LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Hon. DANTE B. FASCELL, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC, February 27, 1989. Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Washington, DC. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Transmitted herewith is a report of a staff study mission to INF Treaty sites in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union from October 1988-January 1989. The purpose of the mission was twofold: To exercise the Committee on Foreign Affairs' oversight of the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) consistent with the committee's jurisdiction over arms control; and to examine the relevance of the INF Treaty implementation process and verification approaches to a United States-Soviet strategic reductions agreement (START) and other future arms controls agreements. The undersigned would like to express their thanks and appreciation to all parties in the U.S. Government, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom for the assistance, cooperation and hospitality extended during the course of the study mission. IVO SPALATIN, CONTENTS Status of missiles eliminated to date. Magna Portal Monitoring Facility. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.. 1. Guide to INF onsite inspections and types of onsite inspections... 3. Remarks by General Lajoie at Pueblo Army Depot, December 5, 1988. 5. Floor remarks by Representative Broomfield on July 14, 1988, during 6. Interview with General Lajoie, Arms Control Today, November 1988. 14. INF Basing Countries Agreement 15. Maps of INF sites in the United States, Europe, and Soviet Union BACKGROUND-HISTORY OF OSIA Under the terms of the United States-Soviet Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), signed on December 8, 1987, the OnSite Inspection Agency (OSIA) was established on January 15, 1988, to implement the inspection provisions of the Treaty. The On-Site Inspection Agency is specifically charged with management of INF Treaty-related inspections in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and East Germany; escort duties for Soviet teams visiting the United States and the basing countries (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy; Netherlands, and the United Kingdom); establishment and operation of the Portal Monitoring Facility in the Soviet Union; and support for Soviet inspectors at the Portal Monitoring Facility in Utah. PERSONNEL The Director of the On-Site Inspection Agency is Brigadier General Roland Lajoie. The agency's three Deputy Directors are from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At this time, there are approximately 150 permanent personnel assigned to OSIA and another 150 available to OSIA on a temporary basis (which includes the 200 inspectors allotted to the United States under the Treaty). OSIA is building toward 226 permanent personnel. The OSIA headquarters is located in the Fairchild Building in Herndon, Virginia, near the Dulles Port of Entry. BUDGET The current and projected budget (in approximate figures) for OSIA is as follows: The Treaty provided for a baseline inspection of all INF Treaty sites (to be conducted within a 30-90 day period from the time the Treaty entered into force on June 1, 1988) to verify the data exchange provided by both countries in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on data. The baseline inspection resulted in U.S. inspections of 133 inspectable sites at 115 locations in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and East Germany; Soviet inspections of 13 inspectable sites at 12 locations in Europe and 18 inspectable sites |