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...letter was the covering note attached to a Pentagon study that Reagan had requested on alleged Soviet violations of past arms agreements. In a somewhat patronizing tone, Weinberger cautioned his Commander in Chief against making any concessions to Mikhail Gorbachev that would "limit severely your options for responding." U.S. commitment to strict compliance with the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972, warned Weinberger, could eventually hamper progress on the President's vaunted Strategic Defense Initiative. That militant position was hardly a new one for Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that...
...International Security Policy and the Administration's most ardent critic of arms control. Perle flatly denied that he was the source of the leak. Defense Department officials pointed out that the leaked letter bore Weinberger's nickname signature "Cap," while the copies distributed to Perle and others in the Pentagon were unsigned: the implication was that it was leaked after receipt elsewhere in the Government. A fine point, perhaps, but by week's end Washington insiders were convinced that other players had more motive for mischief. Said Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen: "You can just as easily assume...
...prepare to rescue the hostages aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there was an unusual last-minute hitch. An undisclosed number of the elite counterterrorist troops were under investigation for in effect cheating on their expense accounts, and had to get a special dispensation from the Pentagon to leave their home base at Fort Bragg...
...very day Pollard was nabbed, the Pentagon released a 62-page report titled Keeping the Nation's Secrets, the work of a special panel appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in the wake of the Navy's Walker-family spy scandal last summer. The 14-member panel, headed by retired Army General Richard Stilwell, offered 63 recommendations for combating the plague of espionage. Among them: tougher criminal laws to punish defense contractors and Government workers who mishandle secret information, more restrictive secrecy classifications and expanded use of lie-detector tests for military personnel...
While a senior Pentagon official suggests that a seepage of up to 20% would be "normal for that area," he challenges the 50% figure. "I just don't believe it," he says. "It's all out of proportion to anything we've seen." By contrast, Washington Lobbyist Andrew Eiva, executive director of the Federation for American Afghan Action, says that his organization has found "up to 70% slippage" in CIA supplies. New Hampshire Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey, who heads the congressional caucus on Afghanistan, contends that the Administration simply does not know the extent of the leakage...