it2:f S:aces may be inierior mental ins abilit
y in the xorid," he swiss.'.
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