ABC NIGHTLINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000200910009-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 20, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2008/06/27: CIA-RDP88-01070R000200910009-9
ABC NIGHTLINE
20 October 1983
KOPPEL: The topic of Soviet espionage came. up on Capitol Hill tonight in a Senate
debate concerning .a new Soviet embassy building here in Washington. The story now
from ABC congressional correspondent Brit Hume.
HIJ : The Soviets are building a new embassy on a site near the highest point in
Washington, a site some suspect will make it ideal for the interception of U.S.
intelligence that pours in here by radio every day. fi-ln the Senate tonight, Wyoming
Republican Wallop, a member of the Intelligence Committee,. moved to authorize the
president to stop the Soviets from finishing the embassy until the U.S. is provided a
comparable elevated site in Moscow. Majority Leader Baker.moved.to block the
.amendment, saying the White House had just told bin' it was strenuously opposed, and so
was the State Department. Said a sarcastic--Wallop, 'The State Department would-do
almost anything to avoid disrupting tea time. '..And:as time ran out on the vote,
'Wallop was ahead. Baker, lobbied Republican members-frantically to switch their votes.
Nevada's Laxalt, the president's friend, did.,-and so did New Hampshire'.s Audman..
Baker gazed across at Wilson of?'Cailifornia_ 'I've never done this to you,'' he could
be heard saying, 'but I need your vote.' Wilson didn't switch, but Virginia's Warner
and Trible did, and the Wallop amendment went down 46 to 42. The leadership put out
this little brushfire, but there could be more like it. The mood around here these
days is anti-Soviet and pro-U.S. intelligence. Brit Hume for Nightline on Capitol
Hill.:
Approved For Release 2008/06/27: CIA-RDP88-01070R000200910009-9