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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200310102-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 102
• Content Type: NSPR

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Washington Post on March We are now asked by>.the;' stet a certainty, Imt A t~-e Soviet Union is only *p-
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Disarmament Agency, nas'atp all tests. We are aslted. "Y` """ . -__ _
challenged certain of the as- to do this despite the facti. Soviet cheating because other Soviet roadblock against on-
sertions I made in a recent that we are on the threshold` risks are more dangerous. I site inspections, but I say'to
on the floor of the of decisive new discoveries, challenge this' last contention, the American peaple: whets
speech
Senate and in a previous denied us by the previous but before going on to it I we consider the vast land gxo
letter to the editor of The test ban, discoveries that want . to nail down the fact ; ^ pause of the Communist +
Post. might restore ourlead and that the proposed inspection "world , occupying one-fifth of'
terms do
I welcome Mr. Fisher's dramatically strengthen the not give us a guar- the earth's surface; when we
antee against cheating. This consider the limitless capac-
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statement because I feel that security and peace of the free ,
only good can come from r wore 1. is the cardinal fact to which. Ity of the Communists for
ll other considerations must fraud and deceit; when we
The great question before a
public discussion of the !
be subordinate. consider their present capae
issues involved. Mr. Fisher, us is: Doerr this treaty provide its. for undetectable tests
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incidentally, was my cot- an adequate system of inspec- ?
league at the Nuremburg tion with reasonable assur- The reason why the pro- when we consider the un-
trials and while I disagree ance that the Soviets are not posed inspection system is in- known possibilities for decep-,
sharply with some of hit secretly continuing nuclear adequate as. I have tried to tion which perverted science
statements on the test-ban' tests that can give them the point out in the past, is that will give them in the future,
issue, I have the greatest re, revolutionary weapons denied we have made so many re- 'we can not, we must not, en-
spect for him both as a man to us by our observance of treats and concessions to the trust our national survival to
and as a Government official. the test ban? Soviets in five years of nego- -a treaty which denies us a
'For almost two decades, the, ?1 have laboriously pointed tiations that our proposed sys- reasonably foolproof Inspee-
peace and security of the out in speeches and letters tem of monitoring stations and . tion system Inside the Soviet
,United States and the free.that there is no such assur- on-site inspections within the jUnlon We must not entrust
world have rested upon the ance; that we have no way of Soviet Union is now, a hollow ? the future of freedom to a
unchallengeable military. detecting underground tests, shell. system of absentee monitor-
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lated deceit and treachery of through hidden tests of these Soviet Union. I dispute this. , Mr. Fisher's contentions that
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.peace. missile warhead and other of detection and I point to quate on site inspection. -
Five years ago we began decisive weapons. the fact that it is now pos- The reasons he advances
to fritter away our nuclear Mr. Fisher's widely publi- sible for the Soviets to test are in the realm of political
supremacy. We stopped test- cized letter purports to an- secretly In outer space and and strategic speculation. It
Ing and trusted the Soviets saver these statements. But to test large weapons under- is contended that the risks'
to stop. We halted or hobbled the remarkable fact is that ground without any possibil- of not signing this treaty are
our development of a variety 'nowhere in his detailed de-' ity of detection. This situa- greater than the acknowl-
?of new, revolutionary weap-,Tense of the Administration Lion did not exist five years edged risks of signing it.
id that this o and it makes any gain In These greater risks are con- .
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earthquake science irrelevant tinued testing by the Soviets
ens. Then September morning to fin .
d treaty gives us solid assurance
that the Soviets had cheated that the Soviets cannot con- and insignificant by compari- , and the spread of nuclear`'.'
.,us again. tinue tests and develop new . son. I technology to other nation e
When the mushroom clouds weapons while we are immobi- Second, lie says that it does ? This argument is ent!rely Ir-
of their awesome series of lized. On the contrary, he not matter, anyway, because relevant because the pro-
gigantic test shots had faded, confirms my misgivings. He our reliance is based, not. posed treaty does At prevent
we discovered that our pre- affirms' that the proposed upon monitoring inside the , all testing by that Soviet Un-
cious nuclear supremacy had treaty does involve the risk of Soviet Union, but upon moni? ion and does n6t even Oft-
vanished and we suddenly undetected cheating. He of-,' toring stations outside. Here' tend to prevent the spreitd
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entered the more perilous firms that individual tests the cardinal pr
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Mr. Fisher disputes this an
loss of supremacy, but all Soviets have rejected this (;0/i/r
scientists withS ,izde- Approved For Releas ITi t 3 yP oigR000200310102-6
facts, from Edward Teller to
Vans lid he, bac?e testified