'DISINFORMATION' LINK DRAWS IRE OF PENTAGON SPACE DEFENSE OFFICER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402860004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 21, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28 :CIA-RDP90-009658000402860004-1
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21 P1arch 1986
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By Walter Anarews
THE WASHiNG'ON 7iMES
A key Pentagon official yesterday
said he was "appalled" that remarks
he made in a speech this week were
linked to a magazine report that the
Pentagon is conducting a disinfor-
mation program on the Space De-
fense Initiative and other military
programs.
The magazine article referred to
appeared in Aviation Week and
Space Technology. It said the Pen-
tagon. in conjunction with the CIA,
is putting out false information on a
number of weapons programs to
confuse the Soviets.
Four[,'. S. senators, all Democrats,
asked the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee 6Vednesday to look into
charges that the SDI office may have
given the Soviets a secret classified
briefing last June and also may have
used Congress and the media in a
disinformation campaign to give the from an SDI spokesman. "The way it
Soviets false or misleading informa- was juxtaposed, it implies that I
lion.
"'I2-ying to link an attempt by us
(the SDI office] to explain what we
do with the Soviets -and why cer-
somehow satd the (June] briefing
was classified;' Col. Worden said.
The briefing referred to was one
given to [he Soviets by SDI program
avaltaole -to some deliberate disin director Lt. Gen. James Abraham-
formation campaign is a -son last June during arms control
said Lt. Col. Simon Worden apspecial -negotiations.
assistant and SDI representative at The four Democratic senators
the Geneva arms talks. as~g the Intelligence Comtnittee
for an in
In a telephone interview
the colo-
,
nel said his position was "misrepre-
sented" bythe linkage implied in the
senators' request and in a press re-
port yesterday.
Lt. Col. Worden said that the re-
porter who wrote the story did not
contact him. The reporter, of The
Washington Post, quoted from a
transcript of the colonel's Monday to
a convention of the American Jewish
Congress and obtained comments
remarks and gthis week's magazine
article are William Proxmire of Wis-
consin, J. Bennett Johnston of Lou-
isiana, Dale Bumpers of Arkansas
and Lawton Chiles of Florida.
The colonel said his Monday re-
marks may have caused possible
confusion because he also had said
there were some circumstances in
which the Soviets would be given
valid classified information kept
from the American people.
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