[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 28575-28576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



WHEN WILL ADMINISTRATION ASK YELTSIN FOR LOCATIONS OF BURIED WEAPONS IN 
                                 U.S.?

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, when will we ask the 
question? When will this administration formally ask Russia to provide 
the details contained in secret KGB documents that define the 
significant number of locations throughout America where, during the 
Soviet era, military equipment, hardware, and possibly even material 
for weapons of mass destruction was stored in buried sites?
  Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago the highest ranking foreign intelligence 
officer ever to defect from the Soviet Union, Stanislav Lunev testified 
before my subcommittee and said that one of his jobs when he worked at 
the embassy here in Washington undercover as a Tass correspondent was 
to locate sites where the Soviets could drop equipment that could be 
stored in the soil of America.
  Last Wednesday, again before my subcommittee, Oleg Gordiefsky, the 
highest ranking ever internal KGB intelligence officer, who now lives 
in Britain, testified that the KGB files, as documented by Mitrokhin, 
contained in a new book just released last month called The KGB Files, 
are in fact true. Those files document significant numbers of cases 
around the world, in Europe and in North America, where during the 
Soviet era the KGB arranged for the storage of military material and 
hardware on the soil of this Nation.

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  Mr. Speaker, we have known this for at least 6 years. The FBI has 
told me and the Pentagon has said publicly we have not yet asked the 
Russians for the specific sites.
  This past weekend I spoke at an international terrorism conference in 
Europe, where I had a chance to meet one of the highest-ranking 
intelligence officials from Belgium. I was told by that official that 
in the last 2 months, Belgium has uncovered three sites where these 
materials were stored by the Soviet Union without the knowledge of the 
Belgium government. Switzerland has also identified one site that was 
booby-trapped where materials were stored.
  Mr. Speaker, when is this administration going to ask the Yeltsin 
government to give us the KGB documents that identify the sites in 
California, in Montana, in Minnesota, in New York, in Texas, and across 
this Nation where specific caches of arms and military hardware and 
equipment were prepositioned during the Cold War?

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  It is absolutely a national disgrace that this administration, having 
known about this prepositioning of equipment for at least 6 years, has 
not yet seen fit to ask that question of the Yeltsin government.
  This body needs a demand that this administration take action. 
Because, Mr. Speaker, the safety of the people of America are in 
question as long as those materials have not been identified and have 
not been removed by our Government.
  In four instances, one in Switzerland and three in Belgium, sites 
have been found and they have been dug up. It is about time this 
administration asked the question of the Russian leadership where those 
sites are in America. We should demand no less from our Government.

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