ATTENTION OF KEY DOD PERSONNEL NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THEM IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES; IT 1s ~ TO SUBSTITUTE FOR HEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS AS A MEANS OF KEEPING INFORMED ABOUT THE NATURE, MEANING AND = USE OF THESE ARTICLES HERE, OF COURSE, DOES NOT REFLECT OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. FURTHER OF REWS DEVELOPMENTS. CURRENT NEWS" 013- REPRODUCTION FOR PRIVATE USK OR GAIN IS SUBJECT TO THE ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS. WASH POST 8 June 1984 Pg.1 Reagan: Must Cooperate On Oil Reserves By Michael Getler and Lou Cannon Washington Post Forelgn 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 US. 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 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 Hast-West political issues and arms control. oo The summit conference opened tonight with a recep- tion for leaders of the seven countries—the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and West 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 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 resérves to the optimum ad- vantage early in any major oil supply disruption,” a U.S. official said. REAGAN,» oPg.2 Helen ¥EAGOUME, British Prime Minister Margaret. Thatcher to expand a | ° ‘Germany—that was followed by a working dinner at 10 | For special research services or distribution call Harry Zubkoff, Chief, News Clippi WASHINGTON TIMES 8 June 1984 Pg 4 Allies | 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- BALTIMORE SUN 8. June 1984 Secret New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — The Defense. Department has created several secret conimando 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- 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 ina 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 Pg.l ommando units created by Pentagon 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- COMMANDO... .Pg.2
SE SIO SU NARNIA St: POR SV“ RTA LEN OEE RIS SPELT ENT OT SEE CSRS TEE NPS ANS SPS PA DETRACT TAT HOO RET PITS EI EET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIASRDF26;90788R000100270013-9 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. CO) 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 operstions in Central America, including support of Nicaraguan rebels. Senate and House intelligence committees are investigating whether this Pentagon support al- RNING ‘The jamming has been electron- } taken advantage of the technical | data provided to the Soviets by con- i 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. | PENTAGON. . Continued | 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. - US. officials said the U.S. oil stockpile now is 400 mil- | lion barrels, equivalent to about 80 days of net oil im- ically precise, and apparently has | — By Walter Andrews lowed the CIA to circumvent re- strictions, including a $24 million ceiling, on support for the rebels this year. Ci Some of the special operations command units played a key but: still largely secret rele 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 Coanty Air Park near Tucson, Ariz. When, one team member was; 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 bedy 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 remate” 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 Pe.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 millica, ac- cording to data given to Congress. 2 SSA CSTE SIE AE NE TIES EPO EE EEE Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270013-9 x