Treaty opponents say the global surveillance system would be useless for verifying treaty compliance and ideal for creating jobs for third-world scientists and diplomats.

MASINT was used to support treaty compliance, early warning, and force protection.

The Senate is right to be concerned about what it perceives as Soviet backsliding on agreed procedures for verifying treaty compliance - and right to press for reassurance.

C.S.C.E. could also play a useful role in monitoring treaty compliance.

"It's the first test that raises serious questions about treaty compliance," he said.

These opponents say, for instance, that the intelligence experts may be interested in gathering intelligence information that is not necessary to monitor treaty compliance.

The C.I.A. has played a prominent, if discreet, role in international negotiations and in monitoring cease-fires and treaty compliance for decades.

The senate select committee was given the task of examining whether the intelligence community could accurately monitor treaty compliance.

Indeed, in January 1987 representatives of both Livermore and Los Alamos testified before Congress that the pattern of Soviet testing was generally consistent with treaty compliance.

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