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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent November 17, 1977 The Paper That Dares To Take rvi Continued from page 1 building up their military capability on land, sea, and air, the team of Warnke and Yarmolinsky is determined to disarm us and to enter new strategic arms limitation agreements with the Soviet Union. Maj. Gen. George Keegan, recently retired as Chief of Intelligence for the U.S. Air Force, stated during an interview with Congressman Larry who is a member of the House McDonald Armed Services Committee, that during the Soviet ' Unions OKEAN 75 world-wid- e naval maneuvers, satellite communications enabled the Red fleet to simulate attacks on hundreds of Western surface vessels in all oceans within a period of 90 seconds. bombers General Keegan slated that forty could eliminate the entire Soviet surface fleet within twenty-fou- r hours, and with conventional weapons at that. Yet, the Carter Administration has halted the B- -l program. General Keegan also pointed out that during the endless preparations for the endless summit conferences and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks for fifteen years. . .1 watched the accountants make some eight hundred Soviet medium bombers disappear from the strategic equation. He also told Congressman McDonald that upon retirement as head of our Strategic Air Command, General Thomas Power wrote a book and, as required, forwarded thirteen copies of the manuscript to the Pentagon for clearance (which was denied). The general asked for the return of his manuscripts; twelve came back the thirteenth was reported as lost. That it was not exactly lost became apparent when a book, entitled Soviet a compilation edited by Military Strategy Marshal Sokolovsky, was found to contain citations and footnotes referring to the unpublished book by General Power. The missing copy, which had made its way to Moscow, was the copy that had been assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Adam Yarmolinsky. Dr. Albert Wohlstetter, of the University of Chicago, according to General Keegan, has established conclusively that the C.I.A. has consistently, and in virtually every category, seriously underestimated the actual - development and deployment of Soviet forces. Congressman McDonald stated that the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency are two of the worst actors in deception and were created by members of the conspiratorial Council on Foreign Relations and have never ceased to be controlled by the C.F.R., control being handed from member to member. Paul Culliton Warnke, head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief SALT II agreement negotiator, was born in Webster, Massachusetts on January 31, 1920. He was educated at Yale University (AB 1941) and. Columbia University (LLB 1948). After obtaining his law degree he joined the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. and was made a partner in 1957. In 1966 President Johnson named Warnke general counsel of the Department of Defense (with a rank of assistant secretary) on the recommendation of our present Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, who at the time was a deputy secretary of defense. In this position, Warnke supervised a staff of 4,000 lawyers and was responsible for all legal matters involving the department, (D-Ga- .), 13- -1 . as Stand T realties livil such A international agreements with governments of nations where the United States maintains military bases. Warnke had indirect responsibility for the compilation of the top secret study tracing the history of American involvement in the Vietnam war, which eventually was made public as The Pentagon Papers. Warnke admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it was his secret copy of the Pentagon Papers which found its way into the hands of Daniel Ellsberg and thence to the Soviet Embassy and the American press. Warnke was the senior official in our government most consistently outspoken against American policy in Vietnam. He favored what amounted to a surrender and advocated a policy. After leaving the government in 1969, Warnke returned to private practice as a partner in the Washington law firm of Clifford, Warnke, Glass, Mcllwain & Finney. In May of 1970, Warnke n came out in support of the amendment. With his friend and law partner, Clark Clifford, the former Secretary of Defense, and other members of the National Convocation of Lawyers to End the War, he persistently lobbied Congress for legislation to stop the fighting in Southeast Asia. The result of such lobbying by Warnke and other anti-waactivists is what they all knew would happen, the Communist takeover of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Warnke had known Jimmy Carter for several years; both men had been members of the Trilateral Commission, the elite group of 200 individuals from the United States, Japan, and Europe, set up by David Rockefeller to combat the resurgence of nationalism. Other members of the Trilateral Commission who worked with Rockefeller and Warnke were Cyrus Vance, Walter F. Mondale, W. Michael Blumenthal, Harold Brown, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, all of whom have since become members of Carters Administration. At the time that Warnkes name came up for Senate confirmation, Senator Henry M. Jackson accused Warnke of being a tireless advocate of deep and irresponsible cuts in the defense budget, of unilateral restraints in our defense programs and of the notion that nuclear superiority is meaningless. Moreover, he took Warnke to task for his opposition to such strategic weapons as the B- -l bomber, Trident nuclear submarine and the submarine-launche- d cruise no-w- in Hatfield-McGover- end-the-w- ar r" missile. In their book Kissinger on the Couch, Rear Admiral Chester Ward and Phyllis Schlafly point out that a Council on ForeignRelations group, led by Paul Warnke, who was one of Robert McNamaras chief in going secretly to the Soviets to initiate the SALT negotiations to block the JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) congressional drive for strategic defense, was exploiting the SALT-inspire- d euphoria as a basis for cutting an additional S 4 billion each year from the defense budget. Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan was strongly opposed to the nomination of Warnke as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Ambassador to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Sen. Grillin stated that alter meeting with Warnke privately in his office, attending public hearings of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and reviewing Warnke's writings and public statements at length, he concluded he must vigorously oppose his nomination. Stating his reasons in part, he said co-conspira- 1 that over a period of years, Mr. Warnke has established a record of opposition to virtually every major U.S. strategic initiative, including the cruise missile, the B- -l bomber, Trident submarine, Trident II submarine-launche- d ballistic missile and the MIRV and MARV reentry vehicle programs. To send him to Geneva, Sen. Griffin said, to negotiate with the Russians would be like hiring a real estate agent to sell your house who already has publicly declared its worth only half the asking price. Senator Griffin stated: The defense strategy sea-launch- ed that Mr. Warnke has articulated until now is, in my view, incomconsistently patible with U.S. security interests. Instead of helping to secure a verifiable arms control agreement, I believe Mr. Warnkes approach would make the attainment of meaningful arms control less likely. In the process, such an approach could even expand the likelihood of international aggression and increase the danger of nuclear proliferation. . For a number of years Warnke has been a member of the Board of Advisers of the Center for Defense Information, a group that, like Warnke, has advocated unilateral cuts in defense spending. The Center for Defense Information like its parent body, The Fund for Peace has been in close contact with the World Peace Council, a Moscow-directe- d movement which advocates disarmament of the West as well as support for terrorist groups. Since 1975, Mr. Warnke has been a registered agent of the Communist government of Algeria (Registration No. 2564). It has also been alleged that Warnke and his iaw firm were representing the Communist government of Algeria for a period of time before actually registering with the Department of Justice. Warnkes top assistant, Adam Yarmolinsky, has long been considered a serious security risk and ran into problems when he was proposed to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Raymond A. Loughton, a highly experienced security man, had been employed in the Defense Department in 1961 and in his capacity as a security officer had reviewed the file on Adam Yarmolinsky, including a full F.B.I. field investigation report, a detailed report of Army Intelligence and other data. Loughton was unable to justify giving Yarmolinsky a security clearance and, as an honest security officer, refused to do so. His findings, however, were overruled and a security clearance was granted to Yarmolinsky by Robert Strange McNamara, Secretary of Defense. While a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy Administration, Yarmolinsky, together with Ted Sorensen and Sargent Shriver, screened 75 attorneys selected for high positions in the Administration. These young men went to work with Yarmolinsky in the Defense Department and soon became known as the Whiz Kids and Yarmolinskys commissars. They were responsible for the demoralization of the military services and for our policy. Both of Adam Yarmolinskys parents had long histories of affiliation with Communists and Communist fronts. A.F. Canwell, former Chairman of the Washington State Joint Legislative Committee on Activities, referred to Adam Yarmolinskys parents as two top U. S. Communists. On page 25 of the book The Reuthcr Memorandum, William E. Mallett no-w- in Un-Americ- an |