Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <148@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 08:36:42 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.148 Posted: Tue Aug 7 08:36:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:30:54 EDT References: <216@loral.UUCP>, <48400002@hpfclo.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 34 SOVIET CHEATING A joint statement by the Defense Dept., State Dept., CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff states: "Soviet compliance performance under 14 arms control agreements signed since 1959 has been good." The SALT I agreement established the Standing Consultative Commission in which both the US and the USSR can bring questions about arms compliance. In 1981 the US Commissioner of this Commission stated "The SCC has never yet had to deal with a case of real or apparently clear and substantial noncompliance with an existing agreement." Then what about all the allegations that the "Soviets have cheated" on past arms agreements? The State Dept. issued a report dealing with various questions brought by both the US and the USSR to the SCC. In 3 cases of possible Soviet cheating further US intelligence revealed that there were no violations involved, in one case both sides later agreed to precise definition of "heavy" ICBM's, in a final case the USSR ceased the activity the US had considered as violating past treaties. The State Dept. Report also dealt with 14 popular allegations of cheating by the USSR that had never been brought before the SCC and reported in every case that there has been no Soviet cheating. In several instances what was alleged as "cheating" is actually REQUIRED by arms agreements! The Soviets, for all their faults , do not want to be incinerated anymore than we do. This is not to suggest that the Soviets would not or have not tried to stretch the interpretations of past treaties to increase their own armaments. But in this case all past Presidents except Ronald Reagan have successfully stopped the Soviets by appealing to the body which is supposed to monitor arms treaty compliance. Tim Sevener ATT- Bell Labs, Whippany