EUROMISSILES MAY GET SOVIETS TO TALK TURKEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/13: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140008-1
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Euro- missiles
May Get Soviets
To Talk.,.Turkey
The Kremlin has spent millions of
rubles trying to stop deployment of
the 572 U.S. missiles that are going
to western Europe. In what a Dem-
ocratic arms analyst called a "hy-.
sterial" reaction, the Soviet Union
has threatened everything from a
walkout at the Geneva disarmament
talks to a nuclear confrontation like
the Cuban missile crisis 21 years ago.
.The reason is clear: The Pershing
II missiles in West Germany and the
ground-launched cruise missiles in
Britain will give the United States
and its NATO allies a more effective
deterrent. If the Soviets were to start
a European war, most of the impor-
tant targets in the Soviet Union-in-
cluding Moscow-would be within
range for retaliatory salvos.
A top-secret NATO document ob-
tained by my associate Dale Van
Atta spells out the situation in stark
percentages: "A 1,500-kilometer
[missile] system would place at risk
from [West Germany] 65 percent of
the high-priority targets" identified
by NATO leaders in eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union. The Pershing
Its have a range of 1,500 kilometers
[930 miles].
WASHINGTON POST
28 November 1983
"A 2,500-kilometer system based
in the United Kingdom could poten-
tially place at risk approximately 87
percent of the high-priority. targets,
including Moscow. itself." The-.cruise
missiles now being deployed in Brit-
ain.have a range of_2,500 kilometers
[1,550 Mlles]. - -
.The top-secret document notes .
that NATO has compiled-a. list of
.more than 2,500 high-priority..-mil-
itary targets" that would be - reach
able by the intermediate-range nu
clear missiles now, being placed in
western Europe. "Of these, about
two-thirds are located in the non-So-
viet Warsaw Pact [nations] and the
remaining one-third in the Soviet
Union."
The document .says "there are
many additional military targets in
the western Soviet Union which are
not included in the European high-
priority target list; for instance,
ICBMs [intercontinental -ballistic
missiles] and heavy bomber bases."
These are on the target list for
U.S. strategic nuclear forces.
"There are a large number-in ex-
cess of 25,000-of economic infra-
structure targets which are included
in the European Target Data Inven-
tory," the report adds. "Such instal-
lations historically have not - been
targeted by [NATO] forces, although
they are not excluded .... Similar
targets would today be struck by
(U.S.-based) forces during a general
nuclear response."
An arms analyst explained wh;.
the Soviets' shrill response to de-,
plo,yment of so-called "theater" mis-!
siles m western Europe is considere7
an overreaction: The number of nu
clear warheads that NATO is deploying is small compared to the
number of priority targets in eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union. .d?
.The .analyst and high Pentagon:"
sources are betting that the Soviets'l;
will be quite willing to resume arms
negotiations after -the o?ershing: -IFF;'
and cruise missiles -are in place..-
They point out that the Kremlin -
cannot have forgotten that the most
important arms-limitation treaties
the 1972 SALT I and associated':
anti-ballistic missile' agreements"
were negotiated and : ratified by a'
Republican administration : in arv.:
election year. -
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/13: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140008-1