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WASH POST 8 June 1984 Pg.1
Reagan: Alliies
Must Cooperate
On Oil Reserves
By Michael Getter and Lou Cannon
Washington Post Foreign Service
LONDON, June 7-Against a back-drop of growing
warfare in the Persian Gulf, President Reagan today
called for more cooperation among the allies on contin-
gency plans to coordinate oil reserves in case of any se-
rious disruption of supplies. He indicated he would use
the greatly expanded U.S. oil reserves quickly to keep
the United States and western economic recoveries going.
As the six leading western industrialized nations and
Japan met here to open their 10th annual economic sum-
mit meeting, there also was growing U.S. pressure on
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to expand a
planned political statement on democratic values to in-
clude a reaffirmation of allied willingness to deploy in-
termediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
A senior U.S. official said that a proposed broadly
worded Thatcher statement on western dedication to
democratic values, which the United States has agreed
to, is "boilerplate" and too general and could cause "some
embarrassment" to Thatcher unless expanded to include
a substantive statement on East-West political issues and
arms control.
The summit conference opened tonight with at. recep-
tion for leaders of the seven countries-the United
States, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and West
Germany-that was followed by a working dinner at 10
Downing St., the British prime minister's official resi-
dence. Formal sessions are to get under way Friday.
In separate talks, Reagan and Japanese Prime Min-
ister Yasuhiro Nakasone agreed agreed to use the summit to
press their partners for a new round of multilateral trade
negotiations beginning in 1986. [Details, Page E1.]
On the oil issue, U.S. officials said the American po-
sition is that surplus capacity for producing oil elsewhere
is greater than ever before and western nations ? must
avoid any panic or actions which would curtail the cur-
rent economic recovery in the West in case of a sudden
shortage of gulf oil.
. "Our basic message is that we are willing and intend to
use our strategic petroleum reserves to the optimum ad-
vantage early in any major oil supply disruption," a U.S.
official said.
REAGAN...Pg.2
WASHINGTON TIMES 8 June 1984 Pg.4
Pentagon refuses to deny
report on Soviet jamming
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Defense Department yester-
day declined to deny a report that
the Soviet Union has begun jam-
ming U.S. satellites for monitoring
Soviet missile tests and verifying
compliance with arms control
agreements.
"The information relating to that
is classified. And, I regret I can't
provide any more details at this
time," Pentagon spokesman
Michael Burch said in response to
a question.
"I'm not denying the report. But,
I just cannot provide you with any
more details," he told reporters at
the regular Pentagon briefing. In
reply to another question, the
spokesman also said, "I'm not con-
firming the report:'
This week, defense sources told
The Washington Times that the
Soviets had begun to electronically
jam the satellites in violation of the
nuclear arms agreements. The sat-
ellites are used to verify compli-
ance with the nuclear arms
accords, which forbid interference
with the means to verify compli-
ance.
The satellites are used to monitor
Soviet missile data telemetered to
ground stations during flight tests.
The data provides information on
the number of warheads on a par-
ticular type of missile, and is used
to set and later to verify limits in a
nuclear arms agreement.
In January, President Reagan
accused the Soviets of violating
nuclear arms agreements by
encoding or. encrypting the flight
test telemetry in an attempt to pre-
vent monitoring.
Government sources said the
Soviets had now gone a step further
and begun jamming the satellites to
prevent even the gathering of the
encrypted data for possible decod-
ing later.
PENTAGON ...Pg.2
BALTIMORE SUN 8 June 1984 Pg.1
Secret commando units
created by Pentagon
WASHINGTON - The Defense.
Department has created several
secret commando units in recent
years, and they have tried to rescue
missing Americans in danger spots
abroad, participated in the invasion
of Grenada and supported CIA co-
vert operations in Central Ameri-
ca, according to administration of-
ficials and members of Congress.
The development of these elite
units has raised concern in Con-
gress that they might become a
uniformed version of the CIA and
be used to circumvent congression-
al restrictions and reporting re-
quirements on intelligence activi-
ties and the use of American forces
in combat operations, some law-
makers say..
But a senior intelligence,official
denied that such a risk existed. He
said that although the new special
operations forces constituted a re-
source for intelligence operations,
any such use of them would be di-
rected by the CIA and properly re-
ported to the Congress.
Some of the units, the training
and activities of which are highly
classified, were created to combat
terrorism but have acquired broad-
ened mandates and training to con-
duct missions to counter insurgen-
cies in Central America, Africa and
Asia, the sources said.
The growth of the units, officials
said, stemmed from a general con-
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COMMANDO... Continued
cern at senior levels in the govern-
ment that the United States needed
to improve its ability to use special
forms of force in situations in
which the open exercise of power
and the deployment of large num-
bers of men and weapons would be
politically unacceptable.
Although in a few instances, in-
cluding operations in Central
America, these new units have
worked in conjunction with CIA co-
vert activities, they are not offi-
cially considered intelligence
groups
Maj. Gen. Wesley H. Rice,, the
director of the Joint Special Opera-
tions Agency, which provides high-
level Pentagon planning and coor-
dination for the units, told a House
subcommittee in April that he did
not view his organization "as an
agency of interest to the intelli-
gence oversight committee."
Senator Joseph R. Biden (D,
Del.), a member of the Senate Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence,
said in an interview: "We are
aware of the existence of the spe-
cial operations units but not suffi-
ciently informed about their activi-
ties or their connection to intelli-
gence operations. We are trying to
learn more."
Much about the units remains
secret. The Pentagon refused to
give information about the groups'
organization, training or activities,
and the officers who direct them
declined to be interviewed.
However, interviews with cur-
rent and former Pentagon and in-
telligence officials, members of
Congress and staff members of key
congressional committees, dis-
closed these details about the new
units:
^ They operate under the direc-
tion of the Joint Special Operations
Command, centered at Fort Bragg,
N.C. The command was created to
coordinate U.S. counterterrorist
activities in the wake of the unsuc-
cessful 1980 mission to rescue
Americans held hostage in Iran.
The command, headed by Brig.
Gen. Richard A. Scholtes, has a
core force of elite troops who can
be quickly supplemented with more
traditional commando units, in-
cluding the Army Special Forces.
^ Under the terms of a secret
1983 memo to President Reagan
from Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger, the Pentagon pledged
to provide a wide range of logisti-
cal support and manpower to assist
CIA covert operations in Central
America, including support of
Nicaraguan rebels.
Senate and House intelligence
committees are investigating
whether this Pentagon support al-
The jamming has been electron-
ically precise, and apparently has
taken advantage of the technical
data provided to the Soviets by con-
victed spies. Andrew Daulton Lee
and Christopher John Boyce were
convicted for reportedly giving the
Soviets the technical specifics in
1977 on the Rhyolite and Argus
telemetry monitoring satellites.
- By Walter Andrews
REAGAN ... Continued
Reagan told Nakasone that "in case of an emergency,
he [Reagan) believes that by utilizing part of the U.S.
stockpile any emergency can be handled," according to
an account provided by Nakasone's spokesman. "But at
the same time, the president believes cooperation by
friendly countries is needed," the spokesman said.
U.S. officials said they U.S. oil stockpile now is 400 mil-
lion barrels, equivalent to about 80 days of net oil im-
lowed the CIA to circumvent re-
strictions, including a $24 million
ceiling, on support for the rebels
this, year.
^ Some of the special operations
command units played a key but
still largely secret role in the inva-
sion of Grenada last fall. The units,
including Navy Sea Air and Land
teams, SEALS, infiltrated Grenada
before the landing of Marines and
Army Rangers.
They successfully carried out
one action, safeguarding Grenada's
governor general, Sir Paul Scoon,
but failed in two others, including
an effort to knock the Grenada ra-
dio off the air, according to a con-
gressional report. At least four
men were killed in these opera-
tions, which remain officially clas-
sified.
Units tried to locate missing
or captured Americans in Lebanon
in the last 18 months and assisted
in the 1982 search for Brig. Gen.
James L. Dozier, who was held hos-
tage by Italian terrorists.
As the government's primary
counterterrorist strike force, the
units have been deployed in other
unspecified situations around the
world when American citizens
were involved in airplane hijack-
ings and attacks on American em-
bassies or diplomats and will be in-
volved in protecting against terror-
ist attacks at the Los Angeles
Olympics.
^ One unit, identified as Navy
SEAL Team Six, based at the Little
Creek Naval Amphibious Base out-
side Norfolk, Va., operates amid
extraordinary secrecy. Its mem-
bers dress in civilian clothes and
train at civilian installations, in-
cluding the Pinal County Air Park
near Tucson, Ariz.
When. one team member was i
killed in a skydiving accident at the
air park last year, his colleagues
initially ordered doctors at St.
Mary's Hospital in Tucson not to
turn over the body to the county
medical examiner for "national se-
curity reasons," hospital authori-
ties said.
Intelligence officials said the
Pentagon, impatient with the CIA's
ports and nearly four times the level
of the reserves in early 1981.
They said the prospect that the
gulf could be closed by Iran if its war
with Iraq expands "is remote" and
reiterated the U.S. pledge to keep
the gulf sealanes open.
Nevertheless, Treasury Secretary
Donald Regan told reporters that al-
though Reagan did not bring any spe-
cific new plan here with him, he and
Nakasone "agreed that some type of
sharing, some type of contingency plan-
REAGAN...Pg.3
leading role in conducting covert
operations, particularly paramili-
tary activities, has pressed in re-
cent years to establish its own units
capable of directing and carrying
out such operations.
Starting in 1980, after the fail-
ure of the mission to rescue Ameri-
can hostages in Iran, the Army, un-
der the direction of Gen. Edward C.
Meyer, then chief of staff, created
a small, secret intelligence organi-
zation called the Intelligence Sup-
port Activity.
The group was formed without
the knowledge of the Secretary of
Defense, the CIA director or Con-
gress, according to intelligence of-
ficials.
Its original mission, according
to former Army officers familiar
with the group's origin, was to col-
lect intelligence to plan for special
military operations such as the
Iran rescue attempt.
In the last few years, the Joint
Special Operations Command has
evolved beyond its original man-
date of countering terrorism to oth-
er kinds of special operations, ac-
cording to officials.
Lawmakers and staff members
said they were concerned about the
somewhat ambiguous area one-
staff member called it a "gray
zone" - between military and in-
telligence operations.
The Defense Department has re-
sponded to oversight inquiries by
the Intelligence Committee, but of-
ficials say the Pentagon is less co-
operative than the CIA in discuss-
ing its operations.
The Pentagon's current budget
request for special operations
forces is about $500 million, ac-
cording to data given to Congress.
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