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CORRESPONDENCE Three-Way Talks Although his review (TAS, September 2004) of Bruce Craig's book Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case is highly critical, Harvey Klehr has missed the...
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...Macomber fails to mention the tremendous progress the Bush Administration has made in increasing international participation in Nunn-Lugar/CTR activities in the former Soviet Union...
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...It is likewise easy to dismiss without explanation, as Klehr does, all the contradictions, gaps, ambiguities, self-serving reports, and plain misinformation in the Venona documents that have given pause to so many other,more cautious scholars...
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...the facts are so damning that their blind loyalty to his innocence can no longer persuade any objective observer...
...You can't throw a rug overthat and smuggle it into Iran...
...As I pointed out, the tens of millions of dollars American taxpayers shell out to dismantle Russian ICBM engines make for good CTR press releases...
...President Bush, at the G-8 summit in 2002, formed the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, the "10 Plus 10 Over 10" program, with our allies...
...And that's a big job...
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...Harry Dexter White's daughters argue my conclusion is "illogical" since evidence exists tending to clear their father's name...
...The article states that "Through Nunn-Lugar, the United States pays to keep the Russian military in line with its obligations under certain disarmament treaties, while Russia invests in weapons programs...
...and 708 air-launched cruise missiles, elimination of which did assist Russia under the START I Treaty...
...We have indeed done our share for the past decade, but I doubt that the G-8 Global Partnership would have been possible without the efforts of the NunnLugar/CTR program and the President's leadership...
...Fine, but more fair-minded and less defensive readers should remember that contradictions and ambiguities are the stuff of history...
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...Macomber would trust Russia to dismantle dangerous weapon systems that could be used against the United States when elsewhere in the article he identifies them as liars...
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...It is easy to assert without justification, as Craig does, that although much of the testimony of Bentley and Chambers has been shown to be lies, certain selected statements they made should be believed...
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...Shawn Macomber replies: It's understandable why Senator Lugar would vociferously defend the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program...
...These include offices in Tblisi, Georgia, to support biological weapons proliferation prevention...
...Harvey Klehr replies: It is always touching to see children defend their parent's honor and reputation...
...The Bush Administration has certified the program and waived statutory conditions on it, citing the program's vital role in serving the direct national security interests of the United States...
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...And it is always easy to attack without danger, as both writers do, the reputation of a dead man who cannot confront his accusers or sue them for libel...
...Russia, too, has committed $2 billion to the Global Partnership, which does call into question Mr...
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...Instead, 83 percent of Nunn-Lugar funding has gone to American contractors to dismantle these weapons systems...
...Relying on the same tainted and dubious evidence, Klehr agrees with Craig's conclusion that White engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union...
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...Whether weak or strong, eliminating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ensuring the safety and security of such weapons and materials, in Russia and elsewhere, surely serves the national security interests of the United States...
...He died well before Whittaker Chambers produced memos in White's own handwriting that might well have led to an indictment of White, just as the material Chambers produced about Alger Hiss led to his indictment...
...assistance will also increase the security of the Russian warheads made excess as provided in the Moscow Treaty...
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...At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing he decried the "blithely optimistic people from the administration" who had painted what he viewed as an overly rosy portrait of what Iraq would look like after the war...
...NunnLugar/CTR has also opened up more overseas offices in the former Soviet Union to allow for better on-site management and increased on-site scrutiny from U.S...
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...The United States and its allies are building a chemical weapons destruction facility at Shchuchye to destroy 1.9 chemical munitions filled with nerve agent in support of the Chemical Weapons Convention...
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...11 mobile ICBMs on trains or trucks...
...It's the smaller parts that are harder to make, and therefore more sought after on the black market—the nozzles covered with a special, light coating of metal that are the key to steering a large missile, for example...
...But times have changed, and I would encourage readers to decide for themselves whether Senator Lugar makes a reasonable defense of the program or not...
...The article charges that NunnLugar/CTR money is fungible, suggesting that Nunn-Lugar/ CTR enables Russia to save money it would otherwise have to spend on dismantlement and thus permits investment in strategic modernization...
...27 strategic missile submarines...
...The fundamental criticism to be made of Craig's book is not that it is "morally obtuse" but that it is illogical: after carefully dismantling the evidence against White, Craig nevertheless decides the man was guilty...
...The article suggests that provision of assistance to Russia enables it to build more advanced weapons, such as the Topol-M ICBM...
...As I pointed out, the tens of millions of dollars American taxpayers shell out to dismantle Russian ICBM engines make for good CTR press releases...
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...Twenty years ago, no one including me would have predicted that American contractors and U.S...
...Readers should be reminded that a grand jury refused to indict White and that neither before nor since has any proof been adduced of the allegations against him...
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...He repeatedly claims I am calling the Russians liars...
...Under this program, we're helping former Soviet states find productive employment for former weapons scientists...
...On ABC's This Week recently he decried the "incompetence" of the Bush administration's handling of post-war Iraq...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Three-Way Talks Although his review (TAS, September 2004) of Bruce Craig's book Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case is highly critical, Harvey Klehr has missed the work's main failing...
...As Secretary Powell has noted, "We intend to continue to work with Russia, under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, when and to the extent permitted by law, to make [Russia's nuclear] warhead storage facilities more secure...
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...Macomber's article appears to differ with this assessment...
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...Macomber's assertion that Russia does not allocate funds for nonproliferation purposes...
...For all these reasons, I firmly believe the Nunn-Lugar/CTR program continues to play a vital role in U.S...
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...The article states that "In the eyes of CTR cheerleaders, the program overrides U.S...
...Arguments about a weak or strong Russia have always been in the background of the NunnLugar/Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, but they miss the point...
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...As for CTR, I do hope the senator will heed the president's final comment in the remarks he cites: "We have more work to do there...
...Further, we must scour the globe to identify and create opportunities to dismantle dangerous weapons programs outside the former Soviet Union...
...Russia has signed two agreements with the United States on enhancement of additional nuclear warhead storage sites and nuclear warhead rail transportation, but new funds will not be made available to support future warhead transport until Russia offers more visibility into where warhead shipments originate...
...In fact, as NunnLugar/CTR assistance has increased, Russian production of the Topol-M has decreased...
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...Not all disarmament programs necessarily work toward a nonproliferation end...
...The Congress and President Bush have not been willing to take that chance, having shown strong support for the program...
...Nunn-Lugar/CTR will help secure undeployed strategic nuclear warheads in Russia under the Moscow Treaty...
...For the most part, these funds have been directed to dismantlement of submarines such as the Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine, which carried 20 missiles with 10 warheads apiece, each one capable of destroying my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana...
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...JOAN PINKHAM Amherst, Massachusetts RUTH LEVITAN Stamford, Connecticut Harvey Klehr in his review of my book Treasonable Doubt declares it is a "morally obtuse piece of scholarship...
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...Now, the nonsense of all of that is apparent...
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...Our political leadership and non-proliferation experts must continue to press Russia to secure or destroy its insecure, unnecessary, and proliferable weapons...
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...Macomber fails to mention that Nunn-Lugar/CTR is not foreign aid—the United States does not simply hand Russia bags of cash...
...The lack of planning is apparent," John Edwards quoted Dick Lugar so many times in his debate with Dick Cheney, it's beginning to appear that John McCain might have some competition as the Democrats' favorite Republican...
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...Unfortunately, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) disagrees...
...I amunaware of any other Department of Defense (DOD) program that receives as much scrutiny relative to its portion of the total DOD budget...
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...In 1991, Congress passed the Nunn-Lugar legislation...
...Macomber suggests that times have changed, and that as Russia ostensibly modernizes its military, the threat posed by its unguarded facilities is diminished...
...It does, after all, carry his name and has been consistently put forth as a pillar of his legislative legacy...
...In addition, IG staff accompany NunnLugar/CTR program officials to Russia at least semi-annually to ensure the program proceeds according to its guidance...
...In fact, one wonders just what he thinks would lead us to a more secure world...
...In its Annual Report to Congress on the Safety and Security of Russian Nuclear Facilities and Military Forces, released in February 2002, the NIC concluded that "Weapons-grade and weapons-usable nuclear materials have been stolen from some Russian institutes...
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...Chairman Lugar Writes In an article appearing in the September 2004 issue of The American Spectator, titled "Cooperative Threat Reductio Ad Absurdum," Shawn Macomber writes that as Russia becomes stronger, its commitment to disarmament grows weaker...
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...He castigates Craig only for being insufficiently virulent in his condemnation of his subject and for trying to "justify" White's alleged betrayal...
...Defense Department officials would be on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of strategic systems, chemical munitions, other WMD and related systems, infrastructure and materials...
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...They say publicly they are not interested in any real disarmament regime and that they intend to use CTR only nominally to meet treaty obligations...
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...The Venona decryptions are absolutely damning about White, as Bruce Craig recognizes...
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...In fact, one of it biggest cheerleaders, President Bush, stated on February 11, 2004: I propose to expand our efforts to keep weapons from the Cold War and other dangerous materials out of the wrong hands...
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...The article calls Nunn-Lugar/ CTR "unfocused and freewheeling...
...To make matters worse, my family and my furniture had to be moved out of the house for a week because of the dusty sanding and dangerous fumes...
...Recently the Nunn-Lugar/ CTR program asked the IG to again review the program from top to bottom, which it did in a series of reports, the last of which was issued in February 2004...
...It is unfortunate that Mr...
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...All money is fungible, this is true, but this argument suggests that if we did not pay for dismantlement Russia would do so on its own...
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...A first-stage ballistic missile motor weighs 48 tons...
...Toward the end of his letter Senator Lugar tries to end all argument, by pointing to President Bush as one of the program's "biggest cheerleaders...
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...Secondly, to claim that no new evidence has emerged in recent years is risible...
...In NOVEMBER 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 11 CORRESPONDENCE fact, it is a rare thing to find a program that has received as much bi-partisan support across three Administrations and multiple Congresses...
...That a grand jury did not indict White proves nothing...
...Each year, Congress requires the General Accounting Office (GAO) to intensively review Nunn-Lugar/ CTR to ensure its consistency and effectiveness with respect to U.S...
...White's daughters should thank Craig for justifying his espionage as a higher form of patriotism and adducing all kinds of "contradictions and ambiguities...
...This ignores the fact that Russian production is far lower than originally planned by the Ministry of Defense...
...Instead, Russian shipyards were hired to do the dismantlement work...
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...When confronted with these figures, many critics allege that the remaining 17 percent of the funds could be diverted...
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...Nunn-Lugar/CTR has dismantled 537 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs...
...Macomber fails to mention that Nunn-Lugar/CTR is not foreign aid the United States does not simply hand Russia bags of money...
...Not all disarmament programs necessarily work toward a nonproliferation end...
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...As I acknowledged, in another time CTR made a very real difference...
...Objective observers, however, cannot rely on Harry Dexter White's daughters for a frank appraisal of the case or the evidence of their father's guilt...
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...Macomber fails to point out the tremendous headway made in reducing the threat posed by insecure fissile material and the elimination of the infrastructure necessary to produce chemical and biological weapons...
...Conveniently, our deals with the Russians rarely keep us abreast of where those parts end up...
...Russian work is monitored by satellites, and we know that this capacity to produce submarines is now employed to dismantle them...
...There is no credible evidence supporting a linkage between Russia's deployment of these systems and diversion of any nonproliferation assistance to that purpose...
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...In 2002, Nunn-Lugar/CTR conducted a "baseline risk assessment" of all ongoing and plannedprojects for weaknesses...
...and at Shchuchye, Russia, for chemical weapons destruction...
...Today, legal contractual commitments have replaced promises...
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...Fact is that revisionists-of-the-right such as Klehr and White's daughters both make selective reads of the totality of the evidence—they see what they want to see...
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...To date, the number of GAO, Congressional Budget Office, and Pentagon Inspector-General (IG) reports on NunnLugar/CTR is over 60, which works out to more than one every two months during the life of the program...
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