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Show i The UN,v7u; SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mm Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Vol. 8, No. 46 Truth 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 VI T reaties livil By Paul Scott Washington: The largest and number of most impressive military officers ever to take a public stand on a national security issue have come out in opposition of the new Panama CanalTreaties. Altogether 320 retired General and Admirals led by General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, former Supreme Allied Com-mander-NA- and Admiral John C. McCain, former Commander-in-Chiof Pacific, have notified the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Service Committees of ef their opposition. Organized by the Reserve Officers Association (ROA), which was chartered by Congress to advise on matters of national defense, the unprecedented opposition of military leaders is designed to counter the support given the T reaties by the present Joint Chiefs of StalT and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. This new and growing military opposition to the Treaties is in addition to that presented earlier to President Carter and the Congress by four former Chiefs of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney, Arleigh A. Burke, George Anderson, and Thomas H. Meralt) of jfree&om UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 E. Oakland Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT group represent all the branches of service. Included are General Lewis Walt, former Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps; General Charles L. Bolte, former Vice Chief of Staff, Army; Maj. General Earnest L. Mike Massad, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Maj. General Kenneth O. Sanborn, former Commander, U.S. Air Forces, South, Panama, and Brig. General John S. Eisenhower, son of the late President Eisenhower. The officers come from 40 of the nation's 50 states. Their position -- of free political relationship by Maj. General J. Milnor Roberts, ROA Executive Director, in a little publicized appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, So important is their op- position to the Treaties that ), a Senator Jesse Helms leader of the bipartisan group in the Senate opposing ratification, begun circulating the list of names of 320 military leaders and the states from which they come to colleagues. Senators are being urged to seek out these military leaders from their own states and discuss the security implications of the new treaties before making up their minds on how to vote. THE CASTRO FACTOR The major opposition theme of these military officers is that the U.S. is taking a grave security risk in sharing the operations and con- trol of the strategic waterway with the Marxist government of During Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign as candidate, he repeatedly advocated a strong national defense. Not only has he failed to live up to his commitments but his chosen Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke (who is also chief SALT agreement negotiator) and Warnkes assistant, Adam are such serious security risks that Carter might not have been elected if the American people had known of his intention to bring these ts into his Administration. two At the time that Warnke was being considered for Senate confirmation, the Emergency Coalition Against Unilateral Disarmament (of which one of was Daniel O. Graham, former the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency) ad in the Washington Post took a full-pa(February 22, 1977) for the purpose of detailing why Warnke should not be confirmed. They pointed out that Warnke had taken the position that the proposition that we must remain ahead of the Soviet Union in most, if not all, perceivable elements of military power is a fallacy that inflates defense spending. Warnke stated: We might inform the Soviet Union both privately and publicly that we have placed a moratorium on misof our further MIRV-in- g siles. We should also announce that a hold has been placed on the development of the Trident submarine and the B- -l bomber. . .We can, and should, for example, substantially reduce the numbers of tactical nuclear weapons now deployed in Europe. . . The ad quoted columnist John P. Roche as Yar-molins- ky, pro-Sovie- ge r- -- H 4 V! :y: : i r. a O land-and-sea-bas- rr ; i C 4 t - i o i 1 (R-NC- Relations ' ' i i i s . t ik ; t i J ; ed I Corn-present- ed m it tee. Admiral Mooier warned the lawmakers that they should not be surprised to see a Soviet or Cuban presence quickly established in Panama if the treaties were ratified in their present form. The highly respected Admiral pointed out that when the Panamanian dictator, Omar Torri-ha- s jos, overflew Cuba on his flight back to Panama after the Treaty signing in Washington he sent a most cordial greeting to Fidel Cas- tro. Moorer testified: 'This was Castro's message: On my return trip to my country and flying above the sky of Cuba, I salute you with friendship always, I wish that the Cuban people under your skillful leadership, continue its ascendant march toward progress. In Latin America, your name is associated with feelings about dignity that have been channeled toward the ending of a Continued on page 4 Arms Control co-chair- O of its close with Communist This issue along with the Panamanian view that they will be free to employ technicians from Communist countries to run the Canal, if they so desire, will be raised by these military leaders when the Senate Armed Service Committee holds hearings in January over the security implications of the new treaties. The military officers already have supplied the Committee with documents showing that Carlos Lopez Guevara, one of Panama's Treaty Negotiators, is on record as saying that the technicians hired by Panama to run the Canal might be of any nationality, including Russian, Cuban, or Chinese, as well as American. This potential danger was spotlighted by Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiels of Staff; in a little noted statement to the House The military officers in the Lemnitzer-McCai- n constraints was International Panama because Cuba. Moorer. ICbe Salt Lake City, Utah November 17, 1977 Vfr stating that Warnke has indicated on a number of occasions that he trusts totalitarians. In 1973, he went so far as to state that Saigon, not Hanoi, offered the major threat to maintaining the Paris agreements military cease-firAnyone who believed this could believe anything and anyone who can believe anything should not be negotiating with the toughest crowd of ideological gangsters of the 20th Century. . . As to whether or not we should reduce our military capabilities in Europe with N.A.T.O., that situation is already critical. A Special Office Brief and Confidential Intelligence Report (September 24, 1977, published in Dublin, Ireland) stated that the Soviets have 20,000 tanks now lined up in of hostile Europe with an enormous build-u- p forces in Ethiopia, Libya, Angola, and Mozambique, etc. According to the report, N.A.T.O. does not now possess weaponry with which to conduct defense for more than four or five hours. N.A.T.O. troops could not even reach their forward positions. No country in Europe could mobilize, let alone reinforce, N.A.T.O. in time. The report from Dublin further stated that President Carter does not possess the to defend England, let alone central Europe. The authority for this shocking report, it said, is based on information in the files of General Johannes Steinhoff (chairman of the N.A.T.O. Military Committe), General Robert Close (Belgium). General Ulrick Maizier (Inspector General of the German Army), and General Alexander Haig. While the Soviets have continuously been e. sea-pow- Continued on page 6 er |