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From: Martin H. Katchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lloyd Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 7:58 PM
Subject: Fw: PRC Seeks 1000 Nuclear Tipped Missiles
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From: CharlesSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: CAS: PRC Seeks 1000 Nuclear Tipped Missiles
>According to a classified report Chinese Army is mounting an
>effort to build a modern force of 1,000 nuclear tipped missiles
>in the next five years. The Clinton administration is
>frantically trying to render the Defense Department evaluation
>secret.
>
>The White House claims their secrecy gag on the report is
>required so as to not cause a rift between already tense
>U.S./Sino relations. Republican Congressional officials accuse
>the President of covering up the Chinese espionage inside the
>White House. Republicans site a clear evidence that President
>Clinton allowed a long list of advanced military technology to
>be transferred to the Chinese armed forces.
>
>The 1,000 intermediate and long range missiles will primarily
>be targeted at U.S. armed forced in the Asian region and U.S.
>allies in Asia. The force of DF-15, CSS-5 and DF-41 missiles
>will carry high yield, light weight, nuclear warheads designed
>with U.S. super computers and plans stolen from the U.S.
>
>The missiles will be under the command of the Second Artillery
>Corps, the Chinese Army strategic missile forces. The nuclear
>warheads will remain separate from the missiles under the
>control of Communist Party Politiburo officers.
>
>The modern Chinese missile force is feared to be the signal of a
>new round of the nuclear arms race. China is estimated to have
>about 200 nuclear tipped missile in the current PLA inventory.
>
>Russia and the U.S. have hundreds of strategic missiles.
>However, the Russian and American forces are declining in
>numbers and are bound by Strategic Arms (SALT) treaties. The
>Chinese Second Artillery Corps, the PLA unit in charge of all
>missile forces, is rapidly expanding.
>
>The DOD estimate is based on the size of storage and
>manufacturing facilities currently under construction inside
>China. The analysis is backed by a series of classified spy
>satellite photos of huge PLA missile facilities being built to
>house and maintain the mobile launchers and nuclear warheads.
>
>President Clinton is already under fire for allowing Chinese
>Army agents to purchase large amounts of advanced U.S. missile
>technology such as radiation hardened microchips and advanced
>missile radar technology. In many instances the U.S. exporter,
>such as LORAL, made significant donations to President Clinton.
>
>According to a document obtained by the Freedom of Information
>Act, Loral DEFENSE President Jerald Lindfelt sought to export
>Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology to China. The
>document is a letter from Lindfelt to Ron Brown.
>
>According to Lindfelt's letter, the radar transfer would serve
>humanitarian causes. The Loral Defense President attached a
>letter from Zheng Lizhong, Deputy Director of the Chinese
>National Remote Sensing Center, citing civilian applications of
>the advanced SAR radar.
>
>The Defense Department recently noted in a January 1999 report
>on Chinese weapon research that the Chinese "Institute of Remote
>Sensing" is actually a front for Army missile guidance design
>laboratories. According to the Defense Department report, the
>Institute of Remote Sensing is "a developer of precision
>guidance systems for missiles".
>
>Ms. Zheng wrote "The SAR system can take mapping images through
>dust, cloud and heavy precipitation making it the perfect medium
>to give our officials up to date news of the floods, thereby
>allowing many life saving activities to be carried out."
>
>Clearly, Ms. Zheng was also well informed as to who in the U.S.
>government was blocking the transfer and who could help them.
>
>Ms. Zheng wrote, "According to your manufacturers because the
>function of the equipment can be classed as military and
>civilian the U.S. State Department continues to block any moves
>to put the products in the control of the Commerce Department."
>
>Loral took Ms. Zheng's advice. Loral DEFENSE President
>Lindfelt, wrote Brown in March of 1996. Lindfelt sought Brown's
>help in the export of SAR technology to directly to the Chinese
>missile lab. Lindfelt's appeal also included a direct request
>for Ron Brown to over rule the Department of Defense, the State
>Department and even Brown's own Commerce Department which had
>all previously denied SAR radar export to China.
>
>"We've worked hard trying to resolve these problems with the
>Department of State, the Department of Commerce and the Defense
>Technology Security Administration (DTSA)," Loral's Lindfelt
>wrote to Brown.
>
>"But someone in these organizations always manages to block our
>participation... Over the y
