MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY OF STATE FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY REGARDING MAP OF SOVIET DOMESTIC OIL AND GAS PIPELINE NETWORK

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• Publication Date: October 21, 1982
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
21 October 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Secretary of State
At the request of the NSC Staff, we've prepared
this map which shows the Soviet domestic oil and gas
pipeline network, along with the location of Soviet
forced labor camps. (The export pipeline is in black.)
Keep in mind that the oil pipeline from Moscow, through
Kansk-Achinsk to Lake Baibkal, runs alongside the
Trans-Siberian Railway. It's the railroad that explains
the multitude of camps along this route.
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NANCY L KASSEBAUM. KANS. PAUL. E. TSONGAS. MASS.
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LARRY PRESS-AR. S. OAK. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD. CONN.
EDWARD O. SANDERS. STAFF DIRECTOR
GERYLD A. CNRISTUINSON. MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
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The Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central.-Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
On September 2, 1982 you sent a letter to me concerning
construction of the trans-Siberian pipeline in the
Soviet Union. I would like to request that your letter
be updated and sanitized so that it can be used in
unclassified form. I believe that if you delete
references to sources and methods, the letter can be
declassified.
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OEXA 82-1944/A
Honorable Charles H. Percy, Chairman
Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Thank you for your letter of 20 August 1982 concerning human rights
violations in connection with the construction of the trans-Siberian
pipeline in the Soviet Union. The following is the information that
I have received on this subject:
The Directorate of Intelligence DDI has received
a report oncerning the
occasional use by the Soviets of paroled common
prisoners in the construction of gas pipeline
compressor stations. political
prisoners are not used because they are not eligible
for parole. As we would have presumed from past
Soviet practice, parolees are used largely as manual
labor or service personnel. The parolees reportedly
are paid the same wages as free workers, but are not
allowed to leave the workers' living compound without
permission; thus, paroled prisoners are not employed
in pipelaying, which requires mobile crews. It is
also likely that the Soviets, plagued by too few
workers, might use some of the 2 million people now
in forced labor camps, as well as parolees, to speed
completion of important pipeline construction projects.
While it is possible that the Soviets would consider
using even political prisoners on a project of such
urgent priority as the Siberian export pipeline, the
international political risks involved and the negligible
contribution such workers--even skilled--could render
would make Moscow wary of doing so.
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I ope that is information is helpful.
cc: Honorable Barry M. Goldwater, Chairman
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Honorable Edward P. Boland, Chairman
House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence
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I hope that this;-nformation I helpful.
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
cc: Honorable Barry M.. Goldwater, Chairman
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Honorable Edward P. Boland, Chairman
House Permanent Select Committee
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NORARD N. BARER. JR.. TENN. CLAIBORNE FELL, RJ.
JESSE HELMS. N.C. :}OSEPH R. BIDEN. JR., Do-
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CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR.. MD. EDWARD ZORINSKY. NEBR.
NANCY L. KASSEBAUM, KANS. PAUL E. TSONGAS, MASS.
RUDY BOSCHWTL. MINN. ALAN CRANSTON, CALIF.
LARRY PRESSLER. S. OAK. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD. CONN.
EDWARD G. SANDERS. STAFF DIRECTOR
GERYLD B. CNRISTUWSON. MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510
August 20, 1982
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Enclosed are copies of S. Res. 449, "Expressing the sense
of the Senate with respect to-human rights violations in
connection with the construction of the trans-Siberian
pipeline," submitted by Senator Armstrong on August 17.
The Foreign Relations Committee would appreciate
information from the intelligence community bearing
on this resolution by September 7.
Sincerely,
Charles H. Percy
Chairman
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97TH CONGRESS S. RES. 449
2D SESSION
Expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to human rights violations in
connection with the construction of the trans-Siberian pipeline.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
AUGUST 17, 1982
Mr. ARMSTRONG submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to human rights.
violations in connection with the construction of the trans-
Siberian pipeline.
Whereas the Soviet Union is proceeding with its plan to build
the trans-Siberian pipeline, known as the Yamal pipeline;
Whereas there is Senate testimony that massive use of forced
labor may be used by the Soviet Union to complete its con-
struction;
Whereas there are first-hand dissident reports that there are
four to seventeen million Soviet citizens now being held in
some two thousand work camps in the Soviet Union and
that there are persistent -published reports of agreements to
deport forcibly up to a half-million laborers from Vietnam to
Soviet Union concentration camps in direct violation of .in-
ternational agreements;
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