PRESS CLIPPINGS SEPTEMBER 1979

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SR T I CLr EARED NEV YORK TIMES
ON PAGES 14 SEPTEMBER 1979
Jackson Says U.S. Seeks Deal. With Soviet on. Cuba
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Special to The New York Time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - Senator
Henry M. Jackson said today that he be-
lieved the Carter Administration was
trying to work out with the Soviet Union
"some rationalization" for resolving the
problem of a Soviet brigade in Cuba with-
out forcing its removal.
"That will go over like a lead balloon,"
the Washington Democrat said, insisting,
as he, did two days ago, that the Soviet
Union was building a "Fortress Cuba"
and that the United States had to demand
the withdrawal of the brigade's 2,000 to
3,000 soldiers and of the warplanes sup-
plied by the Soviet Union to the Cubans.
Another source, a former government
official who has been briefed on the situa-
tion, said it was possible that the brigade
might consist of Soviet advisers who as-
sembled once or twice a year for maneu-
vers and might have done so for years.:
A Possible Formula Is Suggested
The former official, who asked not to be
identified, said Secretary of State Cyrus
R. Vance and Ambassador Anatoly F.
Dobrynin of the Soviet Union might be
seeking a formula by which Moscow
would affirm that its troops had only a
training mission, that no combat exert
does, would be held, and that the, tanks
and other heavy equipment would be
under Cuban control.
Administration officials refused to dis-
cuss what Mr. Vance and Mr. Dobrynin
had talked about, and the former official
said he had no inside information. Mr.
Vance and Mr. Dobrynin, who met yes-
terday and Monday, .,will confer. again
tomorrow.
There was a. great deal' of speculation
today about a possible resolution, of the:
problem, which has already jeopardized
Senate approval of the ..strategic arms
limitation treaty with the Soviet Union.
Yesterday, a State Department official, identified today by news agencies as
David D. Newsom, Undet Secretary of
to or Political Affairs, listed for a few
reportersytbrpossiblemiasions that the
Soviet brigade might have. in Cuba. One
of several was the possibility that it had a
training function, he said..:., .
Since - the -Soviet. Communbt,, Party
newspapes,r;Fravda,.had. said that
Soviet troops are in Cuba only ht
sory capacity;, this suggested.tbe odifte,
of a compromise. But : , Mr,. - Newsom
stressed that.norfinal detesmiaatiogil!i;
been made r. t,-, rr a : n ~ r
At the-State,Departmeitt? Mr-. Vanes
was reported concerned about the atten.,
tion gives to the possibility, tbat.the. bri,
gade hada trainingmiseiomgw,? t Y? ; _sct.
Nodding Carter ?3d,"tae departmetlt
spokesman; was histructed to Say that
we are still examining our intelligence
reports to determine as(. precisely- ash
possible tte capability, the mission and
time the brigade has been in Cuba."
Asseesmant to Be Made Prblie-
"We believe it has been there for a con-
siderable time,.' he said. "The hypothesis
in this morning's papers Is but one of a-
series of possibilities, - I- can -personally
think of 15or 2&'e, ,we are in the, midst of very delicate'
negotiations and,,. we,-.,are.. not going toy
speculate.fuxiher.":,be saidt.;' ; the ?
issue has been, resolved,'- we will make;
fully clear our assessment of the situation
and the basis' on: which our'- jt:dgments
have been
Mr. VancClt>ss tht Ebe
ations be allowed to 'take place without
any public#iy ; for fearltbe-public- glare
`would make it -more ditlicult. to reach a -
,~.,.
satisiactot~yr.arrangeme
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CRTICLE APP9ARM NEW YORK TIMES
ON 14 sEPTEIrBER 1979
Cuban Bunion, American Hotfoot
The longer, the co-'troversy continues over 3,000 3,000 troops as a unit: What is its purpose? If it is in fact
Soviet combat troops in Cuba, the clearer it becomes a first step toward strengthening the brigade and giv-
that the chief damage the United States may suffer - ing it an offensive capability, that is something that
would be self-inflicted. American security would be Secretary Vance should work to head off in his talks
substantially diminished, not enhanced,. if the SALT with Ambassador Dobrynin.
treaty is killed in the effort to force withdrawal of the The United States should not ignore the general
Russian brigade, even if the effort succeeded. It would Russian effort to use Cuba and Cuban troops as proxies
be like trading a nuclear bomb for a hand grenade. - . in a bid to enlarge Soviet influence around the world. If -
This realization evidently has finally dawned on the Soviet Union wants to expand. the cooperative ele-
Chairman Church of the Senate Foreign Relations went in the Soviet-American relationship, military
Committee, who led the pack threatening to hold up competition must be reduced, not intensified. The
SALT, although previously he had opposed any kind of.,, sensitivity of Cuba to Americans makes it an obvious
linkage. Senator Church has returned to his earlier - place for Russia to tread carefully, as the excitement
the commit- of recent days has shown. .
position by joining with Senator Javits
,
tee's senior Republican, to go ahead with hearings to
prepare the treaty for Senate floor. debate. They will
leave the Cuban negotiations to the President and Sec-
retary Vance, as they should.
There are other ways to resolve the immediate
conflict. Russian troops appear to have been in Cuba
for years. A military threat to the United States hat not
materialized overnight just because Washingttmlbe-
latedly, has learned of their presence. The immediate
question concerns the newly discovered Soviet head-
quarters, evidently created last fall,, to commend the
It will take time to make progress on the linked
issues of Soviet military activity in Cuba and the future
of the entire Soviet-American relationship. Rash acts
of retaliation are not likely to be helpful. Neither are
the exaggerations that Senator Jackson now uses as
sticks against SALT. And neither is Ronald Reagan's
arresting proposal that the United States,- 'should not
have any further- communications with the Soviet
Union" until the troops go home. Neither peace nor
'peace of mind can be achieved by amputating a foot to
treat a bunion.
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IRITr FLAELD PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
0 PAGissIm. 14 SEPTEMBER 1979
in Cuba really . not be used for?the purpose Time
reported. Goodrich said the big, dish-shaped
antennas at the site are able to send
i Goodrich, said that' even a superfi~ ~ During Castro's 'rule,* however,
`1.1.1 I)y station cial examination olthe equipment in- communications through the facility
the photograph sllbws that it could have remained largely unbroken:..
a
6-
current Time magazine that purports U audg nternational.~ci,*iliaa, ' Hons satellites as Time.plleged..:
current
to show a "Soviet-built intelligence military and-space satellite.elactron Another structure is the-'photo-
he' Photo'
hill east of Havana' Is no
hill
WASHINGTON - A picture in the i eavesdro -on; movin eommunica-
eavesdroppg
th l
r
a
an
,
By Saul Friedman a section o an He noted that the dishes: are fixed.
Inquirer waw>,VO H,,,.,,, monitoring complex atop a 1Im toned, which means they cannot follow and
I story, "The Storm Over Cuba, ; shows , sphere between Cuba and Miami.
" f
ced electronics -
dv
h ane which helped illustrate Time's cover signals bounced off the' upper atmo-
The caption Says the photograph, or receive telephone and. television
limes picture euuvi , "A LV+.. -r by-Americans-and we, used it for
kin, said that the color photograph' built .
"came from a non-government telephone' communications with,the_
source, and we checked it with the states and to watch television
best authorities i4 the field." Goodrich said the station was built
Asked whether the authorities in 1957 by the Cuban Radio Co. then
were in government, in the commu- an ITT, subsidiary, which-has since;,
nications industry or.in intelligence been taken over by the government;
work, Drapkin declined further
comment.
But the Titl', spokesman, Bernard
laughing at what he called "Time's
Telephone & Telegraph Corp (ITT).
That facility has been used ever
since it was. . built for telephone.
communication between Cuba and
Castro regime; - by International
Carlos Ciano, nrst,secretary eL. wir. auYGH Woa ~~ -usvuc_, 1:ua -l:Lii1LTC' W :.S~O~^ IIWii~'r!
o~ the death, of ang olaa.: President -aligned,"
he=said:--
amrtinhrrNafrr~vniinQ'caret"hn-mnn1A - - a
is towa-$-.Ankol& ame- la-response nonaligaed they t>ffak;we;ought
porters'- questions "' we auav,rau. , u .... u a.
- smooth- -ti
ansi4r and- a; new.- gorerc -
'Young said hq feit the transition .ot A
ha,i_ concentrated his comments on Angolana.closer to,.the Soviets, than::
U%;az domestic politics and foreign poi- they wanted to-be' Young sai&' -
the background as the loquacious, out- The withholding of American,reeog-,
After it. was. clear that the Portu.
guese were leaving and the Popular-
"they rin the _ civil.sv
wanted to stay nonaligned and
they felt they couldn't do that if
pushed into the Soviet camp," Young
said.
Recent news accounts have reported
three assassination-attempts-- against -
Neto by leftists in' his own party who
wanted a closer Ali
nment with the
g
seven-nation African trade mission.. Soviet ;Union.. -Neto6l is said= to ' have
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ARTICLE
ON Pd - O
YEW YORK TIMES
19 SEPTEMBER 1979
Tennessee Factory Ordered Shut
In a Search for Missing Uranium
WASHINGTON, Septa 18 - The Fed-
eral Government today ordered shut for
at least 43 days a privately owned factory
that makes fuel for the Navy's nuclear
submarines because the Tennessee fa-
cility could not account in a recent Inven-
tory for a significantamount of highly en-
riched uranium, a material that could be
fashioned into anatomic bomb. -* w
The problem of assuring adequate pro-
tection for materials that can be turned
into a bomb by small nations or even. a
highly organized terrorist gang has been
a constant concern to the Nuclear Regu?
latory Commission and its predecessor
agency, the Atomic Energy Commission
A little more thantwo years ago, for ex-
ample, the Federal` Government. an-
nounced that nuclear facilities similar to
the Tennessee factory closed down today
were unable to trace a cumulative total of
more than 8,000 pounds of highly enriched
uranium and plutonium since the begin-
ning of the nuclear age. '_.
By DAVID BURNHAM
ar'
l ,a?t-, 3osWtoT wYoi Tor
of,19.8'pounds or more requires a shut-
down for inventory within 72 hours.
Experts do not agree on exactly how
much highly enriched uranium would be
required to make a nuclear device. In
1977, however, the commission said that
40.pounds of the material. would be suffi-
Investigators William-D: Dlrks, head of the commis.
sion's Office of Nuclear Materials and
Safeguards, said in an interview that
seven commission investigators were
now at the Tennessee facility examining-
"its physical security procedures" for
the period when the inventory discrep.
was discovered.
ere is no indication right now.that
the material has gotten off site, but we
haven't ruled out that possibility," Mr.
Dirks said.
The official added that the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation and an Energy De-
partment agency called the Nuclear
Emergency Search Team had been
alerted that the 'might be called in to
work on thecase ,
The F.B.I. woild- investigate if the
commission decided there might be a pos-
sible criminal violation. The - Nuclear
Emergency Search Team, with head-
quarters-in Las{.vegas, Ls equipped with
mobile detectors designed to enable its
technicians to locate sources of radiation.
M Dirks said that in addition to the.
examination of the factory's security
procedures, the plant would be required
to close down its operations and make a
complete inventory to determine exactly.
how much of the highly enriched uranium.
could not. be accounted for. The official
said the inventory would-require a mini-
mum of 45 days. - - ~a
ating license, however: any_discrepacy.
amour o nut ear materials was =o
by a foreign power in -at least one in.
g ante, o er Government officials Have
con en re was no eve ence o s
a theft and that the losses occurred inure.
normal
Long History of Problems
The factory affected by today's order
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is
situated in Erwin, Tenn., and is owned by
Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. The factory,
which has 400 employees; has a long his-
tory. of accounting and security probe
lens. 13;f: ...;
In April 1977. for esample.. the Erwin
facility was fined $53,000 by the commis-
sion for failing to provide adequate guard
services to test its burglary alarms and
provide required security barriers. .
The commission; while announcing the
closing of the plant, did not immediately i
disclose hour much of the uranium was
found unaccounted' for in a recent twa=-
month inventory: The size of such inven-
tory discrepancies-are-kept secret for six
months to protect the Government from
fraudulent extortion threats.
Under the terms of the factory's oper
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NEW YORK TINS
19 SEPTEMBER 1979
Bonn Fights Industrial Spying
By JOId1V IVL GEDDES Mr. Hammacher noted that resultant . No Asse smeat Yet
reductions in cost and improvements in {
sy.d.i eote.r..Yalt itmr -- quality enabled Soviet-bloc govern. 1 Security officials have yet to publish
menu to mount a competitive threat to a public assessment of
what was Sept. IS , BONN, exchaA in in West Germamd, Western companies. For such pur. passed on. And as is often the case in
d
spies are o business their suits, and cloaks brief- l~s, he said, Western market strata the foreign exchange market, currency
daggers for r business gies or even price schedules from sale& dealers reached earlier this year could
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cases.
In the first eight months of this year
alone, West German counterintelli-
gence agents have uncovered more
than 40 Soviet-bloc spies, about three-
quarters of.them engaged in industrial
espionage and nearly all working for
East Germany.-Although officials now
that the unusual concentration of eco?
nomic spies was touched off by the.
January defection of their East Ger-
man control officer, the trend toward
Industrial- espionage seems estab-
lished.
In some cases, advantages to the
East-bloc countries are clear. Gerhard
Arnold, 44 years old, the co-owner of a
small computer consulting firm near
Munich, was arrested earlier this year
on suspicion of espionage. Mr. Arnold
was accused of passing computer tech-
nology to East Germany for more than
20 years, including the 11-year period
he worked at IBM Deutschland A.G.,_
which he left in 1971, quitting his post as
a regional sales manager. _
Interior Ministry said this summer in _ Used to Modeenl=e computers
its report on internal security, "that "This Information," the Interior
economic and scientific. espionage, Ministry, report said. "was used by
within East Germany's intelligence esp. , East Germany to modernize the data
paratus have reached a level of special processing equipment" of the East
rank and to a large degree have proved German Army and bring it up to West, of great benefit to the East German em standards. -
economy." I But for every case where some dear
rage in higb.technology sectors where pionage had never been calculated,:
its own efforts lag. The positions in largely because its extent was not
which agents were discovered this year known.
- nuclear energy, computers. elegy Perhaps indicative of the still un-
tronics, optics, chemicals, machine clear results of most espionage cases
building. f represent the fears of Eest_ was the defection earlier this year of
German espionage, officials say. -
The agents themselves come from a
broad range of backgrounds. Some am
professionals, others are blackmailed
by pressure on families left in the east'
ern half of this divided country and still
others spy for. the more common mo-
tives of love or money. The only con-
necting thread is.theiift they provide to
the East German economy;
the East bloc from conducting Indus extensively involved in currency' no.
trial espionage," said Norbert Hamm- gotiations. Presumably, his secretary
acher, chairman of the Committee for could have had early accw to informa-
Security In the Economy, a nationwide rim about Government- action on for-
industrial panel. Among the most obvl- . sills exchange markets, providing her
a, he said, were savings as research SPOnsm ~t on Opportunity reap a
and development outlays, freedom
from paying license few and varied
cost reductions stemming from West
ern production techniques. _
not discern
ast-bloc moves in the
market one way or another.
"For all we know," one Dusseldorf
banker said, "the East bloc might have
called her in from the cold because she
gave them a bad tip and they last a bun.
.. Mr. Hammacher. who acknowledges
that detente his not helped raise public
recognition of the. dangers of espio-
nage, said the securitychecks an poten-
prime
defense a t later, leaks. But, he
noted that with the flow of legitimate
refugees from the East, and no lan.
guage problems for spies hidden
among them, agents still.. slipped
other appioach;-he-said, is pub.
licity to' keep West` Germans aware
"that if they get a blackmail threat or
pressure on families in the East, their
companies will support them and help
them solve the problem." Other than
said.
dy
trade fair, and you we an Eastern ex.
hibit that looks uncannily like a process
-you'ra selling," Mr. Hammacher said.
"You get back home and see a patent
lawyer to find out what you can do
aboutit.
::.'His answer will be 'forget it, you'll
neverwin.'"
East Germany, which is believed to damage assessment can be made, two this type of preventive counter.
control about 300 of the estimated more exist where the. costs of the espionage, legal tools for the comps.
4,000 foreign agents in West Germany, spying remain unknown. Mr. Hamm- Hies are limited because of the narrow
has put its special emphasis on espies ocher said the currency cost of the es- nature of East-West licensing laws, he
Fred Lahstein, the state secretary in that:
Finance Ministry. Officials say Miss
Rodiger defected to. East Germany.
with a-friend, a suspected East. Ger.
man agent, Robert Kresse. who worked
at Baal A.G., the chemical company.
Mr. Lahnstein was the chief German
liaison' official involved in last- year's
efflot by the Carter Administration to 11
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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
11 September 1979
JOB MARKET
I spy, a career in the dAt
By KAREN STEELE .
AS A KID, did you play with invisible ink and
secret codes? Do strange puzzles and faraway
places intrigue you? If so. you could be just the
person that Bill Wood is looking for. He's your local
CIA recruiter. .. -
The CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, is the
United States' foreign information-gathering arm.
"We like to think of ourselves as being in the
business of foreign intelligence;" says Wood, who has
been recruiting in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for 15
years. He notes the CIA: is interested in "the dynamics
of life-in foreign- countries as it may pertain to life in
the USA -political matters, science and technical
matters, military and economic matters." But, he has-
tens to point.out, "We have absolutely nothing to do
with law enforcement"
Of late, the CIA has been taking ads in. vario
newspapers looking for "you special men and wome
who still have a spirit of adventure." The ad goes o
to sayr-
"There aren't many of you. One in a thousan
maybe. You're a bright, self-reliant. self-motivated.
person we need to help us gather' information and
put together a meaningful picture of what's happen.
ing in the world. One of as elite corps of men and
women." .. . .
That may sound like a hard sell to you, but, the
CIA isn't kidding. They're.out_to recruit new mem-
bers. It sounds. like one way to, have more than an
average 9-to-S-type job and see a little of the world on
Uncle Sam, too:
Wood knows exactly what he's. looking for "Our
personnel needs center around the college graduate.-
and in the liberal arts area we.tend to look predoniti
nantly for graduate-degree candidates::: In the- sci.
ences and engineering we do hire at all-degree levels-
- baccalaureate; master's and'Ph:D.
"Business administration is really not a field that
appeals to us in any preponderance at all. We hire
only a very limited number of BBA,. MBA kinds ofI
people, unless there's something in their background)
that points toward the international trade area or in-
ternational commerce area." - ?
He goes .on..to'. explain. that "our business is- for-'
eign intelligence:. Irhas nothing to do with domestic
ability- at all. Therefore; as we look at college back-
grounds, we're looking. for evidence of people who
are interested is the international scene.:;::::=.:
. "From the liberal `arts area we would -be-much)
interested id someone who has begun to understand
the Soviet Union- or China or Africa or the Middle
East or Latin America. and whose academic back-
ground tends to take- note of political and economic
developments there. Hopefully- there may be some
language in the background of the individual"
Wood emphasizes that the CIA plays no policing
role and does not seek or solicit persons with a crimi-
nal justice or law enforcement background- "I like
very much to. be talking with people who may call
themselves. Soviet specialists, East European special-
ists or Asian specialist& These are people who are
likely to have a graduate degree from what may be
called an area study program on a: major college
campus," he: says. These people will usually hold e!
B.A. in political science or some related field, then goi
onto specialize in graduate school.
He notes that he is currently searching-for elec-
tronic engineers, physics majors, computer science
majors and people with what is defined as "rare" lan
guages. such as Russian, Japanese, Chinese, any o
the East European or Scandinavian tongues, Arabic,
etc. "We have a very special liking for people who argil
into the more uncommon languages of the world.]
There is a very great availability of romance lain
guage majors, but in our recruitment program w
like to get out into the unusual areas." ' ` '- . t~
When asked about areas that a recruit may
working in, Wood was obviously unable to go is
great detail but did say that "there are generally
functions one might be aligned with in the agency.
One would be our overseas. collection program (in
other words, information gathering. or spying) an
the other would be an analytical position at CIe
headquarters." Someone working in the information)
gathering process overseas would work in an "under
cover arrangement of some type, but I think that'
about as far as I'd like to go." _
As far as the age factor goes, Woods says there are
no barriers there:."A major portion of our nationwide
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recruitment program is aimed at people who are al-
ready in the world of work, Were interested in
alumni who may not have found precisely what
'they're looking for. So by no means is our recruit-
ment program aimed exclusively at the college
campus." He says he has- been talking to people who
have been out of college for as long as 15 years.
Starting salaries will vary, depending on qualifi.
cations. Most candidates will begin at. the GS-7 to the
GSA level, which will put the beginning salary in the
S13,014 to S15,920 range.
The CIA has a high rate of retention with its
workers, probably because "most people seem to have
a special reason for wanting to be part of _the intelli-
gence team."
Wood is in the D-FW area two or more times a
month recruiting. Interested people should contact
him by sending a resume to William B. Wood, CIA,
P.O. Box 26, Austin, TX 78767.
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Building Moscow's War Machine 1
arter's Cover,=Up
At Kama diver
Further developments on the Kama
River truck plant in the Soviet Union-
and the explosive growth of East-West
trade in general-suggest the Carter
Administration is sitting atop- a na-
tional scandal of immense proportions.
The situation, indeed, has all . the
makings of a Watergate, only more so:
Questionable transactions concealed
from the American people, possible vi-
olation of the law, use of "executive
privilege" and "national interest" to
suppress important data, and a crack-
down on those who try to get iuch in-
formation to the public. In addition,
there is testimony from a high-ranking
Carter official which, in one key re-
spect at least, is in jarring conflict with
the facts of record.
The major difference between this
scandal and the agony of Watergate is
that this time the cover-up involves,
not a political burglary, but official ac-
tions that encourage dealings poten-
tially harmful to our national security.
(Another distinction is that the
national media, which made such an
issue out of Watergate, have so far
viewed the facts of "Cartergate" with
yawning indifference.)
In recent years, under the umbrella
of detente, trade with the Soviet Union
and other Communist bloc nations has
grown by leaps and bounds. The total
volume of trade with the Soviets alone
has jumped from $191 million in 1970
to $2.8 billion in 1978. In the same
period, the volume of U.S. trade with
the Communist bloc in general has in-
creased from $579 million to' better
than $6 billion.
There Is mounting evidence tb
a substantial part of this traffic-
including computers, ball-bearing
machinery, chemical processes,
etc.-has military application. In
addition, testimony has been gives
in Congress Indicating the Com-
munists have been diverting al-
legedly peaceful trade to Military
purposes. Revelations on both
counts have prompted Congress to
take a closer look at East-West
trade, and caused the Carter
regime to go Into a classic cover-up.
Under the Export Administration
Act of 1%9, the secretary of commerce
is required to restrict the sale of goods
3 February 1977
MEMORANDUM TO':
FROM:
SUBJECT: Computer ($6.1 million) for Soviet Truck Plant (ZIL)
(OC DOC. 5643)
Following is a status report on OC consideration of subject
document.
Problem is that a quarter of the 200,000 trucks ZIL produces
annually goes to the military, including 100 missile launchers.
State and Commerce support approval'; on grounds that US Govern
men, aware of ZIL's military production. has licensed ex=
.ports to it several times during the 19703, that 100 missile
launchers out of a 200,000 vehicle annual production is small,
and that the remaining trucks for the military are basically
no different from heavy duty civilian trucks. Defense and
ERDA support denial on grounds that ZIL's military contribution
is unacceptably high,'and past export approvals should not be
dispositive of instant case. Deadlock appears unbreakable at
OC level.
At the Operating Committee Meeting of December 29, Defense said
they object and will appeal. At the meeting of January 14,
ERDA also said they would object to approval.
A memorandum is being drafted with a fuller explanation of the
issues posing the divergent positions for your review and
possible referral for higher level review.
This copy of an interns! Carter AdmlMstratloa memorandum shows bow the Cant-
awes Department pushes for technology trade with Moeaow-eyes when Hre trade
Involves production of missii launchers.
military potential of any other nation
or nations which would prove
detrimental to the national security of
the- United States." Critics of existing
trade policy say Commerce has made
this provision a virtual nullity by inter-
preting the most obvious military uses
as insignificant.
A striking example appears in an in-
teroffice memo concerning a proposed
computer sale to the Soviet ZIL truck
.plant (see full text above). This memo
states that "a qua--ter of the 200,GW
trucks ZIL produces annually goes to
the military, including 100 missile
launchers." Nonetheless, "State and
Commerce support approval," on the
grounds that we have already licensed
exports for this plant, that the military
trucks are basically like civilian trucks
anyway, and that "100 missile launch-
ers out of a 200,000 vehicle annual pro-
duction is small.
or technologies abroad "which would The mentality behind that* episode
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port standards even further-including {
an attempt to "index" items off the
restricted trade list. By the same token,
a number of irate congressmen will de-
mand a tightening of the laws when the
subject comes to the floor of the
House, a development expected in the
next 10 days.
Much of the current debate has cen-
tered on the Kama River plant, built
for the Soviets with hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars worth of our technol-
ogy. Though it is only one aspect of
our huge and growing volume of trade
with the Communists, and arguably
not the most important, it has become
a symbolic focal point because it is one
project on which key facts have come
to light. . .,
It is now apparent, for instance that
the Kama River plant is int used for
nary purposes. CIA official Hans ! ,
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In addition, congressional investigators have
questioned whether the IBM 370 computer associ-
ated with the plant can be effectively safeguarded
from military diversion.
The response of the Carter Administration to
these disclosures and inquiries has been to coun-
terattack at every level, beginning with the
dissident Brady. Shortly after he contradicted of-
ficial assurances that safeguards against military
use of our technology were adequate, he was re-
buked by Commerce officials-including Secretary
of Commerce Juanita K reps-and relieved of his
post as acting director.
The substantive answer to Brady is equally in-
triguing. Though Commerce spokesmen have
sought sporadically to deny that Kama products
were going for military uses, they have of late re-
treated to verbal quibbling about the meaning of
"diversion." As Kreps put it in a letter to Rep.
Richard Ichord (D.-Mo.), "there was no 'diver-
sion' in connection with the Kama River truck
plant," because "a diversion occurs only when
end-use restrictions pertaining to a licensee, are
violated." Since no restrictions had been imposed
on Kama River, she said, military use of the proj-
ect was not a violation.
-This point was amplified by Assistant Secretary
of Commerce Frank A. Weil (since departed in an
apparently unrelated development) in testimony
before the House Armed Services Research and
Development subcommittee, chaired by Ichord.
"There have been suggestions," Weil said, "that
in the course of the export licensing process, the
Soviets or the U.S. licensees represented to our
government that the trucks and engines produced
at the Kama factory would be used solely for civil-
ian purposes. This v. as not the case."
The record, however, says otherwise. Thus one
export license application filed Dec. 12, 1971, de-
scribes the end use of the commodities in question
as "manufacture of heavy-duty trucks for civilian
use-Kama River truck plant." Another, dated in
November 1971, likewise states the object as "the
manufacture of heavy-duty trucks for civilian
use-Kama River truck plant." Yet another
(Sept. 23, 1971) states the purpose as "manufac-
ture of commercial vehicles."
Even without this dcfitti'ivc proof that the
Kama River deal had been rc-resented in export
applications as a "civilian" and "commercial"
venture, the retroactive jus'i`ica}ion of the Carter
regime-that the U.S. government knew the
tration, testified in May that diesel engines from
t e p ant had been diverted to military uses, and
that vehicles containing such engines had shown
up in military formations of the Warsaw Pact.
Administration officials have in effect conceded
that such military uses had occurred.
There is also evidence that products of the
Kama River plant are being used in military
vehicles other than trucks. A report from the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow says, "It appears that many
of the engines are going into military trucks and
other military vehicles, such as armored personnel
carriers and assault vehicles."
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maac a conscious policy cools: to P .:;=Pt this-
boggles the imagination. At t;:: time the Kama
River project was launched, after f T!, we -vere en-
gaged in bloody warfare in Yietrt-.:4i, where the
Communist enemy made extensive use of trucks
supplied by the Soviet Union.
Ichord and Rep. Lawrence McDonald (D.-Ga.)
have trod to find out just who had made this
policy decision, and if it had been made in writing.
They have, however, run into claims of "executive
privilege" from Carter officials. If these claims of
secrecy are backed up by the White House, we
would have the anomaly of a supposedly open
Democratic Administration covering up the deal-
ings of its Republican predecessors.
Also, it should be noted, the U.S. public is pre-
vented from knowing which American firms rep-
resented the purpose of Kama River as trucks for
"civilian. use," since Commerce has claimed dis-
closure of such information would run counter to 1
the "national interest." This is the claim that is
being challenged in federal court by journalist M.
Stanton Evans and the National Journalism Cen-
ter. (See HUMAN EVENTS for May 26,1979.)
In a follow-up move, Evans on August 17 filed
another Freedom of Information request asking
Commerce to disclose any end-use restrictions that
had been placed on exports to Soviet truck fac-
tories, whether any military violations of such re-
strictions had been recorded, and whether applica-
Lions were pending for further exports to such
factories. At press time, this request had not been
answered.
These various issues concerning Kama River,
militarily useful exports in general, and public ac-
cess to information about our trade policy will be
thrashed out on the floor of the House when that
body considers HR 4034, the Administration-
backed bill to revamp the export act. Amendments
are expected that would tighten definitions of
critical technology, impose requirements for
tougher end-use restrictions, improve techniques
to enforce compliance, and open up the data
about such matters to inspection by Congress and
the public.
Among those involved in this effort, in addition
to Ichord and McDonald (both Democrats), is a
bipartisan group of lawmakers concerned about
the security implications of Red trade, including
Rep. Lester Wolff (D.-N.Y.), Rep. Eldon Rudd
(R.-Ariz.), Rep. Robert Dornan (R.-Calif.), and
Rep. John Ashbrook (R.-Ohio).
Also, there is sentiment for re-calling Lawrence
Brady and Commerce higher-ups to straighten out
conflicts of testimony on Kama River and related
matters, and to get the story on the apparent
harassment of Brady because he dissented from
the official line. A hearing on these issues could
cast much useful light on the murky subject of
who in Commerce is doing what, and the degree to
which our policy on strategic trade has helped to
strengthen the military power of the Soviets.
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This will give you a good idea
of the volume
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ON PAGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
28 September 1979
a neeg Gromyj~o En dI* CubiCTalks
1:7 wyn-1 Progr s''
W.*th- No. S* of
By Don Oberdorfer
Wasatnston Post &sa wnt.r
N ENV` YORK, Sept. 27 - Secretary
of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko
held a lengthy final meeting today on
tine. disputed Soviet combat brigade in
Cuba and declined to say later if any
progress had been made.
Vance immediately flew to Wash-
itigton to brief-President Carter and
t lie ? National Security Council. Gro-
mykar said be will-fly- back to Moscow
Friday:
The. fact that no. more U.S: Soviet
meetings were announced and that
Gromyko is returning to Moscow with-
out seeing President Carter was inter-
preted as a sign that the impasse
between the two nations has not been
broken.
Because of the sensitivity of the
subject, part of the nearly 34k-hour
session at Vance's hotel was a private
conference between the two men, with-
only interpreters present. Another in-
di-cation of the sensitive nature of the
subject was that Gro yko declined to
concede publicly that U.S. charges of
a Soviet combat brigade were even Emerging from the lengthy confer-,
ence- into a crush, of reporters and
photographers. Vance and Gromyko
appeared solemn and,111 at ease. They
agreed the ? talks were "serious" and
announced in advance they would not
discuss their substance.
No additionaimeetings with the So-~?-
viets on the subject were announced,.
and U.S. officials in-the Vance party.'
would give- no indication whether-
three weeks of talks left any hope for
a negotiated solution through, contin-
ued diplomatic dialugue. State Department' spokesman Hod;--
ding Carter cautioned reporters
against any speculation. " , '
Carter did not.. foreclose the posti-,
bility that Vance may change his
schedule, which is to take him to New
Haven for a speech at' Yale Saturday ?ii
and to Panama for a ceremony, about
the canal late Sunday:
Vance is to meet Friday morning at.
the White House with President Can.'
ter, Secretary of Defense Harold
Brown and national. security affairs
adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in- a regtr,
'lar weekly breakfast on foreign policy'
matters. '
Failure to resolve the dispute over.
the brigade through diplomatic means
could trigger unspecified U.S. coun-
teractions promised by President Car-
ter.
Meanwhile, White House press sec-
retary Jody Powell today identified
seven members of the panel. of former
government officials named to advise
the president on the troops issue-
The seven: Clark. Clifford, a Wash-
ington attorney who has been an:ad-
viser to.: several presidents; McGeorge
Bundy,: national security affairs' ad-
viser to President John F. Kennedy;
Brent Scoweraft, national security af-
fairs adviser to Presidents Richard. %L.
Nixon and Gerald R. Ford; John Mc--
Cloy, a Wall Street lawyer and former
holder of numerous diplomatic posts;
John McCone,-former director of the
Central Intelligence Agency; David
Packard, former electronics executive
and former deputy secretary of de-
fense; and Sol Linowitz, on of the
negotiators-- of the Panama Canal
treaties.
Powell said five other citizens from
outside the administration were being
consulted, but he refused to identify
them or their duties. Administration
sources, however, said two are former
secretaries of state Henry' Kissinger
and Dean Rusk. -
For his part, Vance continued to
maintain a low-key public posture. In
an address here today to the Foreign
Policy Association, Vance said that,
while the. United States' is concerned
about the' Soviet brigade, it. wishes to
keep each part of its relationship with
the Soviet Union "in proper perspec-
;a?
five."
This appeared to be.- a bid' to dis-
courage an across-the-board confronts
bon. with the Soviets that- would de-
stroy the results of seven years of ne-
gotiations'on SALT II and raise ten-
sions in many parts of the world. . .
Several Western. European foreign
ministers and other allied 'diplomats
who were briefed on the brigade dis-
pute by Vance here this week, report-
edly' expressed their concern-- about
the effect ' of a major U.S.-Soviet dis-
pute. ? . ' ;,:
Some of these - countries -see sta-
ble U.S.-Soviet relations as fundamen-
tal to their own national: policies of
detente with the communist world.
The demise of SALT II and the. begin-
ning of a new U.S.-Soviet confronta-
tion would likely set off intense trem-
ors in these allied countries-
Despite Vance's explanations; the
Soviets as well as many Europeans ap-
pear to be puzzled about the brigade
issue. In the briefings for allies.
Vance described how. the Issue arose
and how it is viewed within high cir'
Iles of the U.& government- ::'
Today's meeting- was the seventkt in
a series of U.S.-Soviet negotiating ses-
sions on the- issue since- Sea Frank
Church (D-Idaho) made public'Aug. 30
the official U.S. conclusion that a So-
viet combat brigade' is stationed in
Cuba.
The first meetings.. between Vance
and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy F. I
Dobrynin, centered. on. expressions
of U.S. concern ? and a question-
and-answer dialogue. in which Wash-
ington sought information. from the
Soviets about the operations and pur-
pose of the brigade.. On .the day of the
first Vance-Dobrynia meeting, Sept.
10, the Soviets made public a front-
page Pravda editorial, which remains
their most detailed public comment.
rejecting the U.S.-charges and main-
taining that neither the numbers nor
the function of Soviet military person-,
nel in Cuba has changed-since 196L
From the outset, the United States
announced that the "status quo- Is unr
acceptable. But. only 'a-week ago. on
Sept. 20, did Washington put forward
through Dobrynin specific suggestions
for a. diplomatic~:.settlement..These
ranged from..withdrawal' of the cotes
bat force, which already. had been.-re-
jected informally: by the Soviets,... to
measures for removing . "the combat
capability" of the force by reassign-
ment of its officers and transfer of;itS;
major equipment to the Cubans.
At the first: Vance'romyko . meet-
ing last Monday,. Gromyko reportedly'
persisted in the position that the So-
viet force is not 'a combat unit, is,
nothing new and does not violate any,
U.S.-Soviet 'understandings regarding
Cuba or threaten .the: security of the.
United States..'
President Carter' and Brzeiinsk=
have made it increasingly' clear that
the United States will order a series
of compensatory actions to "change
the status quo'" if, the matter cannot
be resolved diplomatically. The nature
of these actions -has not.. been an.:,
nounced_..,.:
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ON PAGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
28 September 1979
Moscow Assails Carter
For remarks About Cuba'
By Kevin Klose
- Nashlnston Pest Poralam aanla
MOSCOW, Sept. 27. --The Soviet
Union tonight- sharply attacked Presi.-
.dent Carter's. pledge to take unspeci-
fied action to counter the presence of
a Soviet combat brigade In Cuba,
charging his tone was "ultimatum.
like" and "threatening." -
The attack b'y-the:government news
agency Tass- came-,as Secretary- of
l
on
~~+.~ ....,
ong Itis t me t
tracted negottations?in New?York with _ g
Soviet Foreign: ?Mlnlster.? Andrei Gro. end It That would help In seeking so.;
myko In an,effort to resolve the. issue, lutions to maior. world: problems and
which has strained?..UZ.Soviet rela- would advance the development of
tions',and endangered ratification ptt_,,,,relations between the two superpow.
SALT II accords, err-... ------
u Referring to the president's remarks. ' In- criticizing' Carter- directly; the
in New York Tuesday, Tass said that the possibility owever,: appeared to preclude
he, made demands "in an ultimatum- the poof any concessions to
like tone that-the-status -quo,. which--- Washington on . the Cuba issue,., even
has existed for, almost two decades though it may- threaten. Senate ratifi-
now, be changed." cation of the strategic arms limitation .
treaty.
It said that the entire problem sur- Speaking about: "unlawfulness" and
rounding the Soviet combat brigade inconsistency" of the president, Tass
in Cuba was a .propaganda-'-hullaba. said-
loo" that was "deliberately,. whipped " Carter allowed himself to make:
up by. circles having a stake .in kin- a number of rude, tactless attacks on
dling" anti-Soviet feelings in - the Cuba and Its policy. The president 'did
United States.
"It is really absolutely obvious that not bother himself with giving any
the Soviet military-. facts or evidence.
art personnel da not "While pointing out that the
and, cannot constitute. any threat, ei- strength of Soviet military personnel
Cher by their. numbers- or their fund- . in--Cuba is now less than in 1963, he
ther . to the United States. or any
o ther state," it said adding?that-they virtually did not deny that in the sta-
' tun quo there is nothing new as com-
have been in Cuba' for "thk last. 17 pad with what.-has been for many.,
years "The Soviet personnel are helping years.
Having once against emphasized-,-
the-Guban military to learn. the use of j
equipment that has been deliv- that the situation is- not a? threat to--
Soviet to them-"- _ ' ,,,,, : the security of the U.S-, Carter at the
-While the..rpresident's-.statements same time expressed an intention_ta
enntain "absolutely unfounded ~.r,a- -Dress for a change of the status quo, In,
said, Carter at the same time ex-
pressed intentions "to continue keep.
ing U.S. troops and numerous military
basesan close proximity to the Soviet
Union"s borders-"
Carter, in a "town meeting" In New`.
York Tuesday night, reiterated the
.American contention. that a.,Soviet,
force in Cuba is a combat, unit, de-
spite. Soviet denials.:, He said' he did
not-know if the current Vance-Gro?
" mylo' negotiations will be successful.
But, the president said, he will take
action "to change the status quo" if
the current talks fail.
By, attacking the president person-
ally, the Tass commentary tonight
appeared-to raise the level of Soviet
United Nations Tuesday, dismissed as
"artificial" Washington's concern
about the Soviet combat brigade and
said that "it is high ,time" that the -
matter be dropped.
But the Soviet foreign minister re-
frained from mentioning either the
Soviet troops or the United States.
The' T a s a -commentary tonight
echoed Gromyko's remarks by saying
dents that the United States, you see;
can take some action to change the
status quo." -
.. Speaking about- Carter's "inconsis,
tencies, Tass said that the president,,
"having- come forward with all this as,.
semblage of inventions, attacks and
threats;" subsequently urged the sena,
tors" to-ratify SALT:II.
- Tass made no reference to the cur
rent Vance-Dobrynin talks. An edito-
rial in. the Communist Party newspa-
per Pravd'on Sept.: Ir rejected as "to-
tally-,groundless" Washington's asser-
tions that a Soviet: combat brigade'
was in Cuba but carefully- avoided any
criticism of Carter. - r' , - - = : - ? =
A subsequent Tass commentary bit-
anger about, what Moscow calls the terly denounced Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1
campaign of falsehood. of the Rand -Corp., is a writer in
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