Análisis sensorial

A secret U.S.-Soviet operating group based in New York is acting in a manner strongly suggesting treason by its American members —and we do not use the word treason lightly. We have circulated certain information in our possession to close associates. Without exception they are shocked, shaken, disbelieving... and angry.

Before we spell out the details for you, how do we define treason? Treason is defined in the Constitution as "aid and comfort" to an enemy of the United States.

Second, following this how do we define an enemy? We spend $300 billion a year on defense against the Soviet Union, so logically the Soviet Union is an enemy. We cannot SIMULTANEOUSLY have a $300 billion defense budget against the Soviet Union and give "aid and comfort" for the Soviet military structure without raising the question of treason.

This topic is discussed at length in a forthcoming book, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy.

Who is this secret group? Why do we suggest treason?

US-USSR Trade And Economic Council, Inc. (TEC,for short)

This bland official sounding title disguises a formal joint Soviet-American apparatus to conduit advanced technology with pure military applications to the Soviet Union. The information that follows raises a distinct possibility that Administration "spy trials" and pious proclamations against aiding the Soviets are so much hogwash... a smokescreen. This TEC group has official sanction and backing. It links to Bush elements in the White House, the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and assorted Senators and Congressmen with more political ambition than common sense.

THE US-USSR TRADE AND ECONOMIC COUNCIL, INC. IS A SECRET ORGANIZATION.

TEC WILL NOT RELEASE ITS MEMBERSHIP LIST (ABOUT 300) TO THE MEDIA. TEC WILL NOT EVEN RELEASE ITS LIST TO U.S. FIRMS UNLESS THE FIRM HAS PASSED AN INTERVIEW BY A SOVIET NATIONAL WHOM WE SUSPECT HAS KGB LINKS.

Now hear this:

z The Soviet Government has a list of members z The U.S. Government has a list of members

z The U.S. PUBLIC IS DENIED THIS INFORMATION, even though TEC claims official backing.

We acquired a partial list from a confidential source (reprinted on page 245). We know this partial list is accurate. We also know 500 copies of the membership list exist — so it's only a matter of time and persistence until we access the full list.

TEC claims backing from Vice President Bush (Skull & Bones) and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. (son of S&B member Malcolm Baldrige). This makes TEC a quasi- public institution. Therefore, the public has a RIGHT TO DEMAND THE MEMBERSHIP LIST.

Why all the secrecy? Read on. What We Know About TEC:

z TEC is headed by:

VLADIMIR N. SUSHKOV (Co-Chairman) Soviet citizen DWAYNE O. ANDREUS (Co-Chairman) U.S. citizen JAMES H. GIFFEN (President) U.S. citizen YURI V. LEGEEV (Vice-President) Soviet citizen z The PERMANENT directors of TEC are:

ALEXANDER TROWBRIDGE, President National Association of Manufacturers RICHARD LESHER, President U.S. Chamber of Commerce

z TEC has 30 Soviet directors and 20 U.S. directors.

z TEC has eight full time Soviet engineers living in New York to assess U.S. technology. The cost is borne by TEC members. THESE SOVIET ENGINEERS INTERVIEW U.S. BUSINESSMEN AND ASSESS THE U.S. TECHNOLOGY OFFERED. THEY SELECT TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED FOR SOVIET MILITARY END USES AND FACILITATE THE TRANSFER.

z In a recent White House meeting the President's Science Adviser, Dr. George

Keyworth, made the following statement: "... we all know that the Soviets are robbing us blind."

z Furthermore, the White House has a list of more than 150 Soviet weapons systems using U.S. technology.

z Yet Vice President Bush and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. are backing this Soviet technical vacuum operation. We reproduce on page 246 a copy of a letter sent by Baldrige to many U.S. firms in June 1985. (The marginal notations are

by our confidential source. We left them intact.)

Partial List of Membership

U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade & Economic Council Inc. Abbott Laboratories Garnac Grain

Allen Bradley Gleason Corporation Alliance Tool Corporation Hope Industries Allied Analytical Systems Ingersoll Rand

Allis Chalmers International Harvester

American Cyanamid Kodak

American Express Marine Midland

Archer Daniels Midland Millipore Inc.

Armco Steel Minnesota Mining

Bunge Corporation Monsanto

Cargill Occidental Petroleum

Caterpillar Owens Illinois

Chase Manhattan Pepsi Co.

Chemical Bank Phibro-Salomon

Clark Equipment Phillip Morris

Coca Cola Ralston Purina

Con Agra Rohm & Haas

Continental Grain Seagram

Corning Glass Stauffer Chemical

Deer & Company Tendler-Beretz Associates

Dow Chemical Tenneco Inc.

Dresser Industries Union Carbide E. I. DuPont Unit Rig & Equipment

Alfred J. Mutter, The Key U.S. Operative

The key American operative in the New York office of TEC is ALFRED J. MURRER, former Chairman of the Gleason Works, a large machine tool firm in Rochester, New York with plants in Belgium and West Germany.

Murrer works closely day to day with the Soviet engineers. For our example here we select Alexander Y. Markov, listed as a Project Engineer. These two men jointly screen American business companies and if they find the offered technology interesting, attempt to draw the firm into the TEC net.

We can dismiss Alexander Markov briefly. Markov is a Soviet citizen, chemical engineer, suspected KGB, resident in New York for almost three years. Markov's job is to identify the usefulness of technology to the Soviet military complex. As Markov is a Soviet national, the question of treason does not arise. So far as we know Markov is a patriotic Soviet citizen doing his job. His only defect (that we have identified) is a habit of chainsmoking Turkish type oval cigarettes which overwhelms American visitors (unused to the pungent odor) in clouds of smoke.

Alfred Murrer deserves more attention because he is a U.S. citizen, born Rochester, New York 1923, educated MIT and University of Rochester. Before joining TEC, Murrer was Chairman of the Board of the Gleason Works, with 42 years service.

The Gleason Works is a long established prescision tool maker specializing in precision machine tools for cutting and grinding straight, zerol, spiral, bevel, hyphoid gears and curvic couplings with associated tooling and equipment.

It is vital to note that Gleason Works is in bad financial shape, with heavy losses during the past few years.

Every last machine tool produced by Gleason Works has military applications. We know from experience that there is no purely civilian industry in the Soviet Union. All plants are first and foremost military plants. All technology is examiend first and foremost for military applications. This was demonstrated 20 years ago in my three volume WESTERN TECHNOLOGY AND SOVIET ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and since confirmed by dozens of defecting Soviet engineers. This thesis is accepted today by Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency. (It is not accepted by Department of State, which operates in a fantasy world of its own making.)

What is the relationship between the financially troubled Gleason Works and the Soviet Union TODAY?

Appendix I:

U.S. Weapons Technology Sold To Soviets

Spanish company pleads guilty to illegal exports

WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union illegally has obtained "state-of-the-art" American equipment that could help it close the gap between its weapons and highly sophisticated U.S. weaponry, and additionally highly sensitive equipment has reached Cuba, according to a Department of Commerce official and an indictment made public Thursday.

Details of the case, which involves efforts by the Soviet bloc to obtain equipment crucial to the production of highly sought computer semiconductors and integrated circuits, emerged when a Spanish company that maintains offices in Illinois agreed to pay a criminal fine of $1 million for illegally exporting high-technology equipment between 1979 and 1982.

U.S. Attorney Joseph E. diGenova issued a statement saying the violation, by Piher Semiconductores, S.A., of Barcelona, was "one of the most significant in the area of United States high-technology transfer."

Under an agreement between the Department of Justice and Piher, the company pleaded guilty to two felony counts, waived indictment by a grand jury and agreed to pay the fine. In addition, the company, which already has been barred for two and a half years from exporting U.S.-made products, will remain barred for an additional nine months.

Equipment valued at $2.4 million was shipped to the Soviet Union and Cuba, and other highly sensitive items did not get through, according to Pentagon and Department of Commerce officials familiar with the case.

Those officials described the lot as items at the top of the Soviets' list of material needed to help them move into the age of highly sophisticated, computer-dependent weapons.

"They have a major need for it in the military," said one Pentagon official, speaking on the condition he not be identified. "It would probably narrow the gap considerably in weapons systems, lending a qualitative edge to their quantitative edge."

Officials said the Soviet Union, which in the past has tried to obtain semiconductors and integrated circuits produced in the West, recently had shifted its emphasis to obtaining the equipment needed to manufacture the circuitry — the miniature wires that carry electronic data in such common gadgets as pocket calculators and digital watches, as well as in the most sophisticated space weapons.

"Such equipment is among the Soviet bloc's most highly sought American high-technology goods needed for expanding and improving the bloc's lagging microprocessor and semiconductor production capability," said Donald Creed, a Department of Commerce spokesman.

He said departmental documents confirm that $2.4 million of these goods were illegally re- exported to Cuba and Russia... The most sensitive, state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing equipment went to the Soviet Union," after first being shipped to Switzerland.

Creed said the material shipped to Cuba, and additional equipment the Cubans were unable to obtain, "would have given them the capability to produce semiconductors and integrated circuits."

"As far as we know, the plant didn't get into production," he said. "They didn't get everything they needed." However, according to the agreement accepted by Piher, Cuba already has a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Pinar del Rio.

The indictment said two senior officers of the Spanish company, Jose Puig Alabern and Francesc Sole I Planas, reached agreements with Soviet and Cuban trade organizations to obtain the equipment from U.S. manufacturers. The two are believed to be in Spain and out of reach of U.S. law enforcement officials.

Piher itself apparently does not make semiconductor manufacturing equipment, according to a spokesman for a Silicon Valley market research firm.

"To my knowledge, they don't make equipment," said Jerry Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., a San Jose company that does market research on the semiconductor industry.

The indictment states that Puig reached an agreement with Imexin, a Cuban foreign trade organization, "to provide and erect a complete integrated circuit manufacturing facility" valued at $19 million.

It said Puig and Sole, who eventually quit the company, negotiated with Technoproimport, a Soviet foreign trade organization, to sell the Soviets "two highly sophisticated U.S.-origin integrated circuit manufacturing systems."

U.S. officials and information in the indictment said U.S. officials in Spain, checking at Piher facilities to determine whether the falsely completed export license documents were being adhered to, were shown fake equipment intended to resemble that exported by Piher.

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