On 26 June 1990, for example, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that if the USSR gets financial assistance from the European Community, it will use the aid to pay off chronic Soviet foreign payment arrearages.
Velikhov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, top arms control negotiators like Ambassador Victor Karpov, propagandists like Georgi Arbatov and Gennadi Gerasimov and senior military officers would be trotted out to deny that the Krasnoyarsk facility was for early warning or that it in any other way violated the ABM Treaty.