Special emphasis in this decontrol proposal is on computers, machine tools, and telecommunications equipment.
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Regrettably, some member nations objected and the 15 September 1988 decontrol date was observed.
The Bush Administration has decided to decontrol next week yet another sensitive dual-use technology: polysilicon.
In the Senate, meanwhile, an encryption decontrol measure has been approved by the Commerce Committee.
He should also become personally engaged in a review of the technology decontrol process.
The new Commerce decontrol proposal would allow the transfer of personal computers capable of processing 68 million mips.
This forum of experts would serve as an advisory body to guide U.S. export control and decontrol efforts.
Taken together, these decontrol actions offer the Soviet Union an opportunity to acquire a state-of-the-art microelectronics manufacturing capability.
What is the estimated loss to taxpayers of previous investments made for superior weapons capabilities by these decontrol proposals?
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At this meeting, the United States is poised to agree to the most sweeping decontrol of dual-use technology in history.
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It stands in particular contrast to the sweeping decontrol of sensitive, militarily relevant technologies adopted by President Bush a few weeks ago.
In light of the foregoing concerns, an effort was made to reverse the earlier COCOM decision to decontrol sales of such equipment.
Similarly, a wholesale decontrol is afoot of militarily relevant Western high technology.
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As a consequence, Commerce is at liberty to make most licensing and wholesale decontrol decisions irrespective of objections by the national security community.
In particular, the creation of new high-level U.S.-Soviet working groups on economic issues and the decontrol of sophisticated dual-use technology should be deferred indefinitely.
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The Center also recommends legislation to require the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense on future East-West decontrol actions proposed by the Commerce Department.
"It is utterly untrue that the high-end computers at stake in the decontrol decision are available from sources beyond U.S. and COCOM control, " said Gaffney.
The encryption debate is in its fifth year of congressional hearings, but passage of a decontrol measure did not gain momentum until the current session.
The Center for Security Policy today sharply criticized the most recent in a series of decisions made by the Bush Administration to decontrol militarily sensitive high technology.
The Center recommends that the White House immediately recall U.S. negotiators now in Paris and postpone for at least six months any further decontrol proposals at COCOM.
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The Center for Security Policy today learned that the Commerce Department has decided to decontrol yet another strategic technology for export to the Soviet Union and its allies.
Michel Leger, a key member of France's delegation to COCOM responsible for technology decontrol matters, was arrested by French authorities and charged with acting as a Soviet spy.
In light of this backdrop, however, it is imperative that urgent action be taken to prevent further damage to U.S. security from a seriously flawed technology decontrol process.
The Center calls for independent reviews by the President's Science Advisor and the General Accounting Office of the foreign availability of the personal computers affected by this decontrol action.
This latitude for reckless decision-making is the more worrisome for the fact that a vast array of other technology decontrol proposals are now the subject of foreign availability assessments.
Prior to his confirmation by the Senate last summer, Kloske tried to allay the concerns of a number of Senators about the process by which decontrol actions were being handled.
The Armed Services and Intelligence Committees ought urgently to review this and previous Administration decontrol actions that will have severe consequences for American equities falling within the jurisdiction of those panels.
Indeed, the NSC has shown irresponsible disinterest in the whole matter of technology security, enormously compounding the risks of capricious decontrol actions -- and increasing the likelihood that they will occur.
It also calls upon the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to undertake immediate hearings to permit evaluation of those technologies -- including Patriot missile technologies -- being proposed for decontrol.
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The United States is proposing to decontrol to the Soviet Union at least one-third of the dual-use militarily critical technologies and items at the COCOM meeting in Paris scheduled for next week.
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