BRIEFING FOR SSCI ON ARMS CONTROL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 14, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Briefing for SSCI on Arms Control
1. On 14 December 1983, SSCI staff members Schmitt,
Andreae, Codevilla, Connolly, Elliff, Finn, Levine,
Mattingly, Newsom, Dykstra, Blau and Meyer were briefed on
the validity of claims in the attached Washington Times
article of 8 December 1983, regarding alleged Soviet
violations of SALT II. Mike Epstein of Sen. Byrd's staff
also attended. Chief DDI ACIS, was assisted by
DDI/OSWR, and
DDI/OSWR. Non-CIA
A transcript was
2. I laddressed each of the allegations in the
Times article by Ted Agres. There was also a brief
discussion of the Intelligence Community's compliance report
to Congress that is due in January 1984. noted
that his staff is working on the report but declined to
provide any details regarding content. Ed Levine, who had
requested the briefing because of concern about the Agres
article, indicated full satisfaction with the briefing and
the rapidity of response to his request. F1
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I0'effect,` the sources said, this
a Soviet walkout.
By Ted Ares would amount'to
. which is about 6,600 pounds. This is
the ; negotiating table :0 A. co
present cycle' has 'ended ', for the'' ance with the strategic arms limi II agreement provided.
holidays. The talks are due to wind tation treaty .'.These include
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up today: ? The ,unprecedented, .:and 'pre see SOVIETS,
ay rom
ligence sources. ratified; However, President Rea-
The sources also said that there Ban publicly committed the United
are indications that Soviet officials States to abiding by its terms so
at. the Geneva : START talks on 'long'as the Soviet Union does too.
'.limiting strategic nuclear, missiles The sources said there have been
.will refuse to set a date to'return to five major , developments in the
f the on oing debate over Soviet compli-
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.'ment, . including the ' potential to ploy U.S. cruise.and Pershing II
double the throw-weight of its mts- missiles as part of N4TO's modern-
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? The satellite sighting In August weight :. sled Backfire bombers from Arctic
of two squadrons, of Soviet Back- If this upgrading Were a: be ' bases at'Olenagorsk, on the Kola
fire bombers at long-range airforce' applied to all Soviet land- and sea- ' Peninsula near Murmansk, a loca-
bases in Arctic staging, bases. This based missiles, the sources said, it Lion ideally. suited for potential
indicates the proposed use of the would effectively double the throw- Soviet operations against Europe.
Backfires. as intercontinental . ' , weight capability of the entire: These. Backfires were naval -
bombers. Soviet missile force. oriented, intended for strikes
against NATO naval formations, so
? The discovery that the Soviets :? ? The strong indications that they were not believed to be a SALT
are producing. 36 to 40 Backfire senior U.S. officials are becoming ' .: ' II violation.
bombers each year, when former increasingly willing to accuse the / But ' with the recent evidence
'Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ' Soviets of SALT II violations. Mem- from U.S. reconnaissance satellites
'wrote in his agreement that no bers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in of Backfires at long-range staging
.more than 30 per year would be top-level interagency, meetings, bases deeper in the Arctic, their
produced. heretofore have repeatedlyi urged' .. use as intercontinental bombers,.
the United States to continue com- with a capability of quickly
The detection since June 1983 plying with terms of the unratified striking all of the United States,
of five tests of a` 'new type of SALT II accord, even though Soviet was confirmed.
submarine-launched ballistic mis- violations in at least 110 areas: are was virtually
rile (SLBM) with a throw-weight in ?. ' . -.known, The certain sources the said it Reagan v y
violation of SALT II accords., This view, as expressed by Assis , - tration would soon make full disclo=
This new SLBM, designated by.,, tent Secretary of State 'Richard sure of the . `Soviets' SALT II
U.S. intelligence as SSNX 23, is, esti, ? Burt and : other officials, has been violations. While no date was men
mated to have a greater throw that as long as -the Soviets are coin- tioned, it is expected to occur
weight than 'that of the' SS-19 plying with more SALT II. terms around the time Congress recon-
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.act of .contempt or defianceof U.S.:, are in stalled in the third stage, bombers, the sources reported that
?' concerns;he added. allowing the increase; in . 'throw- , . since 1977 the Soviets have oper-
a'violation of Article 9 of the SALT
viously undisclosed, admission by
Soviet officials of two Soviet viola-
tions of.the SALT II agreements..
Op Nov 22 Soviet generals, meet-
ing in Geneva at the SALT Standing.
Consultative Commission, admit-'
tad for the first time that they.
'atfieady had deployed more missile'
lynchers capable of carrying niul-;
. tiple warheads than the SALT II
ceiling allowed. The agreement.
allows for deployment of no more'
than 1,200 such "MIRVed",
launchers.
The generals also admitted that.
they had deployed more heavy
bombers equipped with long-range -
cruise missiles than the 1,320 SALT.
States should continue complying
with all the terms of the agreement.
II agreement. But, the sources said, these have
The sources also said that the become "minority views in the top-
Soviets apparently have achieved. level interagency panels and the
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.tions,,but the admissions came as, away with a fourth-stage. ''post- increasing" President Reagan is
something of a . surprise,, the boost vehicle;' which would. nor- known to have in hand a full list of
sources said. "They came right out mally . contain the missile's Soviet SALT II violations, which he
and admitted it on their own," said ' warhead and guidance electronics., has been reluctant to make public.
one source: "It ,appeared to be an Instead the payload and guidance On, the issue of 'the Backfire
analysts : pre-
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