MOSCOW'S CFE DATA PROVES TO BE FALSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000401700021-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 18, 1991
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By Bill Gertz
THE vwSHINGTON TIMES
Moscow's
CFE data
proves to
be false
The Soviet Union apparently sup-
plied false data on its weapons to be
eliminated under the Conventional
Forces in Europe treaty, a senior
CIA official said yesterday.
agency could not accuratel monitor
area from the At ntic Ocean m e
iT 111d ~
once was "very large" but decreased
in recent months "as U.S. intelli.
gence agencies have revised our es-
timates"
"But some discrepancy remains;'
Mr. Biden said.
U .S. officials have said the differ-
ences between U.S. and Soviet es-
timates were lowered from 40,000
weapons to 17,000 pieces of equip-
ment today.
U.S. officials and NATO allies will
conduct more than 570 on-site in-
spections to check compliance with
the conventional arms reductions
Mr. Kerr said. ,
Regarding the movement of
equipment, Mr. Kerr said: "We have
confirmed that some of the weapons
being moved east of the Urals did not
arrive at their destination until a
month or so after signature."
But U.S. intelligence has been un-
able to determine if the shift violated
the treaty because the origin of the
weapons could not be pinpointed, Mr.
Kerr said. The movement of the
arms would violate the treaty if the
equipment was not declared by the
Soviets as part of the CFE data ex-
change.
Douglas J. MacEachin, the CIA's
senior arms-control analyst, told the
hearing that between 800 and 1,000
Pieces-of military equipment were
involved in the shift. The arms may
have been part of a stockpile of
10,900 pieces of equipment the Sovi-
g
h
remov o the Mr. Kea also saidsthe Soviets
e uinme_nt. r Melt. da ul Ran enmmittod I oL-:_-LL
"We essentiall 1 ? `'`-""?" w nave uestroyeci before
the si
nin of CFE
ratifying the treaty, which calls for
reductions in tanks, armored per-
sonnel carriers and artillery in Eu-
rope.
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., Dela-
ware Democrat and chairman of the
hearing, said the "data discrepancy"
,ne [reary by tailing to eliminate an
unspecified number of CFE-limited
equipment that was declared to have
been destroyed before the pact was
signed.
The deputy CIA chief said in an
interview that the data dig r n ncy
may have been either a delibersu
Aeceotion effort by the Soviet ti.
tarn to protect eaulnment from de-
ficient
accounting.
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