Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security (1989) / Chapter Skim
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4. The INF Treaty: A Status Report on INF Inspections
4. The INF Treaty: A Status Report on INF Inspections
Pages 36-46
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I thought to myself that four years ago as an Army attache in Moscow had ~ been within 100 miles of that facility, ~ would have found myself In a very, very difficult~ituation. And yet here we were a group of Amer~can inspectors not only on a secret missile test facility, but blithely stepping inside a missile canister to get out of the rain as though it were the most natural thing to do.
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I think you will find it interesting. The road to Kapustin Yar began last December in Washington when President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty.
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After an INF missile base or other related installation has had its INF systems removed to the designated elimination facility and any INF-unique infrastructure has been eliminated, that base gets inspected. Our inspectors arrive, confirm that the base can no longer support an INF role, and sign an inspection report to that effect.
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So three years from now (unIess we pick up additional responsibilities in the conventional or START arenas) , OSIA will have a very modest mission~he portal, which by then would hopefully become a rather sleepy night watchman's activity, and decreasing quota inspections.
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Given the geographical spread of our inspection responsibilities and very tight time lines dictated by Me treaty, it became clear that we would not be able to support the number of inspections required of us. Attempting to launch all our inspections from the United States would have risked missing our time windows.
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In Frankfurt, Germany, as I mentioned, we have two activities: a reception center for ald Soviet inspectors coming in to conduct inspections at our basing countries in Westem Europe and the gateway to process our people enroute to the Soviet Union from Washington. In Moscow, because Ambassador Jack Matiock said that there was no way under his current diplomatic personnel ceilings that he could support this level of inspection activity in the USSR, we negotiated very quickly with the Soviets to raise the ceilings so that a six-person diplomatic aircrew escort contingent could be added to the embassy staff.
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The deputy team chief is invariably a USG civilian who probably has some Sovietarea expertise. We also have missile-operating specialists who are those young military officers and noncommissioned officers coming out of the Pershing or GECM units that are being disbanded.
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Votkinsk is actually a missile assembly plant; it is not a production facility. Rocket motors, canisters, and other components are sent there from various factories for final assembly.
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Magna. Out at Magna, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City, is where the Hercules plant is located and where the Soviets exercised their reciprocal right to establish a perimeter monitoring facility.
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Once the fuel has been expended, the rocket motor casing is crushed and the remnants buried on Army property. The two Pershing elimination sites are in Pueblo, Colorado, and Marshall, Texas; in both cases, as you know, warheads and guidance packages have been removed prior to elimination.
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By far the more crucial capability remains the National Technical Means, which provide us an overmatch of the entire Soviet Union. I can only bring my inspectors to those facilities listed in the MOU and compare what I find with what is contained in the MOU.
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