THIS IS A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, 5 U.S.C. #552, AS AMENDED.

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• Publication Date: January 14, 1983
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Washington, D.C. 20003
January 14, 1983
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Sir:
19 3pi 1983
LOGGED,
This is a request under the Freedom of Information
Act, 5 U.S.C. ?552, as amended. The January 10, 1983
edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine
reported that Rear Admiral Edward A. Burkhalter, director of
the Intelligence Community Staff, recently addressed a
meeting of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics
Association. The article quoted Admiral Burkhalter as
telling those in attendance that "one of the means by which
the Soviets have acquired valuable information in recent years
has been through adroit use of the Freedom of Information Act."
I have enclosed a copy of the article-for your
information. I am writing to request that I be permitted to
inspect and copy any and all FOIA requests made by the Soviets.
In addition to the requests themselves, I am seeking access
to all records relating to those requests, as well as the
records obtained by the Soviets through the FOIA. Unless
Admiral Burkhalter intended another meaning, I am using the
term "Soviets" to include individuals, governments, or
surrogates acting on behalf of the government of the U.S.S.R.
In the event that you determine that the requested
records, or-any portion of them, are exempt from disclosure,
I ask that you cite me to the specific exemption of the Act
upon which you are relying. As required by the Act, I will
expect your determination within ten working days. Thank
you for your courtesy.
erely,
Paul M. Rosa
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British Design Mach 2 VTOL Fighter
London-British Aerospace has designed an advanced, Mach 2 supersonic vertical
takeoff and landing fighter aircraft, designated the P. 1216, and has completed a full-
scale mockup at its Kingston production facility. .
Decision to build a mockup was made after extensive wind-tunnel testing by the
company's Kingston-Brough Div. Wind tunnel tests on the model and several other
configurations have been under way for several years (Aw&sT Dec. 8, 1980, p. 51).
The P. 1216 design is powered by an uprated Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine, rated at
more than 30.000 lb. and employing plenum-chamber burning in the two forward ducts
for added thrust. The engine has a single rear vectorable duct through which the
engine's hot section exhausts, rather than two rear ducts as in the existing Harrier
family. -
The P.1216 is larger than current AV-8B aircraft A new wing has been designed for
the Mach 2 role.
developed and manufactured in that na-
tion.
The Lavi, the team said, would not
compete with the new U. S. advanced tac-
tical fighter, adding that the first proto-
type Lavi will not be available until
November, 1985, with first production air-
craft scheduled for delivery in 1990. Israel
plans to buy the first 300 aircraft for its
inventory and could not begin export sales
of the Lavi until 1995, according to De-,
fense Dept. officials.. .
There is a debate within the Adminis-
tration on whether to allow Foreign Mili-
tary Sales credits to be used for Lavi
development. There is no real problem
with using the credits for fighter produc-
tion, only for development, one Defense
Dept. official explained. He said, however,
it is likely Foreign Military Sales funding
will be used for the development program.
Funding for the Lavi is less certain than
release of component composite technol-
ogy and will depend on the meeting sched-
uled in February between President Rea-
gan and Israel's prime minister,
Menachim Begin, and the position Israel
takes on West Bank settlements.
A licensed production contract for the
PW1120 engine has been signed, and the
engines for the Lavi will be produced at
Bet Shemesh Engines, Ltd., near Tel
Aviv. The PW 1120 will share a common
core with the F100-PW 100/200 engines
and have 60% commanality in parts. No
change is expected in hot-section life for
the engine.
The PW 1120 is being developed with
Measures Urged to stem Tide
Of sensitive Data to Soviets-.
San Francisco-U. S. should sanction the
wider use of lie detector tests by the Defense
Dept. and revise both the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act and its procedures for declassify-
ing defense-related material to stem the flow
of sensitive technological information to the
USSR, an intelligence official said here last
week.
One of the means by which the Soviets have
acquired valuable information in recent years
has been through adroit use of the Freedom
of Information Act, according to Rear Adm.
Edward A. Burkhalter, U. S. Navy, director of
the Intelligence Community Staff.
"Just by asking the right questions, the
Soviets are able to pull from federal govern-
ment files reams of technical data not other-
wise available to the public, much of it only
recently declassified," he said at an Armed
Forces Communications and Electronics As-
sociation meeting (AFCEA).
Industry, rather than government, however,
is the front line in the struggle against Soviet
industrial espionage. Industry must exercise
its responsibility to help deny sensitive tech-
nology to the USSR and other Eastern bloc
nations, Burkhalter said.
No high-technology company is free from
the threat of Soviet infiltration or theft, but
the many small companies developing emerg-
ing technologies, whose applications are only
now being explored, are vulnerable. Because
the applications are still indefinite, this work
is not subject to security classification and
protection.
The Soviet appetite for U. S. technology is
not indiscriminate, Burkhalter said. Rather, at
the highest level of government, the Soviet
State Committee for Science and Technology
considers the needs of the Soviet military and,
to a lesser extent, the civilian scientific and
industrial communities and formulates these
needs into acquisition requirements.
.About 30% of these requirements can be
met by such legal, open means as subscribing
to such periodicals as AVIATION WEEK & SPACE
TECHNOLOGY, Burkhalter said, or by attending
international conferences, sending scientists
to do research at U. S. universities, or buying
equipment that is available for unrestricted
improved operational capability, especialat low-speed and high-altitude regimes-
No change is expected in distortion ham
dling, and a 12% lower fuel consumption
is anticipated in aerial combat.
The State Dept. has delayed transfer ol
composite materials technology to Israe
from three major U. S. companies-
Grumman Aerospace Corp., Voughi
Corp. and General Dynamics-for thr
Lavi, but that restriction may be lifted it
the next few weeks (AW&ST Sept. 13, 1982
p.31). r. ' F
There are still interagency difference
within the Administration over the devel
opment of the aircraft, but there also is I
consensus that the composite technolog
will be permitted, with contracts for tb
structure development.
The wing and vertical tail for the Lae
would be codeveloped by subcontractiq
to the three U. S. companies by Israt
Aircraft Industries for composite strut
tures. Composite technology also will b
applied to the all-moving canard and cos
trol surfaces and to structural doors, pas
els and air brakes. This composite mateli
at application is expected to yiell
advantages in reduced assembly wort
lower operating costs, higher structural d
ficiency and higher design flexibility.
Israel expects to codesign and copro
duce the Lavi fighter in Israel and ha
alloted $100 million to codesign and adap
the PW 1120 engine to it, with an add
tional $300 million budgeted for engin
production in that country. Other codevi
international sale. For the 70% of its ted
ogy acquisition requirements that it car
obtain legally and openly, the Comm
turns to the Soviet intelligence services
KGB and the military intelligence unit
GRU. Former KGB officers and agents rt;
the West have said that this technology a
sition has been assigned the highest pri
for KGB and GRU collection, and the
services compete strenuously for the rec
tion that follows success in acquiring i
value technology, Burkhalter said.
Open and covert acquisition of We
technology saves the Soviets billions d
lars in research and development costs
years in research and development t
Burkhalter set the value of the inform
that the Soviets obtained over a three
period from one source, former Hughes
craft radar engineer William Holden Be
.hundreds of millions of dollars (Aw&sr
10, 1982, p. 24; July 6, 1981, p. 25).
He said Bell was paid $110,000 fort
fied information about the USAF/Mclk
Dougla' F-15 look-down/shoot-down t
B-1 and Stealth radar, an all-weather
radai, the Navy Hughes Phoenix me
Army/Raytheon Patriot and Improved l
missiles, and a towed-array submarines
"In cost versus benefit terms, the lQ
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lopr.ent and coproduction funding in-
cludes: .
^ Wing and vertical stabilizer-S60
million and $100 million, respectively.
is Flight control computer with Lear,
Siegler already under subcontract for $60
million in codevelopment, and $100 mil-
lion planned for coproduction.
U Airframe systems with $20 million
and $100 million for codevelopment and
coproduction with U. S. industry.
^ Materials procurement for coproduc-
tion estimated at $500 million in Fiscal
1982 dollars.
The Lavi concept as presented by the
Israeli briefing team is built around the
use of proved materials and processes,
adapting systems already developed when-
ever possible. This approach uses state-of-
the-art technology and is low risk in
approach. It also provides cost-effective
qualification testing of the aircraft, De-
fense Dept. officials said.
The avionics system for the fighter is
ed to operate with advanced digital
n
Boeing Power System
Los Angeles-Supplemental type certifi-
cate has been issued by the Federal Avia-
tion Administration for an engine power
trim system (EPTS) designed to adjust
automatically Boeing 727 engine power
during climb and cruise.
The EPTS is expected to reduce the
transport's total fuel consumption by
more than 2% by optimizing climb and
cruise performance. The system also pro-
vides protection against engine over-
temperature and excessive engine pres-
sure ratios.
Garrett's AiResearch Manufacturing Co.
and United Airlines will jointly hold the
supplemental type certificate for the
Boeing 727. AiResearch and several carri-
ers are considering joint certification of
the EPTS on other aircraft.
nautical Systems Div., Wright Patterson
AFB.
^ Programmable signal processor emu-
lator by Westinghouse that is under study
contract.
^ Electronic countermeasures compo-
nents by ITT in the detail design stage for
tradeoff decisions.
In presenting its development plan to
the Reagan Administration, Israel over-
came doubts that the aircraft could be
developed for $1.3 billion by detailing the
.development costs. They are: airframe,
$453 million; engine, $110 million--this is
the cost to adapt the PW 1120 to the Lavi;
avionics, $235 million; flight control and
electromechanical systems, $109 million;
test and evaluation, $200 million, and in-
strument landing system, $53 million.
The development costs for these major
systems total $1.1 billion, with an addi-
tional $210 million for production tool-
inn-$110 million for the airframe and
p an
systems with interactive multifunction dis-
play and controls, fire control integrated.
with internal and external sensors, and
enhanced active and passive self-defensive
systems.
Computer embedded systems for the
Lavi would be built to comply with U. S.
military specifications. The flight control
system for the aircraft would be a fly-by-
wire system with relaxed static stability. It
will have an analog but no mechanical
backup system.
The avionics systems sue euc -
would involve a number of U. S. contrac- Israel's position on developing and pro-
tors. Israel has issued a request for pro- ducing the Lavi is that its industry has the
posal to Teledyne for the 1750A computer basic infrastructure required to undertake
emulator system. Other avionics action by the development
Israeli of anacadvanncceddpmatearn i
Israel includes:
Wide-angle head-up display with a accordance with U. S. military standards
draft request for proposal issued to and many are approved vendors for U. S.
Hughes and Marconi for $3 million for a aircraft companies.
development and procurement cost goal of - The Lavi manufacturing p would
and assef
per unit in production. The pa city for
HUD would not be built in Israel. the airframe and engine to take up the
^ Software and support with partial de- slack ina phasing out the Kfir pro-
livery already accomplished by the Aero- gram.
far and away the most eff icient, economically tion of Soviet aircraft carriers projected for and law enforcement agencies can take de-
productive element of the Soviet .economy, the 1990s, the admiral said. lensive ^ Counterintelligence efforts are being s diversion
ostensi
come as no strengthened for better monitoring of Soviet
hard- because its uon in the foreign tech-
ware'forr milit ry use civilian
West-
nology logy are e;' Burkhalter said.
Europe and elsewhere.e Burkhalter
acquired in the ern East
The benefits to the Soviet ndhdo not stop surprise, for the and, they choice of any new technology military
there. "With our o tu best technology
arrangement. intelligence services of the USSR and its satel-
ben develop ever deploy them. And Soviet in- not a ue ptit ous, ' b part
task-
ust i before we en deploy
as we imposes o new,
tech- counter Soviet industrial espionage, including ing. and the USSR benefit vfrom e
overcome ever-increas-
ing costs everything of
ing as we struggle value that they collect," he said. Bell, for
nology we have developed that is now in the following, Burkhalter said:
? The Commerce Dept. has strengthened example, was paid by Marian Zacharsky, West
manag
Coast
opening
Soviet hands.".
, an echnological dependence on the its new fed Compliance offices including nd Francisco and Los Polish mach nery importing company. ' loge
Soviet t
West does s not not condemn them permanent ^ Intelligence is being passed to the Jus-
inferiority. The Soviets are able to learn more Angeles.
from our mistakes, select the best from both ^ The Customs Service in early 1982 be- lice and Commerce departments, the FBI and nts of and technological worlds, and focus their
we Operation
of technology. Although it them inltheir counterhmeasures.ment to help
where research
and development capital on areas
are weakest, he said. already has produced a number of prosecu- In the policy area, the U. S. is working to
Much is made at times of safeguards sur- tions, the program only now is moving into full str fogy Multilateral tExport he C rdinating Commit--
rounding equipment that has as well operation.
as military uses, , but these have e proved to be e ^ The U. S. Attorney General established a nology export restrictions are being updated. Additiona
and
polceoand Europeanllcity, the U.S. are being re-.
East ineffectual, Burkhalter contended. He ilt in to Critical
coordinate with Task
thd he case se of two floating drydocks bu
Japan for Soviet civilian use, but now support - high technology businesses in this area "to stricted.
gCongress
ing the Soviet Navy's Pacific and Northern stem the hemorrhage of critical technology to modifications Administration
ens to the freedom of Information
fleets. They are being used to repair Kiev- our adversaries."
class aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered bales- ^ The U. S. intelligence community is re- Act to prevent the public release of sensitive technological
informa tic missile submarines and other warships, doubling its efforts to so that ins are on dustry lating to U. S. weapons son, ystemscially that re-
e
and no doubt will be used for the new genera- the ov'
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