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Ambassador Lehman Depar t s

Honor Guar d Di sm ssed

PERSHI NG Uni t s Honored

Honor Guar d Marches i nto Posi t i on

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Ambassador Ronal d

F .

Lehman I I

Remar ks

I nt r oduct i on of Ambassador Ronal d

F .

Lehman I I , Di r ector of t he

Uni t ed St ates Ar ms Cont r ol and

Di sar mament Agency

Mr . Lehman f i r es l ast motor .

I nt r oducti on of Mr . M chael W

Owen, Pri nci pal Deput y Assi st ant

Secr etary of t he Ar my

( I L E )

Mr . Owen Remar ks

I nt r oduct i on of Gener al

Li eut enant Vl adi m r Medvedev,

Di r ect or of Sovi et Nucl ear Ri sk

Reduct i on cent er

Gen. Medvedev Remar ks

Wel come Remar ks

LTC J ef f r ey w . Russel l , Commander

Longhor n Ar my Ammuni t i on Pl ant

PERSHI NG I I mot or bur n

I nt r oduct i on of Maj

oz

Gener al Par ker , Di r ect or of t he

On-Si t e I nspect i on Agency

Gen. Parker Remarks

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LONGHORN ARMY

Af f i i UNI T I ON

PLANT

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Previously, he was

a

member of the Professional Staff of the United

States Senate Armed Services Committee where he prepared legislation,

conducted Investigations and reviewed the defense budget, weapons

Before going to the NSC Staff, he served as Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense and was

a

senior advisor to U.S. delegation to the

United Nations Special Session on Disarmament,

a

delegation member

at the U.SJU.S.S.R. bilateral discussions on nuclear proliferation, and a

representative to the U.S JSovlet

talks

on Direct Communications Links.

He served in the White House from 1983 to 1986 as Deputy

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (Defense Policy),

Deputy U.S. Negotiator on Strategic Nuclear Arms, Special Assistant to

the President for National Security Affairs, and Senior Director for

Defense Programs and Arms Control on the National Security Council

Staff.

Ambassador Ronald

F .

Lehman II, has been Director of the United

States

A

rms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), since 1989. In

this capacity he serves as principal advisor to the President, the

Secretary of State and the National Security Council on arms control

issues; is a member of the National Space Council and the Export

Administration Review Board; attends summits and meetings between

U.S. and Soviet Foreign Ministers; testifies before the U.S. Congress;

addresses the United Nations First Committee and the Geneva

Conference on Disarmament; is on the Advisory Board of the United

States Institute of Peace; and headed the U.S. Delegation to the Fourth

Review Conference of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.

Ron Lehman came to ACDA from the Department of Defense where

he served as the Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy

with responsibility for NATO and European defense policy; military

cooperation and security assistance; U.S. nuclear, arms control, and

space policies; and technology transfer controls including supervision of

the Defense Technology Security Administration. He chaired the NATO

High Level Group (HLG) on NATO nuclear forces policy, was a member of

the Defense Resources Board (ORB), the Defense Acquisition Board

(DAB), the Executive Committee overseeing the On-Site Inspection

Agency OSIA) , and served as Executive Branch Commissioner-Observer

on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).

From 1986 to 1988, Dr Lehman was the U.S. Chief Negotiator on

Strategic Nuclear Arms (START) at the U.S./Soviet Nuclear and Space

Arms Talks in Geneva.

RONALD

F .

LEHMAN

II

Director, U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency


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Ron Lehman came to Washington In 1974 as a Public Affairs Fellow

of the Hoover

Institution

on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford,

California.

Born In California s Napa Valley In 1946, he graduated from

Claremont Men s College In 1968 and received his Ph.D. In Government

from the Claremont Graduate School In 1975. He has taught graduate

level courses In Georgetown University s National

Security

Studies

Program. Ron Lehman and his wife, Susan, reside In Arlington, Virginia.

procurement, manpower, research and development, arms

control,

and

Asian and Pacific security.


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In

1979, he became Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Holt.

In

this

position, he was responsible for the management of her Congressional

staff, formulation of legislative policy and strategy, and was the

Congresswoman s chief political advisor.

Throughout his service on Capitol Hill he also served as a White

House advance representative for countless Presidential and Vice

Presidential official, State and political visits throughout the world.

Michael Owen resides with his wife Anne and their three children in

Annapolis, Maryland.

In

his position he helps carry out the Army Secretariat

responsibilities of executive oversight, policy development, and

management in the areas of installations management, military family

housing and facilities construction, logistics, transportation, environment,

safety, occupational health, and commercial activities.

H e also serves as the Deputy for Chemical Demilitarization where

he directs the highly sensitive program to dispose of this nation s

chemical munitions stockpile as mandated by law and the U. SJSoviet

bilateral accord on chemical weapons.

H e

is a graduate of Towson State University in Baltimore,

Maryland, where he

rece

i

ved a Bachelor s degree in Political Science

and History. He worked from 1972 until 1973 as a Staff Assistant for the

Baltimore City Council.

In 1973, he joined the staff of United States Congresswoman

M ar

jorie S. Holt (A, 4th-MD). H e functioned as a Legislative Assistant for

the Congresswoman and was responsible for liaison with the

Congresswoman s primary Committee - the House Armed Services

Committee.

Michael W . Owen assumed the responsibilities of the Principal

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (installations, Logistics and

Environment) on July 1, 1985. H e was originally appointed in the

Reagan Administration and was subsequently reappointed in the Bush

Administration.

MICHAEL W. OWEN

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

(Installations, Logistics and Environment)


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From January 1969 to August 1970 he

served as an airborne launch control system

i nstructor

n

the

431Sth Comba

tCrew

Tran ing

S q

u

ad

ron . Vandenberg

A

ir Force Base,

Cal i f.

He hen returned o EllsworthAir Force Base as

ch ief.

a

irborne

l

aunch control system. op e ra-

ron

Ellsworth Air F orce B ase

S

.

D .

He served

as

an

nstructor ande va

l

uator in the M

inu

teman

weapon system

.

In

July 1967 he was

c

e

rt

ifi

ed

combat ready on the first a

i

rborne lau nch con

trol system missilecrew

Current:

6

March 1991

A d

is

tingu

i

shed graduate of the Air Force

Reserve Officer Training Corps program

General Parker entered the Air F orce

in

July

1963 as an executive of f icer with the 741st

Strategic Missile Squadron. Minot Air Force

Base, N .

D .

Later that year he entered the

miss ile career fi e

l

d as a miss ile combat crew

member with the 68th

Stra

tegic Miss

i le

Squad-

General Parker was born D e c . 30

1941, in

W

h

ite

Pl a

i

ns

N

.

Y.

He was raised

n

Cadyvi

ll

e

N.Y., and graduated from St. John's Academy

Plattsburgh, N

.

Y .,

in

June 1959

.

He earned

a

ba

ch

e

l

or's degree in bu s iness a dm

i

n

i

strat

i

on

from St. M

i

chael's College n June 1963 and a

master'sdegree

n

bu s

i

ness administration rom

OhioS ta te Univers ty n September 1967. The

general completed Squadron Officer School n

1968

A

ir

Command and Staff College

n

197

Indus t ri

al College of

t

he

A

rmed Forces

n

1975

and the A

i

r War College as a distinguished

graduate

n

1981.

M a jor General Robert W Parker, U .S . Air

Force

is Director of the On-S

i

te Inspect

i

on

Agency (OSIA), in

Washing t

on

D

.

C .

The

Agency s responsible for carrying out inspec

tion and escort requ

i

rements under he verifica

t

i

on

prov i

sions of U .

S

. international arms

con

tr

ol treat

ies.

MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT W. PARKER USAF

Director, On-Site Inspection Agency

OSIA Off

i

ce of Public Affai

r

s

Dulles In terna

ti

ona Airport

W a s h

i

ngton, DC 20041-0498

703) 742-4326

Fact Sheet


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2

General Parker

is

married to the former Ann

Ward of

Spear f ish

S

.

D

. They have

fourchidren

:

Ward, Christne, Michelle and Barbara.

The general's military decoratons and

awards include the Defense Distinguished

Service Medal, the Legion of Meri t

Airman

s

Medal, Meritorious

Serv

ice Medal w

i

th one oak

leaf

clus ter

and Air Force Commendation medal

with one oak leaf cluster

.

He has nearly e ight

years of

m i

ssile combat crew experience and

has accrued more than 800 flying hours as

a

miss

i

le

crew member-airborne.

v e m b e

r 1985 to June 1987 he served as com

mander of the 321 st Strategic

M

i

ss

i

le W i

ng

Grand Forks

A

i

r

Force Base,

N .D

. He then

served as Air Force member, Chairman

s

Staff

Group

Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of

Staff. In June 1988 he became the

se n

ior

m

ilitary advisor to the Director,

U

.S. Arms

Co n

trol

and Disarmament Agency. General Parker

assumed his current of f ice at OSIA on January

25, 1991.enera

l

Parker was assigned to the Direc

torate of Plans Headquarters, U

.

S

.

Air Force,

Washington D .C

. in June 1976 . During h

i

s tour

in the Air Staff, he served as a nuclear weapons

plans officer as special assistant to the deputy

d

irector

f

or forces and as executive officer,

Directorate of

Plans

He was assigned to the

321st Strategic Miss

il

e

Wing, Grand Forks Air

Force

Base

N .D.,

in

June

1981

as assistant

deputy commander for operations In May

1983 the general assumed the duties of deputy

commander for

operations

He was assigned

as vice commander of the

341

st Strateg

i

c Mis

si

l

e

Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.,

from January 1984 to August 1984, when he

a ss

umed command of the wing . From No-

ti

onal readiness

t

ra ining with the 4th Airborne

Command Control Squadron His next

a ss

ign

ment in February 1972 was to Headquarters

Strateg ic Air

Command

Offutt A

i

r Force

Base .

Neb

where he served successively as a mis

sile operations staff

officer

as executive

of f i

cer

to both the director of command control, and the

deputy ch

i

ef of staff

f

or operations.

General Par

k

er


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LTC Russell and his wife, Nancy,

live In Marshall, TX. Their son, Robert ,

attends the College of William and

Mary

Williamsburg, VA , and their

daughter Beckee is

a

Senior at

Marshall High School.

Prior to assuming command of

Longhorn on 12Jul

y1989

, LTC Russell

was assigned to Headquarters,

U.S.

Army Materiel Command,

Alexandria, VA .

He Is a Graduate of the

Ordnance Officer Basic and

Advanced Courses, the Armed

Forces Staff College , and the

Program Manager's Course, Defense

Systems Management College. H e

has a Master's Degree in Education

from Elmira College.

He commanded companies at

Seneca and the USAOMMC and served

as the Executive Officer, 6th

Ordnance Battalion

,

Camp Ames,

Korea.

H e

has served in

a

variety of

ammunition troop and depot

assignments

In

Germany, Japan and

Korea in addition to stateside

assignments at Seneca Army Depot,

N - Y .

The U.S. Army Ordnance

Missile and Munition Center and

School U SAOMMCS) , Redstone

Arsenal, AL, and the

U.S.

Army

Military Personnel Center (Ordnance

Branch}, Alexandria, VA.

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey W .

Russell, Is Commanding Officer at

Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant, in

Karnack, TX. A native of

Winchester

,

MA, he was commissioned from

ROTC at Middlebury College,

Middlebury, VT, where he majored in

Biology. He entered active duty in

January 1972 .

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JEFFREY W. RUSSELL, USA

Commander, Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant


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Missiles and rockets are not manufactured at Redstone Arsenal.

Traditionally, the Army has turned to American industry and business for their

manufacture, a task managed by MICOM.

Although the command's responsibilities are world wide most of its team

of about 8,500 soldiers and civilians are at Redstone Arsenal. The commands

test ranges, laboratories, buildings, and

highly-speci

alized equipment comprise

a

total investment of about $800 million. Its annual budget averages more than $7

billion, including funds to buy and support missiles and rockets for the U. S.

Army missiles and rockets.

MICOM's programs today include

a

full spectrum of weapon systems

ranging from manportable, ground-to-air and anti-tank missiles to longer-range

missiles that can deliver nuclear warheads with great accuracy. Its research and

development team pioneered the emerging technology of smart or

precision-guided munitions, artillery shells, bombs, rockets and missiles that

home on laser beams.

Its predecessors fielded the army's first generation missile and rocket

systems and made major contributions in the late 1950's to early American space

exploration efforts, including the launching of the United States' first scientific

earth satellite. NASA's major space vehicle development organization, the

Marshall Space Flight Center, also located at Redstone , was activated in 1960

from a nucleus of former Army

c i

vilian employees at Redstone. Efforts to

develop a ballistic missile defense system also began as

a

research and

development program managed by one of MICOM's predecessors.

MICOM combines the facilities, personnel and missions of several

predecessor Army organizations which, at the same location, have directed the

Army's expanding missile and rocket activities at Redstone Arsenal for more

than 35 years.

MICOM is responsible for missiles and rockets and the supporting

equipment required to field them as weapon systems The command's mission

includes: research, development, engineering, testing, procurement, production

and logistics support of operational missile and rocket systems.

The U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM),

a

major commodity command

of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, has its headquarters at Redstone Arsenal

and also runs the installation.

UNITED STATES ARMY MISSILE COMMAND

REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA


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I n 1951 another port i on of L onghorn AAP was sel ect ed as a

pr oducti on si t e f or pyrotechni c

a

mmuni t i on

Uni v

ersal

Mat c

h

Corpor ati on, S t . Loui s, M ssour i , oper at ed t hese f a c i l i t i es

wi

t h

act ual pr oduct i on operati ons f r om 18 J une 1952 t o 18 Apri l 1956.

I t ems pr oduced were Phot of l ash Bombs, Si

m

ul at or s, Hand Si gnal s,

and Tr acers f or 40mm Fi nal set t l ement agreement was execut ed

18 Febr uar y 19 57 .

The f i r st TNT f l ake was pr oduced 19 Oct ober 1942. Fromt hat dat e

t o 15 August 1945, when pr oduct i on ceased, 396, 963, 000 pounds of

TNT were produced. An addi

t

i onal f aci l i t y desi gned t o pr oduce

J B- 2 sol i d prop

e

l l ant r ocket f uel was under const r uct i on i n

1945. Fi nal set t l ement agr eement w t h Monsant o Chem cal Compan

y

was execut ed 31 May

1946

. The TNT pl ant was determned excess t o

DA requi r ement s i n 1959.

F

i nal di sposi t i on of t he pl ant was

compl et ed 14 J anuar y 1960. Longhorn AAP was cl assi f i ed

a

st andby

i nstal l at i on 15 August 1945 and changed t o gover nment - owned,

government - operated st atus

f r o

m 19 November 1945 t o 31 December

1952.

The Kar nack, Texas , s i t e f or t he ammuni t i on pl ant ( desi gnated as

Longhorn Or dnance

W

r k s

un t

i l

1

J ul y

1

963) was sel ect ed

1 5

December 1941 by t he Or dnance Depart ment f or const r uct i on and

operat i on as

a

TNT si x l i ne speci al pl ant . The War Depart ment

appr oved

a

Cost Pl us Fi xed Fee Cont r act on

22

December 1941

wi

t h

Monsant o Che

m

cal Company, S t . Loui s, M ssour i t o oper at e the

pl ant.

HI STORY

The surr oundi ng area i s known

as P i ne _ y

Woods w t h

a

f or est ar ea

co

nsi st i ng of shor t l eaf and l obl ol l y pi ne, gum

a s h,

and oak.

Caddo Lake, t he l argest natural f r eshwater l ake i n Te

x

as

( appr oxi matel y 128, 758 t otal acres of navi gabl e wat er ,

appr oxi matel y 58, 000 acres i n Texas) , border s the pl ant f or

several m l es on the nort h and east boundari es. Al t hough t he

sur r oundi ng t err ai n

i s

g en t l y r ol l i ng, Long

h

orn i s si t uat ed i n

a

rel at i vel y f l at basi n adj acent t o t he l ake.

Longhor n Ar my Ammuni t i on Pl ant

( A A P ) i s

a

go

v

ern

m

ent - owned,

cont ractor- operated m l i t ary i ndustr i al i nstal l at i on under t he

j ur i sdi ct i on of t he U. S. Army Armament Muni t i ons and Chem cal

Command

( AMCCOM)

. I t i s l ocated i n Harr i son County, Texas, near

t

h

e t own of

Marshal l

. The i ns t a l l a t i on was

establ i sh

ed i n 19 41

t o support t he

m

bi l i z a t i on r e q u i r ement s f or Wor l d War I I .

Empl oyment has r anged f r oma l ow near 100 i n t he l ate 1950s to a

hi gh near 3, 000 f or t he Vi et nam

Co n f l

i

c t .

Wth

a

cur r ent

e

mpl oyment near

9 00 ,

Longhorn' s cur r ent workl oad i ncl udes

l o

a d,

assembl e and packout ( L A P ) of i l l um na t i ng muni t i ons, i nf r ar ed

f l ares, s i gnal s , pr oj ect i l e base bur ner assembl i es, and

si mul ators . Longhor n i s al so

el i

m

nat i ng PERSHI NG Rocket Mot or s

under t he

requi rem

ent s of t he I nt ermedi ate Range Nucl ear For ces

I

N

F ) Treaty bet ween t he

U

S. and t he Uni on of

Sovi

et Soci al i st

Republ i cs.

Longhorn AAP i s l ocated i n Cent r al East Texas i n t he

nor t hea

s t

corner of Harr i son Count y w t h 8, 493 acres of

l a nd

. Longhor

n

' s

east ern f ence l i ne i s j ust t hr ee and one- hal f m l es west of

t he

Loui si ana- Texas boundary l i

ne

. Longhor n i s l ocated 15 ml es

nor t heast of Mar shal l , Texas vi a Texas Hi ghway 43 . The

popul ati on of Marshal l i s a p pr o x i ma t e l y 25, 000. sout heast of

L on9h?r n, 3 5 m l e s , i s S hr evepor t , t he second l ar gest ci t y i n

Lou1s1ana.

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LONGHORN ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT


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Longhorn AAP

i s

l ocat ed i n t he 1st Congr essi onal Di st r i ct of

Texas and

i s

r epr esent ed by Senat ors Phi l Gr amm

R )

and Ll oyd

Bentsen

D)

and by Congr essman J i m Chapman ( D- l st

Di s t ) .

CON

GRESSI ONAL

Longhorn has been f ul l y perm t t ed f or the ent i r e I NF el i m nati on

process . Act ual bur ns of r ocket motors ar e conduct ed under

str i ct envi ronment al l i m t s i ncl udi ng w nd speed, di recti on,

cl oud cover and pr eci pi t at i on at t he si t e. These l i m t s have

ensured ef f ecti ve pr otect i on of t he envi r onment at Longhorn,

i ncl udi ng uni que and pi ct uresque Caddo Lake adj acent t o t he

pl ant.

Longhorn AAP and i t s operat i ng cont r actor , Thi okol Corpor ati on,

are f ul l y comm t t ed t o pr eser vi ng t he East Texas envi r onment .

Longhor n

i s

f ul l y and pr operl y perm t t ed w t h the EPA and Texas

St ate agenci es f or al l cur r ent operati ons. The pl ant compl i es

w t h al l pr ovi s i ons of t hese per m t s.

The pl ant has t aken and w l l cont i nue t o pr oacti vel y t ake al l

pr udent measures necessar y to f ul l y compl y w t h, or exceed,

envi r onment al r egul at i ons. Longhorn AAP does not endan9er peopl e

or our envi r onment . I n no i nstance has Longhor n been ci t ed f or

any speci f i c hazar d t o empl oyees on the pl ant , or any speci f i c or

general hazar d to any of f pl ant r esi dent s, busi ness, or publ i c

f aci l i t i es.

ENVI RONMENT

I n f our decades of r ocket and

mss i

l e t echnol ogi cal achi evement ,

Thi okol Corpor ati on

i s

t he nat i on' s l ar gest pr oducer of sol i d

pr opul si on syst ems and i s

a

maj or devel oper and suppl i er of

ordnance pr oduct s and servi ces. Thi okol Corpor ati on i s managed

from i t s headquar t ers i n Ogden, Ut ah. Subor di nat e

di vi s

i ons

i

n

cl ude El kton ( space mot or s f or or bi t al i nj ecti on and

r etr ogr ade appl i cati ons, gas generat ors, and underwater and

t acti cal propul si on systems), Hunt svi l l e ( t acti cal propul si on

syst ems, duct ed r ocket propul si on, and boost er propul si on

s y s t ems) , Longhor n ( i l l um nat i ng devi ces, r el at ed or dnance, sol i d

pr opel l ant motors) , Loui si ana ( ordnance) , and Ut ah di vi si on

( devel opment and pr oduct i on of sol i d pr opel l ant r ocket motor s,

l arge composi t e cases and nozzl es, m ssi l e ordnance, l arge motor

test i ng) .

Thi okol Corpor ati on

i s

or9ani zed i nt o f our basi c 9r oups:

Or dnance Operati ons, Tact i cal Operati ons, St r ategi c Operati ons

and Space Oper at i ons.

W t hi n the Aerospace Gr oup t he r esour ces of si x di vi si ons ar e

combi ned. Val ued at over a bi l l i on and a hal f dol l ar s and

l ocated on 45, 000 acr es of l and w t h seven m l l i on square f eet of

f l oor space, f aci l i t i es are l ocat ed at El kton, Maryl and;

Hunt svi l l e, Al abama; Wasat ch, near Br i gham

C

i

t

y, Ut ah; Ogden

Ut ah; Marshal l , Texas, and Shr evepor t Loui si ana. The l att er t wo

are government - owned , cont r actor - operat ed or dnance

p

l ant s .

THI OKOL CORPORATI ON

on 9 J une 1988 Longhorn was sel ect ed as the f i r st el i m nati on

si t e f or el i m nati on of t he PERSHI NG Rocket Motor s under t he

t erms of t he I nter medi ate- Range Nucl ear For ces

( I NF )

Treaty

between the U. S. and t he Uni on of Sovi et Soci al i st Republ i cs.

As

i s

t he case at al l government - owned, cont r actor - operat ed

pl ant s, Longhor n i s managed under

a

dual st r uct ur e - t he pl ant i s

actual l y managed by t he operat i ng cont r actor , Thi okol

Corpor ati on, but i t i s under t he command of an of f i cer of t he

U. S. Army who

i s

al so t he Adm ni st r at i ve Cont r acti ng Of f i cer at

t he pl ant . The Commander ' s st af f of government empl oyees are

r esponsi bl e f or over seei ng t he cont r actor ' s perf ormance under t he

terms of the ppli ble contract(s) and regulations.


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Headquarters for OSIA is located at Du

ll

es

International Airport near Washington, D C.

. Th

e

Agency maintains field offices at

Magn

a,

U

tah;

Travis Air Force Base , near San Francisco, Calif.;

Rhein-Main Air Base, near Frankfurt

G erman

y;

and

W a

shington-Dullesairport

It also has forward

deployed personnel at Yokota Air Base nearT ok y

o ,

Japan , and at the American Embassy in o ow i

n

the USSR.

OSIA is comprised of personnel from all

branchesof the armed services and includes civilian

technical experts and support staff from various

government agencies. The

organ

ization draw

s

its

three Deputy Directors from the Arm s Control and

D i

sarmamentAgency , Federal Bureau of In vestiga

tion and DepartmentofState A representative

o

f the

Department of Energy serves as senior ad v isor for

implementationof the two nuclear testing treaties.

Managementof future

n

spection and escort

operations under theNTr agreements was tasked to

OSIA in July 1990. The two agreements, now

ratified, are the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful

Nuclear Explosion treaties.

W

e

apons

(CW),

Strategic Arms Reduction T a

l

ks

(START), and two Nuclear Testing

T

alks (NTI )

agreements.

Current: December 990

In May

1990

, OSIA was tasked to plan for

on-s

i

te inspection and escort activities and logistics

support for several new proposed agreements:

Conventional Forces in Europe

(CFE)

, Chemical

OSIA is also responsible for continuous

monitoring of one Soviet INF portal at the former

SS-20 assembly facility located in Votkinsk, 600

miles east of

Moscow

. The Agencymanages

coor

dinates and provides escorts for Soviet inspectors

who

re

ciprocally monitor the former Pershing II

rocket motor production facility at Hercules Aero

space in Magna, Utah.

The Agencys INF mission includes both

inspection and escort

responsibilities

The Agency

recruits trains, equips and manages U .S. teams

inspecting Treaty-related facilities in the Soviet

Union, Czechoslovakia and East Germany It coor

dinates all activities associated with INF

i

nspec

tions by the Soviet Union on U .S . territory or at U .S .

Forces locations in Belgium, Federal Republic of

Germany, Italy, Netherlands and United Kingdom.

The On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA), a

separate Agency of the Department ofDefense was

originally established in February 1988 to imple

ment the 13-year inspection regime of the Interme

diate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

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IntermediateRange Missile (IRM)

A

ground-launched cruise or ballistic missile

with a range equal to or

greater than

1000

Entry into Force:

A date, agreed to by

both Parties to theTreaty

.

when the provi

sions of the Treaty go into effect This date

w

as 1

June

1988

after

ratification by the

Congress

and

the exchange of

nstruments

at the MoscowSummit

EliminationProcedures:

Procedures for

destroying missiles

launchers

,

support

equipment

and

facilitiescovered n the INF

Treaty.

-AggregateNumber f Missiles:

The total

number of deployedand nondeployed in

termediate-range (IRM) and shorter-range

(SRM)

missiles for

each s

i

de

listed in the

Memorandum of Understanding.

- NondeployedMissile/Launcher:

A mis

sile or launcher not located at a deploy

ment

area

or MOB,

but rather at a

missile

support

facility (MSF)or in transit

area. Deployedstatus in terms of the INF

Treaty is dependent on

the

locati

on

of a

missile

launcher

,

not

its operational capa

bility.

Current : 15 May 1989

Deployed Missile/Launcher:A missile

or

launcher

located inside

a

deployment

Deployment Area:A geographic area in

which intermediate-range missiles and

their

launchers which are to be eliminated

under the INFTreaty. are permitted to be

operated and moved about freelywithout

notification to the

other party until

they

are eliminated A deployment

area contains

one or more Missile Operating Bases

(MOBs) .

CruiseMissile

A missile

that

. like

an

air

plane,

sustains

flight aerodynamic

means

over most of

its

flightpath.

Basing

Country

A country other than

the

U.S. and USSR where Treaty llmited mis

siles

and

related

support equipment

are

located. NATO Basing Countries

are

the

United Kingdom.the Federal Republic of

Germany, Italy, Belgium

and the

Nether

lands. Warsaw Pact Basing Countries are

the German Democratic Republic and

Czechoslovakia

Ballistic

Missile A missile whose light is

rocket propelled

and

whole trajectory is

primarilydeterminedby gravitational orces

after

termination

of powered

flight

A

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ContinuousPortalMonitoringSystem

is a form of on-site inspection (established

for the special case of the Soviet SS-25

- CloseoutInspections

to help verify

hat

Treaty

-

limited items no longer existat a

designated MissileOperating Base or Mis

sile Support Facility:

- Baseline Inspections

to help verify he

initial numberofTreaty-llmited

tems e .

g

.

missiles

and

launchers

at

each Missile

Operating Base or

Military

Support Facil

ity;

On-Site

Inspection

OSI)

Procedures

in

the Treaty involving

he dispatch

of per

sonnel to specificsites to help a Party o the

Treaty verify the compliance of

the

other

Party With INF Treaty obligations. These

include:

NuclearRisk Reduction Center

NRRC)~

Established by

a

U.S./Soviet agreement

s

igned in September

1987

,

the Centers

were instituted to reduce the risk of

war

between the U.S. and USSR that m

i

ght

result from accidents

misunderstandings

or miscalculations. Under

that

agreement.

the

U .

S .

and

USSRcreated

a

new commu

nications channel linking Washington

D

.

C . , and Moscow

.

Under the INFTreaty,

the sides

Will

use the Centers to

transmit

all

the notificationsrequired by the Treaty.

Treaty or unW there is a

Stra

tegic Arms

ReductionTreaty

(STARI1

.

This procedure

in conjunction Withother measures is in

tended to help deter the Soviets from hid

ing illegal INF missiles at those SS-25

bases

not subject to inspection. (TheSS-25

missile ls

an

intercontinental missile, and

therefore

not

covered by the Treaty on

Intermediate and Shorter-RangeM is siles.)

NTMEnhancement:

Under

this

provi

sion one side may

request the other

to

remove its land-mobileground-launched

ballistic missiles which have a range greater

than 5500 km (greater than roughly 3400

miles) from their shelters and to open the

shelter

roofs for

at least

six

hours

for

observation by NIM

.

Each

side may make

such a request up to six times annually

during the first three years of the INF

National Technical Means NTM):

ech

niques

such as

taking

pictures

fromphoto

reconnaissance

satellites which are strictly

under national

control

and are used

to

monitor compliance With he provisions of

an agreement

Missile Support \Facilities MSF):

Fa

cilities,

not

in

a

deployment

area,

con

nected With production,

repair

,

training,

storage. testing or elimination of RMand

SRMmissiles

and launchers.

Missile OperatingBase MOB):

he mili

tary installation

inside

a

deployment

area

which actively

supports

the operation of

deployed INF missiles.

Memorandumof Understanding MOU):

The section ofthe INFTreatywhichidenti

fies by number, type.location and techni

cal

characteristics the

items to be elimi

nated by the INFTreaty. Photographs of

Treaty-limited systems and site

d

iagrams

which define

the boundaries

of Missile

Operating

Bases and

Missile

Support

Fa

c

ilities and identify buildings used to

contain

Treaty

-limited Items

at these

loca

tions are attached to the M O U .

km but not more than 5500 km (roughly

300 to 3400 miles),

p

r

eviously referred to

as longer-range INF LRINF)missiles.

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Source:

Arms

Control andDisar

mamentAgency, Washington,D.C.

20451 February 23 1988

Special VerificationCommission SVC):

Special forum established by the Treaty

which the

U .

S. and USSR

can

use to re

sol

ve INF Treaty compliance Issues

Shorter-Range

Missile SRM):

A

ground

launched cruise or ballistic missile with a

range equal to or greater

than 500but

not

more

than 1 ,

000 km (roughly from 300 to

600

miles) . previouslyreferred o as

shorter

range (SRINF)missiles

Short

notice or Quota) Inspection:

to

help verify the accuracy of

the number

of

Treaty-limit

ed

i

tems

that a party

declares

to be

at a

Missile Operating Base or Missile

Support Facility.

int

e

rcontinental ballistic missile which

ha

s

a first stage outwardly similar to

but

not

interchangeable with

the

first stage of the

SS-20 missile, which is limited by the

Treaty) n which a

res

ident inspection team

inspects

vehicles/rail cars that

exist the

main gate of a designated missile facility o

determine whether or not treaty-limi

t

ed

items are leaving the

facility.

This system

can remain in place for

up

to

13

years. The

U

.

S. will

inspect the

Soviet facility

at

Votkinsk,

while the USSR will inspect a

facility

a

t West

Valle

y City (Magna). Utah.

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Although the INF Treaty

i

s sole

l

y

between

the

United

States and

the Soviet

Union, it also involves basing countries

where Treaty-limited missilesand related

support equipment are located.

NATO

basing countries include the Federal

R e

public of Germany

Belgium.

the N

ether

lands, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The

WarsawPact basing countries includeEast

Germanyand Czechoslovakia. TheT re aty

acknowledgesthe respective rights and

obligations of the

basing countries

and the

U

nited

States

to facilitate

and man

age

n

spection activities in

western

Europe.

All

President Reagan and General Secretary

Gorbachev exchange pens after signng the

INF Treaty on December 8, 1987.

Current: May 1989

The Treaty has four integral parts

The Treaty. with 12 articles a detailed

Memorandum of Understanding estab

lishing

a data base

on missiles. launchers

equipment and

facilities:

an

Inspections

Protocol

and an

Eliminations Protocol.

The INF Treaty covers

U .S

. and

Soviet land-based missiles with ranges

from approximately 300 to 3.400 miles

(500 o 5. 500

kilometers)

Under he terms

of the Treaty. the United

States and the

Soviet

U

nion will eliminate their shorter

range missileswithinl8months andlonger

range

m

issiles

within

threeyears

Produc

tion or flight

testing

of INF-missiles is

bann

ed

under the

provisionsof the Treaty.

TheTreaty between he UnitedStates

of Americaand the Union of Soviet Social

ist

Republics on

the

Elimination of

their

Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range

Missiles

corrun

only known as the INF

Treaty

,

was

si

gned between President

Reaganand General Secretary Gorbachev

on December

8

, 1987,

inWashlngton

D.C.

Following

Senate

ratification,

the

Presi

dent exchanged

in

strumen

t

s with the

Gen

e

ral Secretary at the MoscowSummit

on

June l,

1988,

and the

Treaty formally

entered into force on

that

date.

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implementation is the Department of

Defenses On-Site InspectionAgency. The

European Command Headquarters at

Stuttgart serves as the major military or

ganization coordinating the INF Treaty

implementation efforts in the five West

European basing countries.

A unique provision of the Treaty

insures each party the right to implement

on-site inspections. TheU

.

S. agent for his

INF-relatedactivitiesconducted within the

territory of a basing country will occur in

full cooperation With the government of

that country.

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The first INF missile eliminated by the

U.S.

was

a Pershing

IA,

static fired and

crushed at LonghomArmy Ammunition

Plant, Marshall,Tez:as,on Sept.

8, 1988.

By July, 1991, all

intermediate

-range

and shorter-range missiles, launchers

related support equipment. and support

structures will

have

been

eliminated. The

methods to be employed

include

METHODS OF ELIMINATION

testedbut never-deployed ystem.the

SSC

X-4 and its launchers must be destroyed

within the first six months ofthe treaty.

Current:

1 May

1989

Sovietsystems include SS-20 missile,

launch canister. launcher, missile trans

porter

vehicle

and

fixed

structure

for the

launcher:

SS-4 missile missile

transporter

vehicle, missile erector,

launch stand and

propellant tanks;

SS-5 missile; SS-12

missile, launcher and missile transporter

vehicle; SS-23 missile.

launcher and

mis

slle transporter vehicle

and SSC-

X

-4

missile,

launch canister and launcher.

A

The United

States systems

covered

un

der the INF reaty include the Pershing

II

missile,

launcher and launch pad

shelter:

Pershing IA missile

and launcher;

Persh

ing 1B missile; and BGM-109GGround

Launched Cruise Missile{GLCM) missile

launch canister and launcher.

SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO ELIMINATION

The INFTreatyrequires that theU.S.and

the Soviet Union conduct inspections at

each other

s sites during eliminations of

items covered by

the

pact. The inspecting

party may

employ

a

maximum of 20 in

specters to observe the eliminations at

each site. A 30

-

day notification by the

eliminating

party

is required:

and the

in

spectors must

give

72-hour

notice before

arrival in

country.

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In situ (in place) eliminations of related

support facilities

structures and

shelters

Launchers, canisters and support equip

ment eliminations by cutting or removal of

mechanisms as specified in Protocol.

Loss or accidental destruction. When

accidental elimination occurs. a 48-hour

notice is required and the right of inspec

tion included

by rendering them inoperative prior .to

placing them on display.

Static display. Each side may eliminate

up to 15 missiles. canisters and launchers

Launch to destruction

Up to 100 mis

siles on each side may be launched to

existing impact

areas

(e.g Soviet SS-20s).

Missile cut longitudinally, with wings and

tail section severed and front section

crushed

or flattened (e.g., GLCM).

Explosive demolition or bunting of mis

siles, in or out of the canister. Nozzles and

cases may be burned. crushed, flattened,

or destroyed by explosion

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Current: 25 March 1991

Continuous portal m on

i

toring op e r

a t

i

on

s

be

gan in both countries

n

July 1988. At Magn a,

Utah

and

Vo

t

kinsk

USSR.

perm

anent commu

n ities of up to 30 inspectors each are

l

ocated

ou

ts ide

the gat

es

of former INF m is

si le

produc

tion

a

n

d .f ina l a ss em b

ly plants to check

e x

i

ti

n

g

ve

h

i

c

les for Treaty-lim ited items

The Soviet Un

i

on destroyed the last of 80

SSC -X-4 non -deployed cruise

miss

i

le on Octo

ber

5

1988 and the last of six SS-5s on August

16, 1989 . W ith the destruction of the

l

ast

declared S S-4 on May 2 2

1990 the

on ly

rem a i

n

i

ng

Soviet

In

t

e

r

m e d

i

a te

-

Range system

enumerated n the Treaty is the SS-20.

Alldecla red Shorter-Range NF

systems

those

wi

th

ranges from 500 to 1

000 km .

were

e l

imi

nated one month in advance of the Tre a t

y

d e a d

line of N o v e m b er 30 1989. The U

.S

.

Pershing

-

A was the first Shorter-Range

sy

s

tem to be comple

t

ely

eliminated

with

t

he final

m is

s

i l

e eliminated on Ju ly 6, 1989 ; the S ov

i

et

Union

e limina

ted he ast of ts declared Shorter

Range

m issiles

the SS

-12

on July 26 and SS-

23 on October 27, 1989.

U . S.

i

n

s

pectors have w

it

nessed elimination of

1

804

Sov i

et

miss

il

es through March

2 5

1991

.

Since the i

n it

i

al elim

i

nation at Longhorn Army

Ammunition Plant near

Marshall

Te

x

as on

September

8

1 988, Soviet inspectors have

viewed the destruction of 769 U.S.

miss

iles.

Th

e pe ri

od

s i

nce entry nto

for

ce of the Treaty

h

a

s

been marked by almost continuous elimi

na t

i

on of miss ile s

lau nchers and

re l

ated e qu

i

p

me nt. B eg inn ing wth the first Soviet SS-12

m

i

ss

i le

de s truction at Saryozek

n

August 1988

The On

-

Site Inspe ct ion Agency is respon

s i

bl

e

for conduc

t

ing and coordinating the

Treaty

s

inspec

t

ion

provis

i

on s

.

For the first

ti

me in U.S. and Soviet history, on -site inspec

tons were included

i

n the verification process

of an arms co n trol agreement between these

na tions .

Th

e

INF Treaty between the U .

S.

and Soviet

Union entered nto force on June1, 1988

when

Pr

e

sident Reagan and

S ov i

et General Secre

tary Gorbachev exchanged the

art

cles of im

ple

m en

t

a t

i

on at the Moscow Summit.

Th

e

Treaty calls or

e li

m inat

i

on of all U .

S .

and Soviet

ground-launchedmissile ys tems with he range

ot 500 to 5 500

k

i lometers (about 300 to 3,400

miles) wi thn three years afte r entry into force .

In the Treaty

s

Memorandum of Understand

in g

the S ov

i

et's declared 1,846 miss

i

les for

e

l i

mina tion and the U.S. declared 84 6

.

S

i

nce July 1, 1988, nspectors from the On

S

i

te InspectionAgency OSIA) have conducted

406 nspections in the Soviet Union under the

Intermediate

-

Range Nuclear Forces

(

INF)

Treaty. In the same period, OSIA coordinated

183 Sovet inspections to U

.

S . sites in this

country and Western Europe

.

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-

Site Inspection Agency

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Source: INF Treaty Memorandum of Understanding 1 June 1988 Update

654

612

718

ELIMINATED 718

239

ELIMINATED

239

149

ELIMINATED

149

6

EL IM INATED

6

~

EL I

M INATED

_oo

1,846 1 804

U.S. Systems

169

ELIMINATED

169

234

221

Ma

a z a

846 769

Soviet Systems

Missiles

Elim

i

nated

Missiles Subject

to

Elimnat

on

Pershing IA

Pershing

II

GLCM

Total

SS20

SS12

SS23

SS4

SSS

SSC

-

X-4

Total

Completed Eliminations

122

54

113

.uz

406

86

55

1 1

.ai

183

U .S. Inspect

ons

at Soviet

S

ites

ov

et

Inspectons

at U .

S

.

S it

es

Eliminaton:

Quota:

Closeout:

Baseline:

Total

Inspections

U.S. and

Soviet

INF

Inspections

and

Eliminations

(Figures Current: June 1988

-

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TR

TF,M/LEF

TF

LPF

LPF

MSF, MRF, LRF, MEF. LEF

MSF, LSF. LRF

LRF

.

TF

TR

MEF

Sites

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

< P m

(PIA/Pm

< P m

< P m

(Pm

(PIA/Pm

Sys tem

Current:

1

August 1989

Dugway Proving Grounds, U T

Davis-Monthan

AFB, Tucson AZ

Ft Huachuca. AZ

AF Plant 1 9 , San

Diego CA

Martin Marietta, Middle River MD

Pueblo

Depoe

Activi ty

,

Pueblo

CO

Redstone Arsenal. Huntsvi l le AL

Ft Si l l , OK

Complex

16, Cape

Canaveral FL

Longhorn

AAP

Kamaclc TX

Location

Continental United States

Sites include Missile Operating Bases (MOB) all located inEurope and various support establishments

as designated below: Test ranges (TR), raining facilities (I'F), launcher and missile elimination facilities

(LEF,

MEF.

M/LEF),

launcher production facilities (LPF), launcher and missile support facilities

{LSF,

MSF),

and launcher and missile repair facilities

(LRF, MRF).

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty included a Mem orandum of Understanding

identifying 31 U.S. s i tes at 18 locations that

were

subject to Baseline, Closeout and Quota (Short Notice)

inspections. T he sites are operational and support facilities for the Pershing

IA.

ershing II and BGM-1090

Ground Launched Cruise Missi le (GLCM) in he continental U nited States

and

in the five basing countries

of Belgium, Italy, he FederalRepublic of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Each of these

si tes is subject to quota inspections throughout the 13-year inspection period.

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MSF

LRF.LEF

MOB

MOB

MOB

MOB

MOB

MOB

MOB

MRF

MOB

MOB

Sites

ystem

< P m

< P m

(Pm

(Pm

< P m

(

GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GLCM)

(GJ..CM)

Weilerbach FRO

EMC

Hausen

, Frankfun FRO

Schwaebisch-Gmuend FRO

Neu Ulm FRO

Waldhcide-Ncclwsulm FRO

RAF Greenham Common UK

RAF Molesworth UK

Comiso IT

Florennes BE

SABCA, Gosscl ics BE

Wucschcim FRO

Wocnsdiccht NL

Location

We s t e rn E u rope

final missile elimination longhorn army ammunition plant (6 may 1991)

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