WEINBERGER KEEPS GETTING SHUT OUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720042-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: November 4, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720042-3
NEW YORK POST
ARTICLE APPEARED 4 November 1985
OK PAG 3
ON THE ROAD TO THE SUMMIT
Weinberger keeps getting s ut out
By NILES LATHEM
Washington Bureau Chief
HELSINKI. week was made while Gordlebssy, the former teview with a U.S. Presi-
DEFENSE Secretary Cas- Weinberger and his arms KGB station chief In Lon- dent since the Kennedy
par Weinberger has been control adviser, Asst. Secre- don who defected to Britain era, a feud is erupting be-
cut out of the Geneva sum- tary of Defense Richard earlier this year, also had tween the press offices of
mit after losing a series of Perle, were attteuding a extensive dealings with the two nations.
epic battles inside the Rea- NATO conference in Brus- Gorbachev last December Insiders say that mem-
gan administration over sels. 'during the latter's widely bers of Secretary of State
U.S. arms control policy. The arms control defeat publlcisied tour of London. Shultz' delegation are fum-
The most telling evidence for Weinberger comes on flew s cretl to ing over Soviet denial of a
that Weinberger is on the the heels of equally bitter s visa for NBC correspond-
fact that there is not a sin- budget earlier this year been schedueled to fly with
gle representative of the and leaves him alone in- material Casey col- Shultz to Moscow this
Pentagon in the U.S. dele- creasingly frustrated. lec m these rare week.
gation traveling with Sec- Could a resignation be counters w apparently Miss Garrels, a former
retary of State George far behind? b~e on n s s ea y correspondent in Moscow,
Shultz on his mission to * * * C.I.A. PAnle on rbachev had filed a series of hard-
Moscow today. - CI Director William SW will be delivered to the hitting reports on the
Administration officials is ma III so of White owe as part of the Soviet Union that angered
se t Pre say President Reagan has s own ~ 'sra? final pre ara on for a- the Kremlin
privately rejected a re- lions or nova sum- gsa s showdown n eneva. A U.S. official said the
quest from Weinberger Wt in the murk under- * * * denial was unjustified,
that he be included in the wO! of wnce. FIVE days especially in view of criti-
U.S. delegation traveling to (?"~ wh L quietly ee. after the White cal comments that the four
the Geveva summit in trenched as one of Presi- House rolled out the red Soviet journalists who in-
three weeks. dent an must carpet for four visiting terviewed Reagan made
Weinberger's once con- Influential advisers. held a Soviet journalists, giving about the President in the
siderable clout has series of serre ace- them the first exclusive in- U.S. media last week.
ished because of his contin- 0.1500 meetings w
ued oposition to U.S. arms a ec ors a or a say
control policies advocated and Nun n o in
by Shultz and the increas- t ponth to a rs -
ingly powerful national se- rm ou a Cwut
curity adviser, Robert Soviet leader bilk"11 or-
McFarlane.
Insiders say Weinberger
was bitterly opposed to the
White House offer of a
counter-proposal to Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorba-
chev's 50 percent arms re-
duction package.
The defense chief argued
that there is nothing in the
proposal that merited a
U.S. response other than a
"rhetorical one."
In fact, Reagan's final
decision to offer a counter-
proposal to Moscow last
Dzurchenko, the No. 5
man in the KGB until his
defection two months ago,
has reportedly provided
"valuable Insight" Into
Gorbachev and his sudden
rise to power.
Dsurchenko, one of the
most prized defectors in
U.S. history, watched Gor-
bachev rim from
vantage point
his close ties to former
Soviet leader and. KGB
boss Yuri Andropov.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720042-3