SOVIETS STOP BUILDING U.S. EMBASSY OVER USE OF BUGGING DETECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001600230005-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 27, 1983
• Content Type: NSPR

910
I By'tuskSoder
a hington Post orrel n Service
Construction of a new U.S. m-
LQ c
ay'
?
,
bass? 'here was halted Monday when about 360 Soviet
V: I ?. ; ro ,1., ..II_-_, &C-_
n -------a-- -ra_s_~_
U.S
44
1'i + 7~F F 4a
B,;,t1Sed, ,new-machmg designed to discover listening de
kow $ql t c nstructton workers as I i 'tined the s raw4i
g
Moscow to protest the use
0 million project in central
' ~v}egrus c -'or checkln~ structural flaws in the buildings. y
!ti k sure n no agvtei its enm devices had been 1111- Employe of Honkie Department Store In Akita examines debris of advei
th
iti
h
d
d
y Soviet, au
es eaa
or
a
VCGt Dare
R Vce
?f presuma ~ly as one norms y used to checlt` on pos- Q
le cracks in concrete construction works. The sources Oilal~ew Tida ayes
f
ter
gestea teat soviet omcials oraerea the waixout a
be an to sus ect that the machine had a different
vi d(
' p By
onia c tFDorahlby
unct~On ~ h~nKtTracy Dahlby
egp8,rIce
big,
cked Ja co
aka
ea
A
uaay,
av
p--'.. -rfur
May 4V-
s Was halted when dour Soviet women supervisors, . pan's picturesque northern coastline today, spawning 1
~rizT tell armbands to suggest they were deputized for 15-foot tidal waves, leaving at least 32 persons dead and sioi
ice duty, prevented workers from entering the fenced causing widespread damage over seven of the country's Aki
l by arguing tTiat the use oI` the new machine exposed
refectures as
p
[" "'x~ $C.~ 'ax5 ;,-f-LI1C li UCl11C, lr1IG IIIVJL UGaUiy' iu 11a1i Val/uaa aaa iv ,..ua.~,
A,n embassy spokesman, sick 'l ,uth, described't a in- hit shortly after noon with its epicenter in the Sea of atti
nt as a dispute about terms of the contract "As far Japan about 100 miles off the shore of Akita prefecture fall
td~
,
we cbfleei~ he said theme are no health haz untr 's northeastern Tohoku region and 340
tX1..I, cy-
tie site. orth of Tok The (wake re istered a magnitude len
a,:naPp .,.r., 5&li4hrh?~,".l^~?.. Set. ti@s:Sidefl'k r ~: .P?4r~Y..aE'i. ~, ~`1., tl:.: ry. 3. o .7e.......m... ..-...-. .. ......r_..?,_. ..~r.,.._.~,
60 -
oweyer refused to prove a other details on of 7.7 on the open en ded Richter scale, ane t per
ifl ~l t t2OQOi 8 O8~ p iA-RG ~Q - 8~8RGQ1 ~3OOO5=6
1di Q any potential court battles with the Soviet Union. As aftershocks from the tremor continued to rattle the .
area fate into _t night, Japanese television crews pro
the
loc
 Approved, f,6 'Release 2000/08/08: CIA.-RD?P96-00788R001600230005-6
T1 1 !`1 ? r r t -e
F
e ago After pro frequently about difficulties with
Askect Q nc be tracted haggling over the terms, a Soviet workers. Under the agree
twee ',ly's eoffic~al posttion_ f1nal agreement was signed at the ment the United States is not t s,J 'T
ummd private accounts of the Bourg , ,1979 ienna summit between , ,l_pwed"to mpa[t foreign workers to
$ovit.er, Ambassador Arthur Leonid $reihnev and Jimmy Carter. do the job. It is allowed to have
H s~~d ~vq "It is a The new Soviet Embassy com- about 40 supervisors on the site.
14 ,
co~
ute Our contract Ives pound on upper Wisconsin Avenue The 900-by-450-foot, complex is
? "?
in Washington was largely ill} t ,to inspect, .and that s com- surrounded by a wire-mesh fence
b t w
,g pleted two years ago when Soviet and lit by floodlights, presumably to
"`?-
1
personnel moved into their housing prevent clandestine installation of
8 supervisors
facilities. listening devices.
l
w
fE another four week -Although the cornerstone for the Other precautions include trans-
s
did nQ expect the SO- uivitt;att rii,iuktsay nere was parent pipes witnm sections or the
'? laid in 1979 the
roject i
o
l
h
b
ildi
p
s
n
y c
ancery
u
ng to allow security
ore" e s:.. S lL tp their ,lobs about 30 percent complete and is personnel to monitor possible use of
hefprel 0 when the X-ray in- ._.-not expected to be finished until late the pipes by the Russians to sneak
sus y? x
? ton ~s tv a completed, 1985 at the earliest, according to in bugging devices.
c
rt
p
e
~
o
li ?x
4
a -
-.--,U .S. construction specialists here. Its The site was almost deserted to-
dtry beind the current U.S. End
estimated
t
f $100
illi
h
?
cos
o
m
on
as day, and several U.S. construction
bap' compound, whose 10 story . risen by 20 percent since 1979. supervisors were reported to be plan-
w
#uiC, ~'uiicm
s found t
h
g
a
o
ave, The project includes an eight-sto- ping to depart for the United States
eat., binged when.. it was ry chancery building
originally for the duration of the shutd
,
own,
o 1e in 1952 ~.. ,.:.slated for completion this year, an which came just as work was accel-
The w l iQl1t y sat g luq, xep tat, ,_ . elementary school building, sports erated to take advantage of the mild
Snsg o delay t e project since the and other, recreational facilities and summer weather. For most of the
two . count s signed an agreement housing for 134 families. year, Moscow's harsh climate allows