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Dear Reader:

For the past ten years, quietly, professionally, effectively, American and
Russian inspectors have been monitoring the elimination and destruction of
intermediate and shorter-range missiles under the INF Treaty. More than 800
on-site inspections have been conducted. More than 2,600 missiles have been
destroyed. At the portals of a missile factory site in each nation, on-site
inspections have been conducted continuously, 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year
for the past nine years. An account of this remarkable effort has been told
in a narrative history.

Please accept this copy of On-Site Inspections Under the IN? Treaty. It
narrates, using American and Russian sources, the story of how treaty
inspectors carried out the precedent-setting on-site inspections at remote,
restricted military sites in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet union.

This book also relates the interesting history of a new Department of

Defense agency, its origin, growth, and subsequent development. Today, the
On-Site Inspection Agency has the mission of conducting, planning, and
preparing for the monitoring of a series of international arms control
treaties: Intermediate and Shorter-Range Nuclear Forces, Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe, Strategic Arms Reduction, Threshold Test Ban, and Open Skies
Treaties, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

As we prepare for these new treaty missions, the recent past becomes
prologue for the near future. We hope that you find this book informative and
interesting.

Sincerely,

P. Harahan
TREATY HISTORY SERIES
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publishing Data
Harahan, Joseph P.
Kuhn, John C. III

On-Site Inspections Under the CFE Treaty, A History of the On-Site

Inspection Agency and CFE Treaty Implementation, 1990-1996
Treaty History Series
Includes Bibliographical References

1. Treaties, Arms Control - United States - History.

2. United States - CFE Treaty - On-Site Inspections -
History. 3. Europe - End of Cold War - History.
4. Russia - post-Cold War - History. 5. United States
Government - History, Government.

I. United States. Treaties. CFE Treaty. II. Title

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 FOREWORD
For the past decade Europe has been in transformation. For more than four decades the Euro-
pean continent had been divided into two heavily armed military alliances. That sharp division soft-
ened after 1986, as old forms of government were cast off and new nations emerged. Within a few
years, across the length and breadth of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, nations assumed new
responsibilities and rights under a series of new treaties, agreements, and international accords. The
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty played a pivotal role in this transformation. This
history details the implementation of the CFE Treaty. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding
of contemporary Europe.
In the American constitutional system, the government is accountable to its people. This his-
tory, the second in a series by agency historians, tells the American people about a significant treaty
mission undertaken by their national government. It is based on extensive research in government
documents, treaty records, inspector and escort interviews, and statistical reports. The result is an
interesting history, one that will be used in treaty courses and disseminated widely to the public and
national agencies throughout Europe and the United States. We hope that you will enjoy reading and
learning how the United States conducted "On-Site Inspections Under the CFE Treaty."

Thomas E. Kuenning, Jr.

Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Director

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 AUTHORS
Joseph P. Harahan is the senior historian at the On-Site Inspection Agency. Prior to joining the
Agency, he was a historian in the Office of Air Force History and a faculty member at the University
of Richmond and Michigan State University. He received a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an
M.A. from the University of Richmond, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He is the author
of On-Site Inspections Under the INF Treaty (1993) and the co-editor of a multivolume Air Force
history series, Warrior Studies (12 volumes). While completing this history he lectured at colleges,
universities, and military academies in the United States and abroad.
John C. Kuhn, III, joined the On-Site Inspection Agency in 1992. As an Air Force historian, he
authored organizational histories at the 2nd Bombardment Wing and contributed to the annual histo-
ries at the 8th and 15th Air Forces in the Strategic Air Command. At the On-Site Inspection Agency
he assisted in the final stages of production of the Agency's first history, On-Site Inspections Under
the INF Treaty (1993) before turning to researching and writing this book.
 PREFACE
When the Cold War ended suddenly in 1989-90, the signposts were clearly visible. Communist
governments collapsed in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Ro-
mania, and Bulgaria. The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. Germany was unified in October 1990.
In the same period, the Soviet Union announced that it would withdraw, within four years, all of its
680,000 stationed troops from Eastern Europe. The United States countered by declaring major
withdrawals of its forces from Western Europe. Against this background of political revolution,
unification, and massive military force withdrawals, the leaders of Europe, Canada, the United States,
and the Soviet Union signed the Peace of Paris in November 1990. Two multinational agreements
constituted the heart of that peace: the Accords for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe (CSCE) and the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.
Following national ratification, the CFE Treaty entered into force in July 1992. By then the
Soviet Union had collapsed as an empire and eight new republics had emerged to become treaty
signatory states. In all, 30 Atlantic-Eurasian states implemented the CFE Treaty. On-site inspection
played a critical role in monitoring treaty compliance. Every treaty state established new, or ex-
panded existing, verification agencies and staffs to conduct and host on-site inspections. This history
narrates the efforts by the United States and other nations to plan, staff, train, equip, and conduct
on-site inspections under the CFE Treaty.
The book begins with the CFE Treaty's signature in November 1990, and it concludes with the
signing of the Final Document at the First Review Conference in May 1996. Between those years, the
treaty nations collectively reduced more than 50,000 conventional weapons-tanks, artillery, ar-
mored combat vehicles, fighters, and helicopters. Hundreds, if not thousands, of on-site inspectors
monitored these reductions in accordance with the protocols of the treaty. Inspection standards were
established and sustained across national borders. A rule of law was replacing the rule of force.
Many of the inspectors had been soldiers of the Cold War; now they were monitoring force reduc-
tions under a complex peace treaty. Quietly, professionally, effectively these inspectors and their
respective governments ensured that the new rule of "law," as detailed in the CFE Treaty, was being
enforced.
Agency support for the research and writing of this history was directly attributable to the sup-
port of Brigadier General Thomas E. Kuenning, Jr., USAF, OSIA Director (1995- ), and Brigadier
General Gregory G. Govan, USA, OSIA Director (1993-1995). Dr. Joerg H. Menzel, OSIA's Principal
Deputy Director, took a personal interest and shepherded the project from the sharp knives of those
hostile to major long-term efforts. Colonel Paul H. Nelson, USA, OSIA's Chief of Staff, read the
manuscript and encouraged the authors at every step along the way in the final two years. Colonel
Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, OSIA European Operations Command, read every word, wrote incisive
comments, and then discussed each comment with us personally. His intellect and professionalism
strengthened the final book in numerous ways. Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, Commander of the
OSIA's European Operations Command, contributed his support to the project in its final year.
We would like to acknowledge the assistance and helpful suggestions of all of the people of
OSIA's European Operations Command. We interviewed many of the team chiefs, inspectors, plan-
ners, logisticians, and commanders; their opinions and insights helped straighten out the often con-
fusing references to treaty protocols, tables, paragraphs, and subparagraphs. In particular the follow-

I'll
ing NCOs and officers shared their time and experiences: Stephen Barneby, Mark Bumala, David
Carter, William Chesney, Joe Drach, Tom Dudley, Ed Gallagher, Les Garrison, David Gessert, Jan
Karcz, Gary Karstens, Michael Lukes, Jack Monahan, Keith Oatman, Richard O'Shea, George Par-
tridge, Ken Periman, Tom Regan, Larry Schultz, Mike Slifka, Bill Smith, and Ron Tait. In the review
process, senior officials in the JCS, OSD (Policy), and OSD(Acquisition) read and critiqued the manu-
script for policy and operations considerations. In that process, Mary Margaret Evans, OSD, Acquisi-
tion, was especially helpful.
When it came time for assembling the final book in all of its parts-the tables, charts, appendi-
ces, bibliography, and fact checking-we are indebted to David Willford of the History Office. His
diligence and intelligence made it a better history. Stephen Jimenez contributed to the chronology and
appendices. Rolen Maddox helped cross-check every name, place, figure, and bibliographic reference.
Bob Coleman and Tom Pearlman developed the cover art and maps, and assisted with other photo-
graphs throughout the book. At EEl, Judy Cleary and Gayle Dahlman guided the book through
production, Baiba Seefer edited the manuscript, and Jennifer Whittington created the design and
layout, with the assistance of Lynn Whiteley. Rey Ovalle steered the finished design through the
government bureaucracies to final publishing. Everyone knows that publishing a textbook of this
nature is both an individual and a collective work. Individually, the authors researched and wrote the
book, and they are credited on its cover and title pages. Collectively, the contributions of the others
are mentioned only here. This fact obscures the appreciation we hold for their work and contribu-
tions. We simply could not have completed this history without them.

Joseph P. Harahan
John C. Kuhn, III
July 24, 1996

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1 The Treaty and the Mission 1

2 Initial Preparations 45

3 Ratification Delayed 73

4 Standing Up the Unit 97

5 Final Preparations 133

6 CFE Treaty Baseline 155

7 Reduction Years 199

8 The CFE Treaty: A Durable Structure 225

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 APPENDICES
A. CFE Treaty (Text) 265
B. T he CFE Treaty: Statements and Agreements (Text ) 323
C. The CFE1A Concluding Act (Text) 325
D. CFE Review Conference: Final Document (Text) :331
E. CFE Treaty: National Verification Organizations 341
F. OSIA European Operations Command: Personnel Strength 1990-1992 343
G. Chronology: CFE Treaty Negotiations and Implementation, 1972-1996 345

CHARTS
NATO Nations 8
Warsaw Pact Nations 8
NATO Reduction Liability 24
WTO Reduction Liability 25
CFE Inspection Deconfliction Matrix 62
Inspection Team Composition 108
U.S. CFE Treaty Team Leaders 165

TABLES
1-1. CFE Treaty Ceilings 19
1-2. NATO Declared Holdings and Liabilities 20
1-3. WTO Holdings and Liabilities 21
3-1. Declared National CFE Holdings in November 1990 76
3-2. Soviet Union's ATTU Holdings and Transfers, 1988-1990 79
3-3. The Tashkent Agreement: Allocation of Soviet TLE 89
3-4. CFE Treaty Original State Parties 92
7-1. National Holdings by Alliance 200
7-2. NATO Equipment Transfers 205
7-3. Residual Levels-NATO States (November 17, 1995) 221
7-4. Residual Levels-Eastern States (November 17, 1995) 222
8-1. CFE Treaty-Limited Equipment in the WTO Flank Zones 247
8-2. Comparison of CFE Treaty Reductions by Group of States 257

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8-3. Compa ri son o f Selected Na tional H o ldings of C FE Trea ty TL E 259
8-4. C o m pa ri so n o f C FE 1A Military M a npo wer Figures for Selected N a tions 260
8-5. U.S. O n-Site Inspecti o ns Und er the CFE Trea ty 261

MAPS
Trea ty- Limited Equipment fo r Each G roup o f States 22-23
T he Ba ltic Sta tes, Estonia , La tvi a , and Lithu a nia 81
Tas hk ent, Uzbeki sta n 89
1st U. S.lEastern Mock In spec ti o ns 110
U.S . CFE Lia iso n Tea m De pl oy ments 124
CFE Trea ty Fl a nk Reg io ns 248

Bib liogra ph y 353

G lossa ry 361
Index 363

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 Chapter 1

President Bush and the leaders of 21 nations sign the CFE Treaty in Paris, France, on November 19, 1990.

O
n November 19, 1990, the leaders of Western Europe, the
United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, and Central
Europe gathered in Paris to sign the Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe Treaty.' The CFE Treaty came amidst profound
historical changes that were sweeping across the European conti-
nent at the end of the Cold War. 2 During this time of transition,
the treaty served as an international structural bridge. The CFE
Treaty was both an anns reduction treaty, which mandated the
signatory states to collectively reduce more than 38,500 military
weapons, and a conflict prevention treaty. To prevent (or, more
accurately, reduce the probability of) conflict in Central Europe,
the CFE Treaty required the signatory nations to permanently
reduce their stationed military forces in designated geographical
zones in Central and Western Europe and on the flanks of the
Soviet Union. Under the CFE Treaty, verification measures were
the most extensive, intrusive, and complex of any modern arms
control agreement. The heart of verification was and remains on-
site inspections under the CFE Treaty.
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The process of implementing this cross-

European treaty, stretching from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Ura l Mountains, began with the
signatory nations' exchanging thousa nds of pages
of military force data, esta blishing verification
agencies to conduct thou sands of on-site inspec-
tions, developing new data systems for monitor-
ing the presence of tens of thousands of m il itary
weapons, and traversing millions of miles of
territory to inspect declared sites, objects of
verification; and specified areas. Whil e t he lead-
ers of 22 nations had signed the CFE Treaty in
November 1990, there were 29 nations that
provisionally implemented the treaty at entry
into force in July 1992. The increase in signatory
nations was the direct consequence of larger
historical forces reshaping the European conti-
nent: Eastern Europe's political revolutions,
Germany's unification, and the Soviet Union's
collapse. As a result, seven new nations, all
drawn from the former Soviet Union, became
signatory states. In 1993, the disso lution of
Czechoslovakia as a nation resulted in two new
nations, the Czech and Slovak Republics, becom-
ing signatory states. Thus, 30 nations imple-
mented the CFE Treaty. 3
By the fall of 1990, European stability, char-
Moscow streets during August 1991 coup attempt; the acterized by the post-World War II division of
Soviet Union collapsed on December 25, 1991. Eastern and Western Europe and the "German
Question ," had changed decisi vely. 4 For more
than four decades, ever since the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the threat
of a continental European war had been present. In 1989-90 that
threat was ending. For the new Europe, the CFE Treaty represented
a practical measure, especially with its extensive, intrusive verifica-
tion process, for establishing a new international process that would
both reduce and establish lower levels of offe nsive milita ry forces
and their deployment for the 1990s and beyond.
In retrospect, it seemed so stra ightforward . T he C old Wa r era
had ended and the post-Cold War era had begun. Events of his-
toric proportions came so ra p idly in 1989-92 that a ll of Eu rope
seemed, for a few years, to move in one, and only one, directio n-
toward democratic revolution. But as people swept up in contem-
porary events know, change is straightforward onl y in history
books. The present rarely is so clear. This realization was particu-
larly true for the men and wom en entrusted with implementing
and monitoring the CFE Treaty " on the ground." As m il itary
professionals, they had to build new treaty verification age ncies
and staffs. As on -site ins pectors moni toring a m ultin atio nal trea ty,
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they had to cross bridges that stretched actoss Europe's older,

west-to-east national boundaries. These new bridges crossed to
places, peoples, and military sites not visited, much less inspected,
for more than 45 years. Consequently, there were days, even
months, when the footing secured by the treaty seemed unsure. At
times, the treaty's very foundation-its legal authority sanctioned
by national ratification-seemed certain to collapse. At other
times, the treaty appeared to be carrying more of Europe's security
structure than it was designed to carry. Uncertainty was the rule
for months and months. It is this uncertainty that makes this his-
tory interesting. A rule of law was replacing a rule of force. No
one was certain if the historical circumstances that created the
political and military consensus for the signing of the CFE Treaty
would continue throughout its implementation.
The CFE Treaty signing in Paris in November 1990 came at
the midpoint of a series of political and military changes occurring
in Europe, the Soviet Union, and to a far lesser degree, the United
States. Arms control treaties and agreements in the late 1980s had
legitimized many of these changes and, in a few instances, they set
the stage for more revolutionary developments. The Stockholm
Agreement of 1986 was the first step. Then, in December 1987,
President Ronald W. Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S.
Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)
Treaty in Washington, D.C. That treaty was a diplomatic and
military watershed; its elimination provisions and implementation
measures set precedents for all subsequent modern arms control
treaties. In the next five years, the United States, the Soviet Union,
and their allies negotiated and signed two bilateral and five multi-
lateral treaties: Threshold Test Ban Treaty (1990), Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (1990), Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty (1991), Vienna Document Agreements (1990, 1992, and
1994), Open Skies Treaty (1992), Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
II (1993), and the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993). 5
All these treaties incorporated on-site inspection as an impor-
tant element in monitoring compliance. The first treaty, the INF
Treaty, stipulated extensive on-site inspection rights. These rights
were so extensive that President Reagan authorized the establish-
ment of a new agency to conduct U.S. inspections of Soviet facili-
ties and to escort Soviet inspection teams at U.S. military facilities.
That new agency, established in the U.S. Department of Defense
on January 26, 1988, was the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA).
While the small but growing cadre of OSIA men and women orga-
nized, trained, and conducted inspections in the initial phases of
the INF Treaty, negotiations continued in Vienna and Geneva on
other, more extensive, arms control treaties. One of these, the
Treaty Between the Twenty-Two Sovereign Nations on the Reduc-
tion of Their Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, became
known as the CFE Treaty.6
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EARLY NEGOTIATION TO SIGNATURE

The Helsinki Process, officially called the Conference on

Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), provided the plat-
form for CFE Treaty negotiations. The Cold War had divided
Europe politically, economically, and militarily. On July 3, 1973,
more than 25 years into the Cold War, delegates from 35 nations,
including neutral and nonaligned European nations, the United
States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, met in Helsinki, Finland, to
bridge those divisions. This meeting was the first in a continuing
series of CSCE conferences and meetings held in national capitals
across Europe. At these meetings, delegates from the CSCE nations
attempted to define and agree upon a set of legal principles that
would apply to all European states and peoples. The first signifi-
cant phase of this process culminated in August 1975 with the
signing of the Helsinki Final Act'?
Through the Helsinki Final Act, the CSCE nations declared
that issues concerning the future of Europe should be discussed in
Security
terms of three areas, or "baskets." Basket one dealt with security
Human Rights in Europe, including issues such as national self-determination,
territorial integrity, and the peaceful settlement of disputes. Basket
Technology/Science/Environment two covered progress in science, technology, and the environment.
Basket three contained human rights and other issues. To enhance
military security, the 35 CSCE states agreed to the concept of
negotiating "confidence-building measures (CBMs)." The objec-
tive of these measures, which were initially quite limited in scope
because of the rigidity of the east-west European divisions in the
Cold War, was to make each nation's military capabilities and
intentions more transparent. The theory was that if nations knew
of their neighbors' military capability and intentions, then these
nations might develop confidence in their international relations
and possibly reallocate their security resources to other national
concerns. Collectively, the European continent was the most
heavily armed of any continent in the world. National armies and
air forces were large, well equipped, and modern. Both the United
States and the Soviet Union had stationed large, combat-ready
armies and air forces in Central Europe. The first confidence-
building measure, signed in 1975, required all 35 CSCE nations to
provide every other nation a 21-day advance notice of any military
exercises involving more than 21,000 troops. Other provisions
stipulated the voluntary notification of smaller exercises as well as
large-scale troop movements on an annual calendar.
In contrast to the successful negotiation and institution of
these CSCE confidence-building measures, another set of cross-
European diplomatic-military negotiations, the Mutual and Bal-
anced Force Reductions (MBFRs), did not fare well. These nego-
tiations were between the representatives of two alliances: the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw
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Treaty Organization (WTO). Initiated in 1973, the negotiations

lasted intermittently for 17 years. They were never able to get past
several stumbling blocks. NATO sought reductions in military
personnel stationed in Europe, whereas WTO proposed equal
reductions in both military personnel and weapons. The objective,
NATO argued, would be to achieve, after several phased with-
drawals, end-strength parity in the forces of both alliances. The
Warsaw Pact, as the WTO was commonly known, countered that Military Forc(!s ill FlIro/J(!
both alliances should be reducing the same number of personnel /986
and weapons, leaving the end strength unbalanced. Neither alli- NATO- 3,6 7(),()()()
ance would agree during the lengthy negotiations whether to make
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the cuts in equal slices or through gradual reductions leading to
parity. Nor could they agree on whether the cuts should be made
on an alliance-to-alliance or a nation-by-nation basis. In addition,
a major U.S. concern was that there was no satisfactory method to
verify personnel cuts. In lieu of any agreement in these protracted
and frustrating MBFR negotiations, both NATO and WTO mod-
ernized their conventional weapons and maintained their focus on
combat readiness. Huge, modern, massed armies and air forces
continued to face each other across a line running through a di-
vided Germany.8
Throughout these years, the 35 CSCE nations continued
meeting in a series of lengthy conferences in Madrid, Stockholm,
and Vienna. The Madrid meetings began in November 1980 and

A U.S. team observes a Russian exercise-a CSCE-negotiated confidence-building measure.

led to the delegates agreeing on a September 1983 CSCE Mandate.
This mandate called for all delegates to negotiate agreements
implementing not only confidence-building measures among the
states of Europe, but also new treaties leading to the gradual disar-
mament of Europe. At the Madrid meeting, the CSCE nations
accepted a broader definition of Europe as envisioned first by
French President Charles de Gaulle, then by President Valery
Giscard d'Estaing, and finally strongly articulated and argued by
the United States. It defined Europe as stretching from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Ural Mountains. 9 T his meant that any future agree-
ment or treaty would include military forces and equipment sta-
tioned across the length and breadth of Europe, including the
interior of the Soviet Union. This definition had significant impli-
cations for the CFE Treaty.
Three years later in Stockholm, in September 1986, CSCE
delegates agreed to new confidence and security building measures
(CSBMs). These measures required notification of military exer-
cises involving more than 13,000 troops and provided for on-site
inspection of field activities involving 17,000 or more ground
forces or 5,000 or more airborne troops, with no right of refusal
by the inspected nation. Known as the Stockholm Document of
1986, this was the first multinational agreement that the Soviet
Union signed permitting on-site inspections on its own territory to
verify an arms control accord. 1O
In agreeing to the Stockholm Document, Gorbachev signaled
his intent to accelerate negotiations for reducing military arma-
ments across Europe. Throughout 1986-87, Gorbachev gave a
series of dramatic speeches, calling upon European and American
leaders to consider phased reductions in conventional and nuclear
forces based on the European continent. He changed the course of
all previous negotiations by conceding that since the Soviet Union
had numerically superior conventional forces in Europe, the
NATO nations might reasonably conclude that these forces were a
threat. He further stated that under any negotiated all-European
arms control treaty, the side with the greater number of forces
ought to take a larger share of the reductions, provided there was
adequate verification through on-site inspections. Under the Soviet
Union's leadership, the seven-nation Warsaw Treaty Organization
met in Budapest and endorsed Gorbachev's proposals.1 1
Responding to these significant new Soviet and Warsaw Pact
initiatives, the foreign ministers of NATO created a High Level
Task Force (HLTF) in May 1986 to develop a coordinated alliance
proposal for a conventional arms reduction treaty. Following long
and difficult internal discussions within the 16-nation alliance, this
NATO task force produced a negotiating position in December
1986. The NATO foreign ministers in their December meeting
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NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

proposed a two-track negotiating strategy. One would consist of

the 35 CSCE nations' pursuing broader and more transparent
confidence-building measures. The other would have the NATO
nations and the WTO nations negotiate phased reductions and
stability provisions for their conventional forces in Europe. This
two-track strategy was adopted. 12
Just five weeks later, negotiators from 23 states (16 NATO,
7 WTO) met in Vienna on February 17, 1987, to discuss treaty
negotiating guidelines. Nearly two years of detailed, often techni-
cal discussions, both among the allied nations and between the
alliances, produced on January 14, 1989, the Mandate for Nego-
tiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. This mandate
established the fundamental negotiating principles for the CFE
Treaty. Specifically, the treaty would include provisions to reduce
or prevent the capability of any nation, or group of nations, to
mass military forces on the European continent in order to launch
a surprise attack across national borders. The treaty would seek to
significantly reduce offensive military hardware; these reductions
would be asymmetric, with the objective of an end-strength parity
between alliances. In addition, the treaty would contain provisions
for a robust and intrusive verification regime. 13
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Twenty-three states began negotiations under the Cold War

structure of Europe. The NATO alliance, 16 nations including the
United States, formed one side; the Warsaw Pact, 7 nations domi-
nated by the Soviet Union, constituted the other. Although these
nations shared negotiating goals and strategies as members within
their alliances, they were independent, sovereign nations. Under
the treaty being negotiated, the individual signatory states would
NATO Nations hold all rights and obligations. Recognizing this fact , French nego-
tiators successfully argued for not identifying in the formal treaty
Belgium Luxembourg language either the NATO or the Warsaw Pact alliance. Instead,
Canada Netherlands the French persuaded the other nations to use the term "group of
Denmark Norway
state parties" to refer to the two alliances. 14 This became a critical
France Portugal
treaty term since it allowed negotiators to incorporate the existing
Germany Spain
Greece Turkey
bloc-versus-bloc structure as an integral element of the treaty
Iceland United Kingdom while holding the individual states responsible for treaty imple-
Italy United States mentation. This dualism remained in the treaty despite revolution-
ary changes that transpired in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet
Union in 1990-92.
In late 1989, the East Germans revolted; the Berlin Wall fell,
and the German Democratic Republic's communist government
collapsed. German unification became a serious possibility. Ger-
man Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S.
Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Margaret H. Thatcher, French
President Fran~ois Mitterrand, and American President George
Bush participated in a series of dramatic meetings in 1990. These
negotiations culminated in a series of international agreements
that recognized Germany as a single, unified nation, effective
October 3, 1990. While these events unfolded, the Warsaw Pact
collapsed. This collapse was a direct consequence of the "velvet"
revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1988-89 as the peoples of
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria rejected
their communist governments. Equally important was the fact that
Gorbachev and the leaders of the Soviet Union allowed the revolu-
Warsaw Pact tions to proceed. Previous attempts by Warsaw Pact nations to
depart from communism had resulted in forceful Soviet military
Nations intervention. In 1989-90, by contrast, Soviet troops were with-
Bulgaria drawing from Eastern Europe. ls
Czechoslovakia
All these events influenced the CFE Treaty. The issue of
German Democratic Republic
Hungary German unification posed several concerns for treaty negotiators.
Poland A united Germany would possess a large, modern armed force.
Romania It would have the largest national army and air force in Central
Soviet Union Europe. Twice in the 20th century, Germany had sought to domi-
nate continental Europe. Acknowledging this legacy, German
Chancellor Kohl pledged that his government would reduce the
size of the new nation's military forces. Germany submitted a
special declaration to be included in the CFE Treaty. The "Decla-
ration by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on
the Personnel Strength of German Armed Forces" stated that
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Germany would cut its troop strength ro 370,000 three to four

years from the day the CFE Treaty entered into force. 16 This decla-
ration persuaded other nations to declare their willingness to
negotiate "to limit the personnel strengths of their conventional
armed forces." Although negotiators did not reach agreement on
this issue in time for the signing of the CFE Treaty in Paris in
November 1990, they continued negotiations throughout 1991
and 1992. By July 1992, the time of the treaty's entry into force,
national personnel limits were contained in a separate document,
entitled the CFE 1A Concluding Act.
Another event, also larger than the treaty and influencing it,
was General Secretary Gorbachev's unilateral declaration at the
United Nations in December 1988 to withdraw six tank divisions
(50,000 men) from the nations of Central Europe. l ? This unprec-
edented, massive Soviet military withdrawal, coupled with the
Eastern European nations discarding communist governments for
democratic rule, resulted in a weakened, impotent military alliance
among the Warsaw Pact nations. Just five months before the CFE
Treaty's signature, the Hungarian National Assembly on June 26,
1990, voted 232-0 to initiate negotiations for Hungary to leave the
Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact. IS Since the framework of the CFE
Treaty rested on a group of states as the basic unit for all reduc-
tions and end-strength parity, a breakup of the WTO presented the
possibility that those nations would no longer act as a group. This
did not happen. The Eastern European states did not want the
possible dissolution of the alliance to prevent the CFE Treaty from
entering into force.

Th e CFE Treaty was negotiated under a NATO/WTO scenario.

Ambassador Grinevsky on Soviet Negotiations
A professional diplomat, Oleg Grinevsky led the De-
partment of Mid-Eastern Affairs, USSR Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, from 1978 through 1983. During the
next two years, he served as the Soviet Ambassador to
the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Eu-
rope. Then, in 1985, he became the Chief Arms Con-
trol Negotiator for the USSR for the CFE Treaty. For
the next five years, he worked directly with President
Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister
Shevardnadze to negotiate the treaty.

On Soviet leaders and the concept of on-site state. Gorbachev would then step in and 'medi-
inspections: "In December 1985, Gorbachev had ate' the dispute, making sure at the end that
a one-on-one with each of his arms control nego- everyone on the Politburo agreed . This happened
tiators. He wanted to start 'real negotiations' on the discussions on the on-site inspection mea-
with 'real reductions' in armaments to make sures, and that is how it was resolved."
Europe and the world less militarized and less
dangerous. During the time of [Conference on On Gorhachev and Soviet participation in the
Disarmament in Europe] negotiations in more radical arms control treaty negotiations:
Stockholm, I suggested that we accept one or two "First of all, there was the economic situation in
on-site inspections every year of Soviet forces the country. The USSR needed time and resources
because it would convince the West of our good to improve its economic situation .... Second, to
intentions and [it] would not harm our military do this we had to improve relations with the West
position in any way." to reduce tensions, to make economic relations
easier by getting rid of the West's biggest fear, the
On resistance within the Soviet Politburo: "In the size and power of the Soviet military forces in
meetings on arms control, the sides were gener- Europe. We wanted to change our military profile
ally Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, Yakolev, and in Europe and reduce our dominance over East-
Grinevsky against Marshal Akhromeyev, ern Europe.
the KGB Chief, the Director of the Central
"We actually succeeded, especially after
Committee's International Department, and the
the CFE Treaty, which, by the way, only
Military Departments. Marshal Akhromeyev was
Shevardnadze really supported. Shevardnadze
the key member of the Politburo who opposed
realized that only after this treaty would the
the CDE measures. As the head military officer,
USSR be safe from a Western attack. The country
his ideas were important and persuasive. But he
would be able to save resources from the conven-
was very 'explosive,' and would speak out force-
tional force reductions to use elsewhere.
fully on his views.
"Conventional forces are very expensive, and
"The Politboro met on weekends. I would
the money saved would be considerable. But
return from Stockholm and present the results of
virtually all of the others opposed the CFE Treaty
that week's negotiations. The arguments were
because the USSR would be giving up its 'over-
heated. Usually, they took the form of my intro-
whelming military advantage' in Europe. They
ducing a proposal and, if it was unacceptable,
could not visualize a Soviet Union that did not
Akhromeyev would 'explode,' explaining that the
have a huge and powerful military, even if it
proposal endangered the military security of the
meant better living conditions for the people."

Source: Interview, Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, U.S. Army, March 14,1994.

 _ _ THI TR r \1) \ [) I HI MI..,"IO II

Ambassador Hansen on U .S. Negotiations

Lynn M. Hansen was the U.S. Ambassador to the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
1992-93. In 1989-90, he served on the U.S. delega-
tion negotiating the CFE Treaty. Educated at Utah
State University, Hansen was a Fulbright Scholar to
the Free University of Berlin. The recipient of an
M.A. and a Ph.D., he is fluent in German, Dutch,
Swedish, and Russian. Currently, Ambassador
Hansen is Vice Chairman for Evaluation, National
• a
a
Intelligence Council. a
On the Bush administration's decision to pursue the didn't have the basic question of a site versus an
CFE Treaty: "The United States made the decision object of verification resolved. It was the basis for
to push the treaty sometime in 1989. It began in calculating the number of inspections, and what we
March 1989, but there was a little bit of time before were to inspect. In October 1990, the Russians paid
they really made the decision that, by golly, we are a visit to Washington. A small team of us took
going to get this agreement. They brought in Jim Soviet Ambassador Grinevsky into a room in the
Woolsey [as Chief Negotiator], and I came with State Department and we talked about the CFE
him. That was in November 1989. It was precisely Treaty, specifically verification.
the time when the Berlin Wall came down."
"The [U.S.] interagency community, or more
accurately, decision makers at a high level, had
The INF Treaty as a precedent: "The INF experi-
decided that they would accept the Soviets' object
ence was both a positive and negative model for us.
of verification concept, provided the Soviets would
It was positive insofar as we and the Soviet Union
agree to the way it would be implemented. We put
had an experience which we shared, and we knew
this proposition to Ambassador Grinevsky. He
what had to be done. But this very fact was resented
indicated that he wanted the appropriate people
by some, particularly the French, who took some
involved. We requested that he send his verification
pains to make sure that we did not use INF termi-
negotiator to the U.S. He called him over. His name
nology very much. But since it was the only experi-
was Gennadiy Yefstaviyev. We met in New York.
ence anyone had, we still used it. So it was very,
The idea was that while the UN First Committee
very important to us in terms of methodologies and
was in session, we would attempt to resolve the
procedures ....
final parts of the CFE Treaty.
"Clearly, there were two things that influenced
"I arranged my room in the Waldorf Astoria to
us. One was, of course, the INF Treaty. The second
be a little negotiating room. As it turns out, only I
was the shared experience everybody had with the
and Yefstaviyev used it. One on one, we wrote out
Stockholm Agreement. That was a European-domi-
the final parts of the verification protocol, which
nated experience, and it was very, very important. I
included the concept of object of verification and
think it was every bit as important to the Europeans
access to the declared sites. We also developed the
and to the negotiation of the CFE Treaty as was the
definition of a declared site and other definitions
INF Treaty. Thirty-five nations had shared in that
which have stood the test of time rather well.
experience, but only 23 were in the CFE negotia-
tions-and all of them had been involved in the "Basically, we did it this way. My negotiating
Stockholm Agreement, everyone." style was to write everything down. Then, these
texts were given to Mr. Shevardnadze and Secretary
Negotiating the final CFE Treaty verification issues: Baker. They would meet, discuss, and bless them . By
"As we proceeded through negotiations we were the time that New York meeting was over, we had,
able to resolve most of the issues up until October for all intents and purposes, an agreement on the
1990. We were within a month of treaty signing and verification protocol."
Source: Interview, Joseph P. Harahan, aSIA, December 14, 1993.
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Consequently, throughout 1990, the Central European War-

saw Pact nations, specifically Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Romania, and Bulgaria, continued to negotiate as a "group of
state parties," although most believed that the Warsaw Pact would
dissolve by the end of 1991. In the negotiating sessions, these
nations took positions that reflected their independent national
status, but in the final treaty text and implementing protocols,
they agreed to retain the terminology of bloc-to-bloc limits and
zones. Since Soviet military forces were still withdrawing from
Eastern Europe, no nation wanted to impede this withdrawal. This
deliberate political act allowed the basic framework of the treaty
to remain in place while the East European nations strengthened
their new independent governments. 19
By October 1990, most major treaty provisions, protocols,
and statements had been agreed to; however, the basis for calcu-
lating the number of inspections had not been determined. The
United States argued that the location of treaty-limited equipment
(TLE) and military units, known as a "declared site," should be
the basis for calculating the number of inspections. The declared
site was what an inspection team would inspect. The Soviets
countered that the number of inspections should be based on the
"objects of verification" (OOVs). The OOV was a declared mili-
tary organization that held equipment limited by
Declared Site the treaty. An OOV could also be a designated
OOV1 permanent storage site that held TLE not associ-

I
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ated with a specific unit, or any location, where
TLE would be found routinely. The Soviet posi-
tion was that a team would inspect the OOV-
the organization, storage depot, or location and
its TLE, not the entire site where they were
located. For many, this distinction was difficult
to understand; yet, it was important to the Soviet
High Command because they colocated many
military organizations at a single location. The
Soviet Army often had several OOVs on a single
declared site. Here was a major disagreement,
Declared Site declared site versus OOV, and neither the NATO
....----
OOV1
OOV 1 Declared for Inspection

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nations nor the Warsaw Pact nations were will-
ing to compromise.
Not Subject to In an eleventh-hour effort, American CFE
Inspection Treaty negotiator Lynn M. Hansen and Soviet
CFE Treaty negotiator Gennadiy Yefstaviyev
held a series of meetings in the weeks and days
before the treaty was signed. 20 There was little
time for extended deliberations. President Bush
Not Subject to had stated that he would not attend the Paris
Inspection CSCE Conference, scheduled for mid-November
1990, if a CFE Treaty was not ready for signa-
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ture. Time was running out; in late October Ambassador Hansen

met with Ambassador Grinevsky and others at the U.S. State De-
partment to resolve the impasse. Their solution recognized the
OOV as the item for inspection, but also granted inspectors access
to the entire site except for areas belonging exclusively to another
OOY. Declared site areas that were not part of an OOV, were
colloquially referred to as common areas. This ambiguous solution
resolved a treaty negotiating impasse, but it created problems later
during treaty implementation.
Long before this issue would surface during actual on-site
inspections, the treaty text and protocols had to be finalized,
signed, and ratified. To complete the treaty, Soviet CFE negotiator
Yefstaviyev went to New York, where he and the American nego-
tiator Hansen developed the final segments of the inspection pro-
tocol. They in turn persuaded members of their respective blocs in
Budapest and Brussels to accept the negotiated provisions. How-
ever, this U.S.-USSR agreement came at a cost. These end game
negotiations brought to a head a belief held by many of the other
signatory states: the two superpowers, the United States and the
USSR, were resolving too many issues bilaterally. From this point
forward, the CFE Treaty negotiators from the European states
began meeting among themselves. A stronger "European" perspec-
tive on the CFE Treaty and its implementation began to emerge.
Despite this development, the march toward final agreement con-
tinued. After delegates agreed to all of the final provisions, the
CFE Treaty was ready for signature.

CI·t fRfAfY SK, ATlJIU

In mid-November 1990, the three-day meeting of the Confer-

ence on Security and Cooperation in Europe convened in Paris.
The leaders of 22 nations, including Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl,
Mitterrand, and Thatcher, signed the CFE Treaty on November
19, 1990. At that point, the signatory states included Belgium,
Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Nor-
way, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Soviet Union,
United Kingdom, and the United States. Amidst all the historic
changes sweeping across the European continent, the CFE Treaty
constituted a new legal and diplomatic framework for reducing
military forces and limiting national aggression in post-Cold War
Europe. 2I
The CSCE Conference's political and diplomatic dimensions
were revealed the next day as the leaders of 34 states signed the
Charter of Paris for a New Europe. 22 This charter codified state-
ments on human rights, democratic values, and the rule of law for
all European states and peoples. At the same session, leaders of the
14 O~-SIII I~)I'I C 110:\ A( . L:\(~ _ _ -~-----------

Leaders of CSCE nations at the November 1990 Paris Summit.

16 NATO nations, 6 WTO nations, and 12 neutral and non-

aligned European nations pledged to seek a nonconfrontational
security structure for all of Europe. That structure began, of
course, with their endorsement of the objectives of the CFE Treaty.
Next, they agreed to establish and strengthen CSCE institutions .23
A new, small CSCE Secretariat would be established in Prague; a
CSCE Conflict Resolutio n Center would be set up in Vienna, and
a new CSCE Election Monitoring Office would be located in War-
saw. At the same time, the 35 national leaders affirmed their com-
mitment to follow the provisions of the Vienna Document 1990,
an important new cross-European confidence and security building
measure that expanded the provisions of the earlier Stockholm
Document of 1986. 24 The new Vienna Document 1990 stipulated
annual exchanges of military force data, regular military-to-mili-
tary contacts, and on-site inspections as confidence and security
building measures. When the three-day CSCE Conference con-
cluded, it was seen as another significant step in the transition to
post-Cold War Europe.
President Bush, in his remarks to the 69 assembled presidents,
prime ministers, and foreign ministers, cited the Helsinki Final Act
of 1975 and the courage of the European peoples who worked to
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implement the CSCE objectives. He noted that three of the Euro-

pean leaders present, the presidents of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
and Bulgaria, had been jailed or persecuted for exercising their
rights under the Helsinki Act. President Bush asserted that the
treaty was the military dimension of the CSCE process and that it
was "the most far-reaching arms agreement" ever negotiated. 2s In
his remarks, President Gorbachev praised the CFE Treaty and
called for action on the other arms control treaties then under Noll', Chancellor Helmlft
negotiation, especially in the areas of strategic nuclear weapons. 26 KolJl declared, it ll'dS time
When they spoke, both Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand (or Elfropean peLlce.
took a longer, European view. In the last 200 years, Kohl said,
"Europe, and my country in particular, became the epicenter of
worldwide catastrophes." Now, he declared it was time for Euro-
pean peace. Mitterrand observed that for the first time in Euro-
pean history the massive changes occurring across the continent
were "not the outcome of war or bloody revolution. "27
Between the hyperbole and the history lay the signed CFE
Treaty. But before it could enter into force, it had to be ratified.
That process would take nearly two years; in the interim, the
treaty became the subject of intense scrutiny by those responsible
for implementation.

ANATOMY OF THE CFE TREATY

Text and Declarations

The CFE Treaty contained 23 articles that spelled out
treaty definitions and requirements in terms of equipment,
quantities, locations, and time periods. The treaty outlined
requirements for exchanges of information, reductions
(elimination or conversion of TLE), and on-site inspec-
tions. It also authorized the formation of a Joint Consulta-
tive Group (JCG) of all signatory nations to resolve issues
that might arise during the life of the treaty. Eight proto-
cols provided detailed procedural guidance on the require-
ments outlined in the 23 articles. Finally, three important
declarations were included in the treaty.28
The first declaration defined and limited the number
of land-based naval aircraft and attack helicopters. This
declaration was but one element of a larger problem that
treaty negotiators faced. Combat aircraft had been a par-
ticularly difficult issue during treaty negotiations. The
Eastern group of states held an advantage of more than
2,000 land-based combat aircraft over the NATO nations'
air forces. The Soviet Union wanted the CFE Treaty limits
to codify that advantage. If the NATO nations wanted an
equal number of combat aircraft, the Soviet negotiators
argued, they would have to build up to the Eastern group
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Several issues concerning combat aircraft, like the MiG-29, were contentious in negotiations.

of states' treaty-authorized totals. NATO representatives coun-

tered that the goal should be to achieve a treaty-authorized end-
strength figure that would put the two groups of states on an
equal footing in regard to the final number of combat aircraft.
NATO's proposal would require the Soviets to eliminate thousands
of combat-ready aircraft. This was unacceptable to the Soviet
High Command. 29
Another aspect of the same problem was how to define a
combat aircraft. The NATO states offered a definition that
focused on the capability of the aircraft. If an aircraft could fly
and deliver munitions, they argued, it was a combat aircraft and
should be limited by the treaty. The Eastern group of states, how-
ever, preferred a definition that categorized military aircraft by
mission. Using this definition, they recommended excluding air-
craft such as defensive fighter interceptors and combat aircraft
used as trainers. These aircraft, they asserted, did not have offen-
sive missions-they did not support ground forces-therefore they
should not be limited by the treaty. In addition, the Soviets had
reassigned 500 land-based aircraft from ground to naval units,
and they wanted to exclude them from consideration arguing that
the treaty did not apply to naval forces. These aircraft were impor-
tant to the Soviet High Command because they constituted a
counterbalance to NATO's carrier-based aircraft, which were not
limited by the treaty. The NATO states were concerned that any
treaty exclusion of combat aircraft based on mission would sanc-
tion a legal hiding place. Further, they were troubled by the Sovi-
ets' reassigning ground-based combat aircraft to naval forces.
What would limit the Soviet military from simply assigning an
increasing number of aircraft to naval forces? Painting a fighter'S
tail and wings with naval unit insignia, NATO negotiators argued,
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offered little evidence that the fighter would not be used for offen-
sive operations within the treaty area. 3D
The issue became so contentious that as late as September
1990, Secretary of State James A. Baker, Ill, commented in a news
interview that combat aircraft might not be an element of the
treaty. He suggested that these aircraft might become a consider-
ation for subsequent CFE negotiations. Secretary Baker and For-
eign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met in New York City in late
September to consider the final items of the treaty. By early Octo-
ber, they had worked out a compromise agreement on 5,150 as the
total number of combat aircraft a single country could possess in
the treaty area. This ceiling reflected the Soviet High Command's
minimum needs. Concurrently with the Baker and Shevardnadze U.S. Secretary of State
James A. Bak er, III.
discussions in New York City, NATO's High Level Task Force
continued to review the issue in Brussels. Once Baker and
Shevardnadze had reached an agreement, they presented it to each
group of states. In Vienna, after treaty negotiators approved the
single-nation limit, they moved forward on October 15, 1990, to
agree on a ceiling of 6,800 combat aircraft per group of state
parties. 31
This 6,800 combat aircraft limit left the Eastern group of
states with a 900 aircraft advantage. However, the new limits
meant that the Soviet Armed Forces would have to eliminate 1,295
aircraft, and the remaining members of its group of states, 277
aircraft. The treaty limits included interceptor aircraft and Soviet
Backfire bombers. Mission was not the basis for inclusion. Treaty
limits excluded primary flight training aircraft, whereas combat
aircraft trainers were included because of their offensive capabili- Soviet Foreign Minister
ties. The inclusion of combat aircraft trainers affected the Eastern Eduard Shevardnadze.
group of states' totals, primarily the Soviet Union's. The NATO
states, however, were not affected because their holdings were
approximately 900 aircraft below the treaty ceiling. To compen-
sate the Eastern group for agreeing to the lower combat aircraft
ceiling, the NATO negotiators acceded to a treaty provision that
allowed the reclassification of up to 550 unarmed training aircraft.
Seven models of combat training aircraft could be reclassified. Key
systems could be removed to render the aircraft useless for offen-
sive operations. Reclassification of the MiG-2SU fighters was
limited to 130 aircraft. Once modified and certified by on-site
inspectors, these reclassified aircraft would not count against the
6,800 aircraft ceiling.
In the final negotiations, the Soviet delegates were adamant Ilell t! llr 1./ t.
on the issue of excluding their land-based naval aircraft from
consideration. Ultimately, negotiators could not resolve the prob-
lem within the structure of the legally binding treaty. Instead, they
inserted into the treaty a political declaration that allowed each
group of states, although in reality it applied only to the Soviet
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Union, to possess a certain number of land-based naval aircraft

that did not count against the 6,800 ceiling for combat aircraft.
The CFE Treaty did contain some limits, however. The total
number of land-based naval aircraft was limited to 430 per group
of states, with no nation allowed more than 400. This declaration
recognized the initial Soviet advantage in combat aircraft going into
treaty negotiations, but it limited the number of Soviet land-based
naval aircraft to 400, and, most important, it sealed for the future
the issue of combat aircraft being assigned to naval forces and being
outside the treaty. Naval combat aircraft did not present the only
unresolved issue as the time for treaty signature approached. The
complex issue of setting and verifying limits on national military
personnel could not be solved in the weeks leading up to treaty
signature, and produced another treaty declaration.
By inserting this second declaration into the CFE Treaty,
negotiators stated that limits on national military personnel were
an aspect of the CFE Treaty, but that such limits required further
negotiations to reach agreement on specific figures and verification
protocols. 32 Verification was the major stumbling point. U.S. nego-
tiators believed that while counting CFE military equipment would
be challenging, counting military personnel could become impos-
sible, particularly during periods of extensive military reorganiza-
tions, massive force reductions, and especially during rapid mili-
tary expansions. There were other difficult issues associated with
tracking military manpower. Just who would be counted: military
reserves? naval infantry? military transients? In the end, negotia-
tors agreed to continue manpower negotiations with a goal of
reaching agreement by the Conference on Security and Coopera-
tion in Europe to be held in Helsinki in July 1992.33 Consequently,
they included in this second CFE Treaty declaration a statement
that all signatory states would not increase their current levels of
peacetime personnel. Germany was the only state that made a
... the 22 nations dec/ared <1n treaty declaration to limit its military forces. Its pledge to limit its
ap,p,}'eg<1ted toted o{20 1,005 military forces to not more than 370,000 constituted the third
pieces of tre<1ty-limited declaration of the CFE Treaty.34
eq It ifJ m ent.
Scope
The scope of the treaty in terms of nations, military equip-
ment, and geography was enormous. In November 1990,22 na-
tions with military forces stationed over 2.3 million square miles
had committed themselves to the CFE Treaty. The TLE fell into
five major categories: tanks, combat aircraft, attack helicopters,
armored combat vehicles, and artillery. Further, in each of those
categories there were many types of equipment: 24 types of tanks,
55 types of combat aircraft, 17 types of attack helicopters, and
more than 50 types of armored combat vehicles (ACVs). Armored
combat vehicles, a term coined for the treaty, grouped armored
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personnel carriers (APCs), armored infantry fighting vehicles

(AIFVs), and heavy armament combat vehicles into a single cat-
egory. Heavy armament combat vehicles included vehicles that
were not tanks, APCs, or AIFVs but had an integral gun of at least
75 millimeter (mm) caliber and weighed at least 6 tons. Artillery
included guns, howitzers, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems,
and artillery pieces that combined the characteristics of guns and
howitzers. There were more than 100 types of artillery and all
were of at least 100mm caliber. The five categories of TLE con-
tained more than 240 different types of equipment. The combined
holdings of TLE for both groups of states surpassed 200,000
pieces.
The treaty also had provisions for reporting conventional
armaments and equipment that were inventoried but not limited
by the treaty. The Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional
Armaments and Equipment listed all conventional armaments and
equipment subject to the treaty. Known by its acronym, CAEST,
this equipment included the five categories of TLE, plus combat
support helicopters, unarmed transport helicopters, and Mi-24R
and Mi-24K helicopters; primary trainer aircraft; armored-vehicle-
launched bridges; and armored personnel carrier and armored
infantry fighting vehicle" look-a likes. " Armored look-alikes were
vehicles built on ACV chassis that were similar in appearance to
an APC or an AIFV, except that they could not transport a combat
infantry squad. They also did not have guns or cannons of 20
millimeter (mm) or greater caliber. There were 21 types of look-

Table 1-1. CFE Treaty Ceilings

Sufficiency Rule
In Each In One Percent

..- TLE

Tanks

Artillery
In ATTU*

40,000

40,000
Alliance

20,000

20,000
Country

13,300

13,700
in ATTU

33%

34%

ACVs 60,000 30,000 20,000 33%

\\:p Aircraft 13,600 6,800 5,150 38%

) Ij& Helicopters 4,000 2,000 1,500 38%

• Atlantic to the Urals.

Source: Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, November 1990, Articles IV, V, VI.
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Table 1-2. NATO Declared Holdings and Liabilities

Percentage
TLE CFE Limit Declared Liability* of Holdings

Tanks 20 ,000 25,091 5,949 24%

Artillery 20,000 20,620 2,334 11%

ACVs 30,000 34,453 4,631 13%

Aircraft 6,800 5,939 0 0%

Helicopters 2,000 1,736 0 0%

'Collectively, NATO nations set their CFE limits below the treaty limits. All figures as of
November 19, 1990, the CFE Treaty initial data exchange.
Source: CFE Treaty Declarations and Residual Ceilings, United Kingdom, Ministry of
Defense, November 1990.

alikes for the M-113 APC chassis alone, and these were not lim-
ited by the treaty. In deference to the Geneva Convention of 1949,
armored ambulances were not considered ACVs or look-a likes
under the CFE Treaty. Thus, they were not reportable.
Armored vehicle launched bridges were also subject to the
CFE Treaty. Although they were not considered TLE, limits were
placed on them. The treaty allowed each group of states to have
740 armored bridges in use with their active forces . Any bridges in
excess of this limit had to remain in storage. The treaty contained
specific guidelines both for storing them and for removing them
during an emergency.
In the first official treaty information exchange, held in
Vienna on November 18, 1990, the 22 nations declared an aggre-
gated total of 201,005 pieces of TLE. By category, there were
58,282 tanks, 77,402 ACVs, 47,573 artillery, 14,311 aircraft, and
3,437 helicopters within the treaty area, from the Atlantic to the
Urals. 35 By November 1995, the total number of TLE within the
area had to be below the treaty ceiling of 157,600 pieces. This
final figure is the total of the five categories of offensive weapons:
40,000 battle tanks, 60,000 armored combat vehicles, 40,000
pieces of artillery, 13,600 combat aircraft, and 4,000 attack heli-
copters (see table 1-1). These totals included a subtotal designating
the maximum amount of equipment that active units could hold
collectively, with the remainder stored in designated permanent
storage sites . These maximum equipment figures, again one-half
for each group of states, permitted active units to hold 33,000
tanks, 54,600 ACVs, and 34,000 pieces of artillery.
To lessen the possibility of anyone nation's becoming too
dominant or unilaterally launching a massive surprise attack, the
treaty stipulated limits on the amount of equipment that anyone
nation could have within the treaty area. Known as the "suffi-
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE TREATY AND THE M ISSION 21

Table 1-3. WTO Holdings and Liabilities*

Percentage
TLE CFE Limit Declared Liability of Holdings

Tanks 20 ,000 33,191 13,191 40%

Artillery 20,000 26,953 6,953 26%

ACVs 30 ,000 42,949 12,949 30%

Aircraft 6,800 8,372 1,572 19%

Helicopters 2,000 1,701 0 0%

• All figures as of November 19, 1990, the CFE Treaty initial data exchange.
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 1991, World Armaments and Disarmament, p.426.

ciency rule," this provision allowed a nation sufficient forces to

defend itself, but limited its forces and offensive equipment to
approximately one-third of the total amount permitted for its
group of states. As the Warsaw Pact disintegrated, this provision,
which was originally a NATO proposal, took on an additional
importance as the Central European nations sought to minimize
the strength of the neighboring Soviet Union.

Area
The treaty's area of application encompassed the territory of
the European signatory nations stretching from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Ural Mountains. Known as the ATTU (Atlantic to the
Urals), the area consisted of four zones, three of which were con-
centric rings centered on Germany, and one that defined the flanks
of a European theater (see map). These four zones defined the
areas in which the signatories agreed to limit the number of TLE
for stationed ground forces. Because of their mobility and range,
combat aircraft and attack helicopters were not subject to zone
restrictions. The smallest zone encircled Central Europe, a focal
point of the Cold War. It encompassed Germany, Belgium, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland,
and designated European island territories. Military forces in this
zone could not exceed 15,000 battle tanks, 22,500 ACVs, and
10,000 pieces of artillery.
The next, larger concentric zone extended beyond Central
Europe and included additional nations. At treaty signature, the
second zone included Denmark and the Faroe Islands, France,
Italy, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, and Soviet territory
encompassing the Byelorussian, Carpathian, Kiev, and Baltic Mili-
tary Districts. By the time of treaty ratification and entry into force
in July 1992, the Soviet Union had dissolved and these military
22 ON- SITF INSPECTION AC .F NCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Norwegian
Sea

fI

North
Atlantic
Ocean

Spain

Algeria Mediterranean Sea

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THI- TRI Al) A;\iD lH~ MI~"lo'\ 23

Barents Treaty-Limited Equipment for Each Group of States

Sea Atlantic to the Urals (ATIU) zone boundary
7,500 battle tanks
• Zone 4 11,250 armored combat vehicles
5,000 pieces of artillery

10,300 battle tanks

Zone 3 19,260 armored combat vehicles
9,100 pieces of artillery

15,300 battle tanks

Zone 2 24,100 armored combat vehicles
14,000 pieces of artillery

Zone 1 20,000 batlie tanks

30,000 armored combat vehicles
20,000 pieces of artillery
6,800 combat aircraft
2,000 combat helicopters

D Treaty Nonparticipants

Volga-Ural
MD

Moscow Turkestan
MD MD

Northern
Caucasus
MD

Turkey
Iran

500 kilometers
Iraq I
I
SOOmiles
24 ON-SITE INSPECTION AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

districts were located in the independent states of Ukraine, Russia,

Belarus, and the Baltic nations. Equipment allowed in this zone
totaled 20,600 battle tanks, 38,520 ACYs, and 18,200 pieces of
artillery. Put another way, this larger zone, which included the
smaller zone, could hold the equipment authorized in the smaller
zone plus an additional 5,600 battle tanks, 16,020 ACYs, and
8,200 pieces of artillery.
The largest of the three zones at treaty signature encompassed
the two smaller zones plus Portugal with the Azores and Madeira
Islands, Spain and the Canary Islands, and the Soviet territories
west of the Ural mountains encompassing the Moscow and Yolga-
Ural Military Districts. When the treaty entered into force, this
expanded area, which stretched literally from the Atlantic to the
Urals, included the independent states of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,
and portions of Kazakstan. This zone allowed for 10,000 more
battle tanks, 9,680 more ACYs, and 9,800 pieces of artillery for a
total of 30,600, 48,200, and 28,000 pieces of equipment in their
respective categories. The remaining pieces of TLE were autho-
rized in the flank areas.
The original treaty defined the flank areas as Bulgaria,
Greece, Iceland, Norway, Romania, Turkey west of the Urals, and
the Soviet territory encompassing the Leningrad, Odessa, North-
ern Caucasus, and Transcaucasus Military Districts. By July 1992,
when the treaty entered into force, portions of these former Soviet
military districts were located in the new nations of Moldova,
Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. Other por-
tions encompassed the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and

NATO REDUCTION LIABILITY

5,949
6,000

5,000 4,631
D November 95
2,379
November 94

4,000
November 93

3,000

2,000
o o
1,000

o
o TANKS ARTILLERY ACVs AIRCRAFT HELICOPTERS
 _ _ _ _ _ _ THr TRrAI't A!\:[) THI' MISSIO'\1 25

Lithuania, nations that chose not to be CFE Treaty participants.

Although the Baltic states were not subject to inspection, the Rus-
sian forces stationed there were, and Russia's reduction liability
included the equipment not yet removed from the Baltic states.
The total military equipment allowed under the treaty for the
flank areas was 9,400 battle tanks, 11,800 ACVs, and 12,000
pieces of artillery.

Reductions
Two of the CFE Treaty's main objectives were to reduce the
possibility of a surprise attack and to lower the probability of
confrontation by reducing the total number of tanks, artillery,
ACVs, attack helicopters, and combat aircraft the respective group
of states could hold. To achieve these reductions, the treaty set
specific schedules for reaching the final limits. As implementation
unfolded, inspection teams monitored the pace and level of reduc-
tion efforts. Inspections became important benchmarks for mea-
suring treaty compliance.
During the initial reduction phase, known by the term "first
reduction year," each nation had to reduce 25 percent of its hold-
ings that exceeded treaty limits at entry into force (ElF). The initial
reduction phase began at the provisional ElF on July 17, 1992,
and lasted for 16 months. It encompassed the 120-day baseline
inspection period followed by the first reduction year. A second
reduction year followed, during which an additional 35 percent
of the excess equipment had to be reduced. Treaty states would

14,000
WTO REDUCTION LIABILITY
13,191 12,949

12,000

10,000
5,276
5,179 D November 95

November 94
8,000
November 93

6,000

4,000
0
2,000

0 TANKS ARTILLERY ACVs AIRCRAFT HELICOPTERS

26 ON-SITE INSI'FC nON ACFNCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

The treaty authorized converting tanks and ACVs to nonmilitary equipment.

reduce the remaining 40 percent of their excess equipment during

a third and final reduction year. This schedule gave each group of
states 40 months to reduce all their weapons in excess of the final
treaty limits.
Article VIII of the CFE Treaty specified the methods allowed
to reduce TLE. Reduction methods varied by equipment category,
although destruction and placement on static display were options
common to all categories of TLE. Nations could also convert
tanks and ACVs for nonmilitary purposes or use them as training
targets. A reduction option for the Soviet MT-LB armored person-
nel carrier was modification that rendered the MT-LB incapable of
transporting a squad of combat infantrymen. The only additional
option authorized was to use the carriers as ground targets. Com-
bat aircraft could also be modified for ground instructional use,
and seven specific models of aircraft could be modified and reclas-
sified as unarmed training aircraft. Helicopters, attack or multi-
purpose attack, could be modified for ground instruction pur-
poses, and the multipurpose helicopters could also be modified
and recategorized as support helicopters.
The Protocol on Reduction provided specific guidance on
implementing the various methods of reduction listed in Article
VIII. Authorized methods for destroying TLE included cutting,
exploding, deforming, and smashing. The protocol also dictated
the specific components to be destroyed for each category of
equipment as well as the damage required to render a piece of TLE
permanently ineffective as a military weapon. The protocol dic-
tated the results, not the particular technology used to achieve
them. How to accomplish a cut of a specific length in a specific
location, for example, was an option of the state reducing the
equipment. It was not necessary to destroy the entire weapon to
achieve reduction. Unless specified in the reduction protocol as a
component to be destroyed, some equipment, such as communica-
tion systems, could be salvaged and the debris scrapped.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ THL TRIAn\1\1) TH~_ Mlsslo;\J 27

For aircraft, the fuselage was the critical component for a

successful reduction by destruction; any other component could be
salvaged. The first of the two authorized destruction methods to
reduce an aircraft on the ground was severing, which required
technicians to cut the nose and tail sections off the fuselage. The
other option, deformation, required technicians to compress the
fuselage to reduce its height, length, or width by at least 30 per-
cent. In either case inspectors would have specific criteria and
tangible evidence of an aircraft reduction. Using aircraft as target
drones was an additional authorized destruction procedure for
aircraft. Authorized methods of helicopter destruction were sever-
ing, explosive demolition, and deformation. The fuselage and the
transmission mounting area were the key components for a suc-
cessful reduction, and specific damage criteria were outlined for
each destruction method.
Destruction methods for tanks and armored combat vehicles
included severing, demolition, and smashing. Also allowed were
procedures to reduce tanks by deformation, including welding or
severing components of gun systems in addition to deformation of
the hull and turret. The critical components to be damaged were
gun tubes, breech systems, trunnions and their mounts, hulls,
turrets, and integral main armament.
Reducing artillery by destruction included severing, demoli-
tion, smashing, and deformation. Specific criteria of damage were
stipulated for components critical to making the piece of equip-
ment a weapon. Those components were the tube, breech system,
cradle with trunnion and mounts, and rails; launcher tubes or rails
and their bases; mortar tubes and base plates; and vehicle hull and
turret for self-propelled artillery pieces.

The fuselage was the key

component for an aircraft
reduction, either by deformation
or by severing, as shown on this
MiG-21 "Fishbed."
28 ON - SITE INSPECTION AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

While destruction was the most common option selected for

reduction, the treaty permitted other means as well. States owning
the equipment were allowed to put it to use as something other
than a weapon. Certain tanks and ACVs could be converted to
nonmilitary equipment such as bulldozers, fire fighting equipment,
and rescue vehicles. Any item could be reduced for static displays
or placed in military museums. Tanks, ACVs, and artillery could
be reduced for ground targets, and aircraft and attack helicopters
could be reduced for ground instruction purposes. The key con-
cept in these reductions was that specific components required
disabling damage before certification for use for other purposes.
However, the number of items that could be reduced using these
treaty options was limited.
Recategorization presented another reduction option, such as
in the case of multipurpose attack helicopters. By treaty definition,
these helicopters performed multiple military functions and em-
ployed guided weapons. By removing their weapon systems,
mounting points, fire control systems, and wiring, the owning
state could recategorize these helicopters as combat sup port heli-
copters not limited by the treaty. Well before any nations began
these reductions, however, they collected and exchanged specific
treaty data concerning their own forces and equipment.

Data Exchange
The initial, massive CFE Treaty data exchange occurred on
November 18, 1990, the day before treaty signature. Freely pro-
vided, this data exchange listed the order of battle for every signa-
Severing was the primary reduction tory nation's conventional forces stationed on the European conti-
method for all treaty-limited nent. Experts scrutinized these data immediately, and they became
equipment (TLE). one of the primary sources for preparing and planning treaty
implementation. Previously, a small army of intelligence officers
would have been necessary to gather this information; now signa-
tory nations were exchanging these data as part of their initial
treaty obligation. Article XIII, the Protocol on Notification and
Exchange of Information, and its Annex on the Format for the
Exchange of Information required each signatory party to provide
all other parties specific information on the status of its forces.
The information was provided in six charts.
Chart I provided the command structure for each nation's
conventional ground and air forces stationed in the ATTU. This
chart identified each unit and assigned it a designator used in
subsequent charts. Chart I also indicated the next two higher
echelons in the unit's chain of command. Charts IIA and lIB listed
each nation's total holdings of TLE. Chart IIA identified a state's
total holdings in treaty-limited tanks, ACVs, and artillery. It also
revealed the quantity of TLE in each treaty area by category, sub-
category, and type. Chart IIA also showed TLE in designated
_ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THI TInA!) Al\D TH~ Mlsslo'\J 29

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On November 18,1990, all CFE nations exchanged detailed information on their military forces.

permanent storage sites (DPSSs). Chart lIB provided the same

information for treaty-limited aircraft and helicopters, with two
exceptions. There was no reporting by treaty zones for aircraft and
helicopters nor did DPSSs apply. In Charts IlIA and I1IB, states
reported all of their conventional armaments and equipment sub-
ject to the treaty (CAEST). They reported not only those units
holding TLE, as required in Chart I, but also those holding equip-
ment not limited but nonetheless subject to the treaty, including
naval units. In addition, the states reported all DPPSs, reduction
sites, and locations where CAEST were routinely present, such as
repair facilities or training establishments. Chart IlIA dealt with
ground forces, and Chart I1IB covered air units. Any TLE located
in the ATTU, but not in service with a state's conventional armed
forces, was reported in Chart IV. Also, internal security military
organizations and their equipment that were not trained for com-
bat against another military force were reported on Chart IV.
Equipment being refurbished or held for export-for example,
tanks and ACYs that had been reduced or were awaiting conver-
sion-and equipment that had been decommissioned and was
awaiting disposal were reported on Chart IV.
On Chart V, states reported their objects of verification
(OOYs). An OOV was any unit at the brigade/regiment, wing/air
regiment, independent battalion/artillery battalion level, indepen-
dent squadron, or equivalent unit holding TLE. Designated perma-
nent storage sites, maintenance units, military training establish-
ments, and airfields where TLE was permanently or frequently
present were also OOYs. Reduction sites were OOYs as well,
because of the excess TLE positioned on these sites. States also
reported their declared sites on Chart V.
While a nation's total number of OOYs dictated the number
of inspections it was liable to receive during the various phases
of the treaty, the definition of a declared site dictated what was
inspectable. A declared site was a precisely delineated geographic
location containing one or more OOYs. Examples of declared sites
were specific air bases, army posts, and storage depots on which
30 O'\/ - SI r I INSI'FCTION ACI ' ' ' u

Chart IIIB: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION, NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS
AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE PROTOCOL ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE
OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Formation
or Unit Designation NOT Reclassified Primary Combat Unarmed
Line Record of Fo rmation Peace time USED Comba t CCT Trainer Atrack Support Transport
Number Number o r Unit Location Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Helicopters Helicopters Helicopters Other

(a ) (b) (e) (d) (e ) (f) (g) (h ) (i) (j) (k) (I)

The Protocol on Notification and

Exchange of Information provided the OOVs were located . A declared site included all territory
specific formats for presenting within its natural or man-made boundaries. A declared site also
treaty-required exchange data.
encompassed areas associated with the operations of the unit that
might not be colocated, such as a railhead or a training area, but
where CAEST and TLE were routinely present. For example, the
36th Fighter Wing, a U.S. OOV, operated from a declared site, the
Bitburg Air Base in Bitburg, Germany. This ratio of one OOV to
one declared site was typical of most U.S. air unit OOVs, but
ground units frequently co located OOVs on a single declared site.
For instance, three OOVs-the 3rd Battalion, 1st Field Artillery;
82nd Engineering Battalion, 3rd Engineering Brigade; and 2nd
Battalion, 14th Field Artillery-operated from one declared site:
Warner Barracks in Bamberg, Germany. A declared site containing
multiple OOVs was typical for the national militaries of the East-
ern group of states. Declared sites and OOVs were critical for
Unlimited Residual
Duration Period treaty implementation.
Chart V listed the points of entry (POEs) associated with each
Residual Level declared site. Inspection teams entered and exited the inspected
1200.)'1 Validation Period
nation through the specific POEs designated for each declared site.
Chart VI provided a listing of all designated POEs, categorized by
1 Year
the means of transportation used to reach them. In November
1990, Greece, for example, reported two POEs on Chart VI, one
at Athens International Airport for air arrivals and the other at the
1 Year Reduclion
Period Port of Piraeus for arrivals by sea. The Greek government desig-
nated both POEs as acceptable for 47 of their declared sites, while
designating only one POE for the remaining declared sites.
1 Vear

Treaty Periods
Baseline
120 Days Validation Period Negotiators developed the treaty so that implementation took
place in four different periods. The initial 120-day baseline valida-
CFE Treaty Periods tion period, referred to as the CFE Treaty baseline, was expected
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THI TRHI) "'\I)THI MlS.,\O'\J 3J

to be an extremely busy period for inspection teams. During

baseline each state party was prepared to receive inspections at a
portion of its declared sites. During treaty negotiations, a consen-
sus developed that there were too many declared sites to inspect
each one during the brief baseline period. Consequently, negotia-
tors agreed that it was not necessary to inspect each site to deter-
mine if a nation had been accurate in its data exchange. They
agreed that each nation would be liable for inspections based on
20 percent of the total number of the OOYs declared in the initial
exchange of data. These baseline inspections would occur when
the amount of TLE and the number of OOYs would probably be
at their highest and before nations could complete any significant
TLE reductions. On-site inspections during baseline allowed states
to take a significant sample of the data exchanged to determine its
accuracy and to establish a base for planning future treaty activities.
The second period, the reduction phase, occurred after base-
line, when the pace of the declared site inspections slowed to a rate
of 10 percent of the total declared OOYs per year. This rate re-
mained in effect during the three reduction years. During those
years, inspectors would be no less busy because of the requirement
to conduct reduction inspections. After these initial baseline and
reduction periods, the third phase would consist of a 120-day
residual level validation period. During this phase, states would
inspect at a 20 percent rate to confirm the amount of equipment
remaining following the reductions. On completion of the residual
validation period, the declared site inspections would be con-
ducted at a rate of 15 percent of each state's OOYs per year for
the duration of the treaty, known as the residual period.

On-Site Inspections
Article XIY of the CFE Treaty allowed each state to verify
compliance with all provisions of the treaty by giving each the Types of Inspections:
right to conduct inspections. The same article obligated the treaty
states to accept on-site inspections. Under the CFE Treaty there • Declared Site
were four types of on-site inspections: declared site inspections, • Challmge
challenge inspections, reduction inspections, and certification
• Reductloll
inspections. One purpose of these inspections was to ascertain if
each state was observing the numerical limitations on TLE located • Certificatioll
in the treaty zones and the flanks. These inspections also moni-
tored the reduction of TLE, the certification of recategorized
attack helicopters, and the reclassification of combat-capable
training aircraft. Each served a specific purpose, and the Protocol
on Inspections outlined procedures for conducting each type of
inspection.
The declared site inspection was a critical tool for confirming
the accuracy of exchanged treaty data. In theory and in fact, on-
site inspections contributed to national security across Europe.
 ON - SIT!' boSPICT ION AGI.N(,)

The status of each state's forces and equipment became transpar-

ent to other states through inspection team reports and observa-
tions. An inspected state could not refuse a declared site inspec-
tion. It was a legal obligation under the treaty. Over the life of the
treaty, the hundreds, indeed thousands, of on-site inspections
allowed each state to conclude that other states were fulfilling
their legal obligations and complying with the treaty's require-
ments. This important conclusion could, when combined with
other information, lead to a new level of trust and confidence
across national borders. Allowing treaty inspectors on-site was one
key to developing and maintaining successful relationships among
the signatory nations.
Negotiators recognized that nations could not rely solely on
the declared site inspections to monitor compliance with treaty
procedures. Article XV addressed their right to use national tech-
nical means such as satellites or reconnaissance aircraft to monitor
treaty compliance. That article also prohibited the concealment of
equipment to circumvent reconnaissance efforts. Negotiators also
realized that to maintain a spirit of openness and cooperation,
nations would have to open all of their territory to inspections,
not just the sites where they had declared conventional military
equipment.
Challenge inspections allowed
Challenge inspections gave participating nations the right to
teams to inspect for the presence
of TLE in areas other than inspect a specific and limited area other than declared sites in any
declared sites. signatory nation within the ATTU. This inspection right increased
the likelihood of detecting weapons at sites not de-
clared in the exchanged data. As in declared site inspec-
tions, quotas were applied to challenge inspections.
Starting the day the treaty entered into force and con-
tinuing through the residual level validation period,
challenge inspections operated within a quota. It was
not more than 15 percent of a state's declared site
inspection obligations. That quota increased to 23
percent over the subsequent life of the treaty. The pro-
cedures for challenge inspections were similar to those
in declared site inspections, but there were differences.
In a challenge inspection, the inspection team
provided a geographic description of the specified area,
delineating the boundaries of the area it wanted to
inspect. By comparison, in a declared site inspection,
the inspected party declared its site and the treaty de-
fined the site. A challenge inspection team, however,
could request any location within a country, excluding
declared sites. There was a limit to the size of the in-
spection area, namely, 65 square kilometers and no
more than 16 kilometers between any two points
within the area.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THI TRIH'r -\:--;1) THI MI".,lo:\
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The major difference in a challenge inspection, however, was

not area size, but the fact that the inspecting state could only
request an inspection. The inspected state could refuse or accept
the inspection within two hours after the inspection challenge was
issued for a specified area. This was a critical right for any state
in that it protected each state from inspection by another whose
intent might not be associated with the CFE Treaty. An inspected
state could refuse a challenge inspection request for reasons of
safety or security. If the inspected state refused a challenge inspec-
tion request, however, it was obliged to assure the requesting state
that there was no TLE in the specified area, a difficult task if
reconnaissance photography indicated TLE present at that site. If
the inspected state held TLE assigned to peacetime internal secu-
rity forces within the specified area, it had to allow visual confir-
mation of the TLE present. Following a refusal, the inspection
team could designate another challenge or declared site inspection.
A refusal of the inspection did not reduce inspection quotas.
Surprise was a key element for both the declared site and
challenge inspections. Treaty provisions dictated specific timelines
for different actions during each inspection. As a consequence, an
inspected state had very little time to move or reposition TLE. The
treaty's Protocol on Inspection stipulated that an inspecting state
had to provide only 36 hours' notice prior to an inspection team's
arrival at the point of entry. After their arrival, the inspection team

Inspection teams moved quickly-within nine hours after declaring the site to be inspected.
34 ON-SJTl INSI'ECllON ACINU

Safety briefings were particularly

important at sites with rough
terrain, harsh climate, and aging
facilities.

had from 1 to 16 hours to announce which declared site or speci-

fied area it intended to inspect. Following that announcement, the
treaty required the inspected state to expeditiously transport the
inspection team to the declared site. Nine hours was normally the
maximum time to transport the inspection team to the site. In
mountains or difficult terrain, the treaty permitted a IS-hour
travel time to the site, but only 9 of those hours counted against
the inspection team's time in country. Regardless of whether the
permitted travel time was 9 or 15 hours, the treaty allowed the
inspected state 6 hours to prepare the site for inspection.
Upon arrival at a declared site, the inspected state's escort
team ushered the inspection team to a briefing facility, where
escorts presented a site diagram to the inspection team. The site
diagram showed the perimeter of the declared site, the boundaries
of all OOVs on the site, major buildings and roadways, entrances
to the declared site, and the location of an administrative area
designated for the inspection team's use. Within 30 minutes of
receiving the site diagram, the inspection team had to declare the
OOV they would be inspecting.
Once the team chief announced the OOV for inspection, the
inspected party gave a preinspection site briefing that "should"
not last more than one hour. This briefing was important because
it could, and often did, set the tone for the entire inspection. In-
cluded in this briefing was information on local safety and admin-
istrative procedures, communications and transportation systems,
and holdings and locations of all CAEST on the site, including
CAEST in any common areas. A common area was any area on
the site that was not a part of an OOV, such as a parade ground,
administrative facilities, equipment parking areas, and training
areas. If the amount of TLE briefed varied from the most recent
notification given by the inspected state, the inspected party was to
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THI TRI\I) \ ;\; 1) lHL MI"~lo:--, 1)

provide explanations for the differences. Explanations would

include information on where the additional equipment came
from, when it arrived, how long it would be there, and the loca-
tion of any temporarily absent equipment. The time from notifica-
tion to the beginning of the actual inspection could be as short as
44 hours: 36 hours' notification, 1 hour at the POE prior to the
site declaration, 6 hours' minimum time to prepare the site, and
the 1-hour preinspection briefing. For challenge inspections the
timeline was similar, except that the inspected nation had two
hours to decide if it would accept the inspection. In theory and in
fact, these treaty-mandated timelines left very little time to move
or conceal large quantities of military forces or equipment.
While the declared site and challenge inspections confirmed
the presence or absence of TLE, the reduction inspection allowed
states to monitor the reduction of TLE excess to the treaty limits.
There were no quotas for reduction inspections because all reduc-
tions were open to inspection. There was no right of refusal. Each
state scheduled and conducted its reductions in periods that lasted
for at least 30 days, but no longer than 90 days. These announced
calendar reporting periods were not accountable schedules; in-
stead, they reflected the reduction goals of a state for that period.
The notification of a calendar reporting period, given not less than

Russian team inspects severed main guns of American M-47 tanks at Buccino, Italy.
36 ON - S ITE INSPECTION AGENC\

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15 days before reductions began, included the

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reduction site, the equipment to be reduced, the
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During a CFE reduction, inspectors had the
right to remain on-site and watch the entire
process throughout the announced reduction
period, and three days beyond that if necessary. If
two announced reduction periods were less than
;... _ -----T T\-~-."rnj- four days apart, inspectors could remain on-site
through the following period also. While inspec-
A site logbook recorded reduction tors had a right to remain on-site for the duration, it was an im-
activity during a calendar practical and unnecessary expense. Typically, an inspection team
reporting period. arrived at the site at the beginning of the reduction period and
exercised the treaty right to record serial numbers or to place
markings on the equipment announced for reduction. The team
also checked equipment serial numbers against the numbers re-
corded in a site logbook maintained by the reducing state. The
inspection team might then view reductions of one or two pieces
of equipment. An inspector's interest, however, was in the final
results. The technology or techniques employed to achieve those
results were more concerns for Joint Consultative Group (JCG)
delegates or negotiators. Usually, the inspection team departed the
site, and at the end of the reduction period, that team or a different
team returned to confirm that the reductions met treaty require-
ments. At that time, they compared equipment serial numbers, or
the inspector-applied markings, on the reduced components against
their own lists or against the site's reduction log.
The final inspection type, certification, was similar to
reduction inspections in several ways. The certification inspection
allowed nations to certify that multipurpose attack helicopters and
combat-capable aircraft had been reconfigured into support heli-
copters and trainer aircraft. Inspectors had access to cockpits and
could demand the removal of panels to confirm that certain treaty-
designated offensive weapons systems were no longer present. This
inspection protocol required at least a IS-day notification prior to
the date that the reconfigured helicopters would be available for
certification by the inspection teams. There was no right of refusal
nor quotas for these certification inspections.

Liaison Officer Requirement

As a consequence of the Cold War, nations of the NATO and
WTO alliances had stationed hundreds of thousands of their mili-
tary personnel, weapons, and facilities on military sites throughout
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THF TRI ·\1) A ' [) IHI Mls'>lo'\

Europe. The United States, for instance, had nearly 325,000 U.S.
Army, Air Force, and Navy personnel deployed throughout Europe
in 1990. The Soviet Union had 17 army divisions and 363,700
military personnel stationed in East Germany and another
337,000 stationed on military bases in the other Central European
countries. Under the CFE Treaty, nations that stationed conven-
tional forces and equipment outside their own state, but within the
ATTU, were considered "stationing states." Stationing state forces
were subject to the provisions of the CFE Treaty and to inspection.
The treaty recognized the sovereignty of a stationing state, autho-
rizing it to escort CFE inspectors during an inspection of its forces.
The treaty specifically required an inspecting state to notify the
stationing state as well as the "host state" of an impending inspec-
tion. This notification gave the stationing state sufficient time to
assemble and dispatch an escort team to the site, as a host state
would if an inspection team had selected one of its declared sites
for inspection. Under the CFE Treaty, the United States initially
had 169 OOYs that were subject to declared site inspections.
A significant problem for the United States was that U.S.
European forces, equipment, and facilities were located at more
than 1,500 sites throughout Europe. Some of these sites contained
sensitive or classified programs. Most of these programs were
located on U.S. military sites, but a number had been placed on
military bases or sites owned by the host state. Under early drafts
of the treaty's inspection protocol, all U.S. stationed forces and
facilities were subject to inspection. Here was a serious issue for
the United States. In treaty negotiations, the United States sup-
ported the inclusion of a comprehensive, intrusive, on-site inspec-

Sergeant First Class Gilbert Sierra, Jr., and David Carter document the
reduction of A CVs.
3~ ON-SI TE INSPECTION ACENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _

tion regime for monitoring the treaty, but at the same time it rec-
ognized that it had to protect classified programs and facilities
critical to combat readiness and military operations of the u.s.
forces in Europe. To resolve this dilemma, the Office of the Secre-
tary of Defense directed a thorough review in early 1990. Out of
that intensive evaluation, key American officials concluded that
the existing, tabled inspection protocol had to be modified. 36
In early March 1990, the United States introduced a new
NATO-endorsed inspection protocol. It provided procedures to
deal with sensitive points, authorized the shrouding of non-TLE
items, and inserted a two-meter access rule. This rule preserved the
treaty right of the inspection team to observe, count, and record
the CFE Treaty's TLE-tanks, artillery, APCs, fighters, and attack
helicopters-without entering and inspecting every building, bar-
racks, container, and shrouded object. Doors to buildings could be
opened for visual inspection, but inspectors could enter only when
the doors exceeded two meters. The two-meter rule also came into
play when dealing with shrouded sensitive items or containers. If
none of the width, length, height, or diameter measurements of a
shrouded item or container exceeded two meters, the inspectors
had no right to access because there was no TLE that measured
less than two meters. These changes were discussed and approved
by the treaty negotiators in the spring and summer months of
1990. They were incorporated into the final CFE Treaty's inspec-
tion protocol. 37

Lt. Colonel Edward G. Gallagher, II, and Major Henry T. Storey discuss the inspection with
Russian escorts under a canopy of tank barrels in Maykop , Russia.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ THf TREAT Y ANI) THF MI~slo:-.l 39

Another critical concept, the right of the inspected party to

declare a "sensitive point," was part of the final treaty. Under this
concept an inspected state could declare equipment, locations, or
structures sensitive to its security. This declaration allowed the
inspected state to delay, limit, or deny inspectors access to or
overflight of the sensitive point. An inspected state could also
shroud a sensitive piece of equipment while still providing an
inspection team access to a facility. Although a state could declare
a sensitive point, it also had to declare whether the sensitive point
contained any TLE. If TLE was present, the escort team had to
either display the equipment or take steps to satisfy the inspection
team that only the declared amount and type of TLE was
present. 38
A third, significant concept developed in the final stages of
negotiations. As explained previously, the United States had mili-
tary units and equipment that were not subject to the treaty but
were located on host states' military bases and facilities. The
United States wanted its trained, treaty-knowledgeable escort
officers to be present at inspections in host states to protect Ameri-
can rights and interests. In addition, the United States had other
forces and facilities that were not on a declared site of any state
but that were still vulnerable to being inspected during challenge

The CFE Treaty required nations to reduce their massive holdings of TLE across Europe.
40 O'\J-SIIl 11\SI'F( 110:'\ A(.I· :-;c't

inspections of a host state area. Protecting U.S. rights in these

situations was a major concern for the U.S. government. In the last
few weeks of treaty negotiations, U.S. representatives developed a
new provision that allowed for a liaison officer.
This concept required the stationing state party, prior to an
inspection, to designate a liaison officer to serve on the host state's
escort team. Liaison officers were to be available to represent their
government during an inspection in case the inspection team came
upon any of the stationing state's forces or facilities. Because the
treaty protocols provided little guidance on how to carry out this
liaison function, the United States negotiated bilateral agreements
with the host states, outlining procedures for U.S. liaison and host
escort officers during CFE Treaty inspections. These bilateral
agreements varied from nation to nation, ranging from extensive
interaction in Germany to minimal contact in other states. To
reinforce the liaison officer provision, the treaty stipulated that a
representative of a stationing state must be present for an inspec-
tion of any of its forces or facilities.

NOTES
1. For the CFE Treaty, see "Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
(CFE)," Appendix A. For an account of the treaty negotiations and
ratifications, see Jane M.O. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in
Europe, " in SIPRI Yearbook 1990, World Armaments and Disarmament
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 459-505; P. Terrence
Hopmann, "From MBFR to CFE, Negotiating Conventional Arms Control
in Europe," in Richard Dean Burns, ed., Encyclopedia of Arms Control
and Disarmament, Vol. II (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), pp.
967-989; and Jane M.O. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe,"
in SIPRI Yearbook 1991, World Armaments and Disarmament (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 407-451.

2. For the European context, especially Germany, see Timothy Garton Ash, In
Europe 's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (New York: Random
House, 1993) and Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, Germany Unified
and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1995). For the American view, consult Michael
R . Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of
the End of the Cold War (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1993). For
the state of the Soviet Union, see John B. Dunlop, The Rise of Russia and
the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Princeton, N.].: Princeton University Press,
1993).

3. These numbers reflect the extraordinary creation of 17 new nations on the

European continent between 1990 and 1992. Following the collapse of the
Soviet Union, eight new signatory nations entered the CFE treaty: Russia,
Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakstan.

4. Ash, In Europe's Name, pp. 357-410; and Zelikow and Rice, Germany
Unified and Europe Transformed.
 THI flu '\ I) \ I> I HI MI.,.,lo:\ 4I

5. For the text and a brief overview of the Stockholm Agreement of 1986, see
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agreements (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1990), pp. 319-335. For the INF Treaty, see Joseph P. Harahan,
On-Site Inspections Under the INF Treaty (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1993) and George L. Rueckert, Global
Double Zero: The INF Treaty From Its Origins to Implementation
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, (993). For other treaties, see SIPRI
Yearbooks, World Armaments and Disarmament, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994,
and 1995 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991-1995).

6. For a history of the agency's origins and the INF Treaty implementation,
see Harahan, On-Site Inspections Under the INF Treaty. For a report-
length version, read David M. Willford, "A Brief History of the On-Site
Inspection Agency," OSIA Reference Report No.1 (Washington, D.C.: On-
Site Inspection Agency, 1996).
7. James Macintosh, "Confidence-Building Measures in Europe, 1975 to the
Present," in Richard D. Burns, ed., Encyclopedia of Arms Control and
Disarmament, Vol. II, pp. 929-945; Rolf Berg and Adam-Daniel Rotfeld,
Building Security in Europe: Confidence-Building Measures and the CSCE
(New York: Institute for East-West Security Studies, 1986).
8. Hopmann, "From MBFR to CFE, " pp. 978-979; Jonathan Dean,
Watershed in Europe: Dismantling the East- West Military Confrontation
(Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1987).
9. Macintosh, "Confidence-Building Measures in Europe" pp. 933-935; John
Borawski, From the Atlantic to the Urals: Negotiating Arms Control at the
Stockholm Conference (Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey International
Defense Publishers, 1988), pp. 8-11.

10. United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agreements, pp. 319-335. For background, see Borawski,
From the Atlantic to the Urals, pp. 102-1 ]5.
11. Jonathan Dean, Meeting Gorbachev's Challenge: How to Build Down the
NATO- Warsaw Pact Confrontation (New York: St. Martin's Press, ] 989);
Borawski, From the Atlantic to the Urals, pp. 88-89. For a discussion of
the Soviet Union's changing foreign relations and military strategy toward
Western Europe, consult Eduard Shevardnadze, The Future Belongs to
Freedom (New York: The Free Press, 1991); and Don Oberdorfer, The
Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era-The United States and the Soviet
Union, 1983-1990 (New York: Poseidon Press, 199]).
12. Hopmann, "From MBFR to CFE," pp. 977-978; Ivo H. Daalder, The CFE
Treaty: An Overview and an Assessment (Washington, D.C.: The Johns
Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1991).
13. Mandate for Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe,
January 14, 1989.
14. Hopmann, "From MBFR to CFE," pp. 978-983.

15. David Remnick, Lenin 's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New
York: Random House, 1993), pp. 240-243; Zelikow and Rice, Germany
Unified and Europe Transformed.
16. Declaration by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the
Personnel Strength of the German Armed Forces, Annex to CFE Treaty,
November 19,1990.

17. Sergei A. Karagonov, "Toward a New Security System in Europe," in Vilho

Harle and Jyrki livonen , eds., Gorbachevand Europe (New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1990), pp. 40-50.
42 ON-StTE INSPECTION AGENCY

18. "Assembly Supports Pact Withdrawal," Budapest Domestic Service, June

26, 1990, in Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS)-Easte1'l1
Europe, June 27, 1990.
19. "Hungarian , USSR Delegates at CFE Talks," Die Presse (Vienna), August
10, 1990, in FBIS- Western Europe, August 14, 1990; " Pact Discusses
Structural Changes, Arms Ce ilings," Hopodal'ske Novin), (Prague),
October 2, 1990, in FBIS-Eastem Europe, October 9, 1990.
20. Interview with Ambassador Lynn Hansen, U.s. Government CFE Treaty
Negotiator, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Ramstein Air Base,
Germany, December 14, 1993. See also Beschloss and Talbott, At th e
Highest Levels, pp. 269-270, 288-290; David Hoffman, "U.S., Soviets to
Press Arms Talks," Washington Post, September 27,1990, pp. A31-32;
and Alan Riding, "U.S.-Soviet Differences Are Said to Threaten Arms-Cut
Pact," New York Times, November 19, 1990, p. A6.
21. Craig R. Whitney, "The Legacy of Hel sinki, " New York Times, November
19, 1990, pp. A1, A6; "The Peace of Paris," The Times (London),
November 19, 1990; Alan Riding, "Designing the New Europe: Plenty to
Argue About," New York Times, November 19, 1990, p. A6; Arms
Control Reporter 1990, pp. 40 7.B.409-412; "The Paris Conference: The
Thrill of Europe's Rebirth, " The Economist, November 24, 1990, pp. 49-
53.
22. For a text of the agreement, see "The Charter of Paris for a New Europe, "
Paris, France, November 2], ]990, in SIPRI Yearbook 1991, pp. 603-610.
For the contemporary political context in Paris, see Alan Riding, "The
Question That Lingers on Europe: How Will the Goals Be Achieved?" New
York Times, November 22, ]990, p. A17.
23. Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp . 402.B.273-275 .
24. For the text, see U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs,
Dispatch Supplement: Vienna Document 1990, Vol. 2, Supplement 2, May
1991. For the European background, see Sh a rp, "Conventional Arms
Control in Europe," pp. 451-456.
25. R.W. Apple, Jr., "East and West Sign Pac t to Shed Arms in Europe," New
York Times , November 20,1990, pp. AI, A14; Riding, "Designing the
New Europe," New York Times, November 19, 1990, p. A6.
26. Riding, " Designing the New Europe," New York Tim es, November 19,
1990, p. A6 .
27. Ibid.
28. For the CFE Treaty text, protocol s, and declaration s, see "Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)," this book, Appendix A.
29. Lynn M . Han sen, "Towards an Agreement on Reducing Conventional
Forces in Europe," Disarmament, Vol. 13, No.3, 1990, pp . 61-76; Sharp,
"Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1990), pp. 478-501; R. Jeffery
Smith, "U.S. Offers Compromise on Military Planes in Europe, "
Washington Post,Janurary 31,1990, p. A16.
30. Arms Co ntrol Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.305-307, 336-337, 340-341,
346-347,357-360,380.
31. Thomas L. Friedman, "Pact on European Armies May Skip Troop Limits
to Speed Accord," New York Times, September 12, 1990, p. A14; Arms
Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.390-391, 393-396; Hoffman, "U.S.,
Soviets to Press Arms Talks," Washington Post, September 27, 1990, pp.
A31-32; Thomas Friedman, "U.S.-Soviet Accord on Europe Armies is
Reported Near," New York Times, October 4, 1990, pp. A1, A6;
_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tm. TIUATY At',n THf MISSION 43

"Kondrashov Assesses Atmosphere for Vienna Talks," TASS (Moscow),

October 1, 1990, in FBIS-Soviet Union, October 1, 1990; David White,
"Political Fixers Confident of Seeing CFE Deal," Financial Times
(London), September 27,1990.
32. See "Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)," this book,
Appendix A.
33. Hopmann, "From MBFR to CFE," p. 981; Arms Control Reporter 1990,
p.407.B.412.
34. For the specific parts of the treaty, see "Treaty on Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe (CFE)," Appendix A.
35. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1991), p. 426 .
36. Interview with Mary Margaret Evans, Deputy Director, Conventional Arms
Control and Compliance, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisi-
tion, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Washington, D.C., December
8, 1993, a nd February 21, 1996; and Interview, Hansen.
37. Interview, Hansen.
38. Interview, Evans, February 21,1996.
 Chapter 2

Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney speaking at NATO Headquarters following the first meeting of NATO
and former Warsaw Pact delegations in April 1992.

n .May. 29, 1990, Pre~ident Bush s~gned Nati.onal Security

O DIrective 41, mstructmg the On-SIte InspectIon Agency

(OSIA) to prepare to conduct on-site inspections under
the CFE Treaty.' Simultaneously, the President expanded OSIA's
mission by directing it to recruit, train, and plan for conducting
on-site inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the
Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty, and the Nuclear Testing Trea-
ties. On-site inspection was a common element in monitoring and
verifying compliance with these new arms control treaties. In
December 1987 President Reagan had signed the Intermediate-
Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which laid the groundwork
for future arms control agreements. "Trust but Verify," Reagan's
oft-repeated phrase for characterizing American attitudes toward
arms control treaties with the Soviet Union, remained a powerful
policy objective throughout all treaty negotiations in the early
1990s. 2
46 O N - SITE I NSPECTION A GENC Y _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Ratification and entry into force of these treaties would allow

the United States and other signatories to conduct on-site inspec-
tions at military and industrial sites in as many as 160 nations.
Hundreds of different weapon systems and thousands of indi-
vidual weapons would be subject to inspection. With inspection
rights came escort responsibilities. Under all the treaties, the U.S.
government assumed an obligation to escort foreign inspection
teams at U.S. sites and facilities. Inspectors and escorts with exper-
tise on these divergent treaties and their weapon systems would be
drawn from many different fields: conventional arms, strategic
nuclear arms, chemical weapons, and underground nuclear testing.
In addition, the demand for linguists would increase in response to
new treaty requirements. The On-Site Inspection Agency would
expand significantly to fulfill the United States' obligations under
these trea ties. 3
In fact, the expansion began in 1990. President Bush signed
three major arms control agreements: new protocols for the
Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) and the Peaceful Nuclear Ex-
plosions Treaty (PNET) with the USSR on June 1, 1990; a new
agreement on the Destruction and Non-Production of Chemical
Weapons with the USSR, also on June 1, 1990; and the Conven-
tional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) with 20
European nations and Canada on November 19, 1990. 4
On-site inspection, a key element in each of these agree-
ments, provided critical information for verifying that
other nations were complying with their treaty obligations.
For the U.S. government, the determination of treaty com-
pliance rested with the president. In 1990, President Bush
stated his administration's policy in his annual arms con-
trol report to the U.S. Congress 5 :
"Without exception, the United States expects me-
ticulous fulfillment of all existing and future arms control
agreements, and all obligations that they entail. I am com-
mitted to ensuring that there is scrupulous compliance
The On-Site Inspection Agency prepared with all arms control agreements and related undertakings.
to implement several other treaties and We cannot and will not accept any lesser standard. Put
agreements, such as the Chemical Weapons simply, arms control commitments must be precisely de-
Convention. fined and scrupulously observed. Nothing less will do."

DEFINING CFE TREATY ROLES AND MISSIONS

In accordance with precedents established in implementing
the INF Treaty, the On-Site Inspection Agency had a strictly opera-
tional role in implementing the CFE Treaty. President Bush, in
National Security Directive 41, directed Brigadier General Roland
Lajoie, Director of OSIA, to prepare to conduct on-site inspections
under the CFE Treaty. In that same May 1990 directive, the presi-
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ INITIAl. PIH-I'ARAIIONS: U"JITFD STATES Af\J) THE NATO NATIO"'S 47

dent stipulated that the secretary of defense would be responsible

for ensuring that the U.S. government was in compliance with all
CFE Treaty provisions. 6 After considerable debate within the
Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
the military services, General Colin L. Powell, USA, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended to Secretary of Defense
Richard B. Cheney in April 1991 that the U.S. Commander-in-
Chief, Europe (USCINCEUR) be designated the Department of
Defense's (DoD) executive agent for treaty implementation. On
June 14, 1991, Secretary Cheney gave General John R. Galvin,
USA, USCINCEUR, authority to task all DoD forces and organi-
zations within the CFE Treaty's area of application. 7 Responsibili-
ties of the executive agent included developing procedures to
monitor the status of U.S. forces and equipment subject to the
treaty and reporting periodically on that status to the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. In addition, the executive agent was to ensure that all U.S.
forces developed and carried out plans to receive foreign on-site
inspectors. The plans had to incorporate provisions to protect
sensitive points and special access programs. General Galvin and
the USCINCEUR staff would supervise the transfer of U.S. treaty-
limited equipment (TLE) to allied nations under the NATO Har-
monization Plan. Finally, he was responsible for any treaty-
required reduction of U.S. equipment.
General Galvin directed treaty implementation through the
U.S. European Command and three subordinate commands: U.S.
Army Europe (USAREUR), U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE),
and U.S. Navy Europe (USNAVEUR). For U.S. forces and facilities
stationed in the Azores and in Iceland, which were subject to the
CFE Treaty but were not under USCINCEUR's command, the U.S.
Atlantic Command issued directives ordering them to comply with
the secretary of defense's memorandum. To define the roles, mis-
sions, and responsibilities required to implement the CFE Treaty,
the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Atlantic Command, and
OSIA developed a joint Memorandum of Understanding. 8
Essentially, this key memorandum delineated the responsibili-
ties for training, logistics, and inspection operations. It tasked
American land, air, and naval forces within the treaty's area of
application to plan and train to receive on-site inspections by
Eastern group inspection teams. The memorandum also defined
the type of logistical support U.S. military units and site com-
manders would provide for the inspection teams, specifically,
security, ground transportation, emergency medical care, medical General John R. Galvin, U.S.
evacuation, and administrative work areas. Site commanders were Commander-in-Chief, Europe.
to provide meals and accommodations, if available on the installa-
tion, for the inspection and escort teams. If this was not possible,
then that responsibility fell to OSIA. U.S. site commanders were to
facilitate the inspection process by having their equipment and
facilities ready for the foreign inspection teams, and by providing
4 ,

helicopter overflights when required. They would also designate

sensitive sites to the OSIA personnel escorting the on-site inspec-
tion teams.
Moreover, the Memorandum of Understanding required that
OSIA assist military commanders in training site personnel and
evaluating their site preparations. The memorandum explicitly
stated that the OSIA escort team chief represented the U.S. govern-
ment in all treaty-related matters during inspections. A related
provision required that OSIA provide liaison officers to meet
arriving inspection teams at the designated points of entry and
during the inspection to maintain continuous communications
with the U.S. European Command. Finally, the memorandum
stipulated that the U.S. Atlantic Command would provide the
necessary logistical and operational support for U.S. military
facilities subject to inspection in Iceland and the Azores. 9
Several aspects of this memorandum were contentious. For
example, the U.S. Army Europe's position on feeding and housing
inspection teams was that their units would be hard pressed to
support the requirement. Most U.S. Army units in Europe, they
maintained, did not have adequate facilities to house inspection and
escort teams. Feeding the teams would be difficult, unless they ate
during regular meal hours in the dining hall. Since the chief of the
inspection team set the schedule for the conduct of the inspection,
teams often took their meals very late, after dark, or very early,
before first light. Therefore, General Crosbie E. Saint, USA,
USAREUR Commander-in-Chief, recommended that OSIA be
responsible for providing housing and food for the inspection and
escort teams. The new director of OSIA, Major General Robert W.
Parker, USAF, countered that the agency had no housing or messing
facilities, and that the U.S. Army personnel at each site knew the
surrounding area better than did OSIA escort or liaison teams. IO
It took many months to resolve this dispute of defining re-
sponsibilities for the support mission. While USAREUR and OSIA
ironed out these support issues, the first order of business for
OSIA was to evaluate the inspection/escort mission : just how
many people, teams, and support personnel would it take to con-
duct and escort on-site inspections under the CFE Treaty?

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To implement the INF Treaty, OSIA set up a small field office

in 1988 at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt, Germany. This
office became the gateway for U.S. teams conducting on-site in-
spections of Soviet INF missile sites located in the western USSR.
Inspection teams originated in Washington, D.C., flew to Germany
where they received inspection equipment and briefings, and then
proceeded to Moscow, the point of entry for INF Treaty inspec-
 I IIIAI PRfP\R [10 : U HID ~ HI 10 '\ 10

Lt Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jl:,

and Sergeant Jill Robinson
preparing for a helicopter flight
over a Ukrainian declared site.

tions. On completion of their inspection missions, the American

teams returned to Germany, turned in their inspection equipment,
and flew back to the United States. The personnel assigned to
OSIA's Rhein-Main office also escorted Soviet teams inspecting
U.S. INF missile sites in Europe. From 1988 through 1991, this
small office assisted in more than 200 INF Treaty inspection and
escort missions. With the CFE Treaty, OSIA's Field Office, Europe':·
assumed a far larger and more significant role. II
All CFE Treaty inspection, escort, and liaison operations
would originate from this field office. It would also manage all
gateway activities in support of the INF Treaty, the Threshold Test
Ban Treaty, and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Three expe-
rienced senior officers, Colonel Frederick E. Grosick, USAF, Chief
of the Field Office, Europe; Lt. Colonel Paul H. Nelson, USA; and
Lt. Colonel Thomas S. Brock, USA, former INF inspection team
chiefs and current headquarters planners, began in the spring of
1990 to examine treaty requirements to determine manpower
needs. In May 1990,20 people were assigned to OSIA's European
Operations Command, to support the INF Treaty mission. This
number would increase to more than 127 by July 1992, when the
CFE Treaty entered into force. Initially, projections for this sixfold
increase had been much greater. In January 1990, a key headquar-
ters planner, Commander Edward J. Higgins, USN, had projected
that the agency would need 159 people in Frankfurt and 49 in

'The European component of the On-Site Inspection Agency underwent several

redesignations over the years. In 1988, aSIA's detachment at Rhein-Main Air Base
was called the Field Office, Europe. On December 1, 1990, it was made a stand-alone
directorate and redesignated as aSIA-Europe. On 9 March 1992, another reorganization
of aSIA gave this directorate status as a command, and it was renamed the European
Operations Command. Throughout this history, the designation of European Operations
Command will be used.
50 ON - SITE INSPECTION ACE CY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

European Operations Command

carried out aSIA's INF escort
responsibilities.

Washington to carry out its CFE Treaty responsibilities. Higgins had

estimated that OSIA's European Operations Command would need
81 inspectors, 51 escorts, and 27 logistics, administrative, and op-
erations center personnel. Senior DoD policy and acquisition com-
mittees reviewed and approved OSIA's manpower projections. 12
Later, some of Commander Higgins's assumptions proved to
be incorrect. This was understandable, since they had been formu-
lated in January 1990, nearl y 10 months before the treaty was
signed and two-and-a-half years before it entered into force. One
assumption concerned the size of inspection teams. The INF

Dual-qualified aSIA teams-Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert leads an escort team in Germany.
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Treaty provided an early planning model for a 10-person team;

negotiators for the CFE Treaty, however, agreed to a maximum of
only 9 inspectors per team. This treaty change lowered manning
projections. Another change came when Colonel Lawrence G.
Kelley, USMC, OSIA European Operations Command's new Chief
of Operations, redefined what constituted a "qualified" inspection
team. Under the INF Treaty, teams qualified either as escorts or
inspectors, and during treaty operations they operated exclusively
in that role. Under the CFE Treaty, Kelley directed that all OSIA
CFE Treaty teams would be dual qualified: capable of conducting
both inspections and escorts. This redefinition further reduced the
manning projections for the number of OSIA CFE Treaty teams,
inspectors, and escorts. 13
There were other changes as well. Perhaps the most decisive
change came in the projected number of CFE Treaty baseline
inspections that the U.S. would conduct. American planners antici-
pated that the level of inspection activity would be at its zenith
during baseline, the treaty's first 120 days. This assumption was
decisive in determining manning authorizations . Two factors af-
fected all U.S. projections for baseline inspections: the number of
inspections to be conducted by the NATO states, and the United
States' portion of the NATO inspections.
During October-November 1990, the number of inspections
to be conducted by the NATO states decreased significantly from
previous projections. Two events contributed: German y's unifica-
tion in October 1990, and the Soviet Union's first official treaty

Dual-qualified aSIA teams-Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert leads an inspection team in Romania.
52 Ol\.-SI n : IMI'I·c 110:'>1 ACI '\ Cy

data exchange. In the first event, East Germany's CFE Treaty

sites-the designated military bases, depots, and installations-
became German sites. NATO allies had agreed that there would be
no inspections within the alliance. Further, the NATO states
agreed that following unification, only Germany would inspect
Soviet forces still stationed on the territory of the former East
Germany.14
Second, there was a decrease in the total of Soviet CFE Treaty
objects of verification (OOVs). At treaty signature, the Soviet
Union exchanged data that indicated one-third fewer OOVs sub-
ject to inspection than their sen ior representatives had disclosed
during treaty negotiations. I S This was a major surprise for the
NATO states despite the fact that in the two months before treaty
signature, satellite reconnaissance had revealed that the Soviet
Army was moving thousands of pieces of equipment out of Cen-
tral Europe to areas east of the Ural Mountains. 16 Since the treaty
was not yet signed, these large-scale redeployments were legal, but
they raised questions o f treaty circumvention. In addition to hav-
ing substantially fewer forces and equipment in the treaty zones
and flanks, the Soviet High Command had reassigned some forces
to naval infantry and coastal defense units. The Soviets interpreted
the treaty as not applicable to naval forces, including naval infan-
try. The Soviet position followed that there was no obligation to
report naval forces as inspectable units under the CFE Treaty.
Treaty experts would wrestle over these Soviet issues for months
following treaty signature. I ? In fact, these issues became so conten-
NATO states agreed that there tious that they delayed ratification. The more immediate issue for
would be no inspections within
OSIA, however, was how to revise manning projections. In order
the alliance.
to identify, train, and relocate people to Europe, it was vital to
know how many inspectors, escorts, and support personnel would
be needed. Clearly, the number of inspections available to the
NATO states had decreased; but so too had the United States'
proportion of those inspections. I S
The treaty did not address the allocation of inspection quotas
within each group of states-that process rested with each group.
Under the CFE Treaty, each Eastern group state was subject to a
specific number of inspections per treaty period. ':. The allocation
of inspections among the NATO allies was a give-and-take pro-
cess. A Verification Coordinating Committee (VCC) handled this
allocation process at Headquarters NATO. The VCC was a new
organization, established in 1990 specifically to coordinate the
alliance's implementation of the CFE Treaty and the Vienna Docu-
ment. 19 Initial U.S. planning had American inspection teams con-
ducting at least 20 percent, and perhaps as many as 50 percent, of

'Under the CFE Treaty, there were four treaty periods: baseline, reduction , residual level
validation, and residual.
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all the CFE baseline inspections available to the NATO states. This
estimate proved too high because most of the other NATO nations
asserted their treaty rights to conduct CFE inspections. After con-
siderable internal discussion among the NATO nations and within
NATO's VCC and its staff to determine a fair share of the inspec-
tions, the committee allotted the United States 18 percent of
NATO's active inspection quota for the CFE baseline period. 20 As
a consequence of the decrease in the total number of inspections to
be conducted by the NATO states and the decrease in the United
States' portion of NATO's baseline inspection quota, the United
States reduced its projections for conducting inspections from an
estimated 60-150 to approximately 44-45 inspections. This new
figure proved to be quite accurate. 21
The VCC coordinated the NATO
As discussed in the next chapter, Ratification Delayed, the alliance's implementation of the
Soviet movement of TLE east of the Urals and its reassignment of CFE Treaty and Vienna Document.
forces to the naval infantry seriously threatened treaty ratification
and entry into force. Resolution of these issues required seven
months of negotiation before a political-military-diplomatic solu-
tion emerged that addressed the other parties' apprehensions. In
the interim, OSIA's European Operations Command had to rede-
fine its manpower requirements based on the projected figure of
44-45 baseline inspections. Ultimately, the command was autho-
rized 112 people to conduct the CFE Treaty's baseline period. This
a uthoriza tion specified 15 team chiefs and deputies, 18 linguists,
14 weapons specialists, and 65 other personnel responsible for
planning, communications, logistics, transportation, command
and control, and administration. From this number, the United
States would man, equip, and train seven complete CFE Treaty
inspection teams and one partial team. 22

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Group of Soviet Forces i1l
Milita r , Force Withdrawals
Germa1lY
Two events profoundly changed the military context of the J l)l)()-36 ),70()
European continent as preparations for implementing the CFE Jl)l).J-(}
Treaty were under way: the unification of Germany and the col-
lapse of the Central European Communist governments. In re-
sponse to these events, Soviet leaders accelerated the massive with-
drawal of Soviet military forces from Central Europe. On October
1, 1990, the Soviet Union had 17 divisions (363,700 military
personnel) stationed in East Germany. Organized into five armies,
the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG) was the largest
military force outside the USSR. The Soviets withdrew all of these
armies, along with another 337,000 Soviet military personnel
stationed in the Central European and Baltic nations, over a five-
year period, 1989-94. 23 President Bush, in turn, ordered substan-
54 0 -Sill I WI C ItO:" Ac.I:\( )

The deployment of thousands of pieces of equipment to the Persian Gulf coincided with the inactivation of u.s.
units in Europe.

tial withdrawals of u.s. military forces stationed in Western

Europe. In 1990 the U.S. Army Europe had 217,000 military
personnel; three years later, it had 92,200. 24
Simultaneous with this American withdrawal, the U.S. Army
and U.S. Air Force deployed a substantial number of their Euro-
u.s. Army Europe: pean combat units to the Persian Gulf in late 1990 in support of
J 990-2 J 7,()()() the Gulf War deployment, Desert Shield. Following the decisive
coalition victory over Iraq in February 1991, many of these Ameri-
J 993-92,2()O
can units did not return to Europe but were sent to garrisons and
training bases in the United States. Thus, the combination of the
Soviet Union's massive force withdrawal and the United States'
military redeployments, coupled with the sudden transfer of per-
sonnel and materiel to the Gulf, caused massive troop movements
across the length and breadth of the European continent during 20
months of the CFE Treaty preparations.
General Crosbie E. Saint, Commander-in-Chief, USAREUR,
said that in 1992, his command was "averaging 500 soldiers a day
leaving Europe. " 25 In 1991-92, General Saint inactivated or ro-
tated back to the States 125 army battalions. Compared with 1990
strengths, these battalion reductions were striking: infantry (54%),
armor (62%), armored cavalry (50%), field artillery (71 %), and
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air defense artillery (48%). USAREUR inactivated so many of its

sites that the United States returned 157 installations, mostly in
Germany, to their European host nations. Commanding and man-
aging this American withdrawal was a time-consuming effort that
demanded detailed planning. At one point, General Saint com-
pared a battalion leaving a German caserne to painting a floor in a
house. "You have to start at the far end and paint yourself out the
door. But the 'whole system' does not stop until you are out the
door. "2 6 Complicating this extraction process was the American
military's practice of announcing and quickly enforcing field grade
officer retirements, and accepting voluntary separations from all
ranks with alacrity. At the same time, General Saint demanded
that the traditional American standards of combat readiness be
maintained. In 1992 he had every USAREUR infantry, armor,
attack helicopter, engineer, and air defense artillery battalion train
in a force-on-force battle at the large range at Hohenfels, Ger-
many. "Soldiers in Europe," Saint declared, "don't have time to sit
around feeling sorry for themselves. They train; and when they're
finished with that, they train some more. "27 The combination of
USAREUR's maintaining combat readiness and managing the
substantial force withdrawal meant that the CFE Treaty prepara-
tions, especially the mock inspections at U.S. Army installations,
could become contentious. At OSIA's European Operations Com-
mand, the American commanders responsible for preparing in-
spection teams for implementing the CFE Treaty had to work with
the U.S. Army and Air Force in Europe. Those American forces
would be subject to CFE inspections; they needed training to be
ready. Tensions developed, especially during 1991-92 when CFE
Treaty training was most intense and when the u.S. military force
reductions were at full flood. 2S

Thousands of American forces in

Europe deployed to the Persian
Gulf during Operation Desert
Shield. Most did not return to
Europe after the Gulf War.
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New Nation .. 'ation A encle

Even before the CFE Treaty was signed in November 1990,
some European nations had begun to establish their treaty verifica-
tion agencies. Two of the largest CFE Treaty nations, the United
States and the Soviet Union, already had established professional
military inspection agencies. The INF Treaty's extensive on-site
inspection provisions had caused both nations to act; the United
States set up the On-Site Inspection Agency, and the USSR estab-
lished the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. INF Treaty inspections
began in July 1988, and the U.S. and USSR agencies had con-
ducted more than 400 on-site inspections by the time the CFE
Treaty was signed. The agencies had recruited, trained, tested,
equipped, and deployed hundreds of inspectors and dozens of
teams. They had accumulated experience that was directly trans-
ferable to implementing the CFE Treaty.
Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Seal of the German verification Italy, Spain, Canada, Luxembourg, and the other CFE Treaty
agency, Zentrum fiir signatories had had only limited experience with on-site inspec-
Verifikationsaufgaben der tions. The Stockholm Document of 1986, a product of the
Bundeswehr (ZVBW). Helsinki Process, was the earliest modern European agreement
permitting on-site inspections of military units and sites. It con-
tained provisions that would provide experience in some aspects of
implementing an on-site inspection regime. The Stockholm Docu-
ment mandated notification procedures for the United States,
Canada, and each of the 33 European signatory states when they
scheduled and conducted military activities involving at least
13,000 troops or 300 tanks. Moreover, to confirm that the activi-
ties were nonthreatening, each state had the right to observe field
military activities of another state when participating forces ex-
ceeded 17,000 ground troops or 5,000 airborne or amphibious
troops. Across Europe, there were few such large-scale events.
When an exercise occurred, however, a state would issue a simple
declaration that "compliance was in doubt" and the state being
inspected had to accept the inspection team. There was no right of
refusal by the nation to be inspected. Each state, however, was
liable for only three inspections per year of its field exercises, and
no nation could inspect another twice in the same year. Thus, the
opportunities for inspections were infrequent. 29
By any measure, the number of people required to implement
the inspection rights and requirements of the Stockholm Docu-
ment of 1986 was minimal. In fact, the number was so small that
no European nation saw fit to establish a full-time treaty verifica-
tion center to carry out those provisions. The Stockholm Docu-
ment signatories assigned the inspection missions to a section of
their military staffs at national military headquarters. In contrast,
the bilateral INF Treaty between the United States and the USSR
contained on-site inspection rights that allowed more than 250
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inspections in the first year alone. The CFE Treaty's inspection,

escort, reduction, and data functions were so substantial that all of
the European signatory states set up separate verification agencies
or specific military staff offices. Their mission was to assist their
military forces to comply with the treaty and to monitor other
nations' compliance.
Among the NATO nations, Germany, France, and Great
Britain elected to establish separate treaty verification agencies.
Brigadier General Doctor Heinz Loquai, Director of the Zentrum
fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr (ZVBW) (Federal
Armed Forces Verification Center), said that Germany's decision-
making process began in 1989, with the new center being estab-
lished in October 1990. "The main reason," he explained, "for the
establishment of the center was Germany's foreseeable workload
in the area of the CFE Treaty. Germany had more CFE sites than
did the Soviet Union. " 30 The mission of the new German verifica-
tion center was to inspect, escort, and monitor all activities under
the CFE Treaty. It also had responsibility for inspections under the
Vienna Document 1990, which substantially broadened the scope
of inspection activities of the earlier Stockholm Document agree-
ment. In the fall of 1990, the ZVBW had 65 officers and noncom-
missioned officers (NCOs); two years later it had 400. 1 1
The French government established its treaty verification
unit, L'Unite Franc;aise de Verification (UFV), in September 1990
at the Creil Air Station, 65 kilometers north of Paris. The new
French unit consisted of an inspection and escort staff of approxi-
mately 100 officers and NCOs drawn from all the military ser-
vices, army, navy, and air force. The mission of this new unit, led
by Brigadier General Jean-Paul Huet, was to implement the CFE

Brigadier General Doctor Heinz

Loquai, ZVBW Director, welcomes
Major General Robert Parker,
Director, aSIA, to the ZVBW.
 Treaty and the Vienna Document 1990. According to Colonel
Fran~ois Rozec, the UFV's second commandant, "The Arms Con-
trol Division of the General Staff in Paris and their political
equivalents, it is their concern to inform our [politicarl authorities
on all aspects of verification. We are strictly implementers." 32
Great Britain's experience with inspections under interna-
tional arms control agreements prior to the CFE Treaty was simi-
lar to Germany's. For the Stockholm Document of 1986, the Brit-
ish Ministry of Defense assigned the mission to a small cadre of
military officers and NCOs, principally people with experience in
the British Military Liaison Mission in Berlin. This small staff
carried out both inspecting and escorting missions. In August
1990, the British Ministry of Defense established the Joint Arms
Control Implementation Group (JACIG), under the leadership of
Colonel Roy Giles, at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. Its mission
was to carry out the United Kingdom's commitments and entitle-
ments under the CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document 1990.
Initially, the new group's manpower strength was 120 officers,
NCOs, and civilians; after review it decreased to slightly less than
100. It was a four-service group, with Royal Navy, Marine, Army,
and Air Force personnel. 33
Among the other NATO nations, Belgium, the Netherlands,
and Italy chose a different organizational concept when they set up
their units to implement the CFE Treaty. They used a cadre model
of organization. This meant that the national military command,
usually the ministry of defense, authorized the establishment of a
small unit responsible for implementing the treaty, usually com-
posed of 20-30 military officers. Organized at the level just below
the senior military headquarters, this unit's mission was to recruit,
train, conduct inspection and escort missions, transmit treaty data,
and monitor reductions mandated by the treaty. The Belgian verifi-
cation agency, L'Unite Beige de Verification (UBV), located in
Brussels, was typical. Its mission was to lead all CFE Treaty in-
spection teams and to participate as inspectors on the team. For
the escort mission, the Belgian agency had complete responsibility
for the logistics, preparations, and presentation of the sites and
units to be inspected by the Eastern states' CFE Treaty inspection
teams. They also had responsibility for collecting all treaty-man-
dated data on the Belgian armed forces and for transmitting that
data to all other CFE Treaty signatory nations. During CFE in-
spection and escort operations, personnel from the military forces
augmented the staff of the Belgian verification agency. These mili-
tary officers and NCOs had studied the treaty in special courses
led by the agency's senior officers. In most cases, especially during
Colonel Roy Giles, head of the escort missions, the bulk of the Belgian team consisted of
United Kingdom's verification augmentees from its military forces. 34
agency, Joint Arms Control
Implementation Group (fACIG).
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Major General Joseph DiMaria,

Director of Italy 's verification
agency, Centro Italian o de Verifica
de Armi (CIVA).

Italy had a similar organizational structure. The Director,

Major General Joseph DiMaria, of the Centro Italiano de Verlfica
de Armi (CIVA), explained that initially a cadre of approximately
250 personnel went through training on the CFE Treaty. 35 Once
they had completed the course, they returned to their military
units, and were available for inspection duty as needed. According
to General DiMaria, "They come and they stay a couple of days in
the agency; they have a refresher course, some particular training,
or some special training for the target." The Italian agency, he
reported, kept one team on duty 24 hours a day "in case Italy is
notified a CFE Treaty inspection team is arriving."
The Netherlands had a small arms control treaty coordina-
tion section in the Ministry of Defense at The Hague. 36 The Dutch
military forces carried out the bulk of Holland's CFE Treaty in-
spection and escort activities. The Dutch Army had approximately
80 officers and NCOs trained as CFE inspectors, the Dutch Air
Force 35, and the Dutch Navy 1. The actual size of the Nether-
lands' professional staff committed to implementing the CFE
Treaty was much smaller, with the Dutch Army providing 10-12
personnel, the Air Force 4-5, and the Navy 1. According to Navy
Commander C.N.M. Wierema, Ministry of Defense Coordinator,
the Netherlands set up a "decentralized organization," with the
"bulk of the work done in the arms control sections of the forces."
In general, the NATO nations established their CFE Treaty
verification organizations along two lines. Nations with the largest
military forces and the most sites subject to inspection-the United
States, Germany, France, and Great Britain-set up separate verifi-
cation agencies. Led by senior military officers and staffed with
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career officers, noncommissioned officers, and civilians, these

agencies ranged in size from 100 to 400 personnel, depending on
the number of treaties and ancillary functions assigned to them.
NATO nations with smaller military forces and fewer sites in-
cluded in the treaty, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy,
adopted a cadre model. Led by a senior colonel or general officer,
these verification units were considerably smaller and relied on
augmentees drawn from the military forces for inspection and
escort responsibilities. In general, these national verification agen-
cies and staffs had six basic functions: force data presentation,
communication, inspection, escort, treaty training for national
military forces, and coordination among the other verification
agencies.

NATO's vce
During CFE Treaty negotiations, the NATO alliance had been
deeply involved in every aspect of developing the treaty's text,
protocols, and annexes. Yet in the final document neither NATO
nor the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) were identified as
alliances in the formal treaty provisions. Instead, the treaty dealt
with two "groups of states," and each state was responsible for
properly implementing the treaty. However, NATO constituted an
experienced, bureaucratic organization for its group of states to
develop group objectives and negotiating positions, and to coordi-
nate treaty planning efforts. During treaty negotiations, NATO's

NATO's Verification Coordinating Committee

Under the CFE Treaty, the execution of all The VCC has several important functions. For
treaty rights and obligations is reserved to the the NATO Alliance it apportions the CFE Treaty
signatory nations. However, during negotiations inspection quotas to the 16 member states. It
the NATO states had worked closely together; coordinates the CFE Treaty declared site inspec-
and during implementation they continued this tions to ensure compliance with treaty protocols
cooperation, agreeing to work through NATO's and to ensure maximum coverage. The VCC
Verification Coordinating Committee (VCe). establishes and maintains a common treaty data-
base for the NATO nations. It also assists the
This VCC is a joint political-military coordi-
NATO states in collating and assessing the treaty
nating organization with two representatives
data concerning treaty compliance. In the area of
from each of the 16 NATO nations. It meets at
training, the VCC supports formal NATO CFE
HQ NATO, usually in monthly sessions. A small
Treaty courses to ensure a "common approach"
professional staff, the Verification and Implemen-
to implementation. Finally, the VCC has respon-
tation Coordination Section (VICS) facilitates the
sibility to exchange, among the signatory states,
work of the larger committee. For most meetings,
"information" on verification matters.
the head of the professional staff chairs the VCC
sessions. All actions are taken by consensus.
Source: Necil Nedimoglu. Head, Verification and Implementation Coordination Section, NATO, presentation to United Nations
Group of Governmental Experts, July 19, 1994.
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High Level Task Force (HLTF) at Brussels had served as an impor-

tant coordinating body for screening and approving proposals for
discussion in the formal sessions in Vienna. 37 Collectively, the
NATO nations would be reducing more than 12,900 TLE items
under the CFE Treaty, and they would have a total of 2,447 OOVs
subject to inspection throughout the alliance. Clearly, after treaty
signature, NATO as an organization would continue its strong
commitment to the CFE Treaty throughout implementation.
In fact, six months before the treaty was signed in Paris,
NATO established the Verification Coordinating Committee
(VCC) in Brussels in May 1990. Its purpose was to coordinate the
implementation of disarmament and arms control agreements
among the 16-nation alliance. General John R. Galvin, USA,
USCINCEUR, was instrumental in encouraging Headquarters
NATO to establish this important committee. General Galvin
insisted that NATO had a central role in treaty implementation,
specifically in coordination, training, and scheduling. NATO's
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Gebhardt von
Moltke, became the VCC's permanent chairman. The committee
set up a small professional staff for its Verification Coordination
Implementation Section. Led by Leo Verbruggen, a retired navy
captain from the Netherlands, this professional staff became an
important element in carrying out the CFE Treaty.38
Just what did the VCC do? Much of the work in the first 18
months consisted of examining the CFE Treaty's bloc-to-bloc
quotas for declared site inspections and establishing a schedule of
inspections among NATO's 16 states. In addition, it developed an
approach to scheduling reduction inspections of the Eastern states.
Aided by initiatives from the member states, in 1991 the VCC
developed a plan for "deconflicting" the schedule of national
inspections. "Deconfliction" was vital because the treaty limited
each state's inspection obligations in several ways. The treaty
limited a nation's inspection liability during any treaty period. It
also limited simultaneous inspections in a nation or specific mili-
tary district to two, as well as allowing no more than one inspec-
tion team on-site at any time.
To comply with these restrictions and yet permit NATO
nations to conduct all inspections available to them, the VCC
evaluated a deconfliction schedule concept in December 1990.
Authored by Colonel John C. Reppert, USA, OSIA, this concept
called for a matrix system that had the six Eastern nations and the
Soviet Union's military districts with inspectable sites along one
axis. The other axis had three-day increments for conducting the
actual inspections. Working with the number of inspections al-
lowed, each NATO nation under this system would "sign up" to
conduct an inspection during a particular three-day block of time
against a particular state. Next, the VCC staff would compare the
62 0:\-5111 I Sill ( 110:\ A(,I ()

national requests and negotiate any conflicts among the alliance's

states. This required a great deal of negotiation because there was
significant interest by most NATO states to inspect Russia and, to
a lesser degree, Ukraine, and considerably less interest in inspect-
ing the other states. After protracted discussions, the VCC adopted
this matrix system for deconflicting the schedule of national in-
spections. 39 While this process was unfolding in Brussels, aSIA's
European Operations Command was receiving new leadership at
Rhein-Main.

New Leadership
In 1990, before the CFE Treaty was signed, General Lajoie,
aSIA's Director, selected two senior colonels to lead the aSIA
European Operations Command's rapidly expanding effort. Air
Force Colonel Frederick E. Grosick became Commander and
Marine Corps Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley was the new Chief of
Operations. Since the INF Treaty was still extremely active, with
missile elimination, site closeout, and short-notice and continuous
portal monitoring inspections, OSIA's European Operations Com-
mand retained all of its "gateway" responsibilities. At Rhein-
Main, it was responsible for supporting all INF Treaty inspection
teams transiting Europe to inspect missile sites in the western
Soviet Union. It also supported Threshold Test Ban Treaty inspec-
tors and equipment specialists, as well as U.S. and USSR START
Treaty inspection teams traveling through the gateway to conduct

CFE Inspection Deconfliction Matrix

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exhibition inspections. But its principal activity, beginning in late

summer 1990, was to organize, prepare, train, and be ready to
conduct inspections and escorts under the CFE Treaty.
Both Colonel Grosick and Colonel Kelley had considerable
experience in commanding, planning, and developing military
units. 40 Grosick was a command pilot with over 3,100 flying
hours. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, he held an ad-
vanced degree from Indiana University. He had served in opera-
tional and staff jobs in the Strategic Air Command, Pacific Air
Forces, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and Headquarters USAF. Just
prior to commanding OSIA's European Operations Command,
Colonel Grosick had served as Deputy Commander for Operations
of the 42d Bombardment Wing, a B-52 and KC-135 wing located
at Loring AFB, Maine. Colonel Kelley was a Princeton University
graduate who had studied at Leningrad State University, the U.S.
Army Russian Institute, and Georgetown University (master of
arts). In Vietnam, Kelley was a Marine attack pilot, flight instruc- Colonel Frederick E. Grosick,
tor, infantry company commander, and battalion air liaison officer. Commander, aSIA European
A Russian foreign area officer (FAO), who spoke German as well, Operations Command.
he served as a presidential translator on the Washington-Moscow
Hot Line. In 1983 he went to the U.S. Military Liaison Mission
(USMLM) in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic, as the naval
representative and later as deputy to the Chief of the Mission,
General Lajoie. Early in 1988, Lt. Colonel Kelley came to OSIA as
an INF inspection team chief, leading 15 inspection missions in the
Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Following a two-year stint as a
senior instructor at the NATO School at Oberammergau, Ger-
many, he returned to OSIA as General Lajoie's choice to be OSIA
European Operation Command's Chief of Operations.
The two officers brought different strengths and personalities
to the operation. At Rhein-Main Air Base, Colonel Grosick used
his Air Force experience to address issues of personnel, transporta-
tion, office space, communications, housing, and facilities. The
command would expand sixfold in less than two years; that
growth required attention to all manner of personnel and organi-
zational details. At the same time, Colonel Kelley focused on de-
fining the CFE Treaty's operational mission. He drew upon his
experience as an INF Treaty inspection team chief, his knowledge
of NATO and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission, and his extensive
study of Soviet military forces. The personalities of these two
colonels were quite different. Grosick was a tall, robust, gregari-
ous aviator experienced in handling the details of an active opera-
tional field command. Kelley was a lean, ascetic, ramrod Marine
who had an exceptionally clear concept of the CFE Treaty, the
NATO alliance, and the Soviet Union. In the early months, plan-
ning dominated. At Rhein-Main, there was more work than time,
people, or resources; the division of leadership responsibilities
worked well.
64 0 -~III I WI( II(} A(,I ('

Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC

Colonel Lawrence C. Kelley, U.S. Marine Corps, was the Chief of
Operations, aSIA European Operations Command, from actobe~
1990 through January 1995. He recruited, organized, planned, tramed,
and led aSIA's CFE Treaty on-site inspection operations.

When you came to the command, did you have an power. Ultimately
operational concept? we acquiesced,
reducing it to eight
"Yes. I planned to replicate what we did in the
teams, with some
INF Treaty. I planned to use integral teams, as we
misgivings on my
had during the baseline period for INF. The num-
part because it took
bers changed somewhat, but I thought that the
away any opera-
composition of the team would be similar. Over the
tional reserve that
first several months after I arrived at Frankfurt, the
we had in the event that anything went wrong. But
manning document was the center of our attention.
we did so, nonetheless."
" For the team chiefs, I looked for the kind of
personnel that we had at the beginning of the INF What was your concept for inspector and team
period and which we had and routinely looked for training?
in U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) .
"I expected them to learn the treaty as part of a
"The team chiefs would be, to use an analogy,
treaty course, initially. But then would come a great
the independent patrol leaders, with whom you'd
deal of self-study and study in groups, such as with
have precious little contact once they deployed, and
the team or in the Inspectors and Escorts branch.
on whom you had to rely implicitly. You had to
"I made a conscious decision very early on to
train them up as far as you could, give them ad-
foster the team as the unit with which I wanted the
equate guidance, fill them full of treaty specifics,
inspectors to identify. Prior to their identification
provide them the kind of surrogate wisdom th.at
within the branch or even the unit as a whole, I
they might not otherwise have at the outset, give
wanted them to think of themselves first and fore-
them 'what if' situations to death, force them to do
most as a member of Team One, or Two, or Six, or
all of the homework that this required, and then
Team Jones, or Team Kelley, or whatever it would
count on them to apply the tools of their trade to
be. That is where I wanted the allegiance to be
get the job done."
initially. That is where I wanted the identification.
How did the command deal with the shifting plan- That's where I wanted the standards to be set.
ning assumptions? That's where I anticipated that the key to training
and success ultimately would come, as a matter of
"The primary reason why the treaty data
cohesiveness. Because of their internal training,
changed was not because of German unification,
because of knowing each other, backing each other
but [because of] internal decisions made within the
up, bonding, and so forth, they would develop into
Soviet Union. Initially, as a round figure, the Soviets
a cohesive unit: a team. I think that was a very
had said that their data would contain 1,500 objects
important operational concept that we started
of verification. That had been the estimate of U.S.
within the INF Treaty, and were successful in con-
authorities, and it was confirmed as a working
tinuing throughout the INF Baseline Period, al-
figure by the Soviets during treaty negotiations.
though OSIA later abandoned it for reasons of
However, when the data were actually submitted,
convenience.
on 17 November 1990, there were only about 900
"I have always been a very firm believer in unit
Soviet objects of verification.
cohesiveness. So I consciously set the teams up that
"The result was that, although our manning
way, and insisted that they work as units, think as
document had been crafted for 16 teams, we were
units, act as units."
directed by OSIA's Chief of Staff to reduce man-

Source: Interview, Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, with Dr. Joseph P. Harahan , Historian, OSIA, May 18, 1994.
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ hlll\1 PRIP\\{\lIO",: U"IIIIJ 51 \11'> \'\IJ 1111 NATO N\1I0 .., 6')

The first months, Kelley said, were largely spent working and
reworking the manning document. This effort involved extensive
coordination with senior treaty planners at Headquarters OSIA:
Colonel John C. Reppert, USA; Lt. Colonel Paul H. Nelson, USA;
and Lt. Colonel Thomas S. Brock, USA. By December 1990 the
manning document had gone through more than 25 versions.
Following the Soviet Union's February 1991 decision to reclassify
its CFE Treaty TLE, the manning document changed again in The {edlll ledders Il'ere
March 1991. Throughout the process, the focus of the numerous ufl icers "ll'i th zd)()1ll you
planning efforts was on the inspection team: just what was the [{'()uld haL'e prcCI()us little
right number of teams, the type of leadership, the degree of lan-
CO}[[,lct ... ()}l ll'/;()Ill \'()U hdd
guage competency, and the mixture of inspection skills. Another
{u reI\' iJllplicitly. ..
consideration was the availability of potential team members-
when could they be identified and report to Europe for individual ( 01. , ,1\\ rlllLt c. "C lin, l <.,:-, \(
( hlet "t l lpn,llloll', ll<." \ ,'urOpl',11I
treaty training, team training, and full-scale mock inspections?41 (lpn.lll(lIl' (ol\llllllld

The American CFE Treaty Inspection Teams

A Treaty-specified limit of nine inspectors per team drove the
design of all inspection teams. The U.S. teams consisted of inspec-
tors who were professional military officers and noncommissioned
officers; other U.S. augmentee inspectors were civilian specialists.
The team chiefs would be, in Colonel Kelley's terms, "independent
patrol leaders. "42 Based on OSIA's experience with the INF Treaty
inspections, General Lajoie and Colonel Kelley decided that the
team chiefs would be experienced field grade officers. During an
inspection, these officers and their teams would be traveling under
escort to remote places in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
and at times they would have to lead inspections in extremely
severe weather conditions on the Eurasian continent. As Kelley
saw it, the team leaders were officers "with whom you would have
precious little contact once they deployed, and on whom you had
to rely implicitly. "43 From the beginning, he wanted a specific type
of officer: a U.S. Army or Marine Russian foreign area officer
(FAO) or Air Force officers with similar skills, although the Air
Force did not have a comparable program. FAOs were career
military officers who had served in one of the combat branches
and then had specialized in Russian language and Soviet military
force structure. Highly trained and educated, Russian FAOs were
in demand as attaches, arms control specialists, and plans/analysis
staff officers. In fact, the demand for them was so great that they
were not available for assignment to fill all the CFE team chief
positions.
Consequently, Headquarters OSIA and its European Opera-
tions Command accepted a different composition of team chiefs:
some Russian FAOs, some West European FAOs, and some line
officers-artillery officers, aircraft commanders, or armor officers.
The U.S. Army's European FAOs had similar education, training,
66 0 -SITI I '>1'1 (flO A(.I '\,( )

and experiences to the Russian FAOs, except that they had spent
much of their career working with NATO armies, air forces, and
staffs. The line officers had served nearly all of their Army or Air
Force careers working with combat units in armor, infantry, artil-
lery, or tactical aircraft. They knew u.s. military force structure,
weapons, units, and personnel, specifically how the soldiers, ma-
rines, and airmen combined to make an operational unit. Equally
important, they were experienced in serving in and evaluating
operational military units. So it was from these three groups that
the CFE team chiefs came. As for the deputies, Colonel Kelley and
Colonel Grosick decided that the second officers would be field
grade officers, ideally at the rank of major. Their backgrounds
would complement those of the team chiefs, so that if one officer
could not speak Russian, the other would.
How did these plans work out? Six of the eight team chiefs
were lieutenant colonels. The eight deputy team chiefs, except for
one captain and one warrant officer, were majors or major select-
ees. Noncommissioned officers filled the two team positions for
treaty linguists. Trained as Russian linguists, these NCOs had
served in the u.S. military with its high standards for noncommis-
sioned officer leadership and training. They were professional
soldiers. Two other inspection team members were also NCOs;
they were weapons specialists who had direct experience with
conventional armed forces in the European theater. Rounding out
the nine-person inspection team were three specialists who were
Military Experience knowledgeable in Soviet and Central European military forces. 44
This purposeful mix of military skills and experiences among
team members gave Colonel Kelley flexibility in assigning inspec-
tion teams to missions. Any American team could inspect either a
Polish armor regiment or a Soviet tactical air unit because some-
one on the team had firsthand experience with armor and some-
one else had worked on or flown aircraft. The CFE Treaty's Proto-
colon Inspections allowed each inspection team to break into
three subteams, and it was American policy to routinely use three
subteams. The protocol, however, required each subteam to pos-
sess linguistic capability in the inspected country's language. Since

i llill I
every U.S. team had two linguists, either the team chief or deputy
had to speak Russian to allow the team to break down into three
subteams for greater operational coverage at an inspection site.
At treaty signature in November 1990, the best estimate for
entry into force was April 1, 1991. To be ready to inspect and
escort on that date, OSIA's European Operations had to have the
team chiefs, deputies, linguists, and wea pons specialists in place in
Europe by January 1, 1991. This did not happen. Because of the
Gulf War, the limited availability of FAOs, and the drawdown of
u.s. inspectors were professionals American forces, the U.S. military personnel system could not
in their fields. provide qualified officers and NCOs rapidly for reassignment to
 I I r I \1 PRII'\I{ 110 Jrll) SI II., \ Il IHl TO \l10

Europe. Frustrated because the unit had to be ready regardless of

the U.S. military's systemic problems, Colonel Kelley recalled that
they "were totally unable to acquire personnel until, at the earliest,
January 31, 1991," and even then the fill was only partial. This
delay was serious: individual treaty training would be postponed,
team training could not begin, and mock inspections evaluating
the readiness of U.S. CFE sites in Western Europe could not be
undertaken. Nominations came late, arrivals still later. Not until
the summer of 1991 did six of the eight team chiefs arrive at
Rhein-Main. Two of the deputy team leaders did not reach Ger-
many until December 1991, 12 months behind initial expecta-
tions. 45

An Unforeseen Delay
There was an unforeseen development. No nation had rati-
fied the CFE Treaty in time for the projected April 1991 entry into
force date. In fact, the national ratification process was not com-
pleted at all in 1991; it was not until July 1992 that the treaty
entered into force provisionally. This delay allowed time for five
parallel developments.
First, it allowed time for the national ratification processes to
conclude in 1991-92 in the congresses, parliaments, and govern-
ments of all the CFE Treaty signatory states. Next, it allowed time
for intense diplomatic negotiations by the CFE Treaty states with
the Soviet Union over two significant issues: the relocation
and transfer of its TLE beyond the Ural Mountains, and the
redesignation of forces as naval infantry. Because of those diplo-
matic discussions, the NATO nations delayed treaty ratification
until the summer and fall of 1991. Third, it gave the Western and
Eastern European national verification agencies, many of which

U.S. inspectors received experience

during training in Czechoslovakia.
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were newly established, time to develop leadership cadres, inspec-

tion teams, escort teams, communications systems and procedures,
and operational plans for conducting on-site inspections and es-
corts. Fourth, there was time for the new verification agencies to
conduct extensive practice, or mock, inspections with their own
national military forces, with the military forces in their respective
alliances, and in a few instances, with the military forces of na-
tions in the opposing alliance. Finally, it allowed time for the
consequences of the Soviet Union's demise to unfold. That epochal
development resulted in the establishment of 15 successor nations
and set in motion a series of political, military, diplomatic, and
economic developments. Six months after the collapse of the So-
viet Union, the successor states agreed in May 1992 at Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, to partition the former USSR's military forces and
accept all of its CFE Treaty obligations.
These five developments profoundly influenced the CFE
Treaty. Discussed in the next chapter, they demonstrated how the
changing international order profoundly altered the mission of
implementing a signed arms control treaty. The CFE Treaty was
essentially a European arms reduction and conflict prevention
treaty. When Europe changed profoundly in 1991-92, so too did
the context for planning the treaty's implementation. There is a
simple historical truth, known to every experienced verification
agency director: "Every treaty has its own particular history." This
was never more apparent than in 1991-92 with the ratification
process and operational preparations for the Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe Treaty.

NOTES
1. Joseph P. Harahan, On-Site In spections Under the INF Treaty (Washing-
ton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993), p. 152. Major General
Robert W. Parker, USAF, Director OSIA, Statement before the House of
Representatives, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Arms Con trol and
International Security and Science, March 21, 1991. In his statement, Gen.
Parker discussed President Bush's National Security Directive and its
implications for the On-Site Inspection Agency. See also House Committee
on Foreign Affairs, Report to the Congress on the Activities of the On-Site
Inspection Agency of the DelJartment of Defense, 102d Congress, 2nd
Sess., 1992 . Washington D.C.
2. For the attitude of the Reagan administration (1981-1988) regarding U.S.-
USSR relations, arms control treaties, and verification, see Don Oberdorfer,
The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era-The United States and the
Soviet Union, 1983-1990 (New York: Poseidon Press, 1991); and George
P. Schultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993). For accounts of the Bush administra-
tion (1988-1992) see Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest
Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (Boston: Little,
Brown, and Co., 1993); Philip Zelikow and Co ndoleezza Rice, Germany
Unified and Europe Transformed: A study in Statecraft (Cambridge, Mass.:
_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ INITIAL PREPARATIONS: UNITED STATES AND THE NATO NATIONS 69

Harvard University Press, 1995); and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Autopsy on an

Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet
Union (New York : Random House, 1995).
3. For an account of the agency's expansion, read David M. Willford, "A
Brief History of the On-Site Inspection Agency," OSIA Reference Report
No.1 (Washington, D.C. : On-Site Inspection Agency, 1996), pp. 5-7.
4. After signature, the president submitted these treaties to the U.S. Senate
for ratification. For the text of each treaty, accompanied by the Bush
administration's interpretation of each major article, provision , and
protocol, see Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Executive Report
101-31: Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaties ,
101st Cong., 2d sess., 1990; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
Treaty Document 102-8: Message from the President of the United States
Transmitting the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) ,
102d Cong., 1st sess., 1991; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
Treaty Document 103-21: Message from the President of the United States
Transmitting the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Stockpiling
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 103d Cong.,
1st sess., 1993.
5. President George Bush, The President's Report to Congress on Soviet Non-
Compliance with Arms Control Agreements, February 23, 1990.
6. President George Bush, National Security Directive 41, Organizing to
Manage On-Site Inspections for Arms Control, May 29, 1990. The impact
of this directive on the agency was discussed by Gen. Parker, in his
statement before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on March 21,
1991.
7. General Colin L. Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense, "CFE Treaty Executive Agent," April 3, 1991;
Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney, Memorandum for the Secretaries
of the Military Services, "Executive Agent for the Secretary of Defense for
the CFE Treaty," June 14, 1991. Later, these directives were incorporated
into the final instruction; see President George Bush, National Security
Directive, Organizing to Manage On-Site Inspections Under the CFE
Treaty, February 11, 1992.
8. United States European Command, "Memorandum of Understanding
Between USEUCOM, USLANTCOM, and OSIA for Mutual Liaison and
Support Operations in Implementation of the CFE Treaty," Fall 1991.
9. Ibid.
10. Interview with Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Chief, Operations
Division, European Operations Command, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan,
Historian, OSIA, Washington, D.C., May 18, 1994; Interview with Major
Richard J. O'Shea, USAF, Liaison Officer, European Operations Command,
OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base,
Germany, July 12, 1993.
11. Harahan, On-Site Inspections Under the INF Treaty, pp. 47-64, 117-150.
12. Colonel James S. Loftus, Jr., USA, Chief, Negotiations Plans Office,
Headquarters OSIA, Report on Planning Assumptions for Future Treaties,
January 22, 1990; Commander Edward J. Higgins, USN, Planner,
Negotiations Plans Office, Headquarters OSIA, Report on Planning for
Arms Control Inspection Activities, March 6, 1990; Directorate of
Resources Manpower Office, Headquarters OSIA Report, On-Site
Inspection Agency Joint Table of Distribution, April 17, 1990; Colonel
) ~II ( I ,

James S. Lo ftu s, Jr. , USA, Chief, Negotiations Pla ns Office, Headquarters

OSIA, Memorandum for Distribution, Treaty Planning Assumpti o ns,
October 4, 1990.
13. Interview, Kelley.
14 . Arms Co ntrol Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.382-383; Ja ne M .O . Sha rp,
"Conventi o nal Arms Control in Europe," in SIPRI Yearb ook 1991, World
Armaments and Disarmament, pp . 420-421.
15 . Sh ar p, "Conventional Arms Co ntro l in Europe" (1991), pp. 429-4 30.
16. Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B. 393, 407.B.41 0-411; R. Jeffery
Smith, "Soviets Sa id to be Removing Arms from Europe Before Treaty,"
Washington Post, October 5, 19 90, p. A20; R. Jeffery Smith , "U.S.-Soviets
Disagree o n Arms C uts," Washington Post, December 17, 1990, pp. AI ,
A20; Michael R. Gordon, "Sov iets Shift Man y Tank s to Siberi a," New
York Tim es, November 15, 1990, p. A3; lnternation a llnstiture for
Strategic Studies, Th e Military Balance, 1991 -1 992 (London : Brassey's
Inc ., 1991) , pp . 30-3 1.
17. See this book, C ha pter 3, Ratificati on Dela yed .
18. P. Terrence Hopmann , " Fro m MBFR to C FE, Negotiating Conventiona l
Arm s Control in Europe," in Richard Dean Burns, ed. , Encyclopedia of
Arms Control and Disarmam en t, Yo l. II , pp . 983-984. For a good in sig ht
into the intern a l press ures o n th e senior officers responsible fo r mi ss ion
rea diness, see Interv iew, Kelley.
19. In June 1990, th e NATO foreign ministers agreed at a meeting at Turnbury,
Scotland , to establish a small coordinating mec ha nism at Hea dqu a rters
NATO. This beca me the Verifica ti o n Coordin ating Committee (YCC). See
Arms Control Repo rter 1990, pp . 407.B. 383, 407.B.409 .
20. These ch a nges had other effects . For insta nce, the number of U.S. sites
subj ect to inspection increased twofold by th e U.S. qu ota of 18 percent. See
Interview, Kelley.
21. Ibid .
22. Chief of Staff, Admini strati o n, H ea dquarters OSIA, On-Site Inspection
Agency Personnel Roster, May 20 , 1992; Director o f Reso urce Manage-
ment, Ma npower Office, Report o n On-Site In specti o n Age ncy Manning
Document, October 8, 1992.
23. Internati onalln stiture for Strategic Studies, Th e Military Balance, 1991-
1992, pp. 32-4 5; Internation al Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military
Balance, 1995-1 996 (Londo n: Brassey's Inc., 1995), pp . 102-120.
24. President George Bush, " Sta te of the Union Address, Ja nuary 31, 1990, "
published in th e Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 19 90 (Washington,
D.C.: Congress io nal Quarterly, Inc., 19 91), pp . 18-21.
25 . General C ros bi e E. Saint, Co mm ander-in-C hief, U.S. Army Europe and
Seventh Army, "C ha nging the Face of USAREUR," Field Artillery
Magaz ine, Au gust 1992 , pp . 10-15. See a lso Patrecia Slayden Ho llis, "An
Introduction: USAREUR in Tran sition. " Field Artillery Magazine, Aug ust
1992, pp. 8-9.
26. Saint, "Cha nging the Face of USAREUR," p. 13.
27. Ibid ., p. 14.
28 . Interview, Kell ey; Interview, O'Shea.
 l ro

29. James Macintosh, "Confidence-Building Measures in Europe, ] 975 to the

Present," in Richard Dean Burns, ed., Encyclopedia of Arms Control and
Disarmament, Vol. II , pp. 929-945; Don O. Stovall, "The Stockholm
Accord: On-Site Inspections in Eastern and Western Europe," in Lewis A.
Dunn and Amy E. Gordon, eds., Arms Control Verification and the New
Role of On-Site Inspection (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1990), pp.
15-38. For a broader discussion of the CSCE, th e CFE Treaty, and th e
growth of regional arm s control institutions in Europe, see Catherine
McArdle Kelleher, "Cooperative Security in Europe," in Jane E. Nolan, ed.,
Global engagement: Coopera tion and Security in the 21st Century
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1994), pp. 293-35 1.
30. Interview with Brigadier General Dr. Heinz Loquai, Director, Zentrum fur
Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian ,
OSIA, Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 3 1, 1994.

3 1. Ibid. See also Interv iews with Lt. Co lonel Roland Keitel and Lr. Co lon el
Bernd Mecke, Zentrum fLir Verifikation sa ufgaben der Bundeswehr, by
Joseph P. Harahan , Historian, OSIA, Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 3 ] ,
1994.

32. Interview with Co lonel Fran"ois Rozec, Co mmandant, L'Unite Fran"aise de

Verification, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Creil, Fra nce,
February 1, 1994.
33 . Squadron Leader Antony Ker r, Joint Arms Control Implementation Group,
Great Britain, Special Report on the JACIG, sent to the Historian , OSIA,
March, 23, 1994.

34. Interview with Lr. Colonel Fred Janssen and Lt. Co lonel Henri Van der
Auera, L'Unite Beige de Verification, by Jose ph P. Harahan , Hi storia n,
OSIA, Brussels, Belgium, January 27, 1994.
35. Interview with Major General Josep h DiMaria, Ce ntro Italian o de Verlfica
de Armi (CIVA), by Joseph P. Harahan, Hi storian, OSIA, Washington D.C.,
October '19, 1993.
36. Interview with Commander C.N .M. Wierema, Director, Arms Control
Branch, Ministry of Defense, th e Netherlands, byJoseph P. Harahan,
Historian, OSIA, The Hague, Netherlands, January 28, 1994.
37. Kelleher, "Cooperative Security in Europe," pp . 304-310; Hopmann,
"From MBFR to CFE," pp. 967-989; Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp.
40 7.B.291-409 ; Ambassador Amedeo de Franchis, "The CFE Treaty-The
Role of the High Level Working Group," NATO Review, No.5, October
] 992, pp. 12-16 .
38. Necil Nedimoglu, Head of the NATO Verification and Implementa tion
Coordination Section, " NATO's Role in Verification and Compliance
Monitoring for th e CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document," speech
presented to th e United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on
Verification in All its Aspects, New York, July 19, 1994. See also Arms
Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407 .B.376 , 40 7.B.383.
39. Co lonel John Reppert, OSIA, Trip Report for Co nventional Forces in
Europe Trea ty (CFE) Activities with the NATO 's Verification Coordinating
Co mmittee, January IO-February 8, 1991 , Headquarters OSIA, February
13, 1991 ; Lr. Colonel Thomas A. Dudley, OSIA, Trip Report for
Co nventi o nal Forces in Europe (CFE) Activities with th e NATO
Verification Coordinating Comm ittee, March I-May 7, 1991 , Headqu a r-
ters OSIA, May 28, 1991. For th e NATO perspective see Nedimoglu,
"NATO's Role in Verification and Complia nce Monitoring for the CFE
Treaty and the Vienna Document."
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40 . Public Affairs Office, OS IA , News Release: "Biograph y of Co lonel

Frederick E. Grosick, USAF, Commander European Operations,"
December 1993; a nd Public Affair s Office, OSIA , News Release:
"Biograp hy of Co lo nel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Deputy Commander
and Chief of Operations, European Operations Co mma nd ," December
1993 .
41. Intervi ew, Kell ey.
42 . Ibid .
4 3. Ibid .
44 . This summary is based o n a seri es o f lengthy interviews with American
CFE Treaty tea m chiefs, deputy tea m chiefs, linguists , a nd weapons
specialists. See interviews with Lt. Co lo nel jan S. Karcz, USA, December
13,1993; Lt. Co lo nel j oseph J. Drach, jr., USA, December] 7,1993; Lt.
Co lon el Thomas C. Fi ser, USA, jul y 12, 1993; Lt . Colonel Keith A.
O atman, USA, july 13, 1993; Lr. Co lo nel David P. Gessert, USAF, jul y 12,
1993; Lt. Co lo nel Edward G. Gallagher, II, USA, December 13, 1993;
C hief Warrant Officer 4 Micha el R. Lukes, USA, july 12, 1993; Sergeant
First C lass George A. Pa rtridge, USA, july 13, 1993; Sergeant First C lass
Mark A. Bum a la, USA, jul y 13, 1993. All interviews conducted by joseph
P. Harahan, Historian , OSIA , a t Rh ein -Main Air Base, Germany.
45. Interview, Kelley.
 Chapter 3

East German guard on patrol hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

s Europe entered the 1990s, it was in turmoil. From 1989

to 1992-coinciding with the years of the CFE Treaty's
negotiation, ratification, and entry into force-nations on
the European continent were experiencing their greatest changes
since the end of World War II. There was the unification of Ger-
many; the "velvet" political revolutions casting out Communist
systems in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; the bloody
revolution in Romania; the continuous integration of the Euro-
pean Union; the recurrent economic and political crises in the
Soviet Union presaging its collapse; the national independence
movements in the former Soviet republics; and, running through-
out, the large-scale military withdrawals from Central and West-
ern Europe by the Soviet Union and the United States. Politically,
""4 () -~II I I' 110 A( I

diplomatically, and militarily, the European continent was in the

midst of revolutionary changes. It was in this context that ratifica-
tion and implementation of the CFE Treaty proceeded.

rl Rf TO R TI I( n<)

In constitutional governments, treaties require two acts for

legitimacy: executive signature and legislative ratification. For the
United States, President Bush signed the CFE Treaty in Paris on
November 19, 1990. That same day, the leaders of 21 other
NATO and Warsaw Pact nations signed the treaty. Ratification,
however, took nearly two years. On October 30, 1992, just 20
days short of two full years, the final two states, Belarus and
Kazakstan, ratified the treaty and deposited their instruments of
ratification at The Hague in the Netherlands. Why did it take so
long?
One CFE Treaty signatory state, the Soviet Union, was in
such turmoil in 1991 and 1992 that its very existence was in ques-
tion. 1 When the USSR collapsed in late December 1991, its succes-
sor states had to form new governments, and those governments
had to work out military and security relationships with Russia,
the largest and most powerful of the former republics.
So great were the repercussions from the Soviet Union's inter-
nal difficulties that the CFE Treaty signatory states had to convene
four separate extraordinary meetings to approve, authorize, and
incorporate new statements, understandings, declarations, and
agreements into the treaty regarding entitlements and obligations.
U.S. ratification-December 26,
1991. In june 1991, the signatory states met at The Hague; in October
1991 they convened in Vienna; in june 1992 they met in Oslo;
and, finally, in july 1992, they assembled just before the Confer-
ence on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) summit in
Helsinki. At each of these meetings, the diplomats took up specific
treaty issues for the group to resolve before the individual states
would proceed with ratification and implementation. Every issue
was a consequence of the Soviet Union's collapse as an empire.
Throughout these extraordinary meetings across Europe, the com-
mitment of the European and North Atlantic states to the CFE
Treaty as the "cornerstone of European security" proved to be
remarkably strong and durable.

THE FIR~ r CRI~I~: r THE<

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The first, and most serious, issue arose at the time of the
CSCE/CFE Treaty summit in November 1990. On November 18,
one day before treaty signing, representatives from each of the
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signatory states placed stacks of treaty-mandated data books on

long rows of tables in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. The books
listed detailed information on force structure, force size, military
units and organizations, and military weapons in the five treaty
categories of armaments: tanks, artillery, armored personnel carri-
ers, helicopters, and combat aircraft. Shortly thereafter, state del-
egates moved from table to table scooping up copies of these in-
valuable military force data. U.S. CFE Treaty Negotiator Lynn M .
Hansen, who was in the Hofburg Palace that morning, character-
ized the exchange as having the "aura of a bazaar." He remem-
bered military officers and specialists excited and buzzing at the
opportunity to compare treaty declarations against current esti-
mates. 2 Within days, however, the atmosphere changed for the
worse as serious questions arose about the Soviet Union's force
data (see table 3-1).3
It appeared to many of the state delegates in Vienna that the
Soviet Union had underrepresented its treaty holdings by a signifi-
cant degree. In July 1988, when all the states had presented their
force data to the negotiating teams, the Soviet Union had given out
one set of data. Now in November 1990, at treaty signature, it
had presented a much different set of data. When compared, there
were major discrepancies. U.S. officials reported to President Bush
that the Soviet discrepancy was between 20,000 and 40,000 items:
6,000 to 11,000 tanks, 12,000 armored fighting vehicles, 12,000
artillery pieces, and 3,000 combat aircraft. 4 This was a serious
discrepancy, one that clearly threatened ratification. Was there a
Soviet explanation?
In Vienna, Soviet diplomats explained that during the two
years of treaty negotiations, 1989-90, the Soviet High Command
had conducted a large-scale operation that withdrew thousands of
military personnel, weapons, and units from Central and Eastern
Europe. It was this military equipment, they asserted, that ac-
counted for the difference. 5 They explained that in one category
alone, tanks, the Soviet Army had destroyed, exported, or con-
verted more than 4,000 items since 1989. The Soviet military had
sent another 8,000 tanks to motor rifle and other divisions sta-
tioned in Asia, or to military storage depots located beyond the
Ural Mountains. In addition, they pointed out that the Soviet
military had sent thousands of items from other treaty-limited
equipment (TLE) categories-artillery, armored combat vehicles
(ACVs), and helicopters-to military depots and active units sta-
tioned beyond the Urals. 6 The Ural Mountains were the CFE
Treaty's easternmost boundary; military equipment located east
of the Urals was not subject to any of the treaty's requirements.
There would be no requirement for its inclusion in the initial data, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
for on-site inspection teams to count it, or for it to be reduced Shevardnadze detailed the
within a set period of time. Finally, the Soviet diplomats explained movement of TLE east o f the
that since much of this equipment had been transferred from spe- Urals.
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Table 3-1. Declared National CFE Holdings in November 1990

Combat Attack
Nation Tanks Artillery ACVs Aircraft Helicopters

Warsaw Treaty Organization States

USSR 20,694 13,828 29,348 6,445 1,330

Bulgaria 2,416 2,474 2,010 387 44

Czechoslovakia 3,035 3,485 4,359 369 56

Hungary 1,345 1,047 1,720 110 39

Poland 2,850 2,300 2,377 654 128

Romania 2,851 3,819 3,135 407 104

TotalWTO 33,191 26,953 42,949 8,372 1,701

NATO States

Belgium 359 376 1,282 191 0

Canada 77 38 277 45 12

Denmark 419 553 316 106 3

France 1,358 1,330 4,125 700 429

Germany 7,133 4,644 9,598 1,064 357

Greece 1,725 1,941 1,639 480 0

Italy 1,912 2,222 3,591 584 169

Netherlands 913 838 1,467 196 91

Norway 205 532 146 90 0

Portugal 146 334 259 96 0

Spain 854 1,373 1,259 252 28

Turkey 2,888 3,202 1,554 589 0

UK 1,198 636 3,193 842 368

USA 5,904 2,601 5,747 704 279

Total NATO 25,091 20,620 34,453 5,939 1,736

Source: Arms Control Reporter 1990, p. 407, E-0 .7.

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cialized combat support units, those units no longer held any

TLE.7 Those units, by the treaty's inspection protocols, would not
be objects of verification (OOVs). As a result, the Soviet Union's
OOVs dropped from approximately 1,500 to fewer than 1,000.
Further, the Soviet diplomats asserted that this information
should not have come as a surprise. In early October, Soviet Gen-
eral Mikhail A. Moiseyev, Chief of the Soviet General Staff, had
announced the specific details of many of these force movements
at a Pentagon press conference in Washington, D.Cs Just four
weeks before the Vienna meeting, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze had sent a detailed letter on October 13, 1990, to
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker listing the number and cat-
egory of equipment removed from Central Europe to the east. 9 But
some Soviet officials had made statements that indicated a far
different situation. In early October, Soviet Ambassador Oleg
Grinevsky spoke informally with the other CFE Treaty diplomats
in Vienna, stating that the USSR would have 1,600 OOVs at
treaty signature, and approximately 1,500 OOVs at the end of the
40-month reduction phase. lo Therefore, when the Soviet Union
revealed in Vienna, just one day before the official signing of the
treaty in Paris, the scope of its unilateral military equipment relo-
cation and the decrease in its inspectable sites, it surprised and
disturbed many diplomats from the other CFE nations. At the very
least, it raised serious questions of credibility.
Within a few weeks, diplomats linked these questions to
other unilateral treaty-related actions by the Soviet Union. The
Soviet High Command, according to the USSR's data books, had
resubordinated three motor rifle divisions to naval infantry forces.
In terms of CFE Treaty equipment, this meant they had transferred
to the naval forces 120 tanks, 753 armored personnel vehicles, and
234 artillery pieces. The Soviet High Command also had estab-
lished a new kind of naval unit, the coastal defense forces, and
assigned to it 813 tanks, 972 ACVs, and 846 artillery pieces. In
addition, the Strategic Rocket Forces received 1,791 ACVs."
During treaty negotiations, delegates considered all this equipment
to be a part of the USSR's CFE Treaty TLE ceilings, subject to
reduction quotas and inspection protocols. In Vienna, Soviet dip-
lomats argued that since the Soviet High Command had reassigned
this equipment to naval units, which they asserted were not in-
cluded in the treaty, the equipment would not be subject to treaty
inspections or ceilings. Further, they asserted that the Strategic
Rocket Forces' 1,791 ACVs should be classified as internal secu-
rity equipment, again outside the treaty's quantitative provisions.
Finally, the Soviet data omitted 18 PT-76 armored combat ve-
hicles, which had belonged to the civil defense forces, from the
TLE category of heavy armament combat vehicles. Neither in their
data submission nor in subsequent discussions did the Soviets give
any explanation for this omission. 12
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Despite these discrepancies, the treaty was signed on Novem-

ber 19, 1990. Nonetheless, four states-the United States, Ger-
many, Canada, and Great Britain-raised specific questions about
the Soviet data. The forum they used was the newly established
CFE Treaty Joint Consultative Group (JCG).13 One of this group's
responsibilities was to seek resolutions of ambiguities in data or
differences of interpretation resulting from treaty implementation.
Clearly, the dispute with the Soviet Union, a major signatory party,
over its initial data submission fell within the scope of the JCG.
Article V of the treaty, and a separate protocol, authorized and set
forth the responsibilities and procedural rules governing this im-
portant joint treaty group. Consisting of representatives from
every signatory state, the JCG was to meet in Vienna twice a year,
with each session lasting four weeks. In fact, the initial issues were
so contentious that the JCG met in nearly continuous monthly
sessions beginning in late November 1990.
The state parties had 90 days-until February 15, 1991-to
correct any discrepancies in their initial data and to respond to
ambiguities. The United States, Great Britain, Germany, and
Canada urged the Soviet Union to reconsider its initial submission.
During this 90-day period, diplomats from the United States and
several other NATO nations sought to use bilateral diplomacy
to resolve the issue. Early in December, Ambassador R. James
Woolsey, U.S. CFE Treaty Negotiator, Brigadier General Daniel W.
Ou nn iii b Christman, USA, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative, and a
small team flew to Moscow to meet with Defense Minister Mar-
shal Dmitriy Yazov, General Moiseyev, and other members of the
Soviet Supreme High Command. 14 Foreign Minister Shevardnadze
was not present. Defense Minister Yazov refused categorically to
consider any changes to the Soviet position on the former TLE
equipment assigned to naval and civil defense units. That equip-
ment, he asserted, might become part of a possible future treaty on
conventional naval forces, but the Soviet military did not have to
count it with the Soviet Union's TLE for the CFE Treaty. Ambassa-
dor Woolsey rejected Yazov's assertion out of hand. He regarded
the Soviet defense minister's position as directly contravening the
negotiated and signed treaty. An angry confrontation ensued.
Woolsey told Yazov that the United States would accept the Soviet
position "over my dead body!" 15
This exchange hardened the impasse. At subsequent U.S.-
USSR diplomatic meetings in Houston, Texas, and Brussels,
Belgium, in December 1990 and January 1991, Soviet military
leaders remained obdurate. Then, on February 14, 1991, the So-
viet Union presented its updated treaty data to the JeG in Vienna.
It retained every essential element under dispute-the exempted
TLE reassigned to the coastal defense forces, naval infantry forces,
Strategic Rocket Forces, and civil defense units. Given this fact,
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U.S. Secretary of State James Baker declared on the same day that
President Bush would not submit the CFE Treaty to the U.S. Sen-
ate for ratification. Iii
It is interesting that in the midst of this frosty atmosphere, the
diplomats resolved one issue: the 20,000-40,000 discrepancy in
the Soviets' data. Analysis of two key documents supported the
Soviet position. First, Soviet Minister Shevardnadze's letter to
Secretary of State Baker, dated October 13, 1990, had contained
specific figures on the Soviet forces and equipment in the treaty's
zones as well as details on the TLE transfers from 1988 to 1990.
Excerpted, the data revealed the following information:

Table 3-2. Soviet Union's ATTU* Holdings

and Transfers, 1988-1990

1 Jul88 1 Aug 90 18 Nov 90 Transferred Percent

Tanks 41 ,580 24,898 20,694 20,886 50%

Artillery 42,400 18,300 13,828 28,572 67%

ACVs 57,800 32 ,320 29,348 27,452 47%

Totals 141,780 75,518 63,870 76,910 54%

• Atlantic to the Urals.

Source: Jane M.O. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe," SIPRI Yearbook 1991,
p.430.

Secretary Baker and General Colin Powell, Chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff, had received these Soviet figures in late Octo-
ber. Then, three weeks later, the Soviets had presented these same
figures in Vienna at the initial data exchange. Consequently, con-
tinued U.S. objections in the winter of 1990-91 stood on thin ice.
The ice got even thinner in January 1991 when U.S. intelligence
estimates confirmed that the Soviet Union's data discrepancy was
not in the 20,000-40,000 range, but probably entailed 2,000-
3,000 items. I ? With this new estimate, the issue melted away,
losing its power to influence treaty ratification.
What did not disappear, however, was the Soviet High
Command's insistence on the legitimacy of resubordinating the
three motorized rifle divisions to the naval infantry and the coastal
defense forces. This position alone meant that on February 14,
1991, the date when the Soviet Union submitted its updated data,
the CFE Treaty was at an impasse. Some believed that the Soviet
High Command wanted to stop the CFE Treaty ratification pro-
cess cold and substitute for the treaty a "status-quo" military
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relationship of the Soviet Union with Central and

Western European nations. IS If this were true, the
Soviet military's vision proved to be shortsighted
in view of subsequent events.
In the spring and summer months of 1991,
the Soviet Union's internal and external policies
were subject to larger and more powerful events.
In late February, a United Nations coalition, led
by the United States, won a decisive victory in
the Gulf War over Iraq, a former Soviet ally.
Simultaneously, in late January and February, the
people of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania rebelled against Soviet imperialism. 19
Following a brief, violent confrontation, they
won recognition of their sovereignty from Mos-
cow. Then, throughout April, May, and June,
President Gorbachev and the Communist central
government gradually lost power to Boris
Yeltsin, Russian reformers, and nationalistic
leaders in the republics. The Soviet High
Command's desire to establish a Soviet-domi-
nated imperial security system based on the
military status quo became untenable as the
Soviet Union unraveled both as an empire and
a nation.
While the old system was untenable, it
Souiet Defense Minister Marshal Dmitriy Yazou meets would take many months for the new reality to
with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. emerge. The Soviet Union remained a great mili-
tary power and a major CFE Treaty state party.
Following the Gulf War, President Bush began a series of arms
control initiatives. 20 He directed Secretary of State Baker to initiate
diplomatic discussions with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander A.
Bessmertnykh. Baker focused on resolving both the CFE Treaty
impasse and the outstanding issues of the still-unsigned Strategic
Arms Reduction Treaty (START). In the White House, President
Bush set up a small, high-level experts group on arms control to
draft presidential letters and new treaty positions and to formulate
immediate responses. Led by Arnold Kanter of the National Secu-
rity Council, this four-person group worked closely with Secretary
Baker, Ambassador Woolsey, CFE Treaty Negotiator Hansen, and
the START Treaty negotiators. Initially there was little change. In
March, Soviet Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh met with Secretary
Baker in Moscow. He asked Baker to reconsider the United States'
opposition to the Soviet High Command's resubordination of CFE
TLE to naval and coastal defense units. Baker replied: "I don't
know what there is to talk about. Twenty-two countries have
signed this treaty, and only one has changed the rules."21
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Next, President Bush wrote directly to President Gorbachev

asking him to resolve the dispute on the reassignment of the
military equipment. Secretary Baker made a direct appeal to
Bessmertnykh in Russia in late April. Neither Bush's letter nor
Baker's personal diplomacy had much effecL Then in late May
a breakthrough occurred. President Gorbachev sent General
Moiseyev to Washington for a two-day meeting with the president,
senior military leaders, and treaty negotiators. 22 He brought with
him new proposals. General Moiseyev stated the Soviet Union's
final position: all equipment in the Soviet naval infantry and
coastal defense forces would remain in their units, but they would
be counted against the USSR's overall CFE Treaty ceilings. The
number of armored personnel vehicles assigned to the Strategic
Rocket Forces (SRF) would be limited to 1,701, but they would
not be counted against the Soviet Union's aggregate number of
treaty ACYs. The naval forces would not be counted as OOYs,
limiting the number of inspections the Soviets would be liable for,
but these units would still be vulnerable to inspection under the
challenge inspection provisions. More important, the naval forces Soviet President Mikhail
equipment would be counted in Soviet TLE totals. The issue of Gorbachev.
armored personnel vehicles in the SRF was countered somewhat
by the U.S. concern for the security of Soviet nuclear materials if
the Soviet Union became less stable. After consideration, U.S.
experts accepted the Soviet position. The next day General
Moiseyev met with President Bush in the White House. According
to a recent account, President Bush was insistent and very firm on
the United States' commitment to the treaty and the consequences
of any nation trying to back out at this late stage. 23 General
Moiseyev agreed, stating his support for President Gorbachev,
perestroika, and arms control.

RUSSIA

Th e Baltic states-Estonia, Latvia,

and Lithuania-gained sovereignty
from the Soviet Union in January
and February 1991.
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The CFE Treaty was multilateral, with 22 signatory

nations; no one could deny, however, that bilateral
negotiations had resolved this treaty impasse. The
United States and the Soviet Union acted decisively, but
bilaterally, in reaching these settlements. At times allies
were informed; other times they were not. Hungary,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany complained that
the United States and the USSR were settling multilat-
eral treaty issues among themselves. 24 Yet during months
of turmoil and real uncertainty, U.S. and Soviet political
leaders focused again and again on the CFE Treaty; their
persistence produced results.
It was only a matter of weeks from the time of
General Moiseyev's Washington visit in May 1991 to
the USSR's formal declaration to all other treaty states
in Vienna. In early June, Secretary Baker and Ambassa-
dor Woolsey flew to Moscow and met with Foreign
Minister Bessmertnykh and Soviet CFE Treaty Negotia-
tor Grinevsky. The result was a complex, three-part
President George Bush. solution. 25 First, France, as a CFE Treaty signatory state,
would request that the Netherlands convene an extra-
ordinary conference of state parties to the treaty at The Hague.
Next, the Soviet Union, at that conference, would issue a legally
binding statement explaining the obligations it would undertake
"outside of the framework of the treaty" to account for its TLE
holdings within the treaty's area of application. The Soviet Union
would declare its willingness to limit the equipment in its naval
infantry forces, coastal defense forces, and Strategic Rocket Forces
to the exact number previously announced in Vienna. Then, they
would declare that 40 months after entry into force, the USSR's
maximum TLE holdings would include the total TLE assigned to
the naval infantry forces, coastal defense forces, and Strategic
Rocket Forces. This meant that the Soviet Union would reduce an
equivalent number of TLE elsewhere to meet its maximum hold-
ings. Specifically, the Soviets pledged to destroy or convert 933
tanks, 1,725 ACVs, and 1,080 artillery pieces. They would reduce
one-half of the 933 tanks and 1,080 artillery pieces from forces
within the ATTU and the other half from forces east of the Urals.
The Soviets also stated that they would modify 753 of the 1,725
ACVs to become MTLB-AT types. These were "Iook-alikes" and
thus, not limited by the treaty. 26
The Soviets were adamant in their position that the coastal
defense forces and naval infantry units were not OOVs and there-
fore not subject to declared site inspections. They agreed, however,
that this equipment would be subject to challenge inspections.
They also declared that they would limit the number of armored
combat vehicles of the SRF, but that these limits would not count
against the total number of ACVs allocated under the CFE Treaty
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to the Soviet Union. In response to the Soviet Union's statement,

each of the other 21 states at the extraordinary conference would
issue a statement accepting the Soviet Union's declaration as le-
gally binding and the basis for proceeding toward ratification and
implementation. When the extraordinary conference convened at
The Hague on June 18, 1991, the respective ambassadors read
their carefully crafted, legally binding statements into the record
and, with no objections, the chairman accepted them as official
treaty documentsY
On the issue of the Soviet military equipment positioned east
of the Ural Mountains, the Soviet government presented a politi-
cally binding statement to the state delegates attending the CFE's
Joint Consultative Group in Vienna. The Soviet Union pledged to
destroy or convert to civilian use no fewer than 6,000 tanks, 1,500
ACVs, and 7,000 artillery pieces located beyond the Ural Moun-
tains. They would reduce these items by November 1995 in such a
way as to provide "sufficient visible evidence" of their destruction
or their having been rendered militarily llI1suitable. Essentially, the
pledge meant that the Soviet Union would display this equipment
so that treaty states could use satellite reconnaissance to monitor
and confirm its reduction. 2s
Once these Soviet legal and political statements had been
accepted as official treaty documents, most of the CFE Treaty
signatory states turned to ratification. President Bush submitted
the CFE Treaty to the U.S. Senate on July 9, 1991, stating, "The
CFE Treaty is the most ambitious arms control agreement ever
concluded. "2 9 He declared that the treaty was in the" best inter-
ests of the United States" and that it was an important step in
"defining the new security regime in Europe." Other states went
through the ratification process as well. Czechoslovakia was the
first nation to ratify the treaty and deposit the instruments of
ratification in the treaty depository at The Hague. Other nations
followed and by the end of 1991, 14 nations, including Hungary,
the Netherlands, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Poland, Germany,
and the United States, had ratified the treaty. Before all the origi-
nal 22 treaty signatories could complete the ratification process,
however, three new developments influenced the treaty.

I HE SE (() [) CRI~I": TH~ BAI J J( STATf~

This issue dealt with the legal status of the Soviet Union's
TLE in the three Baltic nations-Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. 30
Resolution came expeditiously. None of the Baltic states wanted to
become parties to the CFE Treaty. None wanted the Soviet military
forces, which they considered to be armies of occupation, to be
stationed permanently on their national territory. They were con-
cerned that any treaty participation by a Baltic state would lend
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legitimacy to a Soviet presence in the Baltics. All desired, however,

that the Soviet Union's conventional military equipment and units
subject to the treaty still count against the Soviet Union's TLE
ceilings and, if possible, be reduced in accordance with the proto-
cols of the treaty.
Recognizing the Baltic nations' demands, and sensing that the
Soviet Foreign Ministry was willing to discuss a diplomatic solu-
tion, U.S. diplomats in Moscow informally raised the possibility
of another "agreed statement" regarding the Soviet Union's CFE
Treaty obligations. As a direct consequence of this bilateral diplo-
macy, the CFE Treaty's Joint Consultative Group convened an-
other extraordinary meeting in Vienna on October 18, 1991. 3 1 The
chairman read statements from the Soviet Union and other state
parties that stipulated that the three Baltic nations were not parties
to the CFE Treaty and that all Soviet TLE on the territory of those
states would count against the USSR's treaty ceilings. Read aloud
to the assembled state delegates, the statements were accepted
without comment. Following procedure, the statements were sent
to the treaty depository at The Hague for deposit with the official
treaty.32
By this time the Soviet Union as a nation was in a tenuous
state. Its government had barely survived a failed coup d'etat in
mid-August, its ruling Communist party had been outlawed, and

Soviet forc es in Moscow during failed coup attempt in August 1991.

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its national leadership appeared incapable of stemming the twin

forces of a collapsing empire and rising nationalism. By December
1991, the creation of an independent Ukraine and Belarus, and the
establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, sealed
the fate of the USSR. On December 25, 1991, the USSR formally
dissolved as a nation and was replaced by 15 newly independent
states. 33 Eight of these new states-Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakstan, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine-had former
Soviet military forces and units stationed on their territory that
were subject to the CFE Treaty. What would be their fate? Would
these new nations simply nationalize the military forces stationed
on their territory? Or would they seek to join the all-European
CFE Treaty and commit themselves to destroying conventional
military equipment that could be used by their new armies and air
forces? And under what aegis would they discuss joining the CFE
Treaty states? They were not members of any international forum
such as the CSCE, Warsaw Pact, or NATO.34

THE THIRD CRISIS: NEW STATE PARTIES

On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and

Belarus gathered in Minsk, Belarus, to place their signatures on the
document creating the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS). Within a week, the leaders of five other republics-
Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan-had met in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, and pledged
to join the new commonwealth. All the military forces of the col-
lapsing Soviet Union would be placed under the control of this
commonwealth. These events signaled not only the end of the
Soviet Union as a nation but also its end as a state party to the
CFE Treaty. In Vienna, the CFE state delegates sought some
mechanism to bring the new republics into the CFE Treaty orbit. 35
In the late fall of 1991, a new pan-European organization,
the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) was set up with
U.S. and German leadership. By December, its membership con-
sisted of the 16 NATO nations, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria, and the 15 newly independent states from the
former Soviet Union. Shortly after the creation of the CIS in
December, the new North Atlantic Cooperation Council invited all
member states to meet in Brussels at NATO headquarters on Janu-
ary 10, 1992. The objective was to convene a high level working
group to discuss the future of the CFE Treaty. Every state accepted
and attended, with the exception of Kazakstan. This was the first
time the new CIS nations, represented by their foreign and defense
ministers, had been at NATO headquarters. At this historic meet-
ing, they participated as sovereign independent nations, sitting
beside the leaders of the former Warsaw Pact nations and, of
course, the foreign and defense ministers of the NATO nations. 36
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In their opening statements, the foreign ministers of the newly

independent states declared that the CFE Treaty was "the corner-
stone of European security." In his statement, Vladimir Petrovskiy,
the Russian representative, asserted that only Russia needed to
ratify the CFE Treaty.l? He said that Russia would subsequently
negotiate the "necessary adjustments" with the other republics. All
other NACC states rejected this Russian interpretation. Instead,
they proposed that each of the newly independent states be consid-
ered a successor state. Furthermore, following signature and ratifi-
cation, each would become an original state party to the treaty.
This concept carried the day, and after lengthy discussion, the
delegates agreed on the following points: 38
• The CFE Treaty should enter into force without renegotiation
and should be fully implemented as soon as possible.
• Treaty obligations of the former USSR should be wholly
accounted for by all the newly independent states and appor-
tioned among them in a manner acceptable to all parties to
the treaty.
• All newly independent states in the area of application of the
CFE Treaty should ratify the treaty.
• Some updating of the treaty would be necessary, but it would
be done after its entry into force.

First meeting of North Atlantic Cooperation Council defense ministers at NATO Headquarters, April 1, 1992.
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Severing of a turret in Belarus.

• The deadline for entry into force should be as soon as pos-

sible, preferably by the time of the Helsinki Review Confer-
ence (March-July 1992).
• Further work by the high level working group was war-
ranted.
The NACC high level working group met again in February,
March, April, and May of 1992. These were extraordinary months
for the newly independent states. First, as new nations, they had to
define their relationships with the nations of Central and Western
Europe. The CFE Treaty lay at the center of the military dimension
of this relationship. Second, they had to define their relationship
with Russia, the largest and most powerful of the former Soviet
republics. Here the CFE Treaty was also a focal point, since it
mandated reductions in the former Soviet Union's vast arsenal of
conventional weapons. The question of how the USSR's arsenal
would be partitioned among the sucessor states, and then how
these national portions would be subject to the treaty, had to be
decided. The two issues were related, and the working group
resolved them in the first six months of 1992.
On January 16, 1992, Russia proposed at a CIS meeting in
Minsk that it should receive two-thirds of the ground weapons of
the former Soviet Union. At that meeting, Valery Shustov, Russia's
CFE Treaty Negotiator, declared that Russia would coordinate the
inspection, escort, and reduction activities of all the CIS states
implementing the CFE Treaty.39 The other CIS states, especially
Ukraine, rejected this assertion. Two weeks later, on January 30,
the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
admitted 10 CIS states as members. The new states signed letters
pledging to "move forward promptly with the ratification of the
CFE Treaty and to assume ... all CFE obligations of the former
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Soviet Union. "40 With this important international diplomatic and

political act completed, the CIS nations turned to the tough nego-
tiations on partitioning the former Soviet Union's conventional
armed forces. They set up a group of experts, largely consisting
of senior military officers, who examined force structure, treaty
ceilings, and treaty reduction requirements. Throughout February,
March, and April of 1992, this group labored to devise a distribu-
tion formula acceptable to all states.
It was not easy. At one point, Leonid Kravchuk, then Ukrai-
nian foreign minister, complained about the CIS nations' failure to
resolve the CFE Treaty T LE problem: "Not one major military
question has been resolved ... within the framework of the Com-
monwealth. "41 Then, in early April, the Russian Parliament voted
not to ratify the CFE Treaty, even though the USSR Supreme So-
viet had ratified it in 1991. At that point, President Yeltsin inter-
vened, stating that Russia would accept all treaty obligations of
the form er Soviet Union. 42 In separate actions, th e leaders of Ar-
menia and Azerbaijan complained that they should be allocated
more tanks than proposed by the group of experts. These two
nations were locked in an intense ethnic war over separatist
Ukrainian Foreign Minister (later
President) Leonid Kravchuk. Nagorno-Karabakh; consequently, they sought more conventional
armaments.
Amidst these internal CIS negotiations, the monthly NACC
meetings of the foreign ministers at NATO headquarters contin-
ued. These meetings put pressure on Russia and the other succes-
sor states to divide the Soviet Union's entitlements and obligations
in an equitable manner. In April 1992, Ambassador Lynn M.
Hansen, the U.S. CFE Treaty Negotiator who had repl aced Am-
bassador R. James Woolsey in June 1991, led a small delegation to
Minsk, Kiev, Chisinau, and Moscow to discuss treaty ratification
and implementation. 43 On this same trip, Ambassador Hansen's
delegation met in Moscow with representatives from Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakstan. Over the course of 10 days,
Hansen learned that all the newly independent states had the
political will to achieve an agreement on the CFE Treaty TLE. He
also discovered that the smaller states distrusted Russia's tactics
and attitudes. Characteristically, Hansen went directly to see the
Russian first deputy foreign minister; they discussed ratification of
the treaty. Hansen told him "an agreement was there for the tak-
ing, if they would just modify the way they negotiated. "44 The
Russian minister listened, but action would not come until mid-
May.
Finally, following further CIS negotiating sessions in Moscow,
Minsk, Kiev, and other capitals, the leaders of the successor states
met in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on May 15, 1992. There they signed
an agreement on the division of the former Soviet Union's CFE
Treaty obligations and entitlements. 45 The Russian military was
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Table 3-3. The Tashkent Agreement: Allocation of Soviet TLE

Tanks ACVs Artillery A/C Helos

Total Active Stored Total Active Stored Total Active Stored Total Total

Russia 6,400 4,975 1,425 11,480 10,525 955 6,415 5,105 1,310 3,450 890

Ukraine 4,080 3,130 950 5,050 4,350 700 4,040 3,240 800 1,090 330

Belarus 1,800 1,525 275 2,600 2,175 425 1,615 1,375 240 260 80

Armenia 220 220 0 220 220 0 285 285 0 100 50

Azerbaijan 220 220 0 220 220 0 285 285 0 100 50

Georgia 220 220 0 220 220 0 285 285 0 100 50

Moldova 210 210 0 210 210 0 250 250 0 50 50

Kazakstan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 13,150 10,500 2,650 20,000 17,920 2,080 13,175 10,825 2,350 5,150 1,500

Source: Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, May 21, 1992

instrumental in devising this agreement; without their detailed

work it would not have happened. The division at Tashkent is
detailed in table 3-3.
With the Tashkent accords signed on May 15, 1992, atten-
tion turned to Vienna where the CFE Treaty's Joint Consultative
Group was meeting in preparation for a third Extraordinary Con-
ference. In Vienna, the state delegates drafted a document, to be
signed on June 5, 1992, at an Extraordinary Conference in Oslo.
This document made legal both the entry of the new state parties
and their acceptance of all the obligations and entitlements of the
former USSR. In short order, the JCG delegates and technical
specialists drafted new treaty annexes containing treaty under-
standings, notifications, confirmations, and commitments. They
incorporated the new annexes into the "Final Document," which
changed the wording in the treaty to reflect the dissolution of the
Soviet Union and the inclusion of eight new state parties. The
Final Document set a deadline of July 1, 1992, for each signatory
state to provide to all other states information concerning inspec-
tions and verification. In addition, it stated that the TLE reduction
liabilities of the new state parties collectively would be no different
from those of the former Soviet Union. It also reaffirmed the two
previous JCG statements: the Soviet Union's June 15, 1991, state- Tashkent,
ment regarding the TLE reassigned to the naval infantry and
Uzbekistan
coastal defense forces, and the October 18, 1991, Soviet statement
on the status of TLE stationed on the territory of the three Baltic Tashkent Agreement-
nations. Finally, it addressed the problem of stationing armored May 15,1992
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infantry fighting vehicles (AIFVs) on the flanks; but it left resolu-

tion to the JCG forum following entry into force.
All of these changes and new annexes were incorporated into
the treaty, translated into the six treaty languages, and presented
at the Oslo Extraordinary Conference. There, delegates from the
now 29 signatory states signed the new documents on June 5,
1992. The CFE Treaty stipulated that from that moment the eight
new states were "original state parties" and that each assumed the
same rights and obligations that every other state party had under
the treaty. 46

THE LAST CRISIS: FINAL RATIfiCATION

Following the Oslo conference, attention turned to complet-

ing ratification and exchanging final treaty documents at the
CSCE summit in Helsinki on July 9-10, 1992. Of the 29 states
that were party to the treaty, 11 had not ratified and deposited
their instruments of ratification at The Hague as of mid-June. As
stipulated by the treaty, entry into force would occur 10 days after
all the states had deposited their ratification articles. Turkey rati-
fied on June 18, Moldova on July 1, and Russia on July 8. Five
other nations deposited their ratification articles on July 6, 8, and
9. That left three nations-Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakstan-that
would not, or could not, act in time for the CSCE summit in
Helsinki, slated for July 9-10. Treaty diplomats in Vienna viewed
this inaction as disastrous; the 26 states that had completed ratifi-
cation held more than 90 percent of the treaty's TLE, units, terri-
tory, and zones. Further delay might dissipate the momentum
created in the past seven months.
When Ambassador Hansen returned to Vienna from Oslo
in mid-June, he realized that the Helsinki summit might be held
"We hdl'e to prol'isiolldlly without a ratified CFE Treaty and no entry into force. "Near panic
implement the whole treaty. " struck," he recalled. "One night, in the middle of the night, I
-Amha"ador Lynn \1. Ilamen, concluded what we had to do. I said: 'We have to provisionally
U.S. CFE Treaty \:cgotiaror implement the whole treaty.'''47 For a multinational, 29-nation
treaty, this was a radical idea. The next day when Hansen called
Washington and discussed the idea with U.S. international treaty
lawyers, "They rejected it totally." Then, he recalled, "We had a
bit of a screaming match. " 48 Hansen won; but the president and
key U.S. senators had to approve the concept before U.S. officials
could discuss it with the NATO allies and the other signatory
nations. When the secretary of state, the president, and the sena-
tors approved, events moved swiftly.
Over the next 10 days, Ambassador Hansen and the other
state negotiators in Vienna explained, cajoled, and succeeded in
persuading their colleagues to accept the concept of provisional
implementation of the CFE Treaty. Meanwhile, new documents
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were prepared in six languages for the 29 states to approve and

sign in Helsinki. On July 10, 1992, representatives of all state
parties met in Helsinki for the fourth extraordinary conference on
the CFE Treaty. They signed three documents. In the first, the
individual states agreed to provisionally implement the CFE
Treaty. In the second, the individual states affirmed the relation-
ship between the CFE Treaty and the CFE 1A agreement, officially
titled: The Concluding Act of the Negotiations on Personnel
Strength of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Essentially,
CFE 1A was a "political" statement by each of the treaty states
declaring that they would not exceed self-imposed limits on mili-
tary manpower strength. The limits were, in fact, quite high. Con-
sequently, the treaty's national manpower figures were not as
significant as the fact that they were declared in a politically bind-
ing treaty. These figures were subject to monitoring and question-
ing, and if exceeded, the guilty states would be subject to interna-
tional censure. This was the first time in the twentieth century that
the European nations, acting collectively, had agreed to limits on
their national military forces. In the third document, each signa-
tory state declared it would provisionally implement the CFE 1A
Concluding Act. Then, and only then, could treaty implementation
begin. 49
These actions set the clock running on entry into force, but
they did not complete the formal ratification process. Armenia
deposited its ratified CFE Treaty instruments at The Hague on
October 12, 1992. Belarus and Kazakstan completed the group of
original states by depositing their instruments of ratification on
October 30. Ten days later, on November 9, the CFE Treaty and
the CFE 1A Concluding Act officially entered into forc e.5o

SUMMING Up
It had taken 24 months-November 1990 to November
1992-to move from treaty signature through the national ratifi-
cations to official entry into force. Along the way a series of
treaty-related crises had been resolved: TLE relocations, re-
subordinations, reclassifications, new state parties, redistribution
of the former USSR's entitlements and obligations, and new na-
tional manpower ceilings. But the larger, more serious crisis of the
Soviet Union's collapse struck at the existence of the CFE Treaty.
In the face of turmoil and revolution, German, French, American,
Russian, British, and Central European leaders and diplomats had
fought hard to retain the treaty. Throughout these difficulties, the
CFE Treaty retained its importance for the future of Europe. With
treaty operations about to start, attention turned to the national
inspection agencies and their inspectors who would monitor the
treaty, and the military services that would reduce and account for
thousands of items of treaty-limited equipment.
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Table 3-4. CFE Treaty Original State Parties

State Ratified Deposited

Czechoslovakia 19July1991 5 August 1991

Hungary 9 September 1991 4 November 1991

Netherlands 6 November 1991 8 November 1991

Bulgaria 13 September 1991 12 November 1991

United Kingdom November 1991 19 November 1991

Canada 7 November 1991 22 November 1991

Poland 22 November 1991 26 November 1991

Norway 29 November 1991 29 November 1991

Belgium November 1991 17 December 1991

Germany December 1991 23 December 1991

Iceland 14 December 1991 24 December 1991

Denmark December 1991 30 December 1991

Luxembourg 19 December 1991 22 January 1992

United States 26 December 1991 29 January 1992

France 16 March 1992 24 March 1992

Romania NA 21 April 1992

Italy 21 December 1991 22 April 1992

Spain 26 February 1992 1 June 1992

Georgia NA 6 July 1992

Moldova 1 July 1992 6 July 1992

Greece 28 May 1992 8 July 1992

Turkey 18 June 1992 8 July 1992

Azerbaijan NA 9 July 1992

Ukraine NA 9 July 1992

Portugal NA 14 August 1992

Russia 8 July 1992 3 September 1992

Armenia NA 12 October 1992

Belarus 21 October 1992 30 October 1992

Kazakstan NA 30 October 1992

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For the United States, the On-Site Inspection Agency had the
mission of conducting the CFE Treaty inspections and escorts.
During the long and arduous two-year ratification process, OSIA's
European Operations Command underwent what Colonel
Lawrence Kelley, Chief of Operations, called "Standing Up the
Unit."

NOTES
1. David Remnick, Lenin 's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New
York: Random House, 1993), pp. 277-279, 306-324, 357-372; John B.
Dunlop, The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire, Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 186-254,256-284.
2. Interview with Ambassador Lynn Hansen, U.S. Government CFE Treaty
Negotiator, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Ramstein Air Base,
Germany, December 14, 1993. See also Lynn M. Hansen, "Adaptation and
Innovation: CFE and CFEI A, From Signature to Entry Into Force,"
unpublished report, December 1993, p. 2.
3. See note above, pp. 2-3; Michael R. Gordon, "Soviets Shift Many Tanks to
Siberia," New York Times, November 15, 1990, p. A3; R. Jeffery Smith,
"U.S., Soviets Disagree on Arms Cuts," Washington Post, December 17,
1990, pp. AI, A20.
4. Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.410-411, 407.B.413. See also
Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels: The Inside
Story of the End of the Cold War (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1993),
pp. 289-290.
5. "State Treaty Signatory Powers Agree to Revisions," Die Presse (Vienna),
December 12, 1990, in FBIS- Western Europe, December 3, 1990; Arms
Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.414-416. The best analysis is in Jane
M.O. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe," SIPRI Yearbook
'1991, World Armaments and Disarmament, pp. 429-433.
6. Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.414-415; Sharp, "Conventional
Arms Control in Europe" (1991), pp. 429-430.
7. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1991), pp . 429-430.
8. R . Jeffery Smith, "Soviets Said to be Removing Arms from Europe Before
Treaty," Washington Post, October 5, 1990, p. A20; International Institute
for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 1990-1991 (London : Brassey's
Inc., 1990), pp. 31-32.
9. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1991), p. 429; James A.
Baker, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, Wm; and Peace, 1989-1992
(New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1995), pp. 473-474, 477.
10. Sharp, "Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1991), p. 420.
11. Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.414-415.
12. "Chernychev on CFE Treaty, Soviet Implementation," TASS (Moscow) ,
November 22,1990, in rBIS-Soviet Union, November 27,1990.
13. Smith," U.S., Soviets Disagree on Arms Cuts," Washington Post, Decem ber
17, 1990, pp. A 1, A20; Arms Control Reporter 1990, pp. 407.B.413-414.
For insights into the CFE Treaty delegations in Vienna, see Interview with
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Colon el Schu yle r Foe rster, USAF, U.S. Represe ntative to th e C FE

Delegation, by j ose ph P. Hara ha n, Historian , OSI A, Washin gton , D. C.,
M ay 19 , 1994 .

14. The best acco unt of thi s meeting is in Beschloss a nd Ta lbott, At th e Highest
Leveh , pp.2 89-290.
15. Ibid ., p. 2 90 .

16. Michael Z . Wi se, " Sovi ets Fa ce C riti cism as Ta lk s Beg in on Europ ean
Troops C uts," Washington Post, February 'I S, 1991, p. A13; Arms
Control Repo rter 1990, pp. 407 .B .427- 428; T imothy J. McN ulty, " Bake r
Urges Delay o n Arm s T rea ty, " Chicago Tribune, Fe bruary 7, 199 1; R.
j effery Smith, " Sov iet Di spute Th rea tens Arm s Pact Approval ," Washing-
to n Post , Fe brua ry 8, 19 9 ] , pp. A12, A16 .
17. Sharp, "Con ve ntion a l Arm s Control in Europe" (1 99 1 ), pp. 429- 4 33.

18. Wire Se rvice Repo rt, " Sovietskaya Rossiya Ackno wledges Shift of Wca pon s
to Avoid Trea ty," Reu ters (Mosco w) , janu a ry 9, 1991.

19. Re mnick, Lenin "s Tom b, pp . 372-397; Dunlop, Rise and Fall, pp. 104-
106 .

20. Beschloss a nd Ta lbo tt, A t the Highest Levels, pp . 362-3 73; R. j effe ry
Smith a nd Ann Devro y, "Bush Urges Gorbach ev to Drop Arm s Trea ty
C laims, " Washington Post, M a rch 26, ] 9 91, p. A8.

21. Beschloss a nd Ta lbo tt, At th e High est Levels, p. 364 .

22. Ibid ., pp. 367- 370; Fred Kapl a n, " Sovi et Aide to Arrive, Summit
Bellweth e r See n," Boston Globe, M ay 20, 1991; Da vid Hoffm a n, " U. S.
Official s See Si g ns of Cooperation by Soviets," Washington Post, May 23 ,
1991, p. A42 ; Dav id Hoffman, "U.S ., Sovi et Union Settl e Di spute on Arms
in Europe," Wa shingto n Post, jun e 2,199 1, pp. AI, A26; Andrew
Ros enthal, " U.S. a nd Soviets Nea r Settlin g Arm s Pac t Di spute," Ne w York
Times , M a y 23, ] 99 1, p. Al 0; M ich ae l Z. Wi se , "So vi ets Acce pt Limits on
Arms in Euro pe," Wa shington Post, jun e 15 , 199], pp. A16, A18.

23. Beschl oss and Ta lbott, At the Highest Levels, p. 368 . Fo r deta il s o n thi s
comple x dip" .::l:' tic solution, see Arms Contro l Repo rter 1991 , pp .
407 .B.438- 4' f2.
24. Arms Cu ntrol Reporter 199 1, pp. 407.13.444-446.
25. Ibid ., pp . 407.13.44 9-450; Thom as L. Friedm a n, "U.S. and Sovi ets Bridge
Gap on Convention a l \X!ea pons a nd Pl a n for Summit Soon," N ew Yo rk
Times,june 2,1991, PI'. AI, An.
26. Han se n, " Adaptati o n and Inn o vati o n, " pp. 5-6 . For th e text of th e So vi et
Union's decl a ra ti o n, see thi s book, Appendi x B.

27 . For th ese sta tcm ents, see thi s book , Appendix B.

28 . Ibid .

29. For Pres id ent Bu sh's sta tement, see Senate Committee on Fo reign Rela ti o ns,
Tr eaty Document J 02-8: Message from the Preside nt of th e United States
Transmitting th e Treat y 011 Co nventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFf.),
102d Congo 1st sess ., 1991.

30. The best account of thi s issu e a s it related to th e C FE Treaty is in Hansen ,

"Adaptation and Inn ov ation," pp. 7-9 .

31. Intervi ew, H a nse n; for a n immediate re port, see Message from jCS j o int
Staff, Was hington D. C., "C FE: Amba ssador H a nse n's Visit to Lithu a nia ,"
Octobe r 18,199 1, PI' . 1-8.
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32. See this book, Appendix B.

33. Remnick, Lenin's Tomb, pp. 493-530; Dunlop, Rise and Fall pp. 256-
285.
34. These same questions were being discussed in the European media, See Eric
Schmitt, "Arms Pact Allows for Soviet Breakup," New York Times,
November 20,1991, p. A3, and Edward Mortimer, "The Soviet Union's
Security Agreements Must be Made Binding on Its Successor States,"
Financial Times (London), November 27, 1991. In an ironic twist, the U.S.
Senate ratified the CFE Treaty on November 25,1991, by a vote of 90-4;
see Congressional Record, Senate, 18038, November 25, 1991.
35. Dunlop, Rise and Fall, pp. 271-284; Arms Control Reporter 1991, p.
407.B.462; Interview, Hansen; Interview, Foerster.
36. Arms Control Reporter 1992, pp. 407.B.463-465.
37. Ibid., p. 407.B.464; Hansen, "Adaptation and Innovation," pp. 10-11.
38. Arms Control Reporter 1992, pp. 407.B.463-464.
39. "CFE Participants Reassured on Arms Treaties," TASS (Moscow), January
16, 1992, in FBIS-Soviet Union, January 17, 1992. See also Arms Control
Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.465.
40. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.465. See also Thomas L. Friedman,
"Big-2 Horse Trade," New York Times, January 31,1991, p. A15.
41. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.4 70. See also Serge Schmemann,
"Ukraine Uses Summit to Berate Russians and the Commonwealth," New
York Times, March 21,1992, pp. AI, AS; and "Summit 'Pretty
Successful"'[zvestiya, March 25,1992, in FB[S-Soviet Union, March 25,
1992.
42. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.4 72.
43. Interview, Hansen.
44. Ibid.
45. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.473.
46. Ibid.; Interview, Hansen; William Droadziak, "29 Nations Approve Arms
Control Treaty," Washington Post, June 6, 1992, p. A16; Craig R.
Whitney, "Europeans Agree to Honor Arms Pact by Old Blocs," New York
Times, June 6, 1992, p. AS; Hella Pick, "NATO and Former Warsaw Pact
Sign Agreement on Arms Cuts," The Guardian (London), June 6,1992,
47. Interview, Hansen.
48. Ibid.
49. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.477.
50. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.480.
 Chapter 4

OSIA's operations expand significantly throughout Europe in preparation for the CFE Treaty.

OSIA's EUROPEAN OPERATIONS COMMAND:

THE YEAR OF EXPANSION, 1991

T
he major influx of people into OSIA's European Operations
Command began in January 1991. Thirty people arrived
that month, primarily filling support positions, but includ-
ing nine weapons specialists. Most of the January arrivals came
from units in Europe. A month later, OSIA European Operations
had doubled in size, expanding from 27 to 57. By the end of April,
18 more people had arrived, including Lt. Colonel David P.
Gessert, USAF, the first of the CFE Treaty team chiefs. Through
July another 18 had come on board, and by the end of 1991, more
than 100 personnel were on duty. All CFE inspection team mem-
bers, except for one weapons specialist, two linguists, and two
deputy team chiefs, were in some phase of treaty training. As
people continued to arrive, the number and precise function of
U.S. liaison officers remained unresolved. OSIA would not have
final answers on liaison officers until mid-1992, just before the
treaty entered into force. I
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Colonel Fred Grosick, Commander, and Colonel Lawrence

Kelley, Director of Operations, shaped the rapidly expanding CFE
inspection force around three key operational concepts. The first
was knowledge of the treaty, especially its inspection protocol. The
Key Operational Concepts: treaty was the "alpha and omega" of the inspectors' training,
• Treaty Know/edge preparation, and operational mission. Over and over in small team
• Team Chief Responsibility meetings and in individual sessions, Colonel Kelley stressed the
• Team Identity importance of knowing the treaty "inside and out, chapter and
verse," because the "other side would ." Kelley's long experience
with the Soviet/Russian officer corps had made him aware of their
professionalism, thoroughness of preparations, suspicion of for-
eigners, and their insistence on the letter of the law in granting
treaty rights to inspectors. If inspectors from other nations knew
the treaty well, Kelley and Grosick believed that U.S. inspectors
had to know the provisions of the treaty even better.
The second concept placed extraordinary personal responsi-
bility on the team leader for each inspection/escort mission. Care-
fully chosen, personally interviewed, and continuously observed,
these Army and Air Force field grade officers were responsible for
their team, the mission, and the exercise of the U.S. government's
CFE Treaty rights and entitlements. Colonel Kelley interviewed
each new team chief when he reported to aSIA's European Opera-
tions Command. It was, by all accounts, an intense session, com-
bining a treaty tutorial with a lecture on leadership and personal
standards of conduct. It also included a detailed explanation of the
U.S. objectives in implementing the CFE Treaty. It was neither
subtle nor collegial; it was a serious meeting. Colonel Kelley later
recalled that at some point he would tell the new CFE team chief,
"I wanted to have confidence that when the going got tough, when
the team had not slept for 24 hours, when team members felt ill,
when the pressure was on, the temperature was low, the plan had
fallen apart, the team personnel were not performing as expected,
the Russians were applying pressure, and the team chief encoun-
tered a point in the inspection which had not been anticipated,
that I could still trust his judgment. Would he make the right
call?" These standards of leadership set the tone for the developing
inspection organization.
The third concept was integral inspection teams. The "inspec-
tion team" was the primary operational unit for inspections under
the CFE Treaty. Teams would have designated leaders, perma-
nently assigned inspectors, and specific training programs designed
to build treaty knowledge, team cohesiveness, and team recogni-
tion of inspection objectives. Here too Kelley and Grosick knew
what they wanted: inspection team identity, inspector allegiance to
the team, and absolute standards of conduct by all team members.
"I have always been," Kelley said, "a firm believer in unit cohe-
siveness. So I consciously set the teams up that way, and insisted
that they work as units, and act as units." Given these three clear,
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fixed concepts, the new inspection team leaders and inspectors

entered a rigorous, detailed training program. 2

Initial Training
The CFE Treaty on-site inspections would be challenging
because the mission required different people to bring various
skills together in a team effort. Team chiefs, deputies, linguists,
and weapons specialists all needed individual and small team
training to develop and refine their specific skills. It was also im-
pOl"tant for those in support positions to fully understand their
contribution to the success of the mission. The range of training
topics was broad, including several courses on the treaty and its
protocols, three levels of instruction on equipment identification,
and several Russian language courses. Individual training, like
improving language skills, was important, but as individual needs
were met, the focus shifted to team training.
Both in personal and team training, knowledge of the treaty
formed the cornerstone for all training. The CFE Treaty Inspector!
Escort Course was the fundamental course for everyone. The first
CFE Treaty course was taught February 4-14,1991, at the De-
fense Intelligence College in Washington, D.C. Bill Parsons and
David Sloss, members of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency and active participants in CFE negotiations, provided 25
hours of instruction on the treaty and its protocols. Experts from
the U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center contributed
15 hours of treaty-limited equipment (TLE) familiarization. This
initial course also dealt with topics such as the history of arms
control, Warsaw Pact forces, Congress and treaty ratification,
health, and public affairs. Inspectors assigned to OSIA's European

Training was continuous at OSIA's European Operations Command; here Colonel Kelley
discusses an upcoming mission with inspectors"
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Operations Command would receive significantly more training

after the course. This included a three-tiered program on equip-
ment recognition developed by and for inspectors.
Twenty people from OSIA's European Operations attended
the first CFE Treaty course in Washington, D.C., along with 170
others from Headquarters OSIA and other agencies. In April 1991,
OSIA's European Operations Command sponsored a CFE Treaty
course for an additional 90 people at Rhein-Main Air Base in
Frankfurt, Germany. By October 1991,24 other inspection team
members had completed a two-week CFE Treaty course sponsored
by NATO at Oberammergau, Germany. Colonel Kelley drew from
his experience with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)
Treaty to design the NATO course. The objective was to establish
CFE Treaty inspection standards across the NATO group of states.
Instructors from OSIA's European Operations focused on inspec-
tion and escort techniques based on the U.S. experience under the
INF Treaty. On April 8, 1992, OSIA presented a five-day CFE
Treaty course in Washington, D.C. Treaty negotiators and experi-
enced OSIA European Operations officers and noncommissioned
officers (NCOs) taught the course, focusing on the treaty and the
inspection process. A videotaped version of this April course al-
lowed newly assigned inspectors to receive the required training
without waiting for another formal class. The treaty course re-
mained the fundamental building block, but it was only one re-
quired element to quali fy as a CFE inspector/escort. 3
When treaty ratification lagged in the fall of 1991, teams
were able to build more inspection-related issues into their training
program. The Inspection/Escort Branch assembled inspection
teams weekly. The teams reviewed and discussed treaty inspection
and reduction protocols, standardized inspection and reporting
procedures, and studied current presidential and Joint Chiefs of
Staff (JCS) guidance. Individually, each team trained daily on the
treaty and its protocols. They discussed inspection scenarios they
might confront and worked through problems they might encoun-
ter. In addition, TLE recognition was a part of each team's daily
regime.
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A group of Army weapons specialists who came to OSIA's
European Operations Command on a temporary basis beginning
in October of 1990 played a key role in the TLE recognition train-
. Potsdam ing program. Sergeant First Class George A. Partridge, Staff Ser-
geant Thomas A. Favia, and Sergeant Joseph S. Nelson were mem-
bers of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in Potsdam, Germany.
The U.S. Military Liaison Mission The Mission was staffed by NCOs and foreign area officers
in Potsdam, Germany, was a (FAOs) with a strong working knowledge of Soviet and East Ger-
primary source for CFE inspectors. man armies, their equipment, units, and force structure. Because of
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ STANDING Up THI-. UNIT I () I

Photo of a T-72 tank used in level

one recognition training.

German unification, however, this Cold War outpost was no

longer needed and was closing. Having served at the Mission,
Colonel Kelley knew the caliber of the people associated with it
and its reputation for excellence. He made a point of actively
recruiting weapons specialists from the Mission.
These specialists contributed immediately to the command.
They laid the groundwork for OSIA's European Operations' equip-
ment recognition program. From October 1990 through January
1991, while still assigned to the Mission in Potsdam, they devel-
oped courses on treaty-related ground equipment and conducted
training classes. They traveled from Berlin to work at Rhein-Main
during the week, returning home to Berlin on weekends. They
acquired photos and slides of Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces'
treaty-related equipment. Their sources were within the Depart-
ment of Defense, other U.S. government agencies, NATO allies,
commercial publications, and from the training kits they had
developed at the Mission. They also took their own photos of
treaty-related equipment during mock inspections and on field
trips.
Weapons specialists from the Army and Air Force later joined
the specialists from the Mission and added to the growing stock of
information. Sergeant First Class Curtis E. Ingram, USA, focused
his efforts on tanks while Master Sergeant Richard D. DiFormato,
USA, gathered information on armored combat vehicles, and Staff
Sergeants Gilbert Sierra, Jr., and Cecil 1,. Ward, USA, concentrated
on artillery. The U.S. inspection teams also required a working
knowledge of treaty-related aircraft and helicopters. Senior Master
Sergeant Clifford A. Schroder, USAF, and Technical Sergeants Paul
R. Angus and James L. Towne, USAF, provided that expertise.
Their knowledge of aircraft and helicopters complemented the
information their Army counterparts had assembled. The weapons
102 O;-,; - SIII I -"I'I CliO A<.(, . ( )

An armored vehicle launched

bridge on display during
Czechoslovakian training course.

specialists' collection of information and photographs were the

basis for a three-level training program on equipment identifica-
tion.4
Level one covered 10 categories of equipment: tanks, ar-
mored personnel carriers (APCs), armored infantry fighting ve-
hicles (AIFVs), heavy armament combat vehicles, artillery, combat
aircraft, helicopters, mortars, armored vehicle launched bridges,
and multiple-launch rocket systems. There were also subdivisions
in several categories; helicopters for example, could be broken
down into three categories-attack, support, and transport. Level
one training, a requirement for inspector certification, enabled
inspectors to identify all Soviet, Eastern European, and u.S. TLE.
Level two training dealt with Soviet, Eastern European, and
u.S. equipment, listed in the Protocol on Existing Types of Con-
ventional Armaments and Equipment, that was reportable but not
limited under the treaty. Instructors broke this equipment down
into 17 areas. This equipment included "look-alike" armored
personnel carriers and armored infantry fighting vehicles, training
aircraft, combat support helicopters, and transport helicopters.
The armored look-alikes were vehicles built on the chassis of a
treaty-limited vehicle but modified for purposes other than trans-
porting a combat infantry squad. By treaty definition, these modi-
fied vehicles could not be armed with a 20 millimeter or greater
gun or cannon. The two levels of training encompassed more than
400 pieces of Soviet, Eastern European, and u.S. equipment.
Level three training differed from the other two levels cover-
ing equipment not listed in the treaty. Although not limited to
weapons specialists, level three training was geared to maximizing
weapons specialists' capabilities, whereas levels one and two were
for all team members. Level three dealt with recognition and iden-
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tification of the thousands of pieces of Soviet, Eastern European,

or U.S. equipment that a team might encounter during an inspec-
tion. This equipment varied from communications vans to engi-
neering vehicles to motorcycles. Training would enable an inspec-
tor to make more accurate observations about the inspected unit's
mission and status. Training also included order of battle, organi-
zational structures, and equipment markings. Level three training
could vary to prepare inspectors for a particular mission. Inspec-
tors supplemented their classroom training on weapons identifica-
tion with field trips to locations with large concentrations of
equipment. Teams traveled to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe
(USAFE) Combat Threat Facility at Einsiedlerhof, Germany, to
U.S. Army Europe's (USAREUR's) Hohenfels Training Area, Ger-
many, and to other NATO sites. These trips provided inspectors
direct experience with Soviet and Eastern European equipment, as
well as U.S. and allied equipment. As development of the different
levels of training progressed, however, a problem arose concerning
space to conduct the training. 5
Rhein-Main, normally an active and somewhat congested
base, served as a focal point for tons of supplies, equipment, and
thousands of troops headed for the Middle East in support of
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Facilities on Rhein-

During a CFE mock inspection at the Hoh enfels Training Area in Germany, inspectors checked these armored
personnel carriers.
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Main were at a premium. The OSIA facilities at the Air Force base
were taxed heavily by OSIA's increased manning and equipment to
implement the CFE Treaty. Weapons specialists did not have ad-
equate faciliti es to conduct equipment recognition classes. The
solution to th eir problem came from the man who would become
the first OSIA CFE team chief.
Although not yet assigned to OSIA , Lt. Colonel D avid P.
Gessert, USAF, offered the use of his squadron's facilities, which
were adjacent to OSIA European Operations' building. Colonel
Gessert commanded the Air Force's 7580th Aerospace Squadron,
known as th e Berlin Corridor Flyers. Its mission ended with Ger-

Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert, USAF

Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert, USAF, was the first CFE team
chief selected at OSIA's European Operations Command. An Air
Force Academy graduate, he was a command navigator with
3,000 flying hours. Just prior to this assignment, Lt. Colonel
Gessert had commanded the Air Force's 7580th Squadron, the
Berlin Corridor Flyers.

On the initial months-recruiting, training, en-

listed force: "I was the first team chief here. My
deputy, Chief Warrant Officer Mike Lukes, was
an old INF Treaty inspector; he had a lot of
experience. In all honesty, he probably trained me
more than anybody else did. He and I went out F-15s or F-l 11s, but they didn't know tanks, our
as the team chief and deputy for all the initial own tanks, let alone Russian tanks. So we were
NATO mock inspections. We had the opportunity pretty much starting at ground zero. Everybody
to take out all of the enlisted teams. There were was extremely professional; there was real exper-
four enlisted members on each team, and we had tise in certain fields, but no one had expertise in
eight teams. There were two interpreters and two all of the Russian equipment, or in the variety of
weapons specialists, and it was a mix and match Russian equipment. What helped was that these
of Air Force and Army guys. Chief Lukes and I guys were professional NCOs, and they were
essentially set the teams up and initiated their operators. They knew how to turn a wrench, so
training. The first real mock inspection we did they weren't guys who just looked at pictures
was with the French, and we took our teams out from behind a desk or some intelligence analysts.
and escorted the French; then we worked with the These guys were soldiers, they knew how to walk
Luxembourgers, Belgians, Dutch, and Germans. into a wing, a brigade, or a regiment, and decide
quickly if they had their act together or not.
"We had all these extremely qualified NCOs,
That's why they were hired. So we had all these
but they were either qualified in rocket systems or
real smart guys, soldiers and airmen. These guys
they were qualified in tanks, master gunners, etc.
could walk and chew gum; they'd done some
We also had some very, very qualified Air Force
stuff in their life ."
maintenance personnel who worked on F-4s or
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man unification. While closing down th e 7580th, he allowed

OSlA's weapons specialists to develop and conduct equipment
identification cla sses in the squadron's briefing rooms. These
classes, while important for all inspectors, were critical for weap-
ons specialists because none were expert on all weapons systems.
U.S. Air Force w eapons specialists, for example, knew U.S. air-
craft, but they had little or no knowledge of U.S. Army weapons
and equipment, much less the weapons of the Warsaw Pact's
ground forces. The same was true for U.S. Army weapons special-
ists, who were expert in U.S. and some Soviet ground forces, albeit
using NATO designations, but had little exposure to U.S. and
Soviet aircraft.6

continued "It takes organization and some thought. I

believe I've used the example before that we
On the initial mock inspections: "The initial learned that it takes a much longer time to do a
mock inspections were very brutal, especially treaty inspection report than ever anticipated
with our allies. The allies looked at this CFE because of the legal aspects, using the proper
mission initially as an opportunity to talk and to verbiage, and referencing the proper points in the
celebrate together. From our own INF experience, treaty. These things just took longer than antici-
we knew that the Russians were very profes- pated. There are also some straight mechanical
sional, and that we had to approach it that way. things you have to do to facilitate and to keep
We exercised every aspect of the treaty and made your inspection going."
it very, very tough and very, very difficult. The
allies, at first, regretted it. They didn't like it. On leading multinational inspection teams: "I
They didn't think the Americans were nice. What think that actually made the mocks more impor-
we tried to explain to them was that you train tant. Learning how to put together and orches-
harder than what you actually do in reality. By trate an inspection with three new people helped.
the time the inspections began, I think the allies We always have three new people on everyone of
became tougher and we became easier. But when I our real inspections, in addition to the core six-
say easier, it's because we were not reasonable in man team . During the mock inspections we
our mocks, for we always pushed to the extreme learned how to make it work. How to make it
to make treaty points. Many times we would task-oriented, to know what task you want to
purposely be unreasonable with the allies for give to a new member, and what you want to give
training purposes. to an experienced inspector. You learned how to
"Mock inspections taught you how to orches- organize and how to set up a true, thorough
trate an inspection, how to organize an inspec- inspection. Sometimes it was very, very tough
tion, the mechanics of trying to get a crew of because you had to learn how to use somebody
eight people underneath the team chief to work from another country who had a slightly different
together as subteams. You did it so that when you agenda than yours. But if you know how to facili-
hit the ground you weren't worried about who tate an inspection, how to organize-which we
had what room or where's the equipment going. learned during the mock regime-it made it much
You had to learn how do to the mechanical things easier. That's what the training really taught us to
to make an inspection work. When you hit the do, how to conduct a good, well-orchestrated,
site, your time was very limited. You had to use it well-organized inspection. And it took a while to
wisely. learn that. You don 't go into it blindly."

Source: Interview, Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert, USAF, with Dr. Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, aSIA, July 12, 1993.
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Training for Linguists

While weapons specialists developed their lesson plans in
equipment identification, linguists had their own training require-
ments. Once selected for duty with OSIA, most linguists attended
the Defense Language Institute's (DU) Intermediate Russian
Course in Monterey, California. The 27-week
course provided linguists intense training to
expand their ability to speak Russian. The course
also introduced students to arms control treaty
terminology. After successful completion of the
DU course, linguists arrived at OSIA's European
Operations, and shortly thereafter attended a
two-week course at the U.S. Army Russian Insti-
tute (USARI) at Garmisch, Germany. This course,
sponsored by the Treaty Verification Division of
USARI, put linguists into classrooms where they
spoke only Russian as they studied terminology
specific to the CFE Treaty. Freed from the daily
pressures and distractions of individual and team
Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California. training at Rhein-Main, students at Garmisch
focused on the treaty's complex, technical lan-
guage for six to seven hours a day. Back at Rhein-Main, in addi-
tion to individual daily practice, linguists gathered in small groups
led by Alan J. French, OSIA European Operations' in-house Rus-
sian language professional. They drilled in Russian three to five
hours a week, for practice in conversation and interpretation.
Linguists enhanced their training by viewing taped Russian televi-
sion broadcasts and reading any available written materials. Most
linguists agreed, however, that the most realistic training for the
inspection teams, short of an actual treaty inspection, was the
mock inspections. 7

MOCK INSPECTIONS
One lesson Americans had learned in preparing to implement
the INF Treaty was that mock inspections were an extremely
valuable training tool. These inspections enabled teams to practice
inspection and escort procedures, make and correct mistakes on
the spot, uncover unanticipated problems or situations, and im-
prove their procedures in accordance with treaty protocols. Teams
went beyond scenario development and discussion in their offices
to exercising their treaty knowledge at an inspectable site on a
military installation. s Seventeen months into treaty implementa-
tion, Lt. Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jr., USA, an experienced OSIA
CFE Treaty team chief, led a series of training classes and a mock
inspection with Moldovan inspectors in December 1993. He told
the Moldovan team about the approach American inspectors took
during mock inspections:
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"Our experiences during the mock inspections before baseline

and during the real treaty inspections, both inspecting and escort-
ing, were very similar. This (fact) indicates that our level of realism
during training was very high. That is always one of the main
goals in training, to train the way you would fight, to be as realis-
tic as you can."9
Initial OSIA mock inspections for the CFE Treaty placed
OSIA inspectors and escorts opposite their NATO counterparts.
This was realistic training-teams traveled, lost sleep, missed
meals, inspected unfamiliar military facilities, discussed treaty
rights and obligations with foreign officers, and completed the
inspection reports as required by the treaty. As inspectors, they
aggressively demanded all of their government's treaty rights; as
escorts, they made certain that their government's interests were
fully protected. Colonel Kelley was a strong proponent of mock
training inspections because his INF Treaty experience had con-
vinced him that-
"The mock inspections are now and have always been the
single most important training tool that we have at our disposal
for a number of reasons. First, they force you to put into practice
the skills that you have developed individually in these various
areas over time. Second, the experience forces a team-or, in many
cases, multiple teams-to function as a team. Mocks develop the
cohesiveness that we wanted to see and permit the teams to further
test each other on knowledge of the treaty, and knowledge of
policy. "10
Colonel Kelley turned the responsibility for the detailed coor-
dination and planning of mock inspections over to Captain David
R. Carter, USAF. As Chief of European Operations' Plans Branch,
he worked directly with other NATO nations' treaty verification
agencies to plan each series of mock inspections. Much of the
initial coordination was completed over the phone, but final plan-
ning was done in person, approximately one month prior to in-
spection. Face-to-face, the planning officers from the nations
Seal of the French
ironed out the details of the exercise. After several planning meet-
verification agency L'Unite
ings Colonel Kelley opted for a higher ranking team chief, a lieu-
Fran(aise de Verification.
tenant colonel, to accompany Carter as a matter of protocol for
the usually senior allied counterparts. For inspections of U.S.
facilities, United States European Command (USEUCOM) relin-
quished the coordination of site selection to OSIA. Captain Carter
or one of the Plans Branch NCOs then dealt directly with the
component commands to determine which U.S. sites would
be available to participate, either ground forces assigned to
USAREUR or air forces under USA FE. With a list of U.S. sites
available for mock inspection, U.S. planners and their NATO
counterparts developed an agenda for the mock inspection includ-
ing dates, units, locations, notification procedures, expenses, and
team composition. 11
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The initial U.S. mock inspections were conducted with

France's verification agency, L'Unite Fran~aise de Verification.
Lt. Colonel Gessert led this mission and the next five U.S. mock
inspection missions. Because Lt. Colonel Gessert was new to the
on-site inspection process, he relied heavily on his deputy, Chief
Warrant Officer 4 (CW4) Michael R. Lukes, USA, who was an
experienced INF Treaty inspector. On this first mission, Gessert's
nine-person team drove from Rhein-Main Air Base on May 14,
1991, to Strasbourg, France, the point of entry (POE) for this
mission . The following day they continued on to Nancy-Ochey
Airfield, where Lt. Colonel Gessert declared the French Air Force's
3rd Fighter Wing the object of verification (OOV) for the first
OSIA CFE mock inspection. Because the French airfield was very
large and there was much to be inspected, Lt. Colonel Gessert
surprised his hosts by declining the prepared, formal luncheon.
At the site, Gessert divided his team in two subteams for the
inspection, with CW4 Lukes leading the second team. The U.S.
teams set out on foot to inspect the site, overlapping each other's
efforts to ensure double coverage. Their approach was strictly
business, as if the inspection were an actual CFE inspection in
Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union . "We exercised every aspect
of the treaty," Gessert recalled, "and made it very, very tough
and very, very difficult" for the French escorts. After both U.S.
subteams counted all the TLE and confirmed their counts to be
correct, Lt. Colonel Gessert declared a sequential inspection. He
then signed the inspection report, completing the mock inspection .
The following day the American team traveled to Chenevieres for
I nspection Team the sequential inspection. There Gessert declared the French
Army's 3rd Tank Battalion as the OOV his team would inspect.
Composition During this second inspection, Gessert observed that the French
military escorts had become much more aggressive in their escort
1 Team Chief
ft procedures, trying to minimize U.S. access and photography, but
always remaining within the guidelines of the treaty. These first
mock inspections mirrored what would become the U.S. trade-
1 Deputy
Team Chief ft mark for all future CFE inspections: an aggressive, "letter of the
law" approach to gaining all rights allowed under the treaty.
These missions confirmed that a detailed knowledge of the
2 Linguists
ftft treaty was the key to a successful mission. Without a thorough
knowledge of the treaty, team members could not effectively exer-
cise all their government's treaty rights. Lt. Colonel Gessert also
2 Weapons
Specialists
ftft recognized the importance of teamwork and planning. Because an
inspection team had limited time on-site, the team needed to de-
velop a plan that allowed all team members to carry out their
3 Treaty
Speciahsts
iift specific tasks, while allowing for a thorough inspection of the
declared site, inspecting all areas and equipment twice. Each indi-
vidual had to understand his role as an inspector so that the team
could complete an inspection effectively. With a strong base of
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preparation and training, the team leader could make adjustments

on-site as circumstances dictated. 12
At Rhein-Main, OSIA inspection teams continued to hone
their skills in areas such as treaty knowledge, equipment identifica-
tion, language, and photography. The allied mock inspections
allowed teams to test those skills, to encounter different ap-
proaches to the same treaty, and to establish inspection standards.
Over time nearly all the Eastern countries, as well as the allies,
pressed U.S. representatives to commit to scheduling mock inspec-
tions. Colonel Kelley believed that the United States had an obliga-
tion to give preference to the NATO nations to conduct mock
inspections because they "had stuck with us in hard times and
been true allies to us." In addition to loyalty to allies, it was also
in the U.S. interest that all NATO inspections of Eastern nations
be thorough and consistent to provide reliable and accurate infor-
mation for a confident assessment of treaty compliance.
From May 1991 until the treaty entered into force in July
1992, OSIA inspectors participated in mock CFE inspections with
inspection teams from 13 NATO nations. All allied nations except
Turkey and Italy participated in 27 OSIA missions, during which
U.S. inspection teams conducted mock inspections at more than 50
sites. In addition to mock inspections with NATO teams, OSIA
inspectors deployed on 11 missions to U.S. declared sites through-
out Western Europe to conduct mock inspections with other OSIA
teams. These OSIA-on-OSIA mock inspections provided training
not only for the U.S. teams but also for the American military
units that would receive Eastern inspection teams when the treaty
entered into force. On several occasions, OSIA teams provided
classroom training followed by demonstration mock inspections
at U.S. declared sites. These missions, known as "road shows,"

Lt. Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jr.,

briefing Greek inspectors during a
mock inspection at Bitburg Air
Base, Germany, October 18, 1991.
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allowed OSIA inspectors to reach various groups of people who

would be responsible for treaty implementation, usually as instal-
lation escorts during inspections.
One such mission began on October 28, 1991, when Lt.
Colonel Jan S. Karcz, USA, led a team to Sembach Air Base, Ger-
many. During this mission OSIA inspectors trained CFE points of
contact (POCs) from USA FE units on treaty escort and challenge
inspection procedures. Participants from the 16th Air Force bases
in Greece, Italy, Crete, and Turkey gathered, along with Colonel
Schuyler (Sky) Foerster, USAF, a member of the u.S. delegation at
Vienna, representatives from the 17th Air Force, USAFE, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, European Command (EUCOM), and Team Karcz
at Sembach Air Base, Headquarters of the 17th Air Force. On
October 28th, Colonel Foerster provided classroom treaty train-
ing, emphasizing the inspection protocol. Representatives from
JCS, EUCOM, and USAFE then offered their organizations' cur-
rent guidance on treaty escort and challenge inspection proce-
dures. The final blocks of the course provided instruction on
working with linguists and with the U.S. government's liaison
procedures. The next day Lt. Colonel Karcz demonstrated on-site
the lessons taught in the classroom, leading his inspection team
through the mock inspection at Sembach Air Base.
Participation in mock inspections enabled OSIA CFE team
members to gel as competent, professional inspection teams. Indi-
1st U.S.lEastern Mock viduals traveled as a team to new and unfamiliar locations, carried
Inspections out specific tasks as part of an overall team effort to exercise all
October 7-9, 1991 treaty rights, and gained valuable experience on how best to
implement the CFE Treaty. The next step in preparation for the
treaty's entry into force was mock inspections with teams from the
Eastern grou p of sta tes. J3

EASTERN MOCK INSPECTIONS

Germany
The United States participated in mock inspections with
Czechoslovakia, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria
before the treaty entered into force in July 1992. A major reason
for the success of those missions was Germany's participation as
the host state. As a stationing state, the United States needed the
cooperation and permission of the German government to bring
in Eastern inspection teams. Germany was to be a major player
during treaty implementation because there were more than 900
Czechoslovakian Inspection Team declared sites in the newly unified Germany, including the sites of
stationing states such as the United States, France, Canada, and
the United Kingdom. These mock inspections offered Germany's
Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr (ZVBW) an
opportunity to test many aspects of implementing the treaty as a
host state-these included procedures at the POE, transportation
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to the declared site, and providing lodging and

food when required.
The first of these inspections occurred on
October 8, 1991, when a Czechoslovakian in-
spection team came ro Germany to inspect U.S.
forces at Camp Vilseck and the Merrill Barracks.
Major Elmer G. (Guy) White, USA, the escort
team chief, noted that the drawdown of U.S.
forces, coupled with the deployments to the Gulf
War, had dramatically changed U.S. forces in
Europe. Consequently, the information ex-
changed at treaty signature was no longer accu-
rate. Because there would be no exchange of data
until 30 days after the treaty's entry into force,
OSIA escorts would be busy explaining differ-
ences between the old data and the status of Russian Nuclear Risk Reduction Center.
forces during the initial days of baseline.
Major White also highlighted a communications problem
between his team and Headquarters EUCOM. This problem
would recur later during other mock inspections, and it came up
during the treaty's baseline phase. One of the duties of U.S. escort
team chiefs and liaison officers was to communicate the inspection
team's status to EUCOM, which in turn initiated a series of notifi-
cations to U.S. forces in Europe. Because of limited phone lines or
poor connections through various phone systems, and the com-
pressed time during an inspection, OSIA team chiefs and liaison
officers were sometimes unable to contact EUCOM. Instead, they
passed the information on to OSIA's European operations center at
Rhein-Main. From the operations center, team status was passed
to Headquarters EUCOM. It worked, but it was not the way that
it had been envisioned. Communications in the future would rou-
tinely go through OSIA's operations center and then on to
EUCOM.
The next mock inspections with an Eastern nation, and the
first opportunity to train outside a NATO nation, were to occur in
January and February of 1992, following preliminary discussions
in December 1991. 14 As Christmas 1991 approached, Colonel
Kelley and Major Henry J. Nowak, USA, traveled from Frankfurt
to Moscow, accompanied by Lt. Colonel Peer Schwan of the
ZVBW, the German treaty verification organization, to arrange tri-
national mock inspections at CFE facilities in both the Soviet
Union and Germany. Again, Germany's cooperation was pivotal.
As a stationing state, the United States owned none of the territory
in the ATTU; consequently, it turned to the sovereign host state
before arranging a visit by Soviet inspection teams. Major Griffith
S. Hughes, USA, of the Arms Control Implementation Unit of the
American Embassy in Moscow, accompanied Colonel Kelley,
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Major Nowak, and Lt. Colonel Schwan in Moscow. On December

18, 1991, these four officers met a Soviet delegation of 10 officers
led by General-Lieutenant Vladimir 1. Medvedev, head of the
Soviet Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. Jointly, they planned two
mock inspection missions.
The first mission was scheduled for January 1992 in Ger-
many. The inspection sites were the German Artillery Branch
School at Idar-Oberstein, the u.S. Air Force's S2d Tactical Fighter
Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, and the u.s. Army's 200th The-
ater Army Materiel Command (TAMC) at the Germersheim Army
Depot. The second mission, planned for February 1992, would be
held in the Leningrad Military District. There, the designated sites
were the Soviets' 67th Bomber Regiment at Siverskiy Air Base and
the 4S7th Howitzer Artillery Regiment at Pushkin.
The parties then turned to discussing the ground rules for
these mock inspections. These included planning administrative
breaks to allow for discussion of possible technical difficulties as
they occurred. This provision contributed to a major aspect of
these training missions-allowing key treaty participants time to
iron out problems before the real inspections took place. The
parties also modified treaty inspection timelines to allow for over-
night stays. Another deviation from treaty requirements was desig-
nating Frankfurt as the single POE for the Soviet mission into
Germany. Normally Frankfurt could not be a POE for the three
declared sites selected for the inspections. The officers determined
that the Soviets would fly into Rhein-Main Air Base and be bussed
across the shared runway to Frankfurt International Airport.
There German escorts would exercise host state POE procedures;
Americans would test their liaison officer procedures; and the
Soviets would perhaps avoid airport fees by landing at Rhein-
Main. The conferees also discussed notification procedures, the
number of inspectors/observers, team composition, inspection
languages, dining schedules, equipment markings, and distribution
of expenses.
These detailed planning discussions in Moscow, as had been
the case with all planning sessions, prevented problems that would
have detracted from the quality of training during the mock in-
spections. For example, Colonel Kelley reminded the Soviets that
u.S. inspectors occasionally skipped lunch when conducting in-
spections, and that escorts were obliged to assist inspectors in
carrying out an inspection, even if that meant a missed meal.
General-Lieutenant Vladimir l. Other discussions confirmed the U.S. intent to record all external
Medvedev, Director, Soviet Nuclear markings of TLE. The Soviets stated that there would be no access
Risk Reduction Center. to the interior of any equipment for the purpose of recording serial
numbers. The planning agendas for both inspection series were
reviewed, and both sides agreed to hold postinspection discussions
("hotwashes") at each site to clarify points they had discussed
____________________________ S IA\iI)IM. U" I HE U~J I I I ")

Colonel William R. Smith checks

the serial number on an ACV.

during each inspection. The group also agreed to discuss any prob-
lems encountered during the two missions and to pursue how each
nation planned to conduct its inspections.
During this conference several issues arose that were beyond
the authority of the conferees and required resolution by their
respective governments. A change of inspection dates for the mock
inspections in the Leningrad Military District required U.S. gov-
ernment approval. Lt. Colonel Schwan, the ZVBW representative,
turned to the German government for approval of a Soviet request
to allow a Soviet military aircraft to use Sperenberg Air Base in
transit, either before or after dropping off the Soviet inspection
team in Frankfurt. Sperenberg Air Base would provide the Soviets
an opportunity to refuel their aircraft without purchasing fuel in
Frankfurt, which had been a common practice during the INF
Treaty implementation. Once those decisions were made, and
despite the fact that the Soviet Union had collapsed as a nation on "j wanted lIer), IhId!)' to
Christmas Day 1991, only seven days after this meeting, planning Lll'()id a SltlWtiOll ... "
for the tri-nation mock inspections moved forward. 1S -Co l. La\\TCllCC (" "clk\', l ".\I(
(ilid of Operatioll', O"IA FliroPL'<lll
For OSIA, these mock inspections in Russia differed from all
()peratioT)'> COtlltll'llld
previous CFE mock inspections. Colonel Kelley elected to forgo
the usual team structure. Instead, he formed teams using only team
chiefs and deputies, with the one exception of Technical Sergeant
Joseph A. Amen, USAF. He did this because many of the American
team leaders had never been in the Soviet Union. As Kelley put it:
"I wanted very badly to avoid a situation in which our team
leaders would be rendered ineffective for the first several hours, if
not a day, after their entry into the former Soviet Union for the
first time, by virtue of awe. They had to get over that awe. The
best way to do it was to do so at some time other than when they
were performing a real inspection."
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Colonel Kelley wanted to be certain that team leaders realized

that military superpower status did not equate with a strong
economy; that they held no misconceptions as to whom and what
they would be dealing with in the Soviet Union. If team leaders
were going to be distracted by their surroundings, Colonel Kelley
wanted it to happen in a benign environment, during a mock
inspection. When the CFE Treaty entered into force, he wanted the
team leaders to be focused on the actual inspection. Kelley thought
that this would probably be the only opportunity for team chiefs
and deputies to enter the Soviet Union before baseline started-it
was a one-shot deal. The team chiefs and deputies would then
share their experiences with their teams in preparing them for
baseline inspections. 16
A total of 13 American team chiefs or deputies got firsthand
exposure to Russian CFE inspection/escort techniques during these
mock inspections. Major General Robert W. Parker, USAF, Direc-
tor of OSIA, was an observer on both missions. Five OSIA team
chiefs and three deputies were on the escort team in Germany,
January 27-31, 1992, when the Russians visited Spangdahlem Air
Base and Germersheim Army Depot. In addition to augmentees
and observers, five U.S. team chiefs and two deputies were as-
signed to the American team that inspected Russian forces at
Siverskiy Air Base and at Pushkin, February 10-14, 1992. These
nation-to-nation mock inspections revealed differences in treaty
interpretation that simply would not have been uncovered except
for these exercises.
Captain David R. Carter, USAF, of the Plans Branch at OSIA
European Operations, coordinated the effort among USAFE,
USAREUR, the German ZVBW, and OSIA to bring about the
Russian/GermanlU.S. mock inspections. The official U.S. escort
team chief was Lt. Colonel Donald C. Snedeker, USA, and his
deputy was Lt. Colonel Edward G. Gallagher, II, USA. The liaison
officers for this mission were Majors Richard J. O'Shea, USAF,
and Keith A. Oatman, USA. Major Oatman was an excellent
resource for facilitating these inspections because he spoke Ger-
man and Russian, a benefit derived from the emphasis placed on
language skills when manning the unit. Technical Sergeant Joseph
A. Amen, USAF, the only enlisted member of the team, was the
logistics coordinator, a position usually referred to as the
"bagman." Technical Sergeant Amen's role was to make certain
Captain David R. Carter
that inspectors and escorts were billeted and fed when it was the
coordinating a mock inspection
U.S. government's responsibility to do so. Before departing on the
at the Operations Center.
mission, he withdrew funds from the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing
accounting and finance center to cover anticipated expenses. He
arrived with the escort team at the declared site ahead of the in-
spectors. There, he made arrangements and paid for billeting or
hotel rooms if the teams were spending the night. He also paid for
all meals. I?
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At the first Russian/American/German CFE mock inspection,

January 27-31, General Parker greeted the incoming inspectors
and briefly spoke of the importance of this series of inspections.
He welcomed the opportunity for joint training, continued coop-
eration, mutual trust, and most important-developing a "key
blueprint for the CFE verification regime."
On January 27, 1992, little more than a month after the Soviet
Union had collapsed, a Russian inspection team arrived in Frankfurt
Muck lIIs/Jectwlls delle/op
to conduct mock inspections, thus maintaining continuity in arms "kcy /J/[{cprillt luI' thc CrJ,
II

control treaty implementation. The Russian inspection team and six I 'erilicLlfiull rL'<~i1Jl(,. "
Russian observers underwent POE procedures with the host Ger- \ 1.1 1. ('L'Il. Rohert \\ . 1'.lJ'I.;<I'

man escort team. The U.S. liaison team, General Parker, and Colo-
nel Kelley were also there. The Russians declared their first inspec-
tion site, Idar-Oberstein, and departed with the German host state
escorts. After an overnight administrative hold, the Russian inspec-
tors arrived at Idar-Oberstein at 0830 for the mock inspection.
Following the inspection, the two teams held an informal discus-
sion, reviewing the procedures and inspection issues. Then, the
Russian team chief followed treaty protocol procedures and de-
clared a sequential inspection at Spangdahlem Air Base. Finally,
again following treaty protocols precisely, the two team chiefs
signed the inspection report. While the Russian inspectors and
observers, the U.S. liaison team, and General Parker and Colonel
Kelley spent the night at Idar-Oberstein, the U.S. escort team trav-
eled ahead to Spangdahlem Air Base. There they made final, last-
minute preparations for the next day's inspection.
Upon leaving Idar-Oberstein, the German escort team contin-
ued their responsibilities for the Russian inspection team and
transported them to the next inspection site. The U.S. escort
team greeted the Russian and German teams upon arrival at
Spangdahlem Air Base and once again assumed escort responsibili-
ties from the Germans. After providing refreshments and the site
diagram to the Russians at the Officers' Club, Lt. Colonel Snedeker
and his team waited 30 minutes for the Russians to declare the
OOY to be inspected. The Russian team chief declared the 52nd
Tactical Fighter Wing, and the Americans began the site briefing.
Following this briefing, the entire Russian inspection team
participated in a bus ride around the base. Colloquially known
as a "windshield tour," this bus ride gave the inspection team a
chance to compare the site diagram with the actual facilities, a
practice that many nations would later adopt in escorting inspec-
tion teams. After the windshield tour the Russian team broke into
three subgroups, which departed immediately for different areas
on the base to begin their inspections. The Russian inspectors
requested access to all doors that exceeded the treaty's two-meter
limit and were satisfied with visual access if they could readily
determine there was no TLE present in a building. If the inspectors
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U.S. escorts con(i'rm a two-meter

opening during a mock inspection
at Lakenheath Air Base, England.

could not immediately determine that there was no TLE in a facil-

ity, the American escorts provided them access as far into a facility
as necessary to confirm there was no TLE there, or until they
encountered doors that did not exceed two meters.
When one subgroup requested access to the Munitions Stor-
age Area, Lt. Colonel Snedeker responded that the area was a sensi-
tive point with limited access. He offered the inspectors an option
to select four of the bunkers within the storage area for visual
access only. The inspectors however, wanted either total access or
no access to the area. Lt. Colonel Snedeker referred to rhe treaty
definition of a sensitive point as allowing total, limited, or no
access. At that point the Russian inspectors declined the American
offer for limited access and proceeded to inspect other areas. By
evening, the Russian team had finished its inspection, conducted a
briefing, declared the sequential inspection (the 200th TAMe: at
Germersheim Army Depot), and completed the inspection report.
After a dinner at the NCO Club, all teams left for Germersheim,
where they remained overnight. The next day the Russians con-
ducted their inspection, participated in a briefing, completed their
report, and departed promptly for Rhein-Main, where they re-
mained overnight before returning to Moscow the next day. I S
Several issues arose during the inspections of the two U.S.
sites. Photogra phy was a point of contention on several occasions,
specifically, the framing of photos. The U.S. escorts insisted that
inspectors photograph an entire object, not just a part of it. U.S.
escorts stated that an inspection team's photos were a tool in
counting equipment, not a means to focus on an aspect of a spe-
cific piece of equipment or the area around it. Subsequently, in
February 1992, during the U.S. mock inspection at Siverskiy Air
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ST AN DING UP [HE UNIT 11 7

Base, Russian escorts reciprocated by changing the framing of U.S.

photos of Russian aircraft. Announcing when inspectors were
going to take a picture also became an issue when the Russians
declared that, under the treaty, they were required to announce
their intention to take photos only once. In December 1991 at
Vienna, however, General Medvedev had stated that an announce-
ment should be made prior to each photo. Later, Russian escort
officials concurred with that position during a U.S. mock inspec-
tion at Pushkin.
Because the treaty does not define a container, differences of
interpretation arose during the mock inspections at U.S. facilities.
The inspection protocol allows for the inspection of any container
that exceeds two meters in all dimensions. The Russian inspectors
defined a container as anything that "contains," to include the
trailer of a tractor trailer rig or a communications vehicle. The U.S.
position was that the back of a truck was a piece of equipment, and
if the vehicle was not a piece of conventional armaments and equip-
ment subject to the treaty (CAEST), inspectors had no right to
inspect the vehicle. Later, in April 1992, Joint Chiefs of Staff guid-
ance on containers allowed inspectors to view the interior of cargo
vehicles or tractor trailers. Other vehicles that had been modified
for other uses, such as communications vehicles, called for different
procedures. If the modification to the vehicle were not readily ap-
parent, an effort would be made to show that it was a modified
piece of equipment and did not contain TLE.I ~
Another question was sparked by the presence of two Egyp-
tian F-4 fighters at Spangdahlem. The Russian inspectors felt the
fighters should have been declared as CAEST; the U.S. response

U.S. site escorts open a container

during a mock inspection.
I IH 0 -SITJ I '>1'1 ( 110 A(.I ('\

SU-24 parked outside aircraft shelter at Siverskiy Air Base, Russia, during mock inspection in February 1992.

was that since Egypt was not a signatory to the treaty, the Egyp-
tian fighters were not subject to the treaty, and the United States
would not report it during a site briefing or through formal CFE
reporting channels.
Shortly after these Russian mock inspections in Germany
were complete, a nine-man American inspection team led by Lt.
Colonel Gallagher conducted the mock inspections in Russia. The
inspection team and six observers departed Rhein-Main on an Air
Force C-141 on February 10, 1992. They a rrived in Moscow
around noon and, after a brief greeting, the Russians immediately
initiated POE procedures. After Gallagher declared Siverskiy Air
Base to be the first inspection site, the teams agreed to stop the
inspection clock. The team-along with General Parker, Colonel
Kelley, and other observers-remained overnight in Moscow. The
following morning all departed for Siverskiy Air Base, where they
conducted the first inspection. The American team departed for
Pushkin the next day, where it conducted its inspection of the
Russian Army artillery site over the next two days. After complet-
ing the second inspection on the 13th, Lt. Colonel Gallagher's
team spent the night in Pushkin, returning to Moscow the next
morning and then to Rhein-Main to complete the mission.
Photography again proved to be a source of questions during
these inspections. One situation dealt with the number of photo-
graphs inspectors were allowed to take of CAEST. Escort officials
questioned the need to take more than one photo of any piece of
CAEST. Lt. Colonel Gallagher countered that photos were allowed
 SI\~I)IM.UI'IHIU~11 II';)

to account for CAEST. He added that there was no way of deter-

mining how many subteams had photographed a piece of equip-
ment and that treaty-authorized use of video cameras made the
question moot. This issue was resolved when the Russian escorts
reluctantly agreed that there was no limit. Reciprocity, which was
an element of operations under INF inspections, also came into
play during these CFE mock inspections when the Russians re-
quired U.S. inspectors to frame photos of SU-24s, just as U.S.
escorts had required Russian inspectors to frame F-16 photos in
January.
In addition to photo questions, a site diagram issue arose
during the inspection at Pushkin. Russian escorts presented to the
American inspectors a site diagram that did not indicate common
areas, only the areas specific to the two OOYs at Pushkin. The
American team chief, Lt. Colonel Gallagher, asserted that the
diagram was not complete because it did not show the extent of its
manmade external boundary. This limited the inspection team's
access on the site. The Russian escorts did not agree with his inter-
pretation of the treaty and did not alter the boundary of the site
on the diagram. Lt. Colonel Gallagher noted the problem on the
inspection report. It was a problem that would resurface during
the baseline period and become the focus of a concerted allied
effort to change the Russian interpretation. 20
The February 1992 mission to Russia was the first CFE mock
inspection deployment into the Eastern group of states. Following
that mission, from March 15 through May 9, OSIA teams con-

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120 ON-SITE INSPECTION AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __

ducted mock inspections in Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,

and Poland before the treaty entered into force in July 1992. The
final OSIA mock inspection with an Eastern nation before the
treaty's entry into force occurred on May 11, 1992, when Bulgar-
ian inspectors deployed to Belgium. Each of these missions uncov-
ered problems that were corrected on the spot, or noted and
passed on for resolution by the U.S. government. One problem
that inspectors could not correct was the presence of look-alike
equipment in Czechoslovakia that was not included in the proto-
colon existing types of conventional armaments and equipment.
Site diagrams also proved to be a problem at severalloca-
tions. In Czechoslovakia, an escort team gave a thorough site
briefing using wall charts; however, the site diagrams provided to
the inspection team were not as accurate. The Czech escorts be-
lieved that the treaty requirement to provide a site diagram was
satisfied by the wall charts and that giving diagrams to the inspec-
tors exceeded treaty requirements. The Czechs later changed their
view on this issue. In Romania, escorts presented a site diagram
that included the entire town adjacent to the military installation.
The American inspection team discussed treaty requirements for
site diagrams with their hosts, whereupon the Romanians nar-
rowed the scope of their site diagram. In several states the U.S.
teams experienced difficulties communicating with the U.S. Em-
bassy. National phone systems were sometimes inadequate, and
often U.S. Embassy personnel were not yet aware of notification
requirements mandated by the treaty.
In all, from May 14, 1991, through July 5,1992, OSIA in-
spection teams deployed on 44 mock inspection missions. During
these missions, OSIA inspectors participated in nearly 100 mock
inspections. American inspecto rs trained with inspectors from 18
nations and shared their knowledge with representatives or units
from USAREUR, USAFE, a nd U.S. Navy Europe. Typically, a
mission lasted for several days and involved two or mo re mock
inspections. Although the stay at anyone location was brief, the
mock inspections provided an understanding of how U.S. tea ms
would conduct an inspection and how U.S. teams would work
with foreign teams inspecting U.S. forces. In addition, these inspec-
tions familiarized U.S. inspectors with the environment of the
Eastern states, which would prepare them for contingencies that
might arise during an actual inspection mission. These missions
also tested the efficiency of the logistics system used to prepare
and transport U.S. tea ms. One group that did not benefit from this
series of mock inspections, however, was the U.S. liaison person-
nel, who would not be ready to perform until days before the
treaty entered into force.
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ROLE OF THE LIAISON OFFICERS

During treaty negotiations, U.S. delegates were satisfied that
proposed escort provisions would protect American interests when
Eastern teams conducted CFE inspections at U.S. installations. It
wasn't until late in negotiations that the United States recognized
that there were many U.S. facilities, equipment, and personnel
throughout Western Europe that were not subject to the treaty but
were nonetheless vulnerable to CFE inspections. These forces were
located on allied installations or at separate locations, not on U.S.
installations. They were vulnerable during challenge inspections of
specified areas or inspections of allied forces. Consequently, the
United States insisted that the treaty contain a provision requiring
a liaison officer's presence during any inspection of a nation's
forces. OSIA's European Operations Command was not manned to
carry out these liaison duties. The manning document allowed for
two liaison officers; however, their planned duties did not include Major Richard J. O 'Shea, first U.S.
deployments throughout Western Europe whenever Eastern teams Liaison Officer.
conducted CFE inspections.
The first American liaison officer (LNO), Major Richard J.
O'Shea, USAF, arrived at OSIA's European Operations Command
in February 1991. One of O'Shea's first tasks was to develop a list
of the locations of American forces throughout Europe. OSIA
LNOs needed to know exactly what U.S. interests could be vulner-
able to an Eastern CFE Treaty inspection team. The list proved
difficult to start and impossible to complete. No single headquar-
ters in Europe maintained a list of all U.S. forces in Europe. Lists
of major units-units that would be reportable under the treaty as
well as non-CFE units-were readily available from USAFE and
USAREUR. Determining the whereabouts of the many small
groups of U.S. military people and equipment, however, proved
extremely difficult. Within a few months, Major O'Shea deter-
mined that his list encompassed more than 1,200 locations
throughout the NATO treaty area; in Germany alone there were
140 U.S. OOYs as well as 741 U.S. facilities that were not on U.S .
declared sites. In addition, the drawdown of U.S. forces from
Europe caused movements of people and equipment, much of
which were not reportable under the CFE Treaty. This made it
difficult to maintain a current list.
Two NCOs assigned to the Plans Section-Technical Sergeant
Ronald S. Fox, USAF, and Staff Sergeant Thomas]. Bradley,
USAF-assisted Major O'Shea by designing and building a com-
puter database nicknamed "Big Hog" to identify U.S. forces, de-
clared sites, and rOEs throughout Europe. The numerous loca-
tions made the list difficult to compile; the locations of classified
programs made it impossible to complete. The ]CS placed respon-
sibility for the CFE liaison mission on OSIA; however, OSIA was
not privy to ongoing classified programs. Consequently, the
122 O:--J - SII I 1I\'>I'ICIIOl\ AGI: ,\cy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

"working" list that Major O'Shea developed provided OSIA liai-

son teams the most reliable and current information available in
Europe. It was clear, however, that U.S. teams could be called to
protect U.S. interests, whatever they might be, at any place and at
any time within the NATO states. 2 1
Although the ]CS guidance on the OSIA liaison mission
spelled out what was to be accomplished, manpower to carry out
that mission was not addressed. The ]CS guidance required that a
U.S. liaison team be available to the NATO states' escort team
whenever Eastern inspectors arrived at a POE to conduct CFE
inspections. Each U.S. liaison team would arrive ahead of the
inspection team and remain available to the host escort team
throughout the Eastern team's mission in case U.S. interests were
involved. By October 1991, OSIA European Operations did not
have sufficient manning to accomplish the liaison mission during
baseline, and Major O'Shea remained the lone LNO assigned.
Colonel Kelley turned to Headquarters to press for a solution. He
indicated that 13 temporary duty two-person teams would be
required during the 120-day baseline period. Kelley recommended
13 teams based on the inspection quotas of the U.S. and the
NATO allies, travel time to all NATO POEs compared to notifica-
tion times, and the assumption that the Eastern states would con-
duct all inspections available to them in Western Europe. He also
pointed out that following the baseline period, OSIA would re-
quire four officers to carry out the continuing liaison mission;
therefore, three additional officers should be assigned perma-
nently. Colonel Kelley emphasized the importance of experience
with life in Europe and a proficiency in a European language-
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, or Portuguese
(in that order)-when selecting officers for liaison dutyY

OSIA inspectors inside bomb bay

of B-52 bomber during mock
START inspection.
 ~ r\ DI c. l I' fm U Ir 121

The issue of who would supply the 13 temporary teams was

not resolved until the summer of 1992. Headquarters and other
OSIA locations had sufficient personnel to execute the CFE liaison
mission. However, many of these people were preparing to imple-
ment other treaties such as the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(START) and the Chemical Weapons Convention. When the issue
of CFE liaison support arose, Headquarters personnel pointed to
the possibility that these treaties might enter into force simulta-
neously, requiring a maximum effort from Headquarters to imple-
ment these other treaties. Outside OSIA, an increasingly smaller
USAREUR also balked at providing teams for the 120-day tempo-
rary duty. In February 1992, Major General Robert W. Parker,
USAF, Director of OSIA, decided that unless START and CFE
entered into force simultaneously, OSIA would provide the tempo-
rary liaison support. By June 1992, it became apparent that in the
following month the CFE Treaty would enter into force, and it
was equally clear that START, stranded in the ratification process,
would not enter into force. The liaison teams would come from
OSIA.2l
On each team, the temporary liaison team members, one
officer and one enlisted, were knowledgeable and experienced in
one of the other arms control treaties, but not the CFE Treaty. All
would require training on the CFE Treaty and on the specific
duties and responsibilities of a U.S. LNO. In addition to LNOs,
two additional temporary teams for escort and reduction inspec-
tions would receive CFE Treaty training at the same time. Major
O'Shea recommended that European Operations conduct the
training at Rhein-Main so that students would be free of the dis-
tractions of Headquarters and home. At Rhein-Main the future
team members could focus on their upcoming duties.
During the course Major O'Shea provided more than a third of
the classroom treaty instruction and nearly all the liaison-specific
instruction. Throughout the course he stressed activities expected to
occur in Germany. Other treaty experts taught equipment familiar-
ization and demonstrated an escort mission, while representatives of
the German and the British verification agencies provided their

Headquarters aSIA 11ear

\¥/ashi11gt011, D.C., was the lJ1"imary
source for liaiso11 officers duri11g
CFE baseli11e.
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u.s. CFE LIAISON TEAM DEPLOYMENTS agencies' perspectives on liaison operations.

Three days after th e CFE Liaison (7-11 July) and
CFE Treaty (13-16 July) courses, half the gradu-
a tes were in place throughout Europe awaiting
2 teams Eastern inspection teams, while the rest returned
6 teams to their duty sections. Midway through baseline,
1 team at th e end of 60 days, the two groups would
1 team rotate pos itions. 24
The concentration of American and NATO
forces in Central Europe dictated that the u.S.
liaison mission focus on Germany. Conversely,
th e flank s or outlying areas, such as Portugal,
held far feweru.s. or NATO forces, would be
subject to few er Eastern inspections, and there-
fore would require fewer American LNOs. The
primary consideration in team placement was
response time. Six liaison teams in Germany could operate effec-
tively from Rhein-Main to meet inspection teams in Germany,
Belgium, Norway, Denmark, th e Netherlands, and Greece. Com-
mercial airline schedules were not timely enough, and military
airlift was too limited to support LNO missions that could be
unpredictable and possibly frequent in the United Kingdom, Tur-
key, Spain, or Portugal. To satisfy th e U.S government policy to
have a liaison team available for eac h Eastern inspection team,
two teams deployed to the United Kingdom while two teams trav-
eled to Turkey, and one team deployed to Spain to stand by to
carry out liaison operations. The single tea m in Madrid was also
prepared to respond to an Eastern tea m in Portugal.
Luxembourg, Iceland, and France w ere exce ptions for U.S.
liaison operations. There were no U.S. forc es in France, only six
M47 tank s. In the unlikel y event of an inspection of those tanks,
the U.S. would forgo its rig ht to be present at the inspection. Lux-
embourg and Iceland had no OOYs of their own, but there were
U.S. OOYs and declared sites located on their territory. When an
Eastern state announced its intent to inspect in one of these na-
tions, an entire U.S. escort team would deploy because the inspec-
tion had to be on a U.S. dec lared site. 2s

FINAL PREPARATIONS
During the 30 days prior to the CFE Treaty's entry into force,
Colonel Kelley provided the inspection teams one last opportunity
to shore up any weak spots in their readiness to conduct their
missions. He directed the s upport branches to provide the inspec-
tion division with briefings and refres her training programs on
specific topics he felt would be critical to a successful baseline
effort. The Logistics Division reviewed and refined "bagman"
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procedures, vehicle operations, supply, and procuring air transpor-

tation under several different scenarios. Plans and Analysis briefed
inspection teams on target folders, special databases, and other
areas of direct assistance. The Plans Branch also reminded inspec-
tors of their responsibility to provide accurate information needed
to develop treaty notification messages. The Operations Branch
provided training on its capabilities for assisting teams through
communications and current information on different countries.
Other briefings and training dealt with team equipment, photogra-
phy, TLE identification, emergency medical training, and prepara-
tion of CFE Treaty reports. 26

Transportation
Transportation was critical for successful implementation of
the treaty. Inspection teams traveled hundreds or even thousands
of miles to arrive at distant points of entry (POEs) at the notified
time. Liaison and escort teams had to react with minimal notice to
the arrival of Eastern inspection teams at NATO states. The escort
teams had to transport up to 10 people, including a bagman. Minivans and station wagons were
Escort and liaison teams needed flexible and timely transportation primary transportation for escort
to meet the limited notifications allowed in declared site or chal- and liaison teams.
lenge inspections. Trains and commercial planes in the region were
excellent, but they ran only on fixed schedules and didn't go di-
rectly to the inspection sites or all POEs. Because automobiles
could satisfy mission requirements for 90 percent of the u.s.
OOVs, escort and liaison teams in Germany and the nearby
Benelux countries relied on minivans. Vans allowed teams to leave
at any time and to go directly to the inspection site or POE. Dur-
ing baseline, each escort team was assigned two minivans to trans-
port all team members and their gear. The two-person LNO teams
deployed by station wagon. The motor pool at Rhein-Main could
not support OSIA with a fleet of 15 minivans and 7 station wag-
ons, so OSIA leased them from two local companies. Liaison
teams pre-positioned outside Germany normally used rental cars
in their missions. Motor vehicles, however, could not satisfy all of
OSIA's mission requirements Y
To conduct CFE inspections in the Eastern states, U.S. teams
would deploy to national entry points as far away as Moscow.
American escort teams would also respond, on short notice, to
areas across Western Europe from the United Kingdom to Turkey.
Airlift was the only way to implement the treaty in those circum-
stances. In early planning Major Steven E. Pestana, USAF, of the
Mission Coordination Branch, studied the possibility of using
C-20 class aircraft. These small business jets were perhaps the best
suited for the mission, although there was concern that all the
inspectors and their belongings could exceed weight limits of the
aircraft. With the Gulf War and the drawdown of American forces
in Europe, however, the C-20s were no longer an option. There
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A C-141 from the 437th MAC prepared to depart Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, on an OSIA mission.

were not enough suitable U.S. aircraft in Europe to support the

CFE mission. In January 1990, the director of operations at Head-
quarters USAFE announced that the Military Airlift Command
(MAC) would provide C-141, C-l30, or C-5 airlift for the CFE
mission, based on passenger or load requirements. In addition,
USAFE would provide C-l30 aircraft to support the CFE mission.
The 435th Tactical Airlift Wing at Rhein-Main, a USAFE unit,'"
and the 437th and 438[h Military Airlift Wings from Charleston
AFB, South Carolina, and McGuire AFB, New Jersey, both MAC
wings, would provide airlift support to OSIA teams.
The 435th crews flew C-l30s on inspection missions into
Eastern Europe, and also were tasked to support CFE escort mis-
sions outside Central Europe. To perform that mission, which
could be on short notice for escort operations, the 435th kept two
crews and one C-l30 on alert. Meanwhile, crews of the 437th and
438th flew C-141s on inspection missions into the former Soviet
Union. The MAC wings alternated support with two C-141s that
were pre-positioned at Rhein-Main. Wilbur Lewis, Jr., of OSIA's
Military Airlift Coordination Branch, arranged for the C-141

'During the same time OSIA was preparing for CFE Treaty implementation, the U.S . Air
Force underwent a reorganization. As a part of this reorganization, control of Rhein-Main
Air Base and its host unit, the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing, passed from MAC to USA FE.
Previously, while USAFE played a major role in scheduling the 435th's C-130 theater
airlift forces, it did not actually own the unit. The reorganization also resulted in many
redesignations , both to field units and major commands. On 1 June 1992, MAC inactivated
and was replaced by the Air Mobility Command (AMC). In addition , both Military Airlift
Wings and Tactical Airlift Wings were redesignated simply as Airlift Wings.
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support from OSIA Headquarters. The Plans Branch at European

Operations (EO) coordinated C-130 missions at Rhein-Main.
One of the elements of coordinating airlift support was track-
ing vital information on all aircrew members.28 The protocol on
inspection required that each signatory provide a list to all other
treaty nations of aircrew members (600 maximum) and inspectors
(400 maximum) designated to support or participate in CFE in-
spections. The list included names, gender, date and place of birth,
and passport number. The long, detailed U.S. list was compiled by
OSIA's Treaty List Management Branch. Once the list was com-
piled, OSIA turned it over to the U.S. State Department for dis-
semination to other nations at Vienna. The inspection protocol
required each state to provide this list to all other signatories
within 90 days after treaty signature. The next opportunity to
update lists came within 30 days of treaty implementation. In
addition, the treaty allowed a nation receiving the list up to 30
days to review it and request that the originating state delete cer-
tain names from the list; there was no right of refusal to delete
names. Because of the long period between signature and entry
into force, the U.S. list was outdated at entry into force. Some
people were no longer available for duty but were still on the list,
and others who arrived after the original list was submitted were
available for duty but not listed. This situation would affect
OSIA's early baseline operations. 29

Communications
Communications under the INF Treaty had been relatively
simple. The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC) at the U.S.
State Department passed information directly to the Soviet
Nuclear Risk Reduction Center in Moscow. A single conduit
passed all required data. Under the CFE Treaty, a new system, the
CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) com-
munications network, was only partially functional when the
treaty's baseline inspection phase started in July 1992.
The CSCE members had anticipated a communications net-
work linking 35 CSCE capitals and three CSCE institutions 24
hours a day. The system, designed to support the Vienna Docu-
ment, was linked by a central switching center at The Hague.
Unfortunately, when the system was designed, the Soviet Union
required only one terminal, in Moscow. With the breakup of the
USSR, however, a glaring weakness in the CSCE communications
system surfaced. No nation in the former Soviet Union, except
Russia, had the hardware to connect to the system. Hardware was
expensive, and newly emerging nations opted to apply their lim-
ited resources to other pressing matters. As a result, during CFE
baseline the U.S. NRRC transmitted CFE messages to only those
nations that were operating on the CSCE network.
 To reach those nations that were not yet
on the network, and as a backup in case of a
system failure, the State Department also sent
CFE notification messages through diplo-
matic channels. Diplomatic channels some-
times entailed hand-carried messages from
the U.S. Embassy to the appropriate officials
in that state. Acknowledgment of receipt and
acceptance of an inspection required addi-
tional hand-carried notes from state agencies
to the U.S. Embassy. This added a burden to
some embassy staffs that were already ex-
tremely busy and, as was discovered during
The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center in the Department of mock inspections, were sometimes unaware
State sent and received treaty messages. of notification requirements of the CFE
Treaty. Meanwhile, the Plans Branch and
Operations at EO had opened an informal "back door" communi-
cations network that eclipsed the formal system during the early
stages of baseline.
This informal communications system was based on the
excellent working relationships of staff with their counterparts in
verification agencies throughout Europe. This informal system
developed with the initial outreach for mock inspections and grew
day to day as the agencies-particularly the German, French,
British, and U.S. agencies-repeatedly looked to each other for
reliable and timely information. This informal network would
prove valuable during baseline, when the formal notification sys-
tem occasionally failed. Fortunately, the informal communication
system provided a safety net, and frequently OSIA liaison teams
had to prepare or deploy based on information from this network.
As baseline drew near, the teams were trained and eager,
equipment was in place, transportation stood ready, and several
communications systems were operating.3D

NOTES
1. Interview with Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert, USAF, Team Chief, OSIA, by
joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, july
12, 1993; Director of Resource Management, Manpower Office, Report on
"On-Site Inspection Agency Manning Document," October 8, 1992.
2. Interview, Gessert; Interview with Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, USA, Team
Chief, OSIA, by joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air
Base, Germany, july 12, 1993; Interview with Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley,
USMC, Chief, Operations Division, European Operations Command,
OSIA, by joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Washington, D.C., May 18,
1994.
3. Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, "Briefing Papers for Senate Committee on
Intelligence Hearings," September 4,1991; Directorate for Operations,
 SI\~()I'\;(,UI'IHFU~11 129

Training Branch, OSIA, "Syllabus of Arms Control Training Conventional

Forces in Europe Treaty: Inspector/Escort Course," February 4-14, 1991.

4. Interview, Kelley; Interview with Master Sergeant George A. Partridge,

USA, Weapons Specialist, European Operations Command, OSIA, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July
13, 1993; Interview with Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael R. Lukes, USA,
Deputy Team Chief, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
5. Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, "Briefing Papers for Senate Committee on
Intelligence Hearings," September 4, 1991; Operations Division, Training
Branch, European Operations Command, OSIA, "Listing of Equipment
Identification Training Levels and Associated Equipment," July 19, 1993;
Lt. Colonel Donald Snedeker, Operations Division, Inspection/Escort
Branch, European Operations Command, OSIA, "Memorandum on Level
III Conventional Arms and Equipment," May 22, 1992; Interview, Kelley.

6. Interview, Gessert; Interview, Kelley.

7. Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, "Briefing Papers for Senate Committee on

Intelligence Hearings," September 4, 1991; Interview with Sergeants First
Class Gary E. Karstens and Kenneth D. Periman, USA, OSIA linguists, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany,
December 17, 1993; Major General Robert W. Parker, USAF, Director,
OSIA, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International
Security and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of
Representatives, May 12, 1992.
8. Joseph P. Harahan, On-Site Inspections Under the INF Treaty (Washing-
ton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993), pp. 27-30.

9. Interview with Lt. Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jr., USA, Team Chief, OSIA, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany,
December 17, 1993.

10. Interview, Kelley.

11. Interview, Kelley; Interview with Master Sergeant William N. Chesney, Jr.,
USA, Plans NCO, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993; OSIA European Operations
Command, "Report on Bi-Weekly Activities, May 15-31, 1992," June 5,
] 992; Lt. Colonel Donald C. Snedeker, USA, Branch Chief, Inspector/
Escort Branch, European Operations Command, "Memorandum on DOF
(I&E) Outline Plans for Jan-Feb," January 6, 1992; Plans/Liaison Branch,
European Operations Command, "Talking Paper on Planning, Preparation,
and Conduct of Trial (Mock) Inspections," January 1992; Captain David
Carter, USAF, Planner, Plans/Liaison Branch, European Operations
Command, "Talking Paper on Excess Operations Planning Personnel at
OSIA-Europe," January 16, 1992.
12. Colonel Frederick E. Grosick, USAF, Director, Field Office Europe,
"Memorandum on CFE Mock Inspections," June 4,1991; Lt. Colonel
David P. Gessert, "After Action Report on French Mock Inspection," June
3, 1991; Plans Branch, Field Office Europe, "Planning Order for French
Mock Inspection," May 1991; Interview, Gessert.

13. Interview, Kelley; Interview with Lt. Colonel Jan S. Karcz, USA, Team
Chief, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air
Base, Germany, December 13, 1993; Lt. Colonel Jan S. Karcz, "After
Action Report on Mock Inspection C-91-MOC-27 A (Sembach Air Base),"
November 15, 1991; Plans/Liaison Branch, European Operations
Command, "Report from Inspection Data Base," November 11, 1992.
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14. Intervi ew, Kell ey; Major Elmer G. White, USA, Team C hief, "After Acti o n
Report of Escort of Czechoslo vak Mock Inspections, October 8-9,1991,"
November 8, 1991; Lt . Colo nel J.D. Pesterfi eld, USAF, Chief, Operations
Branch, Pl a ns, Requirements , and Schedules Division, Operations
Directo ra te, OSIA, "Trip Report o n Vienna .ICG Meetin g, December 9-13,
1991 ," December 23,1991.

]5 . Lt. Co lon el John D. Pes terfield, USAF, "Staff Coordination Sheet on U.S.-
Soviet Mock, " December 24,1991; Intervi ew, Kelley; Co lonel Lawrence G.
Kelley, " After Action Repo rt o n U.S.-USSR CFE Mock In sp ection Planning
Conference," December 20, ] 991 .
16. Interview, Kelley.

17. Plans/Liaiso n Branch , European Operations Command, "Planning Order

for Mi ss ion C92 -MO C-02 9A," J a nuar y 23 , 1992; U.S. Department o f
State, " M essage on C FE Mock In specti o ns in Russia a nd Germany,"
January 11 , 1992; Major Keith A. Oatman, USA, "What a way to sta rt th e
new year!" On-Site Insights, M a rch 1992, p. 11.
18. Lt. Co lonel Stephen L. Harris, USA F, Deputy Chief, Impl ementation
Requirements Office, OS IA, "After Action Report on U.S.-Russian M oc k
C FE Inspection s," March 9, 1992; Co lonel Michael S. Brake, USAF, Vice
Commander, 52 nd Tactical Fighter Wing, "Conventi o na l Armed Fo rces in
Europe C rosstell ," February 7, 1992.
19. Joint Staff M essage, "Response to HQ USEUCOM Requ est for Guidance,"
April 22, 1992.
20. Lt. Co lo nel Stephen L. H arris, "A fter Action Report o n U.S.-Russian Mock
C FE Inspecti o ns," March 9, 1992; C FE In spection Repo rts, " Siversk iy,
Ru ss ia," Fe bruary 11 , ] 992, a nd " Pushkin , Ru ss ia ," February 13, ] 992;
Opera ti ons Division, Euro pea n Operations Co mmand, " Talking Papers-
Declared Site Diag ram a nd Photogra ph)" Blu e on Red Prac tice In spection,
Febru a ry 10-14, 1992," March 13, 1992.
21. Intervi ew with Major Ri cha rd J. O'Shea, USAF, Lia ison Officer, Euro pea n
Operati o ns Co mmand , OS IA, by Josep h P. H a rah a n, Historian, OSIA,
Rh ein-M a in Air Ba se, Ger ma ny, July 12, '1 993; Intervi ew, Kell ey; Interview,
Chesn ey.
22. Intervi ew, Kell ey; Steve Sc hlein, Planner, Impl ementati on Req uirements
Office, OS IA, Proposa l for J CS approval on "Concept o f Operations: C FE
Liai son Officer Duti es, " N ovember 25,1991; Colone l Lawrence G. Kelley,
"Memorandum on CFE Liaison Officer Req uirement, " October 21,1991.
2.1. Colon el Frederick E. G ros ick, USAF, Director, Plans, Operations, and
Tra ining, OSIA, "Me mora ndum o n CFE Liaison Officer and Escort
Reduction Tea ms," May 1992; Major Ri cha rd J. O'Shea, USAF, Liaison
Officer, European Operations Co mma nd, OSIA, "Me mo ra ndum on
Liai son O ffic er Trainin g," February 12, '1992.

24. Major Richard J. O'Shea, " Mem o randum on Liaison Officer Trainin g,"
February 12, 1992; Intervi ew, O'Shea; "Sy llabus for OS IA Liaison Officers
Course," Jul y 7-'11, '1992; European Operations Command , " Lia ison
Officers' Deployment Schedule," Jul y 10, 1992.
25. Major Rich a rd J . O'Shea, " Memorandum o n Liaison Officer Training,"
February 12, '1992 ; Interview, O 'S hea; U.S. CFE Trea ty Exc hanged Data as
of July 17, 1992.
26. Interview, Kell ey; Operations Division , Europea n Operations Command,
"Briefing o n Mil esto nes for Entry Into Force of the CFE Trea ty, " May
1992.
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27. Inte rview, Kell ey ; Ve hicl e Operations Section, European Operations

Co mmand, "Inspector/Escort Ve hicle Status Log," July 1992.

28. Major Steven E. Pesta na, USAF, C hi e f, Mi ss io n Coordin a ti o n Branch,

Logistics Division, Fie ld Office Europe, OSIA, " Ta lking Pa pe r on Airlift for
C FE In specto r/Esco rt Teams," August 19, 199 1; H eadqu a rte rs USAF
Message on "OS IA Airlift Support," January 27,1992.

29. Interv iew, Fiser; Treaty Li st Management Branch, Pl a ns, Operations, and
Training Directorate, OSIA, "Trea ties In spector/A ircrew List," March 1,
1993.
30. Pie rce S. Co rd en, Multilateral Affairs Bureau, U.S. Arms Co ntrol and
Disarmament Age ncy, M emo randum on " Th e CSCE Co mmunications
Network and CFE Impl ementa tion," April 15, "1992; Steve Schlein,
Planner, Inte ra ge nc y Affairs Office, OSIA , "Talking Pape r on Support and
Information Needed fo r CFE Impl ementa tion, " jun e 30, 1992; Jennife r
Laurendeau, Office o f European Security and Political Affairs, Burea u o f
Europea n and Ca nad ia n Affairs, U.S. Departme nt of State, "Memorandum
o n How to Manage CFE Notifica tions at Home a nd Abroad," Jul y 13,
1992; Inte rvi ew, C hes ney.
 Chapter 5

Defense ministers of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council meet at NATO headquarters.

W
hat was the status of the other CFE Treaty states as they
prepared to implement the treaty? On the first day of
the treaty's entry into force, every state had to be ready
to carry out its treaty obligations and rights. Obligations meant
that states had to be prepared to display and account for their
treaty-limited equipment (TLE); ready to send and receive treaty-
required communications regarding force data, reduction activi-
ties, and notifications of all inspections; and ready to receive in-
spection teams, transport them to the declared sites, host and
escort them on-site, and return them to the point of entry (POE)
after completion of the inspection. Treaty rights focused on the
selection, preparation, and training of inspection teams that would
monitor the different phases of the treaty. They also included the
opportunity to send national delegates to serve on the Joint Con-
sultative Group (JCG), which was responsible for facilitating the
treaty's implementation. A survey of the 29 CFE Treaty states on
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The Russian NRRC-the largest,

most experienced verification
agency in the Eastern states.
I
I

the eve of the treaty's entry into force on July 17, 1992, revealed
a wide degree of preparedness, as one might expect from a wide
array of nations-large and small, stable and unstable, and spread
over a continent.
Within NATO, four nations-the United States, Germany,
France, and Great Britain-had established new agencies or ex-
panded existing on-site inspection organiz,a tions in 1990-91.
Other NATO nations, such as Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands,
set up small arms control verification staffs in their ministries of
defense or on their general staffs. Generally, nations with larger
military forces set up separate agencies to implement the treaty,
while smaller nations opted for military staff offices to satisfy CFE
requirements.
Within the Eastern group of states, the Soviet Union/Russia
had the largest and most experienced inspection agency. Estab-
lished in 1987 to implement the Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces (INF) Treaty, the Soviet Union's inspectorate, the Nuclear
Risk Reduction Center (NRRC), became the new Russian nation's
inspection agency late in 1991. To implement the INF Treaty, the
Soviet Union's NRRC had established treaty support organizations
in the Soviet military districts. From 1988 to 1991, when all INF
treaty items had bee n eliminated, these support elements gained
invaluable experience working with inspection regimes, reduction
protocols, notification requirements, and timelines. Consequently,
when Belarus and Ukraine set up their CFE Treaty verification
agencies in 1992, they had a cadre of people experienced in imple-
menting arms control treaties. Six months after the collapse of the
Soviet Union, eight of the newly independent states became parties
to the CFE Treaty in June 1992 at the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) summit in Oslo. They were Russia,
Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and
 f!:\ ·\1 PRII'AR \ !10M; NATO A:\J) WTO NAflO",,"

Kazakstan. Of these states, only Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine

possessed a professional cadre of inspectors, escorts, reduction
facilities, and institutional relationships with national military
forces. The other states, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
and Kazakstan, had little or no direct treaty experience. Many of
these new nations were caught up in internal and external wars
and had little time or interest in any treaty that would reduce
conventional armaments.
As with agencies of the NATO nations, the size and structure
of the Eastern European nations' inspectorates varied consider-
ably. Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania
established CFE Treaty verification agencies either before treaty
signature in November 1990, or shortly thereafter in early 1991.
In 1991, Poland established a separate verification agency with an
authorized force of 85 military officers and civilians, and placed
the new organization in the Ministry of National Defense. Hun-
gary, by contrast, set up a small arms control section within its
national armed forces in 1990.

CHARACTERISTICS OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN

CFE TREATY INSPECTION TEAMS

When Germany established its Federal Armed Forces Verifi-

cation Center, the Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der
Bundeswehr (ZVBW), in October 1990, it had an authorized staff

German team chief signing reduction inspection report in Slovakia.

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German officers of the ZVB W training to implement th e Open Skies Treaty.

of 65 inspectors, communicators, trainers, logisticians, and admin-

istrators. 1 For its initial cadre of CFE Treaty inspectors, the new
German center drew upon a small group of military officers who
had been conducting inspections of large-scale military exercises of
the CSCE states under the Stockholm Document of 1986. A few of
these experienced officers became CFE inspection team leaders.
For the other CFE tea m leaders, the German Bundeswehr re-
quested volunteers. Many officers applied, and by December 1989,
some 11 months before the CFE Treaty was signed, all the German
CFE team leaders had been selected and enrolled in an intensive
Russian language course. Co lonel Joern Steinberg recalls that he
and the other German team leaders studied for nine months at the
national language school at Hurth, Germany. 2 All German team
leaders were professional military officers, 40 to 50 years old, with
15 to 25 years of service in the German army, air force, or navy.
The German verification center opened in October 1990 at
Geilenkirchen and immediately began the process of organizing
inspection teams. Each team trained as a unit, concentrating on
learning the treaty as well as the current military force structure
and the TLE of a single signatory state or group of states. German
CFE Treaty inspection teams were led by colonels, with lieutenant
colonels serving as deputi es and captains, lieutenants, and non-
commissioned officers (NCOs) as inspectors. In 1991 and 1992,
the German verification center grew rapidly, acquiring new mis-
sions under the Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna Documents of
1990 and 1992. By July 1992, the center had 400 personnel on
board. A considerable part of thi s growth reflected the incorpora-
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tion of the former German Democratic Republic's (GDR) treaty

verification unit. '
Following German unification in October 1990, the German
federal armed forces incorporated the GDR's army and air force
personnel and equipment. Approximately six months later, in
March 1991, the GDR's verification agency became a branch
office of the German Federal Armed Forces Verification Center.
It had 140 officers, NCOs, and civilians and was located at
Strausberg, 30 kilometers east of Berlin. Many of the Strausberg
personnel had direct experience with the INF Treaty. Now, in
1991 and 1992, their mission would be to supervise the CFE
Treaty reduction centers located in eastern Germany and to escort
inspection teams from the Eastern group of states. 4
One interesting aspect of German unification was the large
quantity of former GDR army and air force weapons and equip-
ment available for incorporation into the federal armed forces.
Shortly after unification, the German minister of defense decided
that most of the former GDR military equipment was not suited
for the federal army and air force. Since the mid-1950s, West
Germany's military forces had been equipped with weapons and
munitions that met NATO standards. Most, if not all, of the GDR
army and air force equipment had been designed and produced for
use with the Soviet armed forces. Operationally incompatible, it
was surplus equipment and would be eliminated. Since many of
the former GDR's offensive weapons fell under the provisions of
the CFE Treaty, Germany would have to destroy them during the
treaty's reduction period. Before the CFE Treaty entered into force,
however, Germany's CFE Treaty inspection teams used this former
GDR equipment as an opportunity to study firsthand Soviet army
TLE and "look-alike" equipment. For the new German verification
center, this was both an unexpected and important opportunity. 5
The French CFE inspection teams were led by professional
military officers, usually lieutenant colonels, 38 to 45 years old,
with service on command headquarters staff or on the French
General Staff. In February 1994, Colonel Fran<;:ois Rozec, Com-
mandant of L'Unite Fran<;:aise de Verification, explained that three
areas were important in selecting inspection team leaders: profes-
sional skill, linguistic ability, and maturity. "As far as maturity is
concerned," Colonel Rozec said, "We consider it to be psychologi-
cal equilibrium, judgment, and ease of communication."6
The French agency was formed in September 1990 to carry
out French "verification and hosting" responsibilities under the
CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document 1990. Located approxi-
mately 70 kilometers north of Paris, on French Air Station 110 at
Creil, France, the unit was subordinate to the Arms Control Divi- Colonel Fran(ois Rozec,
sion of the French General Staff in Paris. For its personnel, the Commandant, L'Unite Fran(aise de
new treaty verification unit drew upon specialists from the French Verification.
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army, air force, and navy. Under the CFE Treaty, France declared
1,355 tanks, 1,392 artillery pieces, 4,154 armored combat ve-
hicles, 376 helicopters, and 688 fighter aircraft. As a state party,
France declared 168 sites and 2 11 objects of verification. Brigadier
General Jean-Paul Huet served as the first Commandant; in April
1992, Colonel Rozec assumed command.?
From the beginning, the French inspectorate developed "or-
ganic teams," each with a dedicated team leader, deputy, linguists,
and inspectors. Their approach to preparing for an inspection
mission was similar to the German inspection teams'-studying a
specific nation's TLE holdings, current force structure, and organi-
zational lines. For part of their time, each French inspection team
worked directly with French army and air force units and installa-
tions subject to CFE Treaty inspections, providing training on the
treaty, inspection protocols, and reduction procedures. 8
Great Britain had experience with on-site inspections under
the Stockholm Document of 1986 and with the British Military
Liaison Mission in Berlin from 1947 to 1991. Its officers were
professional, knowledgeable, and at the forefront in analysis and
evaluations. In August 1990, the British Ministry of Defense se-
lected Colonel Roy Giles, RAF, to lead the Joint Arms Control
Implementation Group (JACIG). Located at RAF Scampton, the
new four-service group drew personnel from the Royal Navy,
Marines, Army, and Air Force. It had an assigned strength of 120
officers, NCOs, and civilians. From the beginning, Colonel Giles
directed that the British group would use full-time inspection and
escort teams. Most of the initial cadre of inspectors had served in
Berlin with the British Military Liaison Mission or had worked as
interpreters in the Berlin Corridor. They were very knowledgeable
on the Soviet Union, its armed forces, and its military equipment.
Colonel Giles encouraged volunteers, especially officers and NCOs
with Russian language skills. 9
The Belgian concept of operations called for the establish-
ment of a small professional verification staff attached to the
Ministry of Defense in Brussels. This staff would organize, train,
and lead the Belgian CFE Treaty inspection and escort teams,
which were composed of inspectors drawn from the ranks of the
military services. Early in 1990 the General Staff selected two
groups of five midlevel officers, all lieutenant colonels, and en-
rolled them in an intensive Russian language course. 10 According
to Lt. Colonel Fred Janssen, Director of Operations, L'Unite Beige
de Verification, initial language training for the team leaders
would enable them "to express themselves in normal, ordinary
daily talks" with their Russian military escorts." For treaty issues
and technical questions that might arise during the inspection,
Janssen indicated that each team would have some inspectors who
were qualified interpreters. It is interesting that the leaders of the
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Belgian verification agency envisioned, almost from the beginning,

multinational CFE inspection teams composed of inspectors from
several different nations. Inspectors from Luxembourg joined the
Belgian agency's initial language training course, as did officers
from the Dutch inspectorate. For the three Benelux nations, this
joint language training signaled a willingness to participate in
other joint activities in implementing the treaty. 12
In the Netherlands, in early 1990 the Ministry of Defense set
up a small treaty verification staff called the Arms Control Branch.
Its mission was to assume responsibility for the nation's CFE
Treaty compliance and to coordinate with the Dutch military
forces on all aspects of treaty implementation. According to Navy
Commander C.N.M. Wierema, Director of the Arms Control
Branch, the Netherlands operated under a "cadre" concept in
implementing the CFE Treaty, meaning that the Arms Control
Branch would be a small, joint-service staff, with approximately
16 to 18 military officers. Their principal role was compiling the
Netherlands' required treaty data submissions, developing all
official treaty notifications, coordinating the scheduling and con-
duct of inspections and reductions with the military forces, and
representing the nation at the Verification Coordinating Commit-
tee meetings held at Headquarters NATO. The Dutch army identi-
fied 80 to 85 officers and NCOs to be trained as CFE Treaty in-
spectors and escorts, and the Dutch air force dedicated 30 to 35
officers to assist in implementing the treaty. When it came to con-
ducting CFE Treaty inspections in the Eastern nations, the Arms
Control Branch selected senior army or air force officers, usually
in the rank of lieutenant colonel, to serve as team chiefs. The
Dutch required their inspectors to speak and understand Russian.
According to Commander Wierema, "It takes about a year and a
half before the inspectors reach the required level in their language
skills. Russian is very difficult." 13
When Poland established its verification agency in 1990, the
Polish government was in the midst of a general restructuring of
its armed forces. Colonel Stanislaw Malinowski, Director of the
Polish Verification Unit, explained that Poland had elected to
place the new center in the civilian component of the Ministry of
National Defense, outside the military structure of the armed
forces. He added, "It cooperates very closely with the military
component."14 After CFE Treaty signature in November 1990,
the Ministry of National Defense determined that the verification
center's initial staffing was not sufficient to carry out Poland's
treaty requirements. In its November 1990 data submission,
Poland stated that it had 124 declared sites and 149 military units,
or objects of verification (OOVs) with TLE. At the same time,
Poland's reduction liability was approximately 1,120 tanks, 690
artillery pieces, 1,130 armored personnel vehicles, and 91 aircraft. Colonel Stanislaw Malinowski,
Consequently, the Ministry of National Defense organized special Directol; Polish Verification Unit.
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arms control sections in each of the Polish army's

military districts and at the Polish Armed Forces
Headquarters. Colonel Malinowski explained,
"The center's present activities are, among other
things, to supervise activities of these divisions in
the military structure." 15 For CFE inspection and
escort team leaders, Poland used professional
military officers who were experienced and
knowledgeable about armaments and equipment
included in the CFE Treaty. Competence in a
foreign language was an important criterion for
selection. Colonel Malinowski said that from
General-Major Sergey Fedorovich Tsygankov, Deputy
their initial planning, they had anticipated host-
Director, Russian NRRC.
ing many national inspection teams at Polish
reduction facilities and declared sites. 16
The largest CFE Treaty state, Russia, had significant advan-
tages in recruiting, selecting, and training its CFE inspection teams
because of its experience in implementing the INF Treaty. The
Soviet Union's inspection agency, the Nuclear Risk Reduction
Center (NRRC), was located in Moscow. When Russia emerged as
a successor state, the NRRC retained all the agency's missions,
functions, and personnel. Thus, Russia had an existing treaty
verification organization, experienced leaders, and a corps of
professional inspectors and escorts steeped in the procedures and
processes of conducting and escorting on-site inspection teams. l ?
To carry out the provisions of the CFE Treaty, the INF Treaty, and
the other arms control agreements, the Russian center had ap-
proximately 150 to 200 personnel.
General-Lieutenant Vladimir I. Medvedev, Director of the
NRRC, selected General-Major Sergey Fedorovich Tsygankov to
lead CFE Treaty operations. Six months before state representa-
tives signed the CFE Treaty in Paris, Tsygankov arrived in Mos-
cow to become Deputy Director of the NRRC. He began all of his
preparations, he said, "with the treaty theory."18 He also drew
upon his years of service with the Soviet Armed Forces Group of
Western Forces, where he had participated in inspections under the
Stockholm Document. In selecting CFE team chiefs, deputies, and
inspectors, General Tsygankov worked closely with General
Medvedev and Colonel S.N. Slepnev, Director of Operations for
the CFE Treaty Section. For team leaders they selected career
military officers with at least 15 years of service. General
Tsygankov indicated that some of Russia's CFE team chiefs had
been "regimental commanders," others had held important "staff
positions," and all "were considered professionals." The key ele-
ment, he declared, in the selection of team chiefs was their "leader-
ship skills." He observed, "Almost every officer in the center
works as an inspection team leader or as an escort team leader.
When they go on an inspection, they are responsible for supervis-
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ing at least nine people. When you are assigned to the escort team,
you are to some extent the leader of the inspection facility, so you
are in charge of that facility. The inspection team leader, or the
escort team leader, is the representative of Russia . This is a very
important appointment because everything that he says is on be-
half of Russia." 19
The Belarus National Agency for Control and Inspection
(NAKI) was established in June 1992, just weeks before the CFE
Treaty entered into force. Under the treaty, Belarus had 87 sites
subject to inspection. Even more important, the nation had a reduc-
tion liability of 1,873 tanks, 1,441 armored personnel vehicles, and
130 fighters. This was a significant reduction liability, especially
since Belarus was a newly independent nation, having achieved its
independence in December 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet
Union. When the national verification agency was set up, the presi-
dent made it directly subordinate to the Deputy Minister of Defense
for Military Policy of the Republic. General-Major Viktor K. Vakar
served as the agency's first Commander.
Although the Belarussian agency was set up just weeks before
the CFE Treaty entered into force, the initial cadre of inspectors,
escorts, and linguists had had experience under the Soviet Union in
implementing arms control treaties and agreements. Belarus had
been a Soviet military district with 27 sites subject to inspection
under the INF Treaty. From 1988 through 1991, U.S. inspection
teams had conducted more than 100 INF Treaty inspections in
Belarus. Two major INF Treaty reduction centers, Lesnaya and
Stankovo, had been located within the Byelorussian Military Dis-
trict. Most of the officers and specialists who operated these re-
duction centers were incorporated into the new Belarus National
Agency for Control and Inspection.
The Belarus NAKI had five divisions: planning, operational
communications and information systems, international relations,
escorting and inspecting, and support and logistics. Colonel M. Y.
Melomedov, Deputy Chief of NAKI, explained that the escort and
inspection division had responsibility for hosting all foreign in-
spection teams that would be monitoring Belarus's substantial
reduction liabilities. To reduce its large quantities of allotted tanks,
artillery, and armored personnel vehicles, Belarus set up three
reduction centers at Borisov, Stankovo, and Baranovichi. Accord-
ing to Lt. Colonell.G. GenIS, Group Leader, CFE Treaty Reduc-
tion Division, the first task was to "prepare the reduction sites.
There, the most complicated issue was to prepare a technology for
setting up a reduction line." 20 The reduction of all 1,837 tanks in
accordance with the provisions of the treaty's reduction protocols,
Lt. Colonel Gerus explained, took considerable planning and
expense by the Belarus NAKI and the armed forces . He observed
that "We spent a lot of effort just organizing the reduction effort."
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Lt. Colonel I.G. Gerus, Group Leader, CFE Reduction Division, Belarus, and Lt. Colonel
Steven A. Barneby, OSIA Team Chief, sign inspection report.

The initial manning for the Belarussian verification center called

for an authorized strength of 87, although the actual number of
officers and specialists at the treaty's entry into force was less than
50. The agency's headquarters was located in Minsk, the nation's
capital. Under the CFE Treaty, Minsk was designated as a point of
entry for arriving and departing inspection teams. 21
Ukraine was another new nation with significant CFE Treaty
rights and responsibilities. In defining its foreign policy and mili-
tary department treaty responsibilities, the Ukrainian government
set up a new, presidential-level national committee. Led by
Konstantyn Gryschenko, a senior diplomat, this new National
Committee for Disarmament reported directly to the president. Its
staff and offices were located in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
where it was responsible for representing Ukraine at the negotiat-
ing sessions of the CFE Treaty's lCG in Vienna, and in future
negotiations on other international arms control treaties, such as
the Open Skies and START treaties. This national committee also
collected, processed, and prepared Ukraine's CFE Treaty data and
reports. 22
The Verification Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was
located in Kiev, and was organized under the Ministry of Defense.
According to General-Major N.T. Honcharenko, Director, the
center had four departments: conventional armed forces, open
skies, nuclear disarmament, and administration. When the center
was established in May 1992, it had approximately 50 officers and
civilians. Subordinate to the verification center were four treaty
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implementation support centers. Located in Kiev (army and air

force), Odessa, and Lvov, each center was manned with 25 to 45
military personnel. 23
Before the Ukrainian government established its Verification
Center of the Armed Forces in May 1992, General Honcharenko
said the government hosted several small, high-level delegations
from other CFE Treaty states. These groups presented an informal
briefing, explaining their assigned roles and missions, their organi-
zational structure, and their experiences in implementing various
treaties. In April 1992, a team arrived in Kiev from the Canadian
Verification Agency. In June 1992, Dr. Edward M. Ifft, Deputy
Director for External Affairs, OSIA, led a small, six-person Ameri-
can team to Kiev. He was accompanied by Colonel William R.
Smith, the new Commander of OSIA's European Operations Com-
mand, two planning officers, and two linguists. They explained
OSIA's charter, structure, and treaty experiences.
The visit to Kiev was part of an extended 21-day trip to seven Dr. Edward M. Ifft, Deputy
CFE Treaty states of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Director for External Affairs,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakstan, Moldova, and aSIA .
Ukraine. Colonel Smith's impression of the preparations of Belarus
and Ukraine was favorable. "In Minsk and Kiev we met with large
groups of people who knew a lot about arms control." He found
that "they had set up very professional organizations," and were
well prepared to carry out their treaty responsibilities. 24 Smith
learned that the Ukrainians had researched many of the national
verification centers and agencies. General Honcharenko said they
had studied reports from treaty verification centers in Great Brit-
ain, Germany, and the United States.

Dr. Ifft's team on its 14,OOO-mile mission to seven states in 21 days.

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In addition to reviewing the structure and mission of other

nations' verification centers, General Honcharenko explained that
"Our verification center was founded on the base of the imple-
mentation department of the Kiev Military District." That depart-
ment had been established by the Soviet Union to carry out the
INF Treaty. Honcharenko indicated that "most of the officers who
had served in that department ... became the officers of the Ukrai-
nian verification center." In May and June of 1992, the center
organized special training for its escort teams. Personnel also went
to every unit of the Ukrainian military forces and held classes on
how to prepare OOYs for inspection. Then they conducted a
full-scale mock inspection with the units, sending an inspection
and escort team from the verification center. Finally, General
Honcharenko said that they conducted a few joint mock training
inspections with teams from the United States and Germany. 2S
From these different national experiences in establishing CFE
Belarussian seal. Treaty inspection organizations, certain generalizations emerge. To
begin with, all NATO, Eastern European, and USSR successor
states recruited, trained, and used their professional military as
CFE Treaty inspectors and escorts. In the NATO nations, the
selection, training, and leadership responsibilities of the inspection
team leaders were quite similar in all of the inspectorates. The
selection of inspectors varied, however. The larger verification
agencies-those in the United States, Germany, France, and Great
Britain-used a concept of organic, fixed teams, while the smaller
verification organizations-those in Holland, Belgium, Luxem-
bourg, and Italy-opted for composite teams with permanent
leaders and linguists as the core team. Inspectors drawn from the
military forces augmented the teams.
Among the Warsaw Pact nations, there was a similar concep-
tual distinction. Russia, with its INF Treaty experience, used the
fixed team model for escort and inspection operations under the
CFE Treaty. Belarus and Ukraine focused their operations on
escorting, but here again, they used professional military officers
dedicated to implementing the treaty. In both nations, the national
CFE Treaty obligations were substantial in terms of the numbers
of OOYs and TLE subject to inspection. The likelihood of these
sites and units being inspected by the NATO nations was con-
siderable; consequently, the greatest burden in both Belarus and
Ukraine fell to the escorting mission. Further, the poor economic
conditions in these nations after the collapse of the centralized
Soviet Union limited their governments' capability to organize and
send CFE inspection teams abroad. Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
and, to a degree, Poland used composite inspection and escort
teams.
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Local escorts hosted INF inspections in the Soviet Union; later they brought their experience
to the newly formed national verification agencies.

Other generalizations applied. Among CFE inspection team

leaders, virtually all were colonels or lieutenant colonels. As com-
missioned officers, they had trained and served with their respec-
tive military forces during the Cold War. Within the NATO alli-
ance, these senior and mid-level officers had served in NATO
military commands or on combined staffs; thus they were familiar
with the military structure of the national armies and air forces of
the 16 NATO nations. By 1990, NATO was a mature, experi-
enced, cohesive alliance, and this fact contributed directly to plan-
ning, training, and communicating operational concepts in imple-
menting the CFE Treaty.
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) experience was
considerably different. There the Soviet Union-and by extension
Russia-commanded the dominant role. Within its officer corps,
there was a clear sense of professionalism and commitment to
direction from Moscow. Compared to NATO nations, there was
far less communication among the former nations of the Warsaw
Pact. Among the states of the former Soviet Union, Belarus and
Ukraine had team chiefs who had, with some exceptions, direct
experience with escorting American inspection teams monitoring
Soviet missile eliminations under the INF Treaty. Thus they shared
a distinct set of experiences with Russian inspectors and escorts.
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One final generalization applied: the directors,

commandants, and commanders of the national
CFE Treaty inspection agencies saw their or-
ganizations and inspection/escort teams as
implementers of the treaty. Their mission was to
monitor on-site the entitlements and obligations
of the respective nations; they did not articulate
policy or advocate future agreements. Theirs was
a limited role.

PATTERNS OF TRAINING

A distinctive pattern of training emerged

during the 20-month period from CFE Treaty
signature in November 1990 to entry into force
in July 1992. This pattern applied in both the
larger, separate national verification agencies and
in the smaller, cadre type of inspection organiza-
tions. The key concept was the use of mock
inspections in which two teams of inspectors, an
inspection and an escort team, conducted a full-
scale on-site inspection at an active military
installation using the CFE Treaty as "the law."
All the treaty's provisions and protocols applied,
A U.S. site commander conducts a "windshield tour" from the team's arrival at a treaty-designated
of the declared site. POE through the conduct of a detailed, thorough
inspection, to the inspection and escort team
leaders' signatures on the final inspection report. A joint evalua-
tion followed each mock inspection, with the participation of
the two teams, the military installation commander, and invited
observers. As Colonel Lawrence Kelley, the Director of Operations
for OSIA's European Operations Command, declared, "Mock
inspections are now and have always been the single most impor-
tant training tool that we have at our disposal."26
In setting up the U.S. CFE inspection operations, Colonel
Kelley established a three-pronged approach for these training
inspections. One involved a series of mock inspections conducted
with inspection teams from the NATO nations. Rigorous and
thorough, these inspections developed a common understanding of
the process, the CFE Treaty, and national obligations of the
inspectorates. Another had American CFE inspection teams con-
duct rigorous mock inspections opposite other American teams on
U.S. military sites and installations throughout Europe. These
training inspections educated both the American inspection teams
and the American military personnel at each of the installations,
from the security police at the gate to the combat commander at
the unit that was the object of verification. Participants tested all
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aspects of the on-site inspection protocols, particularly the line

between the treaty rights of the inspectors and the treaty obliga-
tions of the inspected state. The final aspect of the American ap-
proach had U.S. inspection teams participating in a series of mock
inspections with Russia and the Eastern European nations.
Through mock inspections with Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czecho-
slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, OSIA built early and continuing
liaisons. The mock inspections initiated these ties, and over the
course of many discussions among inspectors and escorts, and
directors and commanders, common approaches to many areas of
treaty implementation developedY
Among the other NATO nations preparing to implement the
CFE Treaty, a three-stage training pattern emerged: mock inspec-
tions with the national military forces, mock inspections with
allied inspection teams and their organizations, and finally, mock
inspections with the inspection agencies of the former Warsaw
Pact nations and their military forces. These latter mock inspec-
tions usually were planned and organized on a reciprocal basis,
with inspections in one nation followed by inspections in the other.
Because nation-to-nation relationships varied considerably across
the European continent, there was no set order or sequence to this
pattern of inspections. In some nations, mock inspections with
allied nations preceded training inspections with their own mili-
tary forces. In others, mock training events with former Warsaw
Pact nations were scheduled before similar events with NATO
allies.
Group Captain D.A.G. Bremner, Commandant of the United
Kingdom's Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (JACIG),
explained that British inspector training began with an intensive
four-week course on the CFE Treaty and other current arms con-
trol agreements. Then team training began with the agency's in-
spectors "simulating a foreign inspection group and a JACIG
escort team conducting mock inspections at United Kingdom
sites."28 According to Group Captain Bremner, these inspections
developed team skills and standard operating procedures for both
the British military installation commanders and the British inspec-
tion group's escort and inspection teams. Next, the British group
arranged and conducted bilateral mock training inspections with
teams from the inspectorates of the NATO nations, and then they
set up a series of mock training exercises with the nations of the
Warsaw Pact from mid-1991 to mid-1992. The French experience,
according to Colonel Fran<;ois Rozec, Commandant, L'Unite
Fran<;aise de Verification, followed a pattern similar to that of the
other NATO nations' inspection agencies. "All of the verification
agencies," Colonel Rozec explained, "more or less, worked along
the same lines. We first started doing mock inspections on a na-
tionallevel, then bilaterally with the NATO allies. Then, as a third
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German escorts, representing the host state, took Eastern teams to inspection sites.

step, we started working on mock inspections with the Eastern

bloc countries, especially with Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and
Czechoslovakia. "29
Germany developed one of the most extensive training pro-
grams of the NATO nations. To begin with, the unified German
nation, because of its incorporation of East Germany's military
forces and equipment, had more than 900 CFE Treaty OOVs,
more than any other NATO nation. All of these sites had to be
surveyed and their personnel trained and prepared for on-site
inspections under the CFE Treaty. Since most, if not all, of the
former GDR's military equipment was either Soviet-made or built
to Soviet military specifications, it provided a training windfall for
German CFE Treaty inspection teams. Germany was one of the
principal NATO nations for implementing the CFE Treaty. Ger-
man inspection teams would be leading and conducting 20 percent
of the NATO alliance's inspection quota. Another important op-
erational consideration driving Germany's training was the fact
that many of NATO's military installations and CFE reduction
sites were located on German territory. When the Eastern group of
states' CFE teams conducted inspections on stationed forces' mili-
tary units and equipment located on German territory, German
escort officers had to meet them at the point of entry, transport
them to the declared military installation, and, following the in-
spection, accompany them back to the exit point. Germany had to
anticipate, over the 40-month reduction phase, dozens of inspec-
tion teams arriving at designated points of entry in the former
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German Democratic Republic, traveling under escort to the reduc-

tion sites, and then, for a period of days, monitoring TLE destruc-
tion. Finally, because of Germany's strategic position in middle
Europe, its national political leaders encouraged and supported
joint training with all the Central European national verification
agencies during preparations for implementing the CFE Treaty. For
all these reasons, the German verification agency was extremely
active during the 20-month treaty preparation phase. 3D
By the time of the CFE Treaty's entry into force in July 1992,
the Germans had conducted more than 200 mock inspections and
escort missions. Brigadier General Doctor Heinz Loquai, Director,
ZYBW, recalled a particularly important series of mock inspec-
tions:
"We arranged with the Eastern European countries, the
former Warsaw Pact countries, a series of test inspections or mock
inspections in order to establish with them practical cooperation. I
think one of the most crucial mock inspections was our inspection
in the Soviet Union. It was agreed on at the ministerial level and
took place in August 1991. Two guest inspectors participated in
this inspection, a Dutch and a French inspector. Two weeks later,
the Soviets came to Germany, conducting an inspection on a Ger-
man site .... These were revolutionary times, with the attempted
coup d'etat in Moscow, but I was convinced that if the coup had
succeeded, the new government would have done everything to
fulfill the obligations of the CFE Treaty." 31
The Russian experience in training paralleled in many re-
spects the experiences of the other large state parties to the treaty.
In explaining Russia's training concept, General-Major Tsygankov,
Deputy Director of the Russian NRRC, was characteristically
forthright: "The most important task was to prepare the training
for our forces. Objects of verification must be prepared, beginning
with diagrams of the declared sites. The correct stand on these "The most important task
issues must come from the NRRC. " 32 The Russian center handled was to prepare the training
virtually every aspect of treaty preparations, from drawing up site
for our forces. "
diagrams, to designating administrative zones, to defining the
C;cncra l -~lajor Tsygankm',
OOYs. Every Russian military district, according to General Dcpurr Director. Rus sian 1\:I\RC:
Tsygankov, had an arms control department, staffed with 10 to 16
persons. Officers from the Russian NRRC trained these district
officers on the CFE Treaty. Every Russian army division had two
or three CFE Treaty specialists assigned to the division's training
brigade. The scope of the CFE Treaty and the size of the Russian
Army meant that training had to be reinforced by regulations and
regular training visits from NRRC officials. In July 1992, at the
time of the CFE Treaty's entry into force, Russia declared 9,342
tanks, 8,346 artillery pieces, 19,399 armored personnel carriers,
and 4,624 aircraft. This vast array of treaty equipment was main-
tained at 488 declared sites and 503 OOYs throughout Russia. 33
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Fro m April to Jul y 199 1, General Ts yga nkov had th e C FE

Trea ty section plan and organize mock in spec tions with several
military co mmands and units of th e a rm y, a ir forc e, a nd air de-
fense forces . Tb eir objective was to train the inspec tion tea ms and
So viet forces on th e practical as pects of treaty implementation.
T hey conducted fu ll -sca le CFE inspections a t severa l facilities of
the army, air force, a nd air defense force s. " Ou r approach," Gen-
era l Tsygankov stated, " was that we call it a training inspection if
we carried it out with our people o n R ussia n territory, but w e call
it a mock in specti o n if inspectors from a foreign country parrici-
pated ."34 Fro m August 1991 to Ap ril 1992, the R uss ian N RR C
conducted mock in spections on a m utual basis with se ven trea ty
states-the United Sta tes, Grea t Britain, Germany, De nmark,
Turkey, Holland , a nd France . O bserve rs participated in th e post-
training inspection d ebriefing in all these mock in spec tions. 35
It is important to remem ber that throughout th is length y, 20-
month CFE Trea ty trainin g phase, Eastern Europe was in turmoil.
T he Soviet Union w as in revolution, and it ceased to exist as a
na tion in late 1991. After its collapse, eight new states became
signatory parti es to th e C FE Treaty. T hrou ghout these changes,
C FE inspection tea ms from the N ATO na ti o ns a nd th e Warsa w
Pact nations, including th e successor states o f R uss ia, Ukraine, and
Belarus, conducted seve ral hund red CFE Treaty mock inspections.
They refined all aspects of trea ty im plementation, from communi-
cations, to inspection/escort procedures, to logistics. Slowly and
deliberately, a co nse nsus emerged over time am ong th e national
inspectorates on certain "understandings of the trea ty," as did a
ge neral agreement on what constituted " stan dards of an ins pec-

Logistics requirements increased

(or OSIA's European Operations
Command under the CF E Treaty.
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tion." These by-products of extensive bilateral and multilateral

mock training inspections would become even more significant
when the treaty entered into force. Consensus, especially when
based on actual experience, became a powerful instrument in
implementing this mult inational arms reduction treaty.
In negotiating the CFE Treaty, diplomats in Vienna had
reached an understanding of the treaty 's language, protocols, and
requirements. Now, in preparing to implement the treaty, leaders
of th e national inspectorates were trying to reach a similar mea-
sure of understanding about the practical, operational aspects of
conducting recurring on-site inspections. Given the turmoil across
Central and Eastern Europe in 1991 to 1992, the significance of
these national agency-to-agency, military-to-military mock training
inspections cannot be underestimated. They occurred, like the CFE
Treaty itself, on the cusp of major political and economic changes
across the European continent.

READINESS FOR ENTRY INTO FORCE

When the diplomats met at the CSCE summit in Helsinki
on July 10, 1992, they signed documents that permitted the CFE
Treaty to enter into force provisionally. Ten days later, CFE Treaty
baseline inspections would begin. Were the respective national
verification agencies ready? We re the military forces prepared?
Had the site diagrams been drawn properly, were the POEs ready,
were the nation-to-nation communications systems ready to go?
By and large, directors of verification agencies were confi-
dent. At the German verification center in Geilenkirchen, General
Loquai stated unequivocally that they were ready. Only a few
weeks before, the German center had organized a maximum-level
mock inspection exercise involving inspection teams from the
United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, and, of course, Ger-
many. Within one week, these national teams conducted 10 on-site
inspections, exercising every element of the inspection process:
notifications, communications, security, logistics, site preparations,
escort procedures, inspection rights, photography, emergency
procedures, and report sequencing. "The normal military logic,"
General Loquai observed, "is that you should perform training
exercises under conditions more difficult than real life. " 36 After
completing this training exercise without incident, General Loquai
knew the German agency was ready. Germany had conducted
more than 200 mock training inspections prior to entry into force .
Directors at other agencies also were ready. At the Belgian
verification agency, Lt. Colonel Fred Janssen, Director of Opera-
tions, expressed his confidence, declaring, "Without any doubt we
were ready, more than ready, I should say. We were eager to go
in.,, \7 The Belgians had conducted 56 mock inspections prior to
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entry into force. At the French verification unit in Creil, Colonel

Rozec acknowledged, "I think we were ready, considering that you
can never be completely ready fo r this kind of job .... Some of our
new inspectors were not on the list of inspectors, but we were as
ready as we could possibly be." 38 In Warsaw, Colonel Malinowski
noted that the period from treaty signature to entry into force was
"a long time." He believed that Polish armed forces were well
prepared and that the verification center was ready: " I wouldn't
like to boast, but I think that Poland, the United States, Nether-
lands, Germany, and Britain were very well prepared at that
time." 39 In Moscow, General-Major Tsygankov had reached a
similar conclusion: "The center was read y. The center had a mis-
sion, and we were responsible for carrying it out. We knew that
when the treaty entered into force, there would be no time for
further preparations. "40 In Frankfurt, Colonel Kelley, speaking of
the U.S. effort, concluded, "} think that a lthough th e butterflies
were there, and although there were certain areas where we were
not quite satisfied th a t we had the optimal solution, communica-
tions, liaison officers, tran sportation, operations center, w e did feel
at entry into force that operationall y, we were read y." 41
Colonel Kelley 's next comment, provided with the perspective
of thinking back over all th e inspection and escort operations
conducted during the CFE Treaty baseline pha se, was both short
and insightful: "And, that turned out to be th e case."42

NOTES
1. Inte rview w ith Lt. Co lonel Ro land Keitel a nd Lt. Colo ne l Be rnd Mec ke,
Z e nt rum fur Verifik a tion sa ufga ben de r Bundeswe hr, by Jose ph P. Harah a n,
Hi sto rian , O SIA, Geil enkirc he n, Ge rm a ny, Janu a ry 3 1, 1994 ; Lt. Co lonel
Kuhlein, Z entrum fur Ve rifik a ti o nsa ufgaben de r Bundes wehr, Lette r with
a ttac hed repo rt, " Info rm a ti o n on th e Arm s Contro l Process in Germany, "
April 12, 1994; Zentrum fur Verifikation sa ufgaben de r Bundeswe hr,
Repo rt, no d a te , circa 1990. See a lso Jose ph P. H a ra han, "Germ an y's
Fede ral Arm ed Forces Verifica ti on Center Conducts Num e ro us Trea ty
Function s," O n-Site Insights, O cto be r 1995, pp. 6- 7.

2. Interview with Co lo nel Joe rn Steinbe rg, C FE Trea ty Inspection Tea m C hief,
Z entrum fur Verifik a tion sa ufgaben der Bundeswehr, by J ose ph P. Harahan,
Histo rian, OSIA, Ge ilenkirchen, Ge rman y, Ja nu a ry 3 1, 1994.

3. Lt. Co lon el Kuhl ein , " Info rmati o n o n the Arm s Co ntrol Process in
Germ a ny"; Inte rview with Brigadi e r Gene ra l D r. H ein z Loquai, Director,
Z entrum fur Verifik a tion sa ufga ben der Bundeswe hr, by J ose ph P. Haraha n ,
Historian , OSIA, Ge ilenkirch en, Ge rmany, Ja nuary 3 1, 19 94; Briga di er
Gene ral Dr. H ein z Loqu a i, Bri efin g to Can adian Armed Fo rces Sta ff,
H ea dquarters N ATO, Bru sse ls, Belgium , Septembe r 4, 199 2.

4. Interview, Loqu a i.

5. Ibid .; Lt. Colo nel Kuhl ein, " Inform a tion o n th e Arm s Control Process in
Germ a ny. "
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6. Interview with Colonel Fran'rois Rozec, Commandant, L' Unite Fran'raise de

Verification, by joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Creil, France,
February 1, 1994; L'Unite Fran<;aise de Verification, Report, "The French
Unit of Verification, " December 1993.

7. Interview, Rozec. See also joseph P. Harahan, "French Treaty Inspection

Agency Has Major Role in Shaping Europe's Future," On-Site Insights,
January 1996, pp. 10-11.

8. Interview, Rozec.

9. Squadron Leader Antony Kerr, Joint Arms Control Implementation Group,

Great Britain, "Special Report on the JACIG," sent to joseph P. Harahan ,
Historian, OSIA, March 23,1994.

10. Inte rview with Lt. Colonel Fred Janssen and Lt. Colonel Henri Van del'
Auera, L'Unite Beige de Verification, by joseph P. Harahan, Historian,
OSIA, Brussels, Belgium, january 27, 1994.

11. Ibid .

12. Ibid . See also Joseph P. Harahan, "Treaty Verification Agencies of Belgium
and the Netherlands," On-Site Insights, March 1996, pp. 8-9.

13. Interview with Commander C.N .M. Wierema, Director, Arms Control
Branch, Ministry of Defense, the Netherlands, by joseph P. Harahan,
Historian, OSIA, The Hague, Netherlands, January 28, 1994. For the
Dutch activities under CFE and other treaties, see Harahan, "Treaty
Verification Agencies of Belgium and the Netherlands," pp. 8-9.

14. Interview with Colonel Stanislaw Malinowski, Chief Inspector, Polish

Verification Center, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Warsaw,
Poland, February 3, 1994; Report, "CFE Inspection with Belgium ," Polish
Verification Agency, December 17, 1993.

15. Interview, Malinowski .

16. Ibid.

17. Joseph P. Harahan, On-Site inspections Under the IN F Treaty (Washing-

ton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993), pp. 57-60, 67-96, 123-
133. Interview with General-Lieutenant V.I. Medvedev, Director (Ret.),
Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Ministry of Defense, Russia, by Joseph P.
Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Magna, Utah, August 30, 1994. See also joseph
P. Harahan, "Russian Federation's Nucl ea r Risk Reduction Center," On-
Site Insights, November/December 1995, pp. 12-13.
18. Inte rview with General-Major S.F. Tsygankov, Deputy Director, Nuclear
Risk Reduction Center, Ministry of Defense, Russia, by joseph P. Harahan,
Historian, OSIA, Moscow, Russia, February 8, 1994.
19. Ibid .
20. Interview with Colonel M.Y. Melomedov, Deputy Chief; Colonel M.M.
Volochko, Chief, International Treaties Division; Lt. Colonell.G. Gerus,
Group Leader, CFE Treaty Reductions; and Major G.E. Brusnikov,
Linguist; National Agency for Control and Inspections (NAKI), Belarus, by
joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Minsk, Belarus, February 4, 1994.
See also Joseph P. Harahan, "The Belarus Republic National Agency for
Co ntrol and Inspection ," On-Site Insights, September 1995, pp. 8-9.

21. Interview with General-Major Y.1. Nikulin, Director, National Agency for
Control and Inspections (NAKI), Belarus, by john C. Kuhn, Historian,
OSIA, August 1, 1995.
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22. General-Major N.T. Honch are nk o, C hi ef, Arm ed Forces Verification

Ce nter of Ukra ine, "Chroni cles of the CFE Treaty, " response to questions
from Jose ph P. H a ra ha n, Hi stor ian, OS IA , July 27, '1995. See a lso J ose ph P.
Hara ha n , "Verifica ti o n Ce nter of th e Armed Forces o f Ukrain e," On-Site
In sights, Fe bruary 1996, pp. 4, 28.
Interv iew w ith Ge nera l-Major .T. H o nch are nk o, C hief, Armed Forces
Verifi ca tion Ce nte r o f the Uk raine, by Joseph P. H a ra han , Hi stori a n , OSIA,
August 1, '1995 .

24. Interv iew w ith Colo ne l William R. Smith , USAF, Comm an de r, E uropean
Operations Co mm and, OSIA , by Josep h P. Harah an, Hi storia n, OS IA, July
12, '1993.
25. Inte rview, H o nch a renko.

26 . Inte rview with Co lo ne l Lawre nce G. Ke lley, USM C, C hi ef, Opera ti o ns

Division, European O peratio ns Com ma nd , OS IA, by Josep h P. H ara han,
Hi storia n, OSIA , Was hin gton, D. C., May 1 8, 1994. See Moc k In specti o ns
in C hapte r 4 fo r an in -depth d iscuss ion of th ese impo rta nt, rea li sti c
practice in spection s.

27. Inte rview, Kell ey.

28. Squadron Leader Antony Kerr, "Special Repo rt o n the JA C IG."

29. Interview, Rozec.

30 . Inte rview, Keite l and Meck e; Lt. Colo nel Kuhl ein, "Information o n the
Arm s Co nt ro l Process in Ger ma ny"; Interv iew, Loquai .

31. Inte rvi ew, Loquai.

32. Inte rview, Tsyga nk ov.

33. Ibid .

34. Ibid.

35. Ibid .

36 . Inte rvi ew, Loquai.

37. Interview, Ja nssen an d Van der Aue ra.

38 . Interv iew, Rozec.

39. Inte rview, Malin owsk i.

40. Gen eral-M a jor N . H o ncharenko, "C hronicles of the CFE Treaty";
Interview, Honcharenko.

4 '1. Interv iew, Tsygankov.

42. Interview, Ke ll ey.

 Chapter 6

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American and Russian team chiefs sign the report completing the inspection of Russian forces in Gyandzha,
Azerbaijan.

O
n July 17, 1992, the CFE Treaty entered into force, albeit
provisionally. While Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakstan
had not yet ratified the treaty, by early July their represen-
tatives assured other nations in Vienna that they would soon
ratify. Consequently, when the European and North American
leaders arrived at the Helsinki Summit on July 10, 1992, they were
prepared to sign the CFE "I A Agreement and to approve the CFE
Treaty's provisional entry into force. As promised, Armenia depos-
ited its instrument of ratification at The Hague on October 12,
1992, and Belarus and Kazakstan followed on October 30, 1992.
Two weeks later, the 29-nation Joint Consultative Group (JCG)
assembled in Vienna and confirmed that the treaty had officially
entered into force 10 days after the final instruments of ratification
had been deposited. Consequently, the provisional entry into force
status ended on November 9, 1992. Regardless, the formal date
for the CFE Treaty's entry into force remained July 17, 1992.1
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The start of the treaty's baseline phase was not a shotgun

blast of national inspection teams racing across Europe. Instead,
NATO nations dispatched their teams according to a coordinated,
well-planned schedule. This was necessary to prevent inspection
teams of different NATO nations from trying to inspect the same
site simultaneously or sending too many teams into one country at
once. The treaty's Protocol on Inspection limited the number of
NATO's vee allotted the teams a nation was required to host at any given time within its
United States a total of 45 national territory or at any given declared site. In addition, the
baseline inspections. protocol dictated the number of inspections any nation was liable
to receive during any period of the treaty's life, and it limited a
nation to conducting no more than 50 percent of the declared site
and challenge inspections any nation was liable for during a calen-
dar year. On the other hand, there were no provisions stipulating
how many inspections anyone nation could conduct or how the
inspections were to be divided among the participating states.
There was no central monitor. Consequently, planning inspection
schedules and monitoring activity during any phase of the treaty
was an option that fell to the two groups of state parties.
The NATO Verification Coordination Committee (VCC),
with membership from all 16 allied nations, determined the num-
ber of inspections that each NATO nation would conduct annu-
ally. A starting point for determining each nation's quota of in-
spections in the East {active quota} was the number of inspections
it was liable to receive {passive quota}. A nation's passive quota
compared to the total NATO passive quota produced a percentage
that could be applied to the Eastern group of states' total passive
quota. This calculation produced a potential active quota.
The U.S. passive quota was 8 percent of the passive quota for
the NATO states. The VCC, however, agreed to allow the United
States an active quota of approx imately 18 percent of the NATO
states' total share. This was the result of heated debate among
U.S. Inspection Quotas VCC delegates. The U.S. had requested a greater share of the
Passive-8% Eastern inspection quota because its contributions to NATO were
Active-18% not measured only in terms of its OOVs. Moreover, the United
States had experience in arms control treaty implementation as
well as the financial and logistical capability to conduct numerous
inspections. On the other hand, the United States was only one of
16 nations in the alliance. European nations wanted their share of
inspections as participants in the security affairs of Europe. Some
nations did not set up verification agencies, only small sections
with a handful of treaty experts, because they had few objects of
verification {OOVs}; Iceland had none. These nations were not
interested in developing inspection teams and spending money to
conduct inspections. A solution to their needs was relinquishing
inspections to the United States with the proviso that their inspec-
tors join U.S. teams on those missions. After much haggling and
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bargaining, the VCC allotted the United States a

total of 45 baseline inspections out of a total of
251 to be conducted by NATO allies.
The Verification and Implementation Coor-
dination Section, which was the VCC's working
staff, had the task of taking the inspections allo-
cated by the VCC and guiding the NATO nations
through a process in which each received a block
of time (three days) and an Eastern nation to
inspect. Selection of the specific OOV for inspec-
tion was left to the NATO state. The time blocks
were critical because the NATO nations had to
conduct 251 inspections in the Eastern states
during baseline-only 120 days. This
"deconfliction" schedule would enable the European Operations Command's Operations Center,
NATO allies to conduct all possible inspections a focal point for CFE inspection communications.
during baseline. Every state could benefit from
information gained and shared in those inspec-
tions.
Assigning states to be inspected was also important because
of the greater demand among the NATO allies to inspect OOVs
in Russia than those in any other Eastern state. The coordinated
effort of all NATO states ensured each of at least some opportu-
nity to inspect OOVs in nations that were important to them. This
schedule also precluded NATO states from exceeding the inspec-
tion protocol limits of two simultaneous inspections in a country
and one inspection team on a declared site. 2 The first NATO states
to conduct inspections were Canada and the United States. The
Canadians notified the Russians that they would arrive for a de-
clared site inspection on July 17, 1992. On the day the Canadians
were arriving to conduct the first NATO inspection, the U.S. gov-
ernment notified Russian authorities that on July 18, 1992, an
American inspection team would arrive at the Russian point of
entry (POE), Moscow, for a declared site inspection. The differ-
ence in dates of notification reflected a different interpretation of
implementation; the Canadians viewed the arrival for the inspec-
tion on the 17th as the first step of implementation, whereas the
United States considered the notification of intent to inspect the
first step of implementation. 3

FIR T U.S. I PFCTIO

The first U.S. CFE inspection team, led by Lt. Colonel Elmer
G. (Guy) White, USA, arrived in Moscow at 1700 GMT on July
18, 1992. Before Team White deployed to Russia, a great deal of
coordination and preparation had been completed. In Washington,
the Arms Control Policy Coordinating Committee had selected
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U.S. inspection equipment in metal

cases known as "silver bullets."

Buy, Russia, to be the first CFE inspection site and ha d notified

Headquarters OSIA of the selection . Headquarters OSIA had then
forwarded that information to OSIA European Operations. In
Europe, Team White began its many checks to prepare for the
mission. Lt. Colonel White prepared a "mission warning order" to
notify his eight team members of the upcoming mission and the
schedule of briefings required before departure. Through his warn-
ing order, he also assigned responsibilities for different elements of
mission preparation to his team members.4 He later gave the Plans
Section the information necessary to prepare the "Notification of
Intent to Inspect" message, which would ultimately arrive in Mos-
cow 36 hours before the American inspection team's arrival there.
The Plans Branch of OSIA's European Operations Command
compiled the information Lt. Colonel White had provided for the
intent-to-inspect message and forwarded it to Headquarters OSIA.
There, Robert G. Green of the Treaty List Management Branch
verified aircrew and team augmentee data such as names, birth
dates, and passport numbers. Any discrepancies between the
Headquarters computer lists and the data transmitted from the
European Operations Command were resolved at OSIA before the
Headquarters Operations Center forwarded the message to the
Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC) at the U.S. State Depart-
ment. Changes or discrepancies discovered in treaty inspector or
flight crew lists would be corrected in a "Remarks" block of the
notification. This action was critical to ensure that U.S. inspectors
would be allowed entry without delay to conduct their inspections.
Next, the NRRC sent the official U.S. government announcement
of intent to inspect through the Conference on Security and Coop-
eration in Europe (CSCE) network, and the State Department sent
the same message through diplomatic channels. s
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While Headquarters OSIA, the NRRC, and the State Depart-

ment processed the CFE Treaty notification, Team White contin-
ued its preparation for this first CFE on-site inspection. The
American inspection team gathered information, equipment, and
documents required for their mission. Current weather reports for
the inspection area, and news of ongoing activities by NATO ally
inspection teams, provided information that could improve the
odds of a successful mission. The team checked that its equipment
was operational and ready for deployment. Each team had its own
set of equipment in metal suitcases nicknamed "silver bullets." In
addition to their equipment, the team gathered passports, inspec-
tor badges, dog tags, bottled water, and mementos to be ex-
changed with their hosts. Team documents included maps of the
area, photos of the treaty-limited equipment (TLE) submitted by
the inspected nation at the exchange of treaty information, CFE
inspection forms, inspection notification messages, copies of the
treaty, and checklists to be used at various stages of the inspection
trip. As the team assembled these items, Lt. Colonel White worked
with the Inspection Support Staff (ISS) to develop a detailed mis-
sion briefing on the Russian site to be inspected.
Lt. Colonel White's briefing paralleled his mission operations
order. In both, he outlined his basic game plan for the inspection
mission, covering the type of inspection, the specific site, equip-
ment subject to the treaty as well as any other equipment the team
could anticipate encountering at the inspection site, and the com-
position of his inspection team. His briefing also addressed the
site's terrain, the weather forecast for the mission, and how those
conditions might affect the inspection . He also made certain that
the team's time in country, from arrival at the POE to its return to
a POE after the inspection, would be under 48 hours. The treaty

A British inspector drinks bottled

water during an inspection mission.
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allowed 48 hours in country to execute a single declared site in-

spection, and for any sequential inspections planned, the treaty
allowed an additional 36 hours per inspection, up to a maximum
of 10 days.
White also set up three subteams and planned the inspection
to ensure redundant coverage of the entire declared site. At the
same time, he assigned specific responsibilities to individual team
members, such as video filming, timekeeping, passport checking,
and monitoring the team equipment case throughout the inspec-
tion. The American team set up a subteam communications plan
to use during the inspection, with code words for key events. Lt.
Colonel White also announced the df'parture staging area and
time, where final checks would be made on equipment and
luggage. 6
In addition to White's briefing, the ISS also provided team
briefings before deployment. These included the latest information
available about the inspection site, including imagery from na-
tional technical means (NTM), findings from inspections under the
Vienna Document, and the CFE data exchanged. The ISS briefings
provided an insight about the significance of the site selected and
guidance on the kind of information required to satisfy U.S. gov-
ernment concerns.
In addition to these briefings, the Counterintelligence Section
reminded inspectors of personal and team security requirements
during CFE inspection missions. Topics included adherence to the
two-person rule that prohibited U.S. inspectors from being alone
outside their rooms or bathrooms during an inspection mission,
the policy on alcohol consumption during a mission, and guide-
lines on what was appropriate for discussion with an Eastern
escort, both in personal and business matters. The U.S. govern-

Team White preparing to depart on

the first U.S. CFE mission to Buy,
Russia.
 CFE TR~Al y BA~III'\i~ 161

u.s. policy allowed u.s. ins/lectors to engage in toasts at the completion of the inspection.

ment expected its CFE Treaty inspectors to be open with their

Eastern bloc escorts, but to remain unimpeachable in their behav-
ior while implementing the treaty. ?
Having completed these final briefings, the team was pre-
pared to deploy on their mission to Buy, Russia. Lt. Colonel
White's team, including aSIA's Director, Major General Robert W.
Parker, gathered on July 18th to perform their final predeparture
checks for this historic mission. Final checks confirmed that every-
one was on the flight manifest and had passports, inspector
badges, and dog tags. Certain that both personnel and equipment
were ready for departure, Lt. Colonel White led the nine-person
team to the bus for the short ride across the ramp to the waiting
military aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft departed Rhein-Main
at 1545 Frankfurt time, flew for three hours, and landed at
Moscow's Sheremetyevo I Airport at 2052 Moscow time. As the
team prepared to depart the aircraft, General Parker and Lt. Colo-
nel White met the senior Russian CFE Treaty escorts. The team
chiefs agreed to 1700 Greenwich mean time (GMT) as the official
arrival time, as had been announced in the message of intent to
inspect. A representative of the U.S. Embassy's Arms Control
Implementation Unit (ACIU) met the American inspection team to
assist them and the aircrew if needed. Meanwhile Captain Jeremy
Wintersteen, USAF, the deputy team chief, gathered passports for
162 ON - SITE INSPECTION AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

processing. While "in country," diplomatic privileges and immuni-

ties were extended to inspectors and aircrews as outlined in the
treaty. Team members unloaded their gear and, as planned for all
changes of transportation, one member of the team performed a
final sweep for anything left behind. The team then proceeded
through a routine Russian customs inspection of personal belong-
ings. Russian CFE escorts also completed a treaty-specified check
of American inspection equipment. In accordance with the CFE
Treaty's inspection protocol, the U.S. notification of intent to
inspect specified a seven-hour delay between arrival time at the
POE in Moscow and Lt. Colonel White's declaration of the first
inspection site.
Exactly seven hours after the team's arrival, Lt. Colonel
White announced to the Russian escort team that Buy was the site
for the first U.S. CFE inspection. It was now 0400 Moscow time,
0200 Frankfurt time. 8 The American team had worn civilian
clothes on the flight to Moscow, but changed into field military
uniforms, called BDUs-battle dress uniforms-in preparation for
the trip to Buy. During INF Treaty inspections, American inspec-
tors wore civilian clothes throughout the missions, but CFE in-
spections were to be conducted in much more rugged conditions,
so field uniforms were more practical. After declaring the site to be
inspected, the American team notified the ACIU of its plan to
depart for Buy and estimated the time of arrival at 0700 GMT on
July 19th.
Nearly three hours after the American team chief had de-
clared the site, the Russians escorted Team White to an IL-18
aircraft, and the two teams left for Tunoshna. After a two-and-
one-half-hour delay in acquiring ground transportation in
Tunoshna, the team and escorts continued on, switching vehicles
once again before arriving at Buy at 0855 GMT. The arrival time
at Buy was within five minutes of the maximum nine-hour transit
time the treaty permitted from the POE to the declared site, in this
case approximately a 250-mile trip. The treaty allowed the in-
spected nation six hours to prepare a site following the inspection
team's site declaration. In this mission the six-hour allowance was
easily satisfied. Despite the long transport time, the American team
was ready and eager to begin their inspection.
Shortly after arriving at Buy, the team notified the U.S. Em-
bassy of its arrival. The senior Russian escort then presented the
site diagram to the Americans. Lt. Colonel White immediately
declared the 22nd Central Tank Reserve Depot as the object of
verification for the inspection. The Russian escorts and site repre-
sentatives in turn commenced a 42-minute preinspection briefing.
During this briefing, they announced the depot's equipment quan-
tities; they were considerably higher than Russian data had previ-
ously indicated in November 1990. A correction to the 1990 infor-
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mation had been made in February 1991, but even that was 17
months ago. The Russian military had experienced many changes
since then, just as the U.S. military had in Europe. The Russian
February 1991 data were outdated and would be updated soon,
but that was one reason for the on-site preinspection briefing: to
update information and explain any differences.
The Russian briefing provided the U.S. tea m with specific
quantities of the various C FE Treaty equipment on-site, an expla-
nation for the dramatic increase of equipment since the CFE data
had been exchanged, and a listing, to be attached to the inspection
report, providing information on when the additional equipment
had arrived and where it had come from. Three categories of
equipment were present on th e declared site: tanks, armored com-
bat vehicles (ACVs), and ACV look-alikes. In 1991, Soviet data
had indicated that there were no tanks at Buy; but now, in July
1992, the Russian military briefers informed the American team
that there were 996 tanks on site. The number of ACVs briefed
was 301 versus a reported holding of 31. The number of ACV
look-alikes briefed was 176 more than previously reported. The
Russians also provid ed safety and administrative information
specific to the 22nd Central Tank Reserve Depot. 9
With approximately 31 hours remaining for th e American
team to complete its inspection and return to the POE, Lt. Colonel
White broke the team into three subteams and began counting the
equipment on-site. White led one team whil e his deputy, Captain
Wintersteen, and Sergeant First Class Curtis E. Ingram, USA, led
the other teams. Sergeant First Class Ingram, Staff Sergeant Walter
E. Hare, USA, and weapons specialist Mike Holthus identified and
documented the equipment at the 22nd Central Tank Reserve
Depot. General Parker also contributed to the effort to identify
and count equipment and record serial numbers. Two other spe-
cialists, John L. Detch, Jr., and Kip MeJat, handled photography
164 ON-SITE IMI'FC nON AGENCY _ _ _ __ _ __

duties, while Sergeant First Class Kenneth D. Periman, USA, a

linguist, bridged the communications gap.
The teams inventoried the equipment twice and confirmed
their figures with the Russian escorts when they completed a facil-
ity or group of equipment. This procedure avoided last-minute
recounts to clear up discrepancies. It proved to be a timesaver
because the U.S. inventory figures did not match those in the pre-
inspection briefing. The U.S. team inventoried 254 T-54 tanks and
417 T-55 tanks, which varied from the briefed figures of 361 and
308, respectively. Russian escorts and U.S. inspectors agreed on a
combined total of 671 T-54s and T-55s on-site. Both sides agreed
that the difference of two in total tanks was an accounting mis-
take, while the difference in totals for the two types of tanks
stemmed from the difficulty in identifying the many variants of
these tanks. The ACV and ACV look-alike inventories were nearly
error-free. The Russians briefed 301 ACVs on-site, 1 more than
the teams found, and again the difference was
attributed to a tabulating error. In all, the Ameri-
can inspection team counted and recorded 1,315
pieces of treaty equipment. The inspection ended
22 hours and 37 minutes after it began, with the
signing and exchanging of inspection reports by
the two team chiefs on July 20th, at 0720 GMT.
Team White notified the U.S. Embassy that
the inspection was complete and that the Russian
escorts had arranged for transportation to the
POE within 20 minutes after completion of the
inspection. Team White departed the site within
23 hours of its arrival on-site. That night the
team toured Moscow, enjoying the hospitality
arranged by its Russian hosts. The next morning,
July 21st, the host escorts transported Team
White to Sheremetyevo I Airport, where the team
rendezvoused with the American C-141 aircrew
and left Russia at 1115 GMT. Team White had
completed the first U.S. CFE inspection and left
Russia within the three-day timeline required by
the NATO deconfliction schedule. 1o
While the inspection in Russia was over, the
mission was far from finished. The C-141 flight
back to Rhein-Main was a working trip as team
members reviewed notes taken during the inspec-
tion. During the flight, Captain Wintersteen
completed the CFE mission report for Lt. Colo-
nel White's review. White would submit the
CFE inspectors participated in brief cultural events or report within an hour of the 1430 GMT touch-
sight-seeing after completing their missions. down at Rhein-Main. Over the next several days,
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while memories were fresh, the team partici-

pated in mission debriefs. They labeled the u.s. CFE Treaty Team Leaders
inspection film and turned it in for develop-
Declared Site/Challenge Inspections
ment, checked and repaired equipment as
July 17-November 17, 1992
needed, replaced expendables, and returned
issued clothing. Team White would soon pre- Lt. Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jr. U.S. Army
pare for its next CFE inspection mission, sched- Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser U.S. Army
uled for August 4th at Shuya, Russia. Lt. Colonel Edward G. Gallagher, II U.S. Army
Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert U.S. Air Force
The declared site inspection at Buy, Russia, Lt. Colonel Jan S. Karcz U.S. Army
was significant because it was a historical Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley U.S. Marine Corps
first-the first U.S. inspection under the CFE Lt. Colonel Keith A. Oatman U.s. Army
Treaty. However, the inspection's significance Major George P. Weller U.S. Air Force
was not only historical. The Russian equipment Lt. Colonel Elmer G. White U.S. Army
declared at Buy in the initial equipment data
exchange of February 1991 was outdated and Reduction Inspections
differed significantly from what satellite recon- July 17-November 17, 1992
naissance indicated in July 1992. Questions Lt. Colonel Edward G. Gallagher, II U.s. Army
raised by NTM could only be answered by a Lt. Colonel John D. Pesterfield U.S. Air Force
team on-site, a team that had the right to enter Major Timothy C. Shea US Army
buildings and determine their contents; inspect Lt. Colonel David F. Stack U.S. Air Force
all areas on the site that could hold conven- Major George P. Weller U.S. Air Force
tional armaments and equipment subject to the
treaty (CAEST); and take a detailed, exact
inventory of the equipment. The openness the Russian escorts and
local site officers displayed during the inspection and during dis-
cussions explaining the increased equipment on-site were impor-
tant benchmarks for the United States and the CFE Treaty. Team
White had fulfilled its inspection mission. This first American CFE
inspection-well-prepared, professional, and thorough-became
the norm for the 120-day CFE Treaty baseline phase and beyond.

FIRST U.S. ESCORT MISSION

U.S. inspectors had completed seven missions (nine inspec-
tions) before they escorted the first Eastern inspection team on a
declared site inspection of U.S. facilities. On August 10, 1992, the
Russian government sent notices of intent to inspect to the Ger-
man, Canadian, and U.S. governments. I I The Russians intended to
inspect U.S. and Canadian forces stationed in Germany. Germany
received notice because it was the host nation for the Russian
inspection mission, and as such would be responsible for the POE
procedures, transportation, and other support for the Russian
team while it was in Germany. On August 13th, treaty representa-
tives of the three nations were present when the Russian team
arrived at Frankfurt.
When the Aeroflot AN-72 touched down at Frankfurt Inter-
national Airport, the Russian inspection team disembarked and
166 O'\-SI r I 1'\"1'1 C II()~ ACI "C'

proceeded to the VIP lounge where the POE procedures were

conducted. The Russian team chief, Colonel Lev Vladimirovich
Patsiorin, and the German escort team chief, Lt. Colonel Klaus
Urban, agreed on a 1000 GMT arrival time for the inspection
report. The U.s. liaison team-Major Dee Dodson Morris, USA,
and Staff Sergeant Kent O. Elliston, USA-along with a Canadian
liaison team, participated in the German escort team's inspection
of the Russians' treaty-authorized equipment. The treaty allowed
each inspected nation to evaluate the inspection team's equipment
at the POE or, if necessary, at the inspection site. This one-time
group inspection of the Russian team's equipment facilitated the
inspection process. The Russian inspection equipment was accept-
able as outlined in the Protocol on Inspection.
The Russian team declared Canadian Forces Base Lahr as its
first inspection site. Major Morris notified European Command
(EUCOM) and OSIA of the selection and then proceeded to the
site. Major Morris did not attend the preinspection briefing be-
cause it was a Canadian military facility, and the Canadians chose
to protect their national sovereignty. However, she remained in the
Lahr area as the Russians inspected, in case any U.S. facilities were
encountered. The Canadians billeted all inspectors for the night at
Lahr. The next morning the Russian team finished its inspection
and announced the sequential inspection site before signing the
inspection report.

Major Les Garrison, USM C, and a Canadian inspector on a reduction inspection.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CFE TRI- -\ 1) B ~~L1J,\1 I n7

The sequential inspection was to be at an American site, the

U.S. Army Airfield at Giebelstadt, Germany. Colonel Patsiorin
declared the first sequential inspection site at 1150 GMT; 10 min-
utes later, Lt. Colonel Urban, the German escort team chief, noti-
fied Major Morris of the next inspection. Immediately, she notified
Headquarters EUCOM of the sequential declared site inspection
and then alerted the operations center at OSIA European Opera-
tions. Within 30 minutes of the Russian team's declaration, Major
George P. Weller, USAF, the American escort team chief for this
mission, received word of the inspection site. Ten minutes later his
10-member American escort team departed Rhein-Main, arriving
at Giebelstadt at 1500 GMT.
While Team Weller drove to Giebelstadt, Headquarters
EUCOM held a conference call with USAREUR, USAFE, and
Headquarters OSIA to pass on the status of the inspection and to
alert Giebelstadt to prepare for the upcoming inspection. Mean-
while, the German team assumed escort responsibilities from the
Canadians as the Russians left the Canadian facilities at Lahr.1 2
The German escorts delivered the Russian inspectors to
Giebelstadt Army Air Field at 1915 GMT, seven hours and 15
minutes after Colonel Patsiorin had announced the site for this
sequential inspection. Travel time to Giebelstadt was well within
the nine-hour maximum, but long enough to provide six hours of
preparation time at the Army Air Field. Team Weller arrived four
hours ahead of the inspection team. The U.S. team used that time
for its own site familiarization and to help site personnel prepare
for the CFE inspection.
Five minutes after Colonel Patsiorin's team arrived, site offi-
cials presented him a site diagram. Thirty minutes later, he de-
clared the 2nd Squadron, 3d Aviation Regiment as the OOY for
inspection. At this time, unit personnel presented the preinspection
briefing, which ended 50 minutes later, 2040 GMT. One point of
confusion arose. The data presented in the briefing were dated
August 14, 1992. The Russian team had deployed before the most
recent data exchange and consequently held data from the previ-
ous exchange. Colonel Patsiorin accepted the new information,
and he and his team retired for the evening.
The next morning, August 15th, at 0715 GMT, the Russian
inspectors began the inspection. Site officials had briefed them that
there were 14 AH-64 "Apache" attack helicopters, 11 OH-58
"Kiowa" multipurpose attack helicopters, and 3 UH-60
"Blackhawk" helicopters on site. There were differences between
the reported and briefed numbers, and the reasons for those differ-
ences were explained to Colonel Patsiorin's satisfaction. At 2100
GMT Colonel Patsiorin officially announced the sequential site,
the U.S. Army's garrison at Schweinfurt, Germany. At 2130 GMT
Patsiorin completed his inspection report and both he and Weller
signed the report. I J
168 Ol\-SI flc IMI'ICTIO A(.f '(')

The Demands of a CFE Mission

Top to bottom: Long flights in

military aircraft; harsh
environments; challenging
conditions; fatigue from the
inspection pace, lack of sleep,
and tracking numerous details.
 _ _ _ _ CfETRI-\I) B''>III 1 16':)

U.S. AH-64 "Apache" helicopters ready for inspection.

When the Russian inspection team left Giebelstadt Army

Airfield at 2145 GMT, the Germans again assumed escort respon-
sibilities. The Russian and German team chiefs agreed to follow
the spirit of the treaty, not the letter of the law, and exceed the
nine-hour travel time limit to the next site, allowing the inspection
team to take advantage of a comfortable hotel in the vicinity of
Giebelstadt for the night. The following morning the inspection
team arrived at Schweinfurt at 0720 GMT. There, the Germans
relinquished responsibility for the Russian team to the U.S. escorts
for the inspection of the U.S. Army's Conn Barracks facilities at
Schweinfurt, home of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.
Following the inspection of Conn Barracks, the Russian
inspection team continued through three more CFE inspections: at
the Grafenwoehr Training Area, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Divi-
sion; at Mainz, the Mainz Army Depot; and finally at Baben-
hausen, the 41st Field Artillery Brigade. The Russians had not
planned to conduct the Grafenwoehr inspection, but all the tanks
and most of the ACVs normally in place at Conn Barracks in
Schweinfurt were not on-site; the American units had deployed to
the training areas at Grafenwoehr. As a result, the Russian inspec-
tion at Schweinfurt was brief, since there was little equipment
there. Because the deployed equipment represented over 15 per-
cent of tbe declared equipment for Conn Barracks, the Russians
exercised their treaty right to declare a sequential inspection to the
location where the equipment was in place: the Grafenwoehr
Training Area. Team Weller, OSIA's escort team, stayed with the
Russian inspection team through the first three inspections. Colo-
nel Lawrence G. Kelley, OSIA European Operations Command's
Chief of Operations, chose to have Major Keith A. Oatman, USA,
and his team relieve Team Weller enroute to tbe Mainz Army
Depot. Kelley did this to mitigate fatigue and to allow Weller's
team time to prepare for an upcoming inspection mission. Colonel
Kelley also wanted to spread the escort experience among all of
the teams.14 Major Morris and Staff Sergeant Elliston remained as
the liaison team throughout the nine-day inspection trip, assisting
170 O:--J - S III IMPI CTIOI\ ACI,\;<"'

Colonel Kelley changed escorts at

the Mainz Army Depot during the
Russian inspection mission to
mitigate fatigue and spread escort
experience among the teams.

HEADQUARTERS
MAINZ ARMY DEPOT
PARTNERSCHAFT MIT GERATEDEPDT •
LORCH - WISPERTAL

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the American escort teams and USAREUR site officials as neces-
sary. At Grafenwoehr, a very large Army training facility, Major
Morris also assisted in escorting the Russian team. This concluded
the first series of Russian CFE inspections at American facilities.
Colonel Patsiorin's team departed Frankfurt for Moscow at 0914
GMT on August 22, 1992.
The Russian team did not declare ambiguities during the in-
spections of the five U.S. declared sites. There were instances in
which the briefed and the observed equipment totals differed, but
u.s. escorts and site representatives fully explained those differences
to the inspectors, who annotated them in the inspection reports. I S

FIRST U.S. LIAISON MISSION

The first U.S. liaison activity during baseline occurred in
England on July 20 , 1992, just three days after entry into force.
Captain Ellen Merkle, USAF, and Petty Officer First Class (POl)
David E. Sparks, USN, were the liaison team that met the British
escort team chief, RAF Wing Commander Griffiths and his nine-
person team at the POE, RAF Scampton. The Russian inspection
team arrived on July 20th at 1730 GMT and declared a challenge
inspection near Catterick Garrison at Richmond; the team contin-
ued with sequential declared site inspections at Roman Barracks at
Colchester, Meany Barracks at Colchester, and finally Carver
Barracks at Wimbish. The Russians were in England for seven
days during this four-site inspection trip. The inspection team did
not come upon any U.S. facilities on these British Army installa-
tions, so it was a quiet mission for the American liaison team.
Captain Merkle and POl Sparks stayed in contact with the British
escort team from the time the Russian team arrived in country
through its departure. They then returned to their staging area, the
East Gate Hotel in Lincoln, to wait for the next mission. 16
 CFE fRL \') B \." " , I-I

'" BACKDOOR" COMMUNICAllONS

Formal communications proved to be a problem during this

first liaison mission and continued to be a source of concern
throughout baseline. An informal communications system devel-
oped among the Allies that enabled them to complete their mis-
sions. As an example, Russia notified the United Kingdom that a
Russian inspection team intended to arrive in the United Kingdom
on the evening of July 20, 1992, to conduct one challenge and
three declared site inspections during a CFE mission in England.
Russia satisfied its treaty notification responsibilities with the
single message to the United Kingdom because it intended to in-
spect only English sites. Diplomatic channels, however, failed to
carry out the treaty requirement to notify allies within a group of
states when a state received a notification of intent to inspect. The
United States would have been unaware of the impending inspec-
tion had it not been for the informal, "backdoor," communica-
tions system.
This system operated as an informal network among the arms
control verification organizations throughout Europe. It developed
during the coordination of mock inspections, grew as entry into
force approached, and matured during baseline when the various
inspection organizations came to rely on it. For the United States,
assigning personnel with linguistic skills to OSIA's European Op-
erations was a key to the development of the communications
network. Colonel Kelley looked not only for Russian-speaking
inspectors but also for personnel conversant in the six CFE lan-

u.s. Master Sergeant William N. Chesney, .fr., participates in a French-led reduction inspection.
172 0"1 - 511[. IMI'FCTIOI\ AGI,\C)

guages when filling assignments. For instance, Captain William C.

Plumlee, USA, and Major John D. Monahan, USA, were combat
arms officers and West European FAOs. Their language skills
proved invaluable as they directed the Command's Operation
Center in communicating with the European verification agencies.
It was these skills that enabled OSIA personnel to establish profes-
sional and personal relationships with their counterparts through-
out Europe.
The Plans Branch provided ample opportunity for U.S. per-
sonnel to exercise their language capabilities and to communicate
effectively with U.S. allies. Master Sergeant William N. Chesney,
Jr., USA, and Technical Sergeant Ronald S. Fox, USAF, of OSIA
European Operations Command's Plans Branch, both spoke Ger-
man; Chesney also spoke French and dabbled in several other
languages. The y frequently spoke with the Zentrum flir
Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr (ZVBW) officials during
preparations for mock inspections, and whenever possible, they
spoke German. They coordinated with the ZVBW not only U.S./
German mocks but also U.S. mocks with other nations at U.S.
facilities in Germany. The United States respected German sover-
eignty when inviting other states to visit U.S. facilities, and Ger-
many took every opportunity to exercise its role as host nation for
these inspections. These planners helped OSIA develop a working
relationship with the busiest of the NATO verification agencies in
implementating the CFE Treaty. Whenever possible, OSIA's Euro-
pean Operations Command communicated with its counterparts
in their language . As the number of mocks increased and baseline
drew near, communications among the agencies increased; people
working in the verification agencies grew increasingly confident in
each other. 17
When baseline began it soon became apparent that the formal
treaty notification system would not be 100 percent reliable. Most
verification agencies did not transmit the official notifications to
other states-other agencies within their governments were re-
sponsible for these formal notifications. The verification agencies,
however, relied on accurate and timely information to properly
implement the treaty. The "Gtoup of Four"-the French, English,
German, and American verification agencies-called each other daily
and faxed situation reports to each other. In the first U.S. liaison
mission , discussed above, the United States received notification of
the Russian inspection only because the Joint Arms Controllmple-
mentation Group (JACIG), the United Kingdom's verification
agency, faxed a copy of the notification to OSIA's European Op-
erations Command on August 18th, two days before Russian CFE
inspectors would arrive in England. This gave the American
inspectorate sufficient time to notify one of the two OSIA liaison
teams prepositioned in England and to notify Headquarters
EUCOM of the impending inspection. IS
 _ _ _ _ _ _ (fETRI \1) B\~III,I l~)

Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, U.S. Army

Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, U.S. Army, was one of On CFE team chiefs
the original American CFE team chiefs during the and inspectors serving
baseline and reduction phases of treaty implementa- as soldier-diplomats:
tion. He holds a master's degree in Russian area "That is a very impor-
studies. An armor officer (tanks) and a foreign area tant aspect of being a
officer (Russian), Lt. Colonel Fiser served with the treaty inspector. It was
1st Cavalry Division in the Gulf War prior to re- something I wasn't
porting to OSIA European Operations in Frankfurt, really prepared for until
Germany. I arrived here. First, I
did some mock inspec-
tions, and then had one
On preparing the team for its inspection mission:
or two real CFE Treaty
"The first thing I always do is give my operations
inspections under my belt. I found, especially in the
order. This is pretty much a standard, five para-
Eastern bloc nations, that at meals, and often at the
graph, U.S. Army operations order: situation, mis-
report-signing ceremony, you would be expected to
sion, execution, administration/logistics, and com-
make some sort of toast. You're expected to speak,
mand, control, communication, coordination. I lay
to some extent, about the opening of relations
out all the deployment information so everybody
between our countries, and on how the CFE Treaty
knows where we're going, when we're going, what
was bringing us closer together. There were varia-
we're going to do when we get there, and how we're
tions on that theme, but you are almost invariably
going to do it. They know who is on what subteam,
expected to say something along those lines. That
when we break down into two- or three-person
was a new experience in my career. There is defi-
subteams, who carries what equipment, and any
nitely a diplomatic side to being an inspector."
specific instructions covering a myriad of issues, like
drinking water or specific team equipment. It also
covers individual tasks like who does the voice On the differences between being an inspector and
format reports to the embassy or who's responsible an escort: "I have to be careful here. The main
for laying on transportation. thing that makes being an escort more difficult is
that you are defensive as opposed to being on the
"Following the operations order, we have a offense. You have to react to the inspector. The
period of training on all the inspection equipment. treaty requires that you aid him whenever necessary
The only thing that presented a challenge for any- in carrying Ollt his inspection. At the same time,
body was our photographic equipment, the video obviously, we have U.S. interests that we are trying
or 35mm cameras, and the dictaphone. Those are to protect. So there's a fine line you have to walk.
really the only pieces of equipment that required There have been times when we have had disagree-
any training. We'd also have training, usually two ments concerning the interpretation of certain
or three hours, on the signature piece of equipment treaty points with representatives from different
that we expected to see at that particular type of U.S. military headquarters here in Europe. We've
unit, so everyone was well versed in what we were also had confrontations or issues arise with the
going to be seeing, whether it be ground or air inspectors from various countries at U.S. sites. That
equipment. " makes escorting more difficult. Another aspect of
escorting is the logistics. They are much more
On use of CFE Treaty 's databas e: "The point of difficult during the escort mission because you're
departure was always the submitted data: Charts also dealing with the host nation escorts. You are
one, three, and five data, and their submission trying to make lodging arrangements, many times
photos. We'd usually expand on that quite a bit. I'd off post, for 20 to 25 people, sometimes as many as
assign my weapons specialist the job of presenting 28 or 29 people. Going from site to site, there is an
classes on the declared TLE and other types of extreme amount of coordination that has to be
vehicles, equipment that we expected to see in the done. It makes for a very difficult time, and some
unit, be it a motorized rifle regiment or an air regi- very, very long nights. I've had some escort missions
ment. We studied both order of battle and equip- where if you got a couple of hours sleep a night you
ment types and we'd expand our study from there." were doing well."

Source: Interview, Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, USA, with Dr. Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, aSIA, July 12, 1993.
174 01\ -5rn hS1'1 cno'\ ACL,\C)

u.s. BASELINE INSPECTION OPERATIONS

The U.S. inspection teams conducted 44 baseline inspections
at Eastern sites. Because of civil unrest in Georgia, the U.S. govern-
ment canceled one mission out of concern for the safety of its
inspectors. Teams deployed to nine different countries, inspecting
Russia most frequently. Of the 44 inspections, only one was a
challenge inspection, conducted in Belarus; the other 43 U.S. in-
spections were declared site inspections. In total, the United States
conducted 22 CFE single inspection missions and 11 missions
during which teams inspected two sites. Unlike their Eastern coun-
terparts, U.S. teams inspected only one or two sites per mission,
never approaching the la-day in-country allowance outlined in the
treaty.
The U.S. pattern of inspection operations was influenced by
the NATO deconfliction schedule . The schedule allocated each
NATO state three-day inspection periods, or "slots," in which to
conduct CFE inspections. The three-day slot restricted a team's
ability to conduct sequential inspections. The treaty allowed 84
hours to conduct two declared site inspections, 48 hours for the
first and 36 hours for each sequential inspection. The NATO slot
allowed only 72 hours; the team lost 12 hours when squeezing two
inspections into the same slot. In the later stages of baseline, the
slots were sometimes consecutive, allowing a team six days in
country to complete its mission. By contrast, the Russian CFE
teams adopted a less costly approach by inspecting 10 U.S. sites
during two inspection missions. The cost of supporting and trans-
porting an inspection team was borne by the inspected state, while
the inspecting state paid its way to and from the inspected state.

Insp ectors discuss treaty provisions behind an A C V in Azerbaijan.

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Escorts could deny access to

aircraft shelters, but inspectors
could require that TLE be brought
out of the shelter.

Two trips instead of five or six produced a significant savings for

the inspecting state. 19
Inspections were extremely intrusive, and U.S. inspectors
were trained to probe and push as deeply as possible when inspect-
ing. An inspection team had significant rights when conducting an
inspection; however, the treaty also stipulated limits that protected
the inspected state. The treaty authorized an inspection team to
inspect all areas within a declared site except those that belonged
exclusively to another OOv. In addition, inspectors had the same
rights at locations separated from the site where CAEST of the
inspected unit were routinely present, such as a railhead. This
meant, among other things, that the inspection team had the right
to access, entry, and unobstructed inspection of any location,
structure, or area within a structure in which CAEST were penna-
nendy or routinely present.
Escorts, however, could apply treaty restrictions on an inspec-
tion team to limit access to or within a structure in several ways.
The first and most common way was by citing the two-meter rule.
An escort could deny an inspector access through any entrance
that was less than two meters wide because that was the threshold
through which no CAEST could fit. Having passed through an
entrance greater than two meters wide, the team could continue its
inspection within the facility until it reached a point where escorts
could successfully apply the two-meter rule. A second limitation
was the right to shroud sensitive equipment and deny inspectors
access to any shrouded item or container, so long as anyone of its
measurements fell under two meters. Third, escorts could also
deny inspectors access to hardened aircraft shelters. While an
escort team could normally prevent an inspection team from enter-
ing a hardened aircraft shelter, inspectors had the right to look in
to determine if any CAEST were present. Further, if CAEST were
I ~6 0 -Sill I '>1'1< flO ALI ('

positioned in an aircraft shelter and the inspectors were denied

entry, they had the right to counterdemand that all treaty-limited
equipment (TLE) be brought out for display to determine quanti-
ties, types, and models.
Finally, escorts could deny, limit, or delay access to those
areas or shrouded equipment that the inspected state's government
considered sensitive. Sensitive areas could hold equipment that the
C()1l1 'I! Il t iUlla I
inspected state considered critical to national security, such as a
AnJhll1ll'llts 1111£1 communications center or a special weapons storage facility. But
Equipl1lcllt not all sensitive areas dealt with national security; prisons, for
SU/J/('ct to the example, were frequently declared sensitive areas. If an escort
Tre ltv team chief declared an area or object sensitive, he then needed to
state whether there were any CAEST in the area. If CAEST were
present, the escort team was required to report the amount, type,
and model and to take steps to satisfy inspectors that no addi-
tional equipment was present.
As with access to facilities, the treaty allowed the inspected
state to impose limits on inspectors' access to CAEST. The Proto-
colon Inspection limited inspectors' access to the extent they
could confirm visually the number, type, and model or version of a
piece of CAEST. If inspectors encountered recategorized helicop-
ters, reclassified aircraft, armored vehicle look-alikes, or reduced
equipment, specific inspection protocol procedures allowed inspec-
tion of the interior of these vehicles to confirm the status of the
equipment. Inspectors could require that the doors of an armored
vehicle look-alike be opened to confirm that the vehicle could not
transport a combat infantry squad. Equipment within or on such a
vehicle could be shrouded, and the inspectors had no right to enter
the vehicle.

DECLARED SIT Ac ( fSS

During baseline, declared site access became the most conten-
tious issue that U.S. inspectors faced during inspections of Eastern
states. As baseline began, the U.S. understanding of access on
a declared site had not changed since American Ambassador
Lynn Hansen and the Soviet verification negotiator, Gennadiy
Yeftaviyev, ironed out an agreement in November 1990. During a
declared site inspection, a team could select and inspect only one
OOY on a declared site-the OOY was the subject of the inspec-
tion. The team, however, could inspect the entire declared site, to
its outermost natural or manmade borders, to include areas com-
mon to all OOVs located on the site. Inspectors were prohibited
only from any area on the declared site that supported another
OOYexciusively.
The first indication of a different understanding of inspector
access during a declared site inspection arose during the U.S.!
Lt. Colonel Edward C. Gallaghel~ II (right), leading an inspection at Ovruch, Ukraine.

Russian mock inspection at Pushkin, Russia, on February 12,

1992. During the Russian preinspection briefing at Pushkin, es-
corts presented a site diagram that depicted only the two OOVs at
Pushkin and a limited portion of the common areas. Lt. Colonel
Edward Gallagher, the U.S. team chief, pointed out that U.S. sat-
ellite reconnaissance indicated that there were other inspectable Ills/Jcd ... l() Its ollterll/()st
areas within the outermost boundary of the garrison. The Russian 'lLltllr,T1 or IIl(/llll1od£'
escorts responded that the Pushkin site diagram was correct. This
/J( mlers ...
problem was noted in the mock inspection report; the Russians
countered that U.S. inspectors had been given access to the entire
declared site associated with the OOy'20
When the treaty entered into force, it became obvious that
some states were not using the declared site definition that had
been negotiated. On August 5, 1992, during an early baseline
inspection of the 228th High Power Artillery Brigade at Shuya,
Russia, Lt. Colonel White received a site diagram that illustrated
the OOV but not all of the common areas on the site. Escort offi-
cials subsequently denied the team access to the common areas not
included on the diagram. Nine days later, when all states again
exchanged treaty data, it became apparent that Lt. Colonel
White's experience would not be an isolated one. The original
Soviet site diagrams had displa yed multiple OOVs and common
areas on a single site. The new August 14th diagrams indicated
one OOV on one declared site that was defined by the boundaries
of that 00y'21 The sites were no different physically-the com-
mon areas remained-but some states had changed their concept
of a declared site.
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Lt. Colonel Joseph j. Drach, Ir., atop a tank while leading a declared site inspection.

On August 29, 1992, U.S. inspectors had their first opportu-

nity to confirm, on-site, that the new diagrams reflected changes in
the concept of a declared site. In addition, inspectors would deter-
mine how these changes affected inspector access during an inspec-
tion. Colonel Joseph J. Drach, Jr., USA, led an inspection of the
336th Rocket Artillery Brigade in Osipovichi, Belarus. Drach
received a site diagram from the Belarussian escorts that did not
include all common areas within the manmade boundaries of the
site. More important, the escort team denied the inspectors access
to common areas that were on the installation but excluded from
the site diagram. While Drach documented this fact as an ambigu-
ity in his inspection report, another U.S. team was preparing to
deploy to RussiaY
Four days later, on September 4, 1992, Lt. Colonel Jan S.
Karcz, USA, led his team to the 752nd Guards Motorized Rifle
Regiment at Novyy, Russia, to test the Russian definition of a
declared site. His mission was to draw a "line in the sand" on the
issue of the definition of a declared site and inspector access. In
preparing his team to confront those issues, Karcz worked closely
with Colonel Schuyler (Sky) Foerster, USAF, who had participated
in the negotiation process in Vienna and was knowledgeable of the
negotiators' intentions on the issue of declared sites and access.
Karcz and Foerster worked with team linguist Sergeant Danny K.
Boyd, USAF, and Alan J. French, Russian language professional, to
prepare treaty-based responses to questions that might arise during
the inspection. When the team deployed to Moscow, Russia's only
POE, they brought along five to six pages of Russian text to COI1-
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vey the U.S. position on declared sites and access in language that
would be unambiguous to an escort team chief.
On arrival at Novyy, Lt. Colonel Karcz received a site dia-
gram of the OOY that was limited specifically to the area taken up
by the OOV. It did not include common areas outside the OOY on
the installation. The Russians defined the site's boundary using
roads that were well within the fenced area that was military
property at Novyy. At that point Lt. Colonel Karcz cited Article
XY of the treaty that allowed the use of NTM and produced a
map developed from overhead photography. Karcz pointed out to
Colonel V. Pavlenko, the Russian escort team chief, what the U.S.
considered the outermost boundary of the site. After two to three
hours of discussion, Colonel Pavlenko left the briefing area to
notify Moscow of the U.S. position. He soon returned and would
not stray from the Russian definition of a declared site. He reiter-
ated that the Russian site diagram was accurate as drawn and that
the U.S. team would have access only to the area depicted on the
diagram. At this point Lt. Colonel Karcz recognized that Colonel
Pavlenko was at his final position and would not budge. Karcz
commenced the inspection.
As the inspection proceeded, Pavlenko adhered to the Russian
definition of the declared site and did not allow the Americans
access to all areas that the U.S. team considered common areas.
This prompted Karcz to declare an ambiguity. Pavlenko protested
that an ambiguity was not appropriate in this situation because the
issue did not address TLE nor was it based on objective facts.
Karcz countered that the declared site definition and access issues
were indeed based on objective facts: the negotiating history pro-
vided a very specific definition of a declared site and the access to
be granted to an inspection team at a declared site. The current
Russian approach did not follow that specific definition and did
not satisfy CFE Treaty requirements, thus the ambiguity. Karcz
reminded Pavlenko that, ultimately, inspectors write the reports.

Lt. Colonel Ian S. Karcz signing an

inspection report in Ukraine.
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The inspecting team chief had the right to determine if an ambigu-

ity was to be written, just as the escort team chief determined what
response, if any, would be made on the report. 23
This new interpretation of a declared site spawned several
other problems that surfaced repeatedly during baseline inspec-
tions. The first problem inspectors faced on-site was the site dia-
gram. The new diagrams illustrated that the declared site was
defined solely by the OOV-each OOV was a declared site. In
addition, states depicted OOVs bounded by internal roads, build-
ings, and fences specific to the OOV, not by the outermost bound-
aries of an installation. These site diagrams omitted common areas
located within an installation that were outside the narrowly de-
fined OOY. Escort teams, armed with these site diagrams, allowed
teams to inspect only the OOV, which had become synonymous
with the declared site, thus limiting access to all common areas.
The new declared site interpretation also affected the requirement
under CFE 1A to report organizations and personnel figures for
activities subject to inspection at the inspection site. Escorts did
not provide figures for units located in what had previously been
common areas. Another difficulty arose at the POE, before the
start of the inspection. Inspection teams were, de facto, required to
announce the OOV to be inspected while at the POE, because
OOVs were now located on their own individual declared sites. By
declaring the site for inspection, inspectors were also revealing the
OOV for inspection. This fact increased preparation time from
one hour when inspectors selected the OOV at the site to more
than six to nine hours when inspectors were forced to select the
OOV at the point of entry.
The declared site issue arose repeatedly during baseline, caus-
ing U.S. inspectors to declare eight ambiguities. These ambiguities
occurred when escorts denied inspectors access to all common
areas. There were also occasions when states produced site dia-
grams that omitted all common areas, but escorts nonetheless
allowed access to all common areas. 24 The repeated efforts of U.s.
and allied inspection teams led to discussions at the Joint Consul-
tative Group (JCG) in Vienna to resolve the situation.
U.S. Ambassador Lynn M. Hansen addressed the declared site
isslle at the opening meeting of the JCG on September 23, 1992.
He discussed the site definition and access problems that Team
Karcz had encountered at Novyy and that other American and
NATO inspectors had encountered elsewhere. Citing the August
14, 1992, exchange of information, Ambassador Hansen stated
that the Russian definition of a declared site was now radically
different than that negotiated in New York in late October 1990.
The new Russian data indicated that all multiple OOV sites had
been converted to multiple declared sites within a single installa-
tion. He highlighted one example in which the left side of a dormi-
tory was within the declared site of one OOV while the right side
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was in a different d eclared site. Hansen expressed concern as to

how this Russian approach might affect verification of treaty
compliance.
Ambassador Hansen further pointed out that the new Rus-
sian approach in effect forced a CFE inspection team to declare the
specific OOV at the POE. This gave the inspected party an oppor-
tLlI1ity to move equipment across a road and hide it in a different
OOV during the inspection team's nine-hour transit from the POE.
At a declared site with a single OOV there was nowhere to hide
the equipment because all areas were subject to inspection. At the
multiple OOV/declared site installations the inspection process
could become a pea in the shell game. This Russian change,
Hansen charged, directly threatened the openness that was a key
component in the treaty. Inspection teams could no longer visit a
site and be confident that they had seen all of the equipment there.
Further negotiations in Vienna led the Russians to agree with the
U.S. position and to provide assurances that they would change
their site diagrams. 2i After receiving assurances of change, NATO
allies tested the Russians again.
On October 3, 1992, 10 days after Ambassador Hansen's
speech and on the heels of a German inspection team, Team
Gessert deployed to the Russian 423rd Guards Motorized Rifl e
Regiment at Naro-Fominsk. During that inspection, the issues of

American team chief Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert discussing site diagrams and access issues with Russian
escorts at Naro-Fominsk.
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site diagrams and multiple declared sites on an installation sur-

faced again because the changes had not penetrated through from
the diplomatic to th e operational level o f the Russian army. Al-
though he received th e perso nal assurances of General-Major
Sergey Fedorovich Tsyga nkov that futur e access would be pro-
vided, Lt. Colonel Gessert declared an ambiguity. While the two
officers were discussing th e issue, a French team that included Lt.
Colonel Karcz announced from the POE that it would inspect one
of the declared sites/OOVs at Naro-Fominsk. General Tsygankov
initially wanted to refuse the French permission to inspect Naro-
Fominsk becau se Tea m Gessert was already in place, and the
trea ty prohibited more than one tea m on a site. He soo n rea lized
however, that Naro-Fominsk was a multiple OOV and a multiple
declared site, and that the French were not requesting the same
OOV that Gessert was inspecting. He acknowledged the French
tea m's right to conduct its inspection. They did so. These multina-
tional inspections caused new di sc ussions at the ]CG in Vienna.
They produced new ass ura nces from the Russian represe ntatives
that the site diagrams and multiple OOV problems would be
corrected. Th ree da ys after Team Gessert departed Naro-Fominsk,
another U.S. tea m returned .2h
On October 9th, Colonel Kell ey led a team augmented by
two foreign members-Li eutenant Ole T. Pedersen from Denmark,
and Georges M. Vitse from France. Their destination was the 12th
Guards Tank Regim ent at Naro-Fominsk. Again, a major goal of
the mission was to test the assurances given by Russian delegates
in Vienna that site diagram s would be changed and inspection
teams gra nted full access to an installation. The presence of the
two au gmentees signaled to Ru ssia that a community of nations,
not only the United States, considered the issue of site diagrams
and multiple OOVs to be very serious. Team Kelley arrived at
Naro-Fominsk and, like previous teams, received a restrictive site

Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser (left)

leading an inspection in Belarus.
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diagram that did not include the entire installation. The Russians
still depicted multiple OOYs as individual declared sites; the Rus-
sians claimed that the change would come with the next treaty
data exchange. Colonel Kelley declared an ambiguity. After com-
pleting this inspection, the team conducted a sequential declared
site inspection of the 589th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment at
Totskoye. Again site diagrams were an issue, and again Colonel
Kelley declared an ambiguityY
These inspections revealed that the Russians had not yet
changed their position on OOYs and declared sites, or that direc-
tives to implement change had not yet filtered down to operational
levels of the Russian army. In Yienna, JCG discussions continued,
and Russian delegates stated that Russia would soon revise the
declared sites and site diagrams at issue to reflect multiple OOYs
colocated on single declared sites. The Russians indicated that they
would develop new site diagrams that would restrict access only to
those areas specific to another OOY on the same declared site.
Russian representatives assured JCG delegates that these changes
would appear in the annual exchange of data on December 15,
1992. An encouraging sign that Russia was making headway in its
changes came on November 8, 1992. During an inspection mission
of Russian forces in Azerbaijan, the Russian site representatives
presented Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, USA, site diagrams that
indicated multiple OOYs located on a single declared site. He
conducted two inspections on that mission and had no difficulties
in either location with site diagrams or inspector access.
On January 14, 1993, after an evaluation of Russia's Decem-
ber 15, 1992, exchange of treaty information, President George
Bush presented his annual "Report to Congress on Noncompli-
ance with Arms Control Agreements." In the report he stated that
"the Russian Federation, and to a lesser extent, Ukraine and
Belarus" had developed an overly restrictive definition of a de-
clared site, consequently restricting access. But he noted that
"In its December 15, 1992, data exchange, the Russian Fed-
eration has, however, taken action to rectify its data depiction of
what should be single declared sites with multiple OOYs, and
discussions are continuing in the Joint Consultative Group to
resolve the rest of the access issue. "28
The December 1992, data exchange indicated a change in the
Russian position on declared sites, OOYs, and inspection team
access. Confirmation came during subsequent declared site inspec-
tions in the reduction phase of the treaty. The Russians had indeed
conformed to treaty requirements, but Belarus and Ukraine did
not follow Russia's example.
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CHALLENGE INSPECTIONS

During baseline, U.S. inspectors conducted only one challenge

inspection. On August 11, 1992, Major Keith A. Oatman, USA,
led his team to Minsk, Belarus. Their mission was to inspect a
large holding of TLE that had not been declared in the data ex-
change of 1990. One hour after arrival at Minsk, Major Oatman
specified the area for inspection, an apparent tank storage facility
at Urechye. Two hours later Belarussian officials granted the in-
spection request, and within an hour Team Oatman was en route
to Urechye. According to escort officials, these tanks and storage
facilities were part of the 969th Central Tank Reserve Base that
Belarus would declare in a matter of days in its August 1992 data
exchange. Although none was required, Belarus officials gave
Team Oatman a modified site briefing that highlighted the 969th's
relationship to the other two OOVs that w ere on the declared site
at Urechye. The issue of declared site inspection versus challenge
inspection arose, because Urechye was a declared site for both the
30th Tank Regiment and the 20th Independent Reconnaissance
Battalion, and the specified area requested for inspection was
located on the installation. Ultimately, the Belarus escorts afforded
Team Oatman access to the tank storage facilities to complete its
mission, but denied the team access to areas that were part of the
two declared OOVS. 29

Lt. Colonel Keith Oatman completes an inspection in Azerbaijan.

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MULTINATIONAL TEAMS

During the baseline period, NATO guest inspectors fre-

quently joined U.S.-led inspection teams, and U.S. inspectors par-
ticipated as members of allied teams. The increase in inspection
opportunities provided allied governments, through their guest
inspectors, a broader view of treaty implementation throughout
Europe. The multinational teams represented a united front on
treaty implementation issues at the JCG, as had been the case in
resolving the declared site definition and access issue. Colonel
Brenno Tesori of Italy was the first allied inspector to join a U.S.
team on a U.S. CFE mission, Team Gessert's declared site inspec-
tion mission to Ukraine, on July 30, 1992.30 During the baseline
period, OSIA teams conducted 22 inspections with the assistance
of allied guest inspectors, usually one or two augmentees per mis-
sion. Inspectors from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Den-
mark, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy represented their
countries on U.S. teams. The allied multinational inspection team
foreshadowed the international mix of team members subsequent
to baseline. However, while U.S. inspection teams became multina-
tional, escort teams remained strictly American.

u.s. BASELINE ESCORT OPERATIONS

The OSIA escort teams stood ready to react at nearly a
moment's notice. Teams initially maintained a 30-minute, one-
hour, or three-hour standby. The team on 30-minute standby lived
on base in the 21st Replacement Battalion dormitory or the Rhein-
Main Hotel. Their three-day standby rotation matched the time
blocks of the NATO baseline deconfliction schedule, facilitating
planning for inspection deployments. The short reaction time for
escort teams was driven by the possibility that an Eastern team

OSIA escort team with local

escorts during a declared site
ins/Jectiol1.
.l86 ON-SITE INSI'l'CTION AGEl'\( )

would declare a sequential inspection of a u.s. site in northern

Germany or in the flank areas: Turkey, Greece, or Norway. Because
of the travel time to distant locations, an escort team might need all
of the six-hour site preparation time allowed by the treaty to arrive
at one of the outlying inspection sites before the inspection team.
The U.S. escort teams had to arrive on-site ahead of the Eastern
inspection teams to avoid delaying the inspection process and to
make certain that the site was prepared to receive inspectors.
During baseline, OSIA teams met nine Eastern inspection
teams and escorted them through inspections of 23 U.S. declared
sites. Russian teams conducted 10 of those inspections during two
missions. Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia each
inspected three U.S. facilities, and Romania inspected one U.S. site.
All Eastern inspections of U.S. declared sites occurred in Central
Europe, the focal point of the treaty; none took place in the flanks.
Specifically, Eastern teams conducted 21 inspections of U.S. forces
stationed in Germany, 1 in Belgium, and 1 in Luxembourg. 3 1
Russian inspectors recorded the only ambiguities against U.S.
forces during baseline. During the second Russian inspection mis-
sion of U.S. sites in September 1992, Lt. Colonel Oleg Borisovich
Koptelov declared four ambiguities. On September 25, 1992,
he declared an ambiguity at the General Support Center at
Kaiserslautern, Germany, about the categorization of three M-728
combat engineer vehicles. The Russian team chief asserted that the
vehicles should be considered M-60 tanks because of their short
muzzle, 165 millimeter gun, and extra plating. The American team
chief, Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, USA, countered that the M-
728s were not M-60 tanks; the M-728s were designed for mine-
clearing operations. Fiser cited Article 1Il of the treaty, stating that
they were not capable of "heavy firepower of a high muzzle veloc-

American ambuLances were based

011the M -113 armored personnel
carner.
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ity direct fire gun." The Russian team chief did

not agree and exercised his treaty right to declare
an ambiguity.
Lt. Colonel Koptelov declared twO more
ambiguities on September 28th, during a sequen-
tial inspection at Rhine Ordnance Barracks. The
first concerned ambulances based on the M-113
armored personnel carrier (APC). Lt. Colonel
Koptelov stated that an M-113 ambulance
should be considered TLE because, with the
exception of quickly removable interior equip-
ment, it was an APC. Major Guy White, who
replaced Lt. Colonel Fiser at Rhine Ordnance
Barracks, responded that because the vehicle
carried the "red cross and was configured for
litters, it was not an APC."
Lt. Colonel Koptelov's second ambiguity at
the Rhine Ordnance Barracks dealt with the site
diagram and access. The Russian inspection team
chief stated that U.S. military facilities on terri-
tory west of the declared site should have been
portrayed on the site diagram. He observed that
only a small road and chainlink fence separated Th e M 113 armored personnel carrier was a mainstay
the depicted declared site and military facilities to of American forces in Europe.
the west. Lt. Colonel Koptelov added that two
roads connected the two locations, making the facilities a single
declared site, and therefore the western portion should be acces-
sible to an inspection team. Major White replied that the facility to
the west was not associated with Rhine Ordnance Barracks-it
was the Weilerbach Ammunition Storage Area, an old INF site-a
separate facility. Major White pointed to the eight-foot chainlink
and barbed wire fences that surrounded both facilities, and to the
German civilian road that bisected the facilities as evidence that
they were, in fact, separate military installations. The two team
chiefs discussed previous site diagram and access disputes that U.S.
inspectors had documented during inspections of Russian sites.
Major White maintained that the situations were not the same;
however, Koptelov was not persuaded and declared an ambiguity.
The Russian inspector's fourth and final ambiguity arose
during the last inspection of his mission, on September 30th, at the
South Park Storage at Moenchengladbach. After Russian inspec-
tors inventoried another 30 M-113 based ambulances there,
Koptelov repeated the Russian assertion that these ambulances
should be considered APCs, thus TLE, contrary to the U.S. posi-
tion that as ambulances they were not subject to the treaty. 32
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AMERICAN LIAISON OPERATIONS

As discussed previously, the role of a U.S. liaison officer

(LNO) was to protect U.S. interests by representing the U.S. gov-
ernment whenever Eastern inspection teams conducted inspections
in a NATO state. To ensure readiness, OSIA's liaison teams in
Germany operated on a rotating standby schedule. Two primary
standby teams could deploy within three hours of notification.
Two other teams were on a six-hour alert and moved up to the
three-hour alert when one of the primary teams deployed. The
remaining two teams were on a one-day standby schedule. The
forward-deployed teams in Italy, Turkey, Spain, and the United
Kingdom were prepared to respond at any time. Twice a day the
forward-deployed teams checked with European Operations to
monitor the status of treaty activities in their area. They also main-
tained ties with the host nation's treaty verification agency and
with the American Embassy.
A11 INMARSAT provided reliable To communicate with European Operations and EUCOM
but bulky commu11icatio11s. when phones were not available, each team deployed with an
INMARSAT (International Maritime Satellite) communications
station. The INMARSAT, an 80-pound self-contained satellite
communications system, was re liable and effective, but very cum-
bersome. Cellular phones offered LNOs far greater flexibility.
Cellular phones were not available to all LNOs at the onset of the
CFE baseline, but were provided when they became available. The
cellular phones were purchased in Germany; there were different
national phone systems throughout Europe, and the new cellular
phones did not work on all of the systems. England and Spain
were two countries where LNOs experienced some difficulties.
There were also places where the cellular communications systems
had "dead spots." The LNOs ultimately relied on their resource-
fulness to keep lines of communication open with the host escort
team, European Operations, and EUCOM.
Procedures for American LNOs varied from nation to nation.
Before the baseline period, a joint State Department and Joint
Chiefs of Staff (JCS) team traveled throughout the NATO states to
negotiate bilateral agreements that would outline specifically what
actions the Am erican teams could take to protect U.S. interests
and rights. These agreements varied widely. The U.S.-German
agreement mirrored years of close government cooperation and
the interaction of significant U.S. and German military forces. This
agreement permitted an American presence at the POE when
Eastern inspection teams arrived. Frequently German escort teams
invited the American LNOs to ride with them and the inspection
team on the same bus. The German escorts kept U.S. LNOs well
informed of the inspection team's status and intentions for sequen-
tial inspections. The timeliness of the German notifications al-
lowed American LNOs, through OSIA's "Big Hog" database, to
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quickly determine which U.S. forces were known to be in the

vicinity of the next inspection. Consequently, those forces had a
better opportunity to prepare for a possible inspection.
As discussed previously, maintaining up-to-date databases
was difficult because of the wide variety of activities of U.S. forces
in Europe. On two occasions, neither OSIA nor EUCOM data-
bases provided the American LNOs information of U.S. forces
located on sites to be inspected. In Germany, 600 U.S. soldiers
participating in an annual major NATO exercise, REFORGER,
surprised a German escort team when they encountered them near
Hamburg. The American LNO team standing by in the vicinity
responded to the German discovery and the inspection proceeded
smoothly. A similar situation arose in Florennes, Belgium. Neither
EUCOM nor OSIA databases were updated to show the tempo-
rary deployment of two F-15 and four F-16 aircraft to a U.S.
training program in Belgium. However, the chief liaison officer,
Major Richard J. O'Shea, USAF, was aware that the training pro-
gram existed and the U.S. liaison team was able to alert the U.S.
forces and prepare them for the inspection. In both cases the U.S.
liaison teams, with the cooperation of host escort teams, protected
American interests. 33
Other NATO nations took a much more restrictive approach.
Turkey and Portugal, for example, preferred to exercise their
national sovereignty and insisted that U.S. LNOs not be present at

u.s. aircraft, like the F-16, could be found throughout Europe far from American sites.
19() Ol\ -SI r I 1:\,>1'1'<: 110'\ Act 1\(:)

the POE when Eastern teams arrived. In the opinion of these na-
tions, the inspection process did not involve the United States until
American forces became subject to inspection. In an October 1992
inspection, the Portuguese escort team chief told the American
LNO, Major Charles R. Allison, USA, that the U.S. government
would be notified through the American Embassy if the Russian
team wanted to inspect U.S. facilities. 34
Major John M. Bilyeu, USA, had a similar experience when a
Bulgarian team arrived in Turkey on July 27, 1992. The Turkish
government had chosen to minimize U.S. visibility during CFE
inspections. The American LNOs traveled to the vicinity of the
POE and attempted to contact the escort team chief, but could
not. The U.S. team received no information from the Turkish
escort team until after the Bulgarian team had conducted two
inspections and was preparing to depart the country. Lacking
information, the American team deployed to the only known U.S.
facilities that were in the area of the POE and stood by in case the
Bulgarians opted to inspect that location. 35
In August 1992, it was clear that Eastern nations were not
keeping pace with their allotted CFE baseline inspection quotas.
It also became apparent that the Eastern inspection teams were
inspecting several sites during each mission, thus minimizing travel
expenses. For U.S. liaison teams this implied far fewer deploy-
ments to POEs, but it also meant longer missions when they did
deploy.
In late August, Lt. Colonel Stephen A. Barneby, USA, Chief
of the Plans Branch, evaluated the Eastern states' inspection pat-
tern and recommended cutting the number of forward-deployed
liaison teams. On September 3, 1992, Colonel William R. Smith,
USAF, Commander, OSIA European Operations Command, agreed
and proposed the cuts to Headquarters OSIA. In mid-September,
the United States reduced its forward-deployed LNO presence to
single teams in Ital y, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. The single
team in Spain was eliminated. Colonel Kell ey decided that Lt.
Colonel Barneby, a West European foreign area officer (FAO) who
had come to European Operations Command in July 1992 from a
three-year tour in Spain, would deploy from Frankfurt to Spain
when required. Throughout the rest of the baseline period, the
remaining LNO teams fulfilled the JCS requirement to provide an
American presence to protect American rights and interests when-
ever an Eastern inspection team entered a NATO state. 36

U.S. BASELINE REDUCTION INSPECTIONS

Under the CFE Treaty, reduction inspections provided the

primary means to determin e that nations were meeting their obli-
gations to reduce TLE. Western reduction inspection teams were
 (H 1 RI \ i) B \"1 J 1 1 (lJl

usually multinational, and team leadership varied from mission to

mission. The NATO VCC designated which nation would lead
reduction inspection teams for the group of 16 states. Rotating
team leadership spread the burden of the expense and the diffi-
culty of providing transportation, billeting, and meals associated
with the inspection effort. Many nations, however, declined the
opportunity to lead reduction teams during baseline, largely be-
cause of the cost. \t lea:t ulle L . \.
Initially, the Eastern states reduced small sets of equipment rc/,rc_C'lltLltll'l! ll'ould

over a 30-day period, causing Western inspection teams to deploy /h7rth I/hl/C 1111 Llll)' redlfctloll
frequently. Colonel Smith suggested that the VCC consider de- 111L_lOTI. clTld the [ TIl/cd
creasing the size of reduction inspection teams to reduce costs. \t,lte_ 1l'lIltld I((C/}t the It cd
While other nations declined leading reduction inspection teams, II hellel C'1 (I((£,1'cd.
l

the U.S. government's policy dictated that at least one U.S. repre-
sentative would participate on any reduction mission and that the
United States would accept the lead on a mission whenever the
VCC offered it. Colonel Smith also recommended that nations
lengthen their reduction periods to the allowable 90 days and
increase the amount of equipment for reduction, thereby decreas-
ing the number of reduction inspections. During the baseline pe-
riod, U.S. inspectors led 5 of the 23 NATO alliance reduction
inspection teams and participated in 12 others.
The first U.S.-led mission was in GermanyY Lt. Colonel John
D. Pesterfield, USAF, led the first U.S. reduction team to the Capi-
tal Repair Plant at Wuensdorf, Germany, on August 6, 1992. Team
Pesterfield was composed of five Americans, an Italian, a Belgian,
a Canadian, and an inspector from the United Kingdom. While
conducting an opening inspection, the team checked and recorded
the serial numbers of the 100 ACVs to be reduced over the next 30
days. The team also watched and confirmed the destruction of two
ACVs-a BMP-1 and a BTR-60. Lt. Colonel
Pesterfield signed the inspection report on Au-
gust 8th, indicating that his team had confirmed
the destruction of two ACVs and recorded the
serial numbers of those yet to be destroyed. Team
Pesterfield's data were available to the govern-
ments involved in the inspection and were sub-
mitted to NATO's VCe.
The VCC maintained the information for
subsequent use by the closure inspection team
that would return to Wuensdorf to confirm the
reduction of the remaining 98 pieces of equip-
ment. The Wuensdorf reduction period high-
lighted the VCC's critical role in scheduling and
data collection for reduction missions. The
United States did not lead the follow-up team,
but that team prepared for the mission based on Spanish and Danish inspectors 011 a multinational
the information provided by the VCe. During reduction inspection team.
192 0 -~I IF I ' '>1'1 (110. Ac.1 :\C)

the baseline period, OSIA inspectors led four other reduction

inspections, two to Ukraine, one to Poland, and one to Bulgaria.
All five reduction inspections were successful multinational efforts
and provided evidence that nations were satisfying the treaty's
central objective: reducing military hardware in Central Europe. 3s

OPERATIONAL ISSUES

American inspection teams encountered various difficulties

during the CFE baseline. The major problems that arose concerned
the definition of a declared site and the resulting difficulties with
inspector access. As the baseline ended, however, Western states
held a cautious optimism that Russia had resolved these problems.
Ukraine and Belarus, however, offered no indication of changing
their restrictive approach to the definition of a declared site. The
issue of U.S. armored ambulances versus M-l13 APCs also re-
mained unresolved. Communications provided the most frequent
operational problems that OSIA tcams confronted.
During the early stages of baseline, OSIA European Opera-
tions occasionally had to modify notification messages because
aircrew identification was inaccurate or because treaty-required
data had to be changed. European Operations had no control over
aircrew identification information, which was the responsibility of
the aircrews' wing. In fact, EO could not confirm aircrew data
until the crews arrived in Frankfurt. Coloncl Smith recognized that
late changes to inspection notification messages were an irritant to
State Department communications specialists. Yet, he took excep-

Bulgarian escorts stand on a treaty-

limited tank converted for static
display.
tion to their insistence that no changes could be made after the
initial message submission. On three occasions during July-August
1992, State Department representatives balked at transmitting late
message changes. The problem was simple to state, but difficult to
resolve. On the one hand, Colonel Smith had to provide
manditory treaty information about the inspections to the treaty
states. On the other hand, the State Department had to transmit
accurate, standardized message data to foreign nations through the
American embassies. When operational pressures createci require-
ments for changing the data, network standards resisted any
changes. Friction resulted. The problem was resolved over time
by closer coordination on the manditory CFE Treaty data require-
ments and by better advance mission planning. By the end of the
baseline period, communicating messages over the State Depart-
ment network had improved considerably.
Another communications problem stemmed from host na-
tions' providing late announcements that they had received intent-
to-inspect messages, and sometimes that information came only
through informal channels. This problem continued throughout
the baseline period. As late as November 12, 1992, 118 days into
baseline, Greece notified the United States of a Hungarian inspec-
tion that had started two days earlier. In this case, an American
LNO was not in place to protect U.S. interests. 39 Late notifications
frequently put u.S. liaison teams in the position of catching up
with inspection teams. These notification problems, coupled with
some nations' practice of keeping U.S. liaison teams at a distance,
made it difficult for LNOs to gather information and be certain
that all U.S. interests were protected during inspections.
The strict "letter of the law" approach to treaty implementa-
tion taken by OSIA teams periodically strained working relations,
especially when U.S. methods were compared with the "spirit of
the law" approach taken by other nations. As directed by the
National Security Council, OSIA teams implemented the treaty ... the "letter uj" the ILl It' "
without deviation. American army field commanders complained (()JJl/h1l"ed [{lith the "s/Jirit lit
to Headquarters USAREUR that OSIA team chiefs were too rigid the I,llt' " ...
in their interpretation of treaty timeline requirements; that OSIA
team chiefs would not allow time requirements to be relaxed so
that inspection could begin in the morning instead of late at night.
This would prevent calling civilians into work on overtime and
keeping military personnel on duty for lengthy periods. Field com-
manders pointed out that other nations took a much more casual
approach to treaty implementation.
Similarly, Eastern inspectors expressed displeasure that OSIA
teams arrived late at night or on weekends, causing difficulties
with their work force. 40 What was not known to Eastern escort
teams was the VCC scheduling of inspections and the NATO-
imposed three-day inspection time block. When U.S. teams de-
1<14 O,,-SIII 1:\'>"1 ('110". A(,I ()

ployed, they had little choice but to execute their plan. An Eastern
escort team might have been willing to allow an American team to
relax time requirements; however, by agreeing, the American team
might have prevented another team, U.S. or allied, from conduct-
ing a planned inspection several hours later. The 120-day baseline
was a relatively short period in which to complete numerous in-
spections, and there were bound to be inconveniences associated
" The llhlill ,!!,()LlI ()( the tn'Llt)' with any large-scale effort. Illustrative of many states' outlook was
/JLld beell Llcc()JIlplis/;cd /J)' a Bulgarian inspector's comment during an inspection in Belgium:
"The main goal of the treaty had been accomplished by signing the
sl!!,llill,!!, the tredt)', "lid t/;e
treaty, and the inspections were merely a formality. "41
l/lspecti()/ls ll'ere merel)' "
(umhllit)'. .. Many inspectors from nations in both groups of states cited
the "spirit of the treaty" as a guide for implementation. The U.S.
experience during INF Treaty implementation, however, indicated
that participants adhering strictly to treaty requirements had little
doubt concerning their own or their counterparts' responsibilities
and rights. OSIA's Director, Major General Robert W. Parker,
USAF, expressed that view in a letter to USAREUR's Major Gen-
eral Joseph T. Davies, USA, on the issue of inspection teams' late
arrivals and briefings at U.S. facilities. Parker pointed out that
host state escort teams, not OSIA liaison or escort teams, delivered
inspection teams to a site following treaty guidelines. Once at the
site, the U.S. government had specific treaty obligations to fulfill.
General Parker stated categorically that he "would not apologize
for OSIA standards of inspection." He said that OSIA inspectors
followed the treaty strictly so that there would be no doubt as to
what the requirements were and so that those requirements would
be fulfilled. He asserted that in this way everyone's rights were
being protected.
Despite communication and perception problems, OSIA
inspectors, escorts, and LNOs succeeded in fulfilling their respon-
sibilities and protecting the rights of the United States as outlined
CCller,,1 PLlr/~cr "Il'()llid Ilot in the CFE Treaty. Problems that arose during inspections were
LI/mlop)::c tur OS/A discussed and handled in a professional manner by OSIA team
stLllldLlrds o( illspectiO/l . .. members and their counterparts. Even in situations that resulted
in declarations of ambiguities, inspection and escort teams main-
tained an "operational" atmosphere, leaving resolution of prob-
lems to their governments.
During baseline, OSIA inspection teams traveled 33 times
into Eastern nations to conduct 44 inspections. On one other
occasion a team traveled to Moscow only to reschedule the mis-
sion because of poor weather conditions at the inspection site. The
U.S. completed 98 percent of the 45 missions available to it.
Meanwhile, Eastern teams completed only 66 percent of the 34
inspections available to them at U.S. declared sites. OSIA escort
teams responded to 9 Eastern inspection missions to 23 inspection
sites.
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NOTES
1. Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Provisional
Application of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of
November 19, J 990, July 10, 1992; Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe, Document on Entry into Force o f th e Treaty on
Conventional An1'/ed Forces in Europe, November 13, 1992.
2. Necil Nedimoglu, Head of the NATO Verification and Implementation
Coordination Section, "NATO's Role in Ve rification and Compliance
Monitoring for the CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document," speech
presented to th e United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on
Verification in All its Aspects, New York, July 19, 1994; OSIA European
Operations Command, "Briefing Paper on Group of 16 Inspections
Co nducted, as of: 1800, November 13, 1992: Day 120 of Baseline. "

3. Arms Co ntrol Reporter 1992, p. 407 .B.477.

4. Interview with Lr. Colonel Thomas C Fiser, USA, Team Chief, OSIA, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-J'vlain Air Base, Germany, July
12, 1993; CFE Treaty Lesson Plan, "Planning, Preparation, and Conduct of
an Inspection, " Training Division, OSIA, June 9,1993 .

.5 . Inspection Mission Message Folder, C92-Blue-001-RS-LTC White; OSIA

Operations Center Guide, "NRRC Message Transmission Procedures," no
da te.
6. Intervi ew, Fiser; CFE Trea ty Lesson Plan, 1993.

7. OSIA Policy Memora ndum, "Policy on Alcobolic Beverages," March 20,

1991; OSIA Policy M emorandum, "Two Person Rul e, " April 30, ] 993;
OSIA Memorandum, "Guidance on Public Discussions Concerning
Inspection Activities," March .5, 1990.

8. Inspection Mi ss ion Message Folde r, C92-Blue-001-RS-LTC White;

Inspection Report, C 92-Blu e-001-RS-LTC Wbite, July 20, 1992.

9. Inspection Report, C92-Blue-001-RS, July 20,1992. (An explanation of

th e report filing code: C92 = CFE Treaty 1992; Blue = U.S. inspection; 001
= 1st inspection; RS = Russian OOY. Otber Eastern European nations
included Armenia, AM; Azerbaijan, AZ; Belarus, BL; Bulgaria, BU;
Czechoslovakia, CZ [later Czech Republic, CZ and Slovak Republic, SQ];
Georgia, GE; Hungary, HU; Moldova, MO; Poland, PL; Romania, RO;
and Ukraine, UP.)

10. Ibid.
11. Message, Secretary of State, "C FE: Co py of Notification to Inspect
Received from Russia ," August 11, 1992.
'12. Report, Major Dee Dodson Morris, USAF, Liaison Officer, "Liaison
Officer's After Action Report - Inspection 92-CFE-013-RS-GM."

13 . Ibid ; Inspection Re port, 92-CFE-013-RS-GM, Giebelstadt, August 14,

1992; Report, Major George P. Weller, USAF, Escort Team Chief, "CFE
Escort Team Summary, 92-CFE-013-RS-GM," September 4, 1992.

14. Interview with Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Chief, Operations

Division, European Operations Command, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan,
Historian, OSIA, Washington, D. C, May 18, 1994; Report, Major Dee
Dodson Morris, USAF, Liai so n Officer, "Liaison Officer's Afte r Action
Re port - Inspection 92-CFE-013-RS-GM."
19G 0 -Sm: I. SI'I'CTION ACENc)

15. Inspection Reports, 92-CFE-013-RS-GM, Giebelstadt, August 14, 1992;

Schweinfurt, August 15, 1992; Grafenwoehr, August 16,1992; Mainz,
August 20,1992; Babenh a us en, August 21,1992; Major George P. Weller,
"CFE Escort Team Summary, 92-CFE-013-RS-GM," September 4 , 1992.

16. Re port, Ca ptain Ellen lV[erk Ie, USAF, Liaison O fficer, "Liaison Officer's
After Action Report - Inspection 92-CFE-001-RS-UK ."

] 7. Interview with Master Sergea nt William N. Chesney, Planner, European

Operations Command, OSIA, by joseph P. Harahan, Histori a n, OSIA,
Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993. Interview, Kelley.

18. Re port, Plans Section, Europea n Operations Command, OSIA, "CFE

Baseline Actvities, Informal Reporting july 17-30 and july 30-August 14,
1992."

19. Report, CFE Branch, Director o f Pl a ns, Operations, and Training, OSIA,
"CFE Quick Look as of Novembe r 13, 1992. "

20. Re port, Implementation Requirements Office, OSIA, "After Action Report

on U.S.-Russian Mock CFE Inspecti o ns," March 9, 1992.

21. Inspection Report, C92-Blu e-005-RS , August 6,1992.

22. Inspection Report, C92-Blue-014-BL, August .10,1992.

23. Inspection Report, C92-Blue-015-RS, September 5,1992; Interview with

Lt. Colonel Jan S. Karc z, USA, Tea m Chief, OSIA, by Jose ph P. H a rahan,
Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, Decembe r 13, 1993 ;
President George Bush, Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control
A greements and the President 's Report to Congress on Soviet Noncompli-
ance with Arms Control Agreements, prepared by the U .S. Arms Co ntrol
a nd Disarmament Agency, janu ary 14 , 1993.

24 . Inspection Reports (All reports start with C92-Blu e-) 005-RS, Augu st 5,
1992; 007-RO, August 7 and 8, 1992; 013-RS , August 27,1992; 014-BL,
August 30,1992; 015-RS , September 5,1992; 019-RO, September 12,
1992; 021- BL, September 17, 1992; 024 -RS, September 26, 1992; 030-RS ,
October 5, 1992; 032-RS, October 11 and 12, 1992; 0 33 -UP, October 13,
1992; 039-AZ, Nove mber 11, 1992.

25 . Ambassador Lynn M . Han sen, U.S. Go ve rnm e nt CFE Treaty Negotiator,

Statement to the Joint Consultative Group, Se ptembe r 23, 1992.
26. Intervi ew with Lt. Colon el David P. Gessert, USAF, Team Chief, OSIA, by
Jose ph P. Harahan, Hi stori a n, OSIA, Rhein -Main Air Base, Ge rmany, July
12,1993; Inspection Report, C92 -Blue-030-RS, October 5,1992.

27. Interview, Kelley; Inspection Re po rt, C92 -Blu e-032-RS, Octobe r 11, 1992.

28. Bu sh, JanuaryI4,1993.

29. Inspection Report, C92-Blue-008-BL, August 12, 1992.

30. Inspection Mission Message Fold e r, C92-Blue-004-UP-LTC Gesse rt.

31. Report, CFE Branch.

32. Escort Mission Reports Folder, 92-CFE-032-RS-GE; Lt. Colonel Steph en A.

Barneby, USA, Plans/Liai so n Branch, European Operations Command,
OSIA , "Background Paper on Ambiguities, " January 7, 1993.

33. Escort Mission Reports Fold er, 92-CFE-038-PL-BE.

34. Interview with Major Richard J. O'Shea, USAF, Liaison Office r, European
Operations Command, OSIA, by Josep h P. Harahan, Hi storian, OSIA,
Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, july 12, 1993; Escort Mission Reports
Folder, 92-CFE-041-RS-PO.
 ________ ~____~ ______ CFE Tlu \ I ) B \'>fO 11,\ 1 J <1 7

35. Escort Mission Reports Folder, 92-CFE-005-BU-TU.

36. Interview, O'Shea; Colonel Frederick E. Grosick, USAF, Director of Plans,
Operations, and Training, OSIA, "Memorandum on Augmentation CFE
Liaison Officer Teams," September 11, 1992; Colonel William R. Smith,
USAF, Commander, European Operations Command, OSIA, "Memoran-
dum on Redeployment of Temporary Liaison Teams, November 8-16,
1992," November 9, ·1 992.

37. Colonel William R. Smith, USAF, Commander, European Operations

Command, OSIA, "Memorandum on Reduction Difficulties, " March 4,
1993; Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Chief, Operations Division,
European Operations Command, OSIA, "Memorandum on Reduction
Inspections for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty," November
25,1992.
38. Inspection Report, DS-1- RS- Wuensdorf.

39. Colonel William R. Smith, USAF, Commander, European Operations

Command, OSIA, "Memorandum on Late Notification of Inspection,"
November 13, 1992.

40. Lt. Colonel Keith Oatman, USA, Inspection/Escort Branch, European

Operations Command, OSIA, "Background Paper on NATO Inspection
Window/Site Deconfliction" and "Background Paper on U.S. Approach to
Inspections," January 7, :J 993; Major Thomas P. Wilhelm, USA,
Inspection/Escort Branch, European Operations Command, OSIA,
"Background Paper on Late Site Briefings During Escort Missions."
41. Escort Mission Reports Folder, 92-CFE-035-BU-BE.
 Chapter 7

Severed Ukrainian fighters on display during a U.S. reduction inspection.

" Committed to the objectives of establishing a secure and stable

balance of conventional armed forces in Europe at lower levels than
heretofore, of eliminating disparities prejudicial to stability and
security and of eliminating, as a matter of high priority, the capabil-
ity for launching surprise attack and for initiating large scale action
in Europe, ... the States Parties have agreed as follows: ... "

T
hese objectives are found in the CFE Treaty Preamble. To
fulfill them, the treaty requires the elimination of specific
quantities of conventional armaments located in the treaty's
area of application within specific timelines. The elimination-or,
in treaty terms, the reduction-of equipment had to be complete,
irreversible, and verifiable. The Eastern group of states' agreement
to asymmetrical reductions was instrumental in enabling the two
groups of states to eliminate the disparities in force strength that
were "prejudicial to stability." Collectively, the Eastern states,
previously the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) states, would
reduce more equipment than the NATO alliance nations because
they held a significant numerical superiority in conventional arma-
ments in Europe.
200 ON-S ITE bJ"l'~( r 10'\ Au '\( )

REDUCTION LIABll.ITIES

When th e 22 nati o ns signed the trea ty on November 19,

1990, th ey exchanged data declaring their national holdings.
Based on these declarations, the two gro ups of sta tes possessed the
following:

Table 7-1. National Holdings by Alliance

Equipment On hand 1 Treaty limit Reduction liability2

Tanks

NATO 25,091 20,000 5,949

WTO 33 ,191 20,000 13,191

Armored Combat Vehicles

NATO 34,453 30,000 4,631

WTO 42,949 30 ,000 12,949

Artillery

NATO 20,620 20,000 2,334

WTO 26,953 20,000 6,953

Aircraft

NATO 5,939 6,800 0

WTO 8,372 6,800 1,572

Helicopters

NATO 1,736 2,000 0

WTO 1,701 2,000 0

1NATO figures include weapons held by the former German Democratic Republic.
2NATO states al located cuts below treaty limits .
Sources: Arms Control Reporter 1990, 407.E-O .7; Jane M.O. Sharp, "Conventional Arms
Control in Europe," SIPRI Yearbook 1991, pp. 423-426.

At trea ty signature, th e redu cti on liability of the NATO states

stood at 12,914 pieces of equipm ent, th e majority of which was
equipment of the former German Democratic Rep ublic. The
NATO states placed grea ter reducti o n liab ilities o n themsel ves
than the treaty req uired by setting their ta nk, armored combat
vehicle (ACYl, and art illery ceilings below those outlined in th e
treaty. In contrast, th e Eastern group of states possessed 34,665
pieces of equipment for reduction. Regard less of quantity, the
treaty required eac h gro up to complete its reductions within 40
months of th e treaty's entry into force. I
 RlDlC1IO"\, YLAR'l 101

Soviets transferred more than

57,000 pieces of TLE east of the
Urals.

As discussed in a previous chapter, the Eastern states' figures

for treaty-limited equipment (TLE) from data exchanged shortly
after treaty signature surprised the United States and the NATO
allies. The Soviets had transferred more than 57,000 pieces of
equipment out of the treaty's area of application before November
19, 1990. In addition to moving equipment east of the Urals, the
Soviets had reassigned portions of its conventional armaments to
coastal defense forces, naval infantry unjts, and the Strategic
Rocket Forces. The Soviets claimed that these forces and their
conventional equipment were not subject to the treaty. The NATO
states countered that TLE within the ATTU (Atlantic to the Urals)
was TLE, regardless of the organization that possessed it. It was
accountable. The Soviet movement of equipment east of the Urals
raised concerns that the Soviets could quickly reintroduce those
weapons into the ATTU. Some nations declared that shifting the
TLE east of the Urals was a circumvention of the treaty. These
Soviet actions brought on political and diplomatic debate that
stalled ratification of the treaty. On June 14, 1991 , after months of
lengthy and heated Joint Consultative Group (JCG) negotiations,
Soviet representatives submitted pledges addressing both the
equipment east of the Urals and the reassigned TLE within the
ATTU. These pledges allowed the ratification process to move
forward.
One Soviet pledge provided a legally binding solution to the
TLE held by the Strategic Rocket Forces, naval jnfantry, and
coastal defense forces. The Soviets agreed to limit TLE assigned to
the naval infantry and coastal defense forces not to exceed a total
933 tanks, 1,080 pieces of artillery, and 972 ACVs. In addition,
the Soviets agreed to increase their total treaty reduction liability
202 ON-SITE IKSI'ECnON AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

by the same totals. They would accomplish 50 percent of those

reductions within the ATTU and would reduce the other 50 per-
cent in the east after transferring that amount of equipment out of
the ATTU. Once the Soviets transferred the equipment, they would
reduce that same equipment or an equal number of the same type
of equipment. The Soviets would not incur any reduction liabilities
associated with the 1,701 armored personnel carriers (APCs)
Soviet limits on naval TLE: assigned to the Strategic Rocket Forces.
933 tanks The other pledge, politically binding, dealt with the equip-
1,080 artillery ment the Soviets had transferred east of the Urals prior to treaty
972 ACVs signature. The Soviets pledged to reduce at least 14,500 pieces of
that equipment. This broke down to 6,000 tanks, 1,500 ACVs,
and 7,000 pieces of artillery. These reductions were in addition to
the obligations they had assumed concerning naval infantry and
coastal defense forces. The combined reduction obligations for
equipment the Soviets had moved or would move east of the Urals,
as outlined in the two pledges, totaled 15,993 items, specifically:
6,467 tanks, 7,540 pieces of artillery, and 1,986 ACVs. 2 There
was, however, one major difference between reductions on the two
sides of the Urals. The NATO states could inspect all reductions
within the ATTU-the Soviets had no right of refusal. East of the
Urals, however, satellite reconnaissance was the only means the
NATO states had for monitoring reductions. The Soviets stated in
their pledge that all reductions in the East would be readily visible
for satellite observation.
The collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991
threw reduction liabilities for the Eastern group of states into a
muddle. Out of the former Soviet Union arose eight new treaty
states: Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Georgia,
Kazakstan, Ukraine, and Russia. The new nations of the former
Soviet Union had no agreement on equipment ownership, much
less who would be responsible for reductions. Individual signatory
states, not the group, were responsible for treaty implementation,
and the NATO nations could not ratify the treaty without the
former Soviet states acknowledging their reduction liabilities. As
the new states focused on forming new governments, resolving
domestic issues, and dealing with armed hostilities, it appeared
that they would not soon agree on TLE and reduction allocations.
However, on May 15, 1992, at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the new
republics came to a dramatic agreement on the national distribu-
tion of the former USSR's military hardware and established ceil-
ings for holdings in the various categories of equipment. This
agreement led directly to the Oslo Extraordinary Conference in
June 1992, where all signatory nations had sufficient confidence
to proceed with ratification based on the understanding that the
combined reduction obligations of the newly emerged nations
would equal those of the former Soviet Union. 3
 RJ Dl ( rIO'\, YI -\R'> 203

Months later, after the treaty entered into force, it was clear
that the individual nations had not reached agreement on all of
their reduction liabilities. The exchange of treaty data on Decem-
ber 15, 1992, indicated that the new nations' liabilities, when
totaled, would not equal the original Soviet obligation. The origi-
nal Soviet reduction liabilities, not including the reductions re-
quired under the agreement on coastal defense forces and naval
infantry, included 7,575 tanks, 9,890 ACYs, 763 artillery, 1,461
combat aircraft, and no helicopters. The new data showed short-
falls in declared reduction liabilities of 1,789 tanks and 819 ACYs,
while producing overages of 68 pieces of artillery, 401 combat
aircraft, and 115 attack helicopters.
The disparities stemmed partly from confusion over invento-
ries as new governments continued to be embroiled in domestic
issues, and some even in armed conflict. None of the nations had
the expertise that the Russian Nuclear Risk Reduction Center
(NRRC) had developed through implementation of previous arms
control treaties. The armed hostilities in the Transcaucasus nations
(Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia) and in Moldova were a major
reason for the shortfall in reduction liabilities for tanks and ACYs.
Nongovernment forces controlled some of the hardware in the
region, ongoing battles had destroyed or heavily damaged other
pieces, and withdrawing Russian troops had left behind equipment

The new nations of the Caucasus were reluctant to declare broken-down equilJ1nel1t left
behind by the Russian army.
204 O'\J-SITf I:\SI'I( 110:\ ACF'\JC)

suitable only for scrap. Most important, no one

claimed ownership or responsibility for the
equipment. In addition, Armenia and Azerbaijan,
involved in heavy fighting, wanted recognition
for TLE destroyed in combat, but the treaty did
not allow for battlefield losses. These new na-
tions reported no reduction liabilities yet they
reported possessing equipment in excess of the
ceilings agreed to at Tashkent. 4 During the two
subsequent years, lCG discussions brought some
clarifica tion as the shortfall decreased to 539
tanks and 1,394 ACVs by November 1994.
Azerbaijan's and Armenia's failure to declare a
reduction liability contributed significantly to the
1994 shortfall.
Shortly after the thi rd reduction year, Arme-
nia announced its holdings, as did Azerbaijan;
both still had more ACVs than the Tashkent
agreement allowed, Armenia by 65 and
Azerbaijan by 615. Azerbaijan also held 58 more
pieces of artillery than the 285 agreed upon at
Tashkent. Belarus faced economic problems that
forced a postponement of its reductions during
the third reduction year; it held 548 tanks, 446
ACVs, and 88 aircraft to be reduced. Although
Belarus resumed reductions, it did not meet its
goals before November 17, 1995.
U.S. inspectors at a Belarussian reduction site.
Despite these problems, the former Soviet
states reduced enough TLE as a group to be below their ceilings
for all categories of TLE. These reductions, coupled with the suc-
cess of the Eastern European states during the third reduction year,
led to the former Warsaw Pact states' meeting their CFE treaty
ceilings. As of November 1995, all NATO nations met their reduc-
tion goals and both groups of states were under the treaty ceiling
for all categories of TLE.
The U.S. reduction liability at treaty signature and entry into
force was 1,898 tanks, 375 ACVs, and 109 pieces of artillery. The
United States quickly decreased its reduction liabilities, because the
NATO group of states agreed to transfer equipment, along with
the equivalent reduction liability, among themselves. A treaty-
authorized transfer, colloquially called "cascading," allowed the
United States, Netherlands, Germany, and Italy to transfer TLE to
other NATO states. The NATO Equipment Transfer Plan allowed
donor states to bring their TLE holdings down to treaty-declared
levels to avoid reduction costs and to modernize and standardize
armaments throughout the alliance. The initial planning for cas-
caded NATO equipment totaled 2,578 tanks, 1,114 ACVs, and
 RIIH( IIO'\, YI\R~ 20'i

Table 7-2. NATO Equipment Transfers

Donor Recipient Tanks ACVs Artillery

U.S. Greece 671 150 84

Norway 0 136 0

Portugal 80 0 0

Spain 311 100 24

Turkey 932 250 72

U.S. totals 1,994 636 180

Germany Denmark 110 0 0

Greece 0 200 0

Turkey 85 187 131

Norway 92 0 0

Portugal 0 50 0

German totals 287 437 131

Netherlands Greece 169 0 171

Portugal 0 104 0

Netherlands totals 169 104 171

Italy Turkey 0 97 0

NATO totals 2,450 1,274 482

Source: Report, Under Secretary of Defense Tactical Warfare Programs, "Report on
Transfer of Certain CFE Treaty-Limited Equipment," August 30, 1994.

180 pieces of artillery. By the end of 1993 the final distribution

differed only slightly from the initial plan.
The U.S. European Command, the United States' executive
agent for the CFE Treaty, managed the cascading of U.S. TLE and
contracted for the destruction of the 632 excess M-47 tanks in
Buccino, Italy, and 7 M-47 tanks and 4 M-44 howitzers at the U.S.
Army Depot at Germersheim, Germany. Italian contractors con-
ducted the first U.S. reductions at Buccino on January 28, 1993.
Buccino was also the site for the final U.S. TLE reductions on
November 12, 1993. The combined cascading and destruction of
TLE enabled the United States to reach its declared TLE ceilings
of 4,006 tanks, 5,372 ACVs, and 2,492 pieces of artillery. The
United States had no reduction liabilities for combat aircraft and
206 ON-Sm- INSPECTION ACI-ND

helicopters because it held 334 combat aircraft against a ceiling of

784 and 341 helicopters against a ceiling of 518. Thus there was
no U.S. cascading or reduction for either category. s

REDUCTION METHODS

Reduction methods varied depending on the type of equip-

ment, and several options were available to reduce any piece of
equipment. Destruction was the primary means of reducing TLE,
and technicians could employ several methods to accomplish it. As
an option to destroying all equipment, the treaty authorized modi-
fying a small portion of TLE for nonoffensive purposes. Tanks
could be converted into bulldozers, or combat helicopters into
support helicopters. States could also elect to modify equipment
for use as trainers, static displays, or training targets.
The Protocol on Reduction allowed severing as a method of
desttoying all types of TLE, such as the American M-47 tanks.
The protocol did not dictate a particular technology to sever TLE,
but it detailed the cuts required for each category of equipment.
Tanks, for example, required specific cuts for the gun breech ring,
the gun tube, one gun trunnion and mount, and the hull. The

Reduction by conversion to
static display.

Reduction by conversion
to nonmilitary equipment.
_____________________________ R~l) lICT lO:\ Yf.\R'> 20 7

Team Drach checking the length

and location of a cut on a gun
tube.

guidance on specific cuts included location, length, and number of

cuts, as well as the extent of material to be removed in a cut. Sev-
ering with torches was the primary method used to reduce TLE.
While most states chose to sever equipment, Poland chose to
smash much of its TLE. Smashing was cheap and efficient. Techni-
cians positioned equipment on a pad below an eight-ton wrecking
ball suspended on a crane and repeatedly dropped the ball on
tanks, ACVs, and artillery until they achieved the desired results.
The pad on which the technicians centered the TLE enabled them
to smash their equipment successfully. According to Colonel
Stanislaw Malinowski, Director of the Polish Verification Center,
"It has to be made of a special material that can be enduring. If
not, it is easily smashed up with three or four droppings of the
ball. So the composition, the material that is used ... is patented by
Poland." The surface withstood the pounding as the Poles success-
fully destroyed their TLE.6
The treaty provided for two other destruction methods, but
states did not use them because they were expensive and less effi-
cient. NATO allies conducted tests to develop an inexpensive and
effective method for explosive demolition of TLE, but the tests
produced poor results. The treaty also allowed for the deformation
of tanks, helicopters, and combat aircraft. Superheating the equip-
ment before pressing the weakened metalled to satisfactory re-
sults, but the expense and efficiency precluded that method.

THE REDUCTION PROCESS

Reduction of TLE under the CFE Treaty was a multinational
effort. The process began with each nation working within its
group of states to determine its reduction liability. Based on its
reduction liability, a state determined the number of reduction
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Poland's Reduction Method-A Smashing Success

Above and left: Magnetic force releases

steel ball from gantry onto TLE in
chamber. Below: Crushed relics, the
results of smashing by the eight-ton
ball.
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Reduction Process at Buccino, Italy

Left: A tank awaiting reduction.

Below: Treads removed, prepared for
severmg.

Above: Technicians begin the cutting

process. Above right: Czech team
inspects severed components. Right:
Severed tank ready for scrap.
210 ON-SITE IN':>I'ECTION AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

sites required to reduce its TLE. The treaty did not limit the num-
ber of reduction sites a state could designate, but it did restrict the
number of sites engaged in reductions at any given time to 20.
This number proved to be far in excess of what any nation actu-
ally organized. Poland required only four sites during the first
reduction year to begin reducing its sizable liability of nearly
1,200 tanks, 715 pieces of artillery, 300 ACVs, and 41 aircraft. By
the end of the first year, Poland had reduced its 41 aircraft and
closed its aircraft reduction site. Polish planners evaluated their
progress and elected to close a second site because the two remain-
ing sites would be sufficient for their needs. 7
Reducing massive amounts of equipment, such as tanks and
APCs, within treaty timelines required scheduling. The treaty
mandated that states complete at least 25 percent of their reduc-
tions during the first reduction year, followed by 35 and 40 per-
cent of the total in the final two years. In addition, the treaty
required states to reduce equipment in blocks of time of not less
than 30 and not more than 90 days, known as calendar reporting
periods. Moreover, the capacity of reduction sites, in terms of
space and work flow and the movement of equipment to and from
the sites, dictated that the work be spread out over time. Cost, a
major consideration for the Eastern states, slowed work flow
because of the expense of labor and materials.
Once the reducing state had planned reductions for a specific
calendar reporting period, it opened the process to the other signa-
tory nations through an official notification. The treaty obligated
the reducing state to provide at least 15 days' advance notice of
reductions. The state announced the reduction site, the quantities
and types of equipment, the OOVs that were releasing the equip-
ment, the method of reduction, and the dates of the reporting
period. The notification also indicated the final date and time

The reduction liabilities for some

treaty states were significant,
taxing facilities, manpower, and
funds.
 RIDLJCnOi\ Yr. O\R~ 21 1

inspection teams could arrive at a specific point of entry (POE) to

view the equipment before the reduction began. In addition to
giving notice of the reduction, the reducing state had to display the
equipment for inspectors. The requirements for display varied: A
fuselage satisfied the requirement for an aircraft, whereas a proper
tank display included the hull, turret, and integral main armament.
In all cases, the displayed TLE had to be available for inspection
before reduction, and they had to be complete assemblies, a re-
quirement that would become an issue during U.S. inspections.
The reducing state also established a register to document serial
numbers and to record the start and completion dates of reduction
for each piece of equipment.
Once an Eastern state sent a notification of reduction, the
VCC sought a NATO state to lead the reduction inspection. The
VCC polled member states to determine lea dership and participa-
tion on the reduction inspection team. Some nations frequently
declined; however, the U.S. government's policy to lead reduction
inspections and participate whenever possible ensured that a
NATO team would inspect each Eastern reduction. The nation
leading the inspection team assumed responsibility to announce its
intent to inspect, to assemble and prepare the team, and to trans-
port the team to and from the POE.
The inspected state had no right of refusal to a reduction
inspection, and the treaty allowed inspectors to be present
throughout the calendar reporting period to view all reductions. In
practice, however, one team normally conducted an opening in-
spection at the beginning of the calendar reporting period to
record serial numbers of the equipment slated for reduction. The
team then departed, and later another team conducted a closing
inspection to confirm the proper reduction of TLE and to match
serial numbers against those previously recorded . Lt. Colonel
Thomas C. Fiser, USA, recalled that during his first reduction
inspection, an opening inspection at Tapioszesco, Hungary, he
required only 20 minutes to record the serial numbers of the 14
01 152-millimeter howitzers to be reduced. His team needed just
over 12 hours to conduct the inspection, confirm that the site
reduction register was correct, and sign the inspection report with
the escort team chief. Less than one day on-site was the norm for
U.S. reduction inspections, but there were exceptions. s
Lt. Colonel Edward G. Gallagher, II, USA, Chief of the In-
spection and Escort Branch at OSIA's European Operations Com-
mand, led a three-day reduction inspection of Oabrowa Gornicza,
Poland. Team Gallagher arrived at the site on October 26, 1992,
and remained there until October 29-from opening to closing of
the reduction. Lt. Colonel Gallagher declared the first U.S. ambi-
guity of a reduction inspection because "the 43 T-55 main battle
tanks were not presented as complete assemblies." Gallagher'S
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comments reflected the U.S. position that "complete assembly"

meant an assembled piece of TLE. Inspectors could not determine
whether the disassembled parts on the site came from TLE or from
a collection of spare parts. The Poles responded that disassembling
some tank components and stacking them allowed for more effi-
cient transportation. They added that separating components
improved the results of the smashing destruction method. Despite
the ambiguity, Gallagher's team recorded component serial num-
bers and observed the smashing of tanks for three days, confirm-
ing that the Poles had reduced all 43 tanks. Later in the reduction
year, Poland changed its presentation practice and presented as-
sembled TLE.
On two other reduction inspections Lt. Colonel Gallagher
encountered circumstances that warranted notation on inspection
reports-one was only a comment, the other an ambiguity. On
March 17, 1993, Gallagher led an opening reduction inspection
team at Szabadszallas, Hungary. During the inspection, the team
recorded the serial numbers of 53 items of TLE scheduled for
destruction by severing. The 18 T-34 tanks presented for reduction
did not have breech blocks. The escort team, however, provided

Polish technicians presented

disassembled, stacked TLE for
opening a reduction inspection.
 RIDl(IIO YI\R~ 211

docum enta ti on indicating that technicians had destroyed 86

breec h blocks a t the Csepe l Iron Wor ks on Ju ly 19, 198 9, prior to
trea ty signatu re. Ga ll ag her accep ted the exp lanat io n and end ed th e
Ame rica n inspectio n after record ing a com ment descr ibing the
situa ti o n in th e in spectio n re port.
Lt. Colo nel G a ll aghe r reco rd ed an a m biguity dur ing a n o pen-
ing inspecti o n at th e M ilita ry Repair Wo rk s in Trenc in, in th e
Slo va k Republic, on Novem be r 2 4, 1993 . In th is case, tec hni cia ns
prese nted 38 O T-62 APCs fo r re du ction by se vering, but 10 did
not have mac hine g un turrets. Ga llaghe r cited the treaty's p ro vi -
sio ns fo r prese nt ing a com pl ete assemb ly. The Slovak esco rt team
chief respo nd ed that the OT-62 w as al so prod uced in an "A"
model a nd th at only th e A mo del had a turret. Ga llag her cou n-
tered that th e exchanged d ata pho tos fo r the OT-6 2 sho wed a
turret. T he ins pec ti on concl ud ed after Team Gallagher co nfirm ed
th e des tru cti o n o f t h ree APCs to in clude two o f t he APCs th a t did
not ha ve tur re ts, leavi ng t he rest for a fut ure closi ng inspec tion.
The l CG later a pp roved a ne w piece of TLE, "OT-6 2, witho ut
turret . " 9
M a jor M arc C. Lieber, USMC, a lso enco unte red pro blems at
Trenci n, a redu cti on site used jo intly by the Czech a nd Slova k
Republi cs, invo lving turrets o n APCs duri ng his team's o pe ning
inspecti o n o n Se ptembe r 1, 199 3. In record ing seria l n umbe rs fo r
50 O T- 64 APCs, Ma jor Lie be r noted t hat six of the units we re
actu a ll y OT-64 A models that had no turrets. The data exc hange
ph otos indica ted that t hey sho uld have tu rrets . Czec h esco rts
respon ded th a t tec hni cian s had removed th e turrets prio r to treaty
signature as part o f a mod ifica ti on progra m for BMP- 1 a rmo red
infa ntry fi ghtin g ve hi cles. lo
Lt. Colo nel Fred E. Busing, USAF, declared the last o f four
ambiguit ies . During h is ope ning redu ctio n inspecti on o n March
30, 1994, a t N ovy Ji cin, in the C zec h Rep ub lic, he cited t he re-
quirement fo r co mpl ete assemb ly when present ing TLE for de-
structi o n. Czec h tech nicia ns had already d isassembl ed 15 T-55
tank s and had beg un d isasse mbl y on 14 ot he r tanks. T he req uired
compo nents w ere present a nd co located, but not assembl ed. Th e
Czec hs, like th e Po les, respond ed th at a ll co mp o nents were ava il-
abl e in one place and th a t co mpl ete as se mb lies were o n ha nd but
not asse mbl ed. II All in a ll , during th e 110 red ucti on missions, U.S.
tea m chiefs decl a red o nl y four am bigu ities, a ll o f w hi ch dea lt with
the sta ndard s o f prese ntati o n.

EASTERN INSPECTIONS
O ne U. S. missio n hi ghli ghted a proble m th at o th er NATO
redu ctio n inspection tea ms had enco untered ea rlier. M a jor Henry
T. Storey, USA, led a multi na ti o na l red ucti o n in specti o n team to
214 O,, - SIlI I ~I'I (110 A(,I ("

Trencin, in the Slovak Republic. He intended to conduct a closing

inspection of 50 OT-64s. However, upon arrival, he learned that a
Hungarian team had already inspected and confirmed the reduc-
tion of 44 of the APCs nine days earlier, on September 28, 1993.
The NATO team had no definite proof tha t the Slovaks had re-
duced the equipment. This situation had cropped up several times
earlier in the reduction period. NATO state inspection teams were
unable to confirm the reduction of TLE because Eastern teams had
already inspected and confirmed the reductions. The inspected
nations had scrapped the destroyed TLE.
This presented a problem because the treaty does not prohibit
intra-group reduction inspections, nor does it place quotas or
limits on reduction inspections. Some of the Eastern states in the
post-Cold War era were just as interested in the military capabili-
ties and holdings of neigh boring states as they were of most of the
NATO states. These inspections, however, ran counter to what the
NATO states viewed as a basic tenet of the treaty, that each group
of states would complete its reduction obligations within 40
months and that members of the opposite group of states could
confirm all reductions. The NATO states, however, could not
verify all reductions when Eastern states conducted reduction
inspections within their group of states.
NATO allies were concerned about lost inspection opportuni-
ties because Eastern nations were conducting reduction and de-
clared site inspections within their group of states. In an attempt
to curtail these East-on-East inspections, the VCC sponsored a
meeting of all CFE states in January 1993 to discuss the intra-
group inspections and to propose a plan for Cooperation Partners.
Under this plan, the VCC would continue to schedule CFE inspec-
tions for the NATO states but, based on requests from Coopera-
tion Partners for specific inspections, the VCC would also coordi-

Lt. Colonel Fred E. Busing, USAF,

confirms serial numbers read by
Senior Master Sergeant David
Schmitz during a reduction
inspection.
 RIIH (110 YI \1{", 21 )

nate the placement of Eastern inspectors on Western-led teams.

NATO states would open slots on their inspection teams for East-
ern inspectors in return for their cooperation in not leading inspec-
tions within their group of states. This would allow the NATO
states to conduct as many inspections as possible, while providing
the Eastern states with inspection opportunities without the ex-
pense of leading an inspection. The NATO states also agreed to
share all reduction inspection data maintained in a database
known as VERITY.
In addition to leading reduction inspection teams, individual
U.S. inspectors, known as "singletons," participated in reduction
inspections led by other NATO nations. This allowed U.S. inspec-
tors to participate in approximately 70 percent of the reduction
inspections. Their participation in these inspections provided the
U.S. government a presence and firsthand view of the majority of
the reduction inspections.

)f( I ARf D SI [f A D CHAIt ~NGf INSPECTIONS

Co n l E
Declared site and challenge inspections continued through the
reduction years, although the incidence of those inspections was
not as frequent. The treaty obliged nations to receive declared site
inspections based on 10 percent of their declared OOVs during
each reduction year. By contrast, the baseline period inspection
rate had been 20 percent over only 120 days.
OSIA inspectors conducted 16 declared site inspections and
two challenge inspections during the first reduction year, Novem-
ber 1992 through November 1993. During that period, team
chiefs declared four ambiguities, site access being the common
thread in all four. The first ambiguity occurred in Belarus at Ma-
rina Gorka, where Team Fiser inspected the 30th Independent
Mechanized Brigade. On April 1, 1993, Lt. Colonel Thomas C.
Fiser, USA, received a site diagram excluding areas of the military
facility. The Belarus escort team denied the American team access
to areas that were within the military facility but not on the site
map. Fiser declared an ambiguity and completed his inspection of
240 pieces of TLE and 96 pieces of conventional armaments and
equipment subject to the treaty (CAEST).'2
Former Major, now Lt. Colonel Keith A. Oatman, USA,
also declared an ambiguity when he led an inspection team at
Baranovichi, Belarus, on November 9, 1993. He received the site
diagram for the 28th Weapon Combat Vehicle Storage Base, which
excluded areas believed to belong to two colocated missile brigades.
The Belarussians had not declared the colocated brigades a sensitive
point, nor had they declared them OOVs. Lt. Colonel Oatman
requested access to these areas but the Belarus escorts denied the
2I6 O,,-SI n 1:\"l'fC 110, ACI 1';( ,

request. As w as th e case in Marina Gorka , Belarussian officials

stated that it was th e exclusive right of th e inspected state to deter-
mine the boundaries of its OOVs and declared sites. Lt. Colonel
Oatman di sag reed , cited the treaty definition of a declared site,
noted the ambiguity, and continued his inspection of 254 pieces of
TLE and 57 pieces of o th er treaty-reportable equipment. 13
Lt. Co lonel David P. Gessert, USAF, declared an ambiguity in
Ukraine on May 4 , 1993, while ins pecting Ukrainian arm y forces
at Khmelnitski y. Lt. Co lonel Gessert announced the 15th Mecha-
nized Brigade as th e OOV for inspection. D uring the inspection,
Ukrainian esco rts deni ed Gessert's team access to three of th e
15th's four subordinate battalions on th e site. Lt. Colonel Gessert
declared an a mbi g uity and completed the inspection. 14
On July 14, 1993 , Major Ro nald M. Tait, USAF, and his
team of CFE in specto rs a rrived at Praslavice, in the Czech Repub-
lie. Before inspec tin g the 33rd Tank Regiment, he received a site
diagram th a t depicted t he OOV as being the entire decla red site; it
did not include any other a rea of th e m il itary facility. The Czech
position was similar to the earl y Russian position during mock
inspections a nd baseline. A fence around th e OOV de lineated th e
boundary of the declared site, and any other fences beyond that
fenc e served a diffe rent purpose. The American tea m chief noted
the ambiguity and finished the inspection . I S
The number of declared site and challenge inspections held
steady durin g the seco nd red uction yea r. O SIA tea ms conducted 17
inspections, 14 decl a red site inspection s, an d 3 challenge inspec-
tions. O ne of those ins pections, led by Lt. Colonel Fiser, offered a
unique opportunity for a U. S. CFE inspection tea m. O n April 5,

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1994, Fiser's team conducted a challenge inspection of a specified

area at Arkhangelsk, Russia. What made the inspection unusual
was the coastal defense and naval aviation forces stationed within
the specified area: As naval forces they were not subject to de-
clared site inspections because they were not OOVs; they were,
however, open to a challenge inspection.
During the second reduction year, U.S. teams declared only
two ambiguities. Team Tait declared the first on February 1, 1994,
at Slutsk, Belarus, when Belarussian escorts once again cited a
nation's exclusive right to determine the borders of an OOY. The
other ambiguity arose on August 22, 1994, when Lt. Colonel Kirk
E. Murray, USA, led his team to Odessa, Ukraine. Ukrainian es-
corts limited access, citing the same rationale that Belarussian
escorts had espoused. 16
American inspection teams conducted 15 declared site inspec-
tions and one challenge inspection during the third reduction year.
Lt. Colonel James Jubilee, USAF, documented the only ambiguity
during these inspections at Stryy, Ukraine. On March 22, 1995,
Team Jubilee inspected the 10th Aviation Base and was denied
access to a storage area that was within the outermost fenced area ,1/ '.II !e ))·((,5 werc Jlot
of the base. The Ukrainian site diagram, however, indicated that ()() \ S .. .I}()Il'el'('I", thcy werc
the declared site stopped at a wire fence that was short of the o/}(!Jl to Ll chLZ/lcJlp.c
storage area. The escort team chief enforced the declared site as 111S/)C(([(JIl.
depicted in the site diagram.
During the reduction years, many OSIA inspectors left the
European Operations Command for retirement, change of duty
within the agency, or a change of assignment away from OSIA. To
offset these losses, new personnel arrived and trained to meet the
standards required of OSIA inspectors. Despite this turnover, U.S.
inspection teams continued their operations successfully, inspect-
ing 6 specified areas and conducting 45 declared site inspections
through the third reduction year.

Ml I II AIIO AI TfAM~
During the reduction years, the composition of U.S. inspec-
tion teams changed. Participation by allied inspectors on U.S.-led
teams increased, and more U.S. inspectors joined allied teams. This
reflected a U.S. government policy decision to seek more inspec-
tion opportunities. The U.S.-led inspections with allied inspectors
required some additional preparations to familiarize guest inspec-
tors with U.S. inspection techniques and to train them in specific
tasks as members of the team. The net benefit of more inspection
opportunities outweighed the additional preparation requirements.
A more significant change to team composition developed
when Eastern inspectors joined NATO nation inspection teams on
declared sites and challenge inspections. As discussed previously,
2 IH 0:-.. - 5111 I WI.( 110 A(.L ()

the NATO states extended the invitations in an attempt to stem an

increasing number of East-on-East inspections. The first inspection
to include Cooperative Partners took place on March 16, 1993,
when inspectors from Poland, Hungary, and Azerbaij a n joined an
Italian-led team in an inspection of a Romanian declared site. The
first Eastern inspector to join an American team, Lt. Colonel
Oldrich Lacina of the Czech Republic, deployed with Team Fiser
on April 28, 1993, on a successful mission to Taszar, Hungary, to
inspect the 31st Fighter Regiment. 17
Because the program to incorporate Eastern guest inspectors
into NATO teams did not eliminate East-on-East inspections, the
NATO nations chose to send Western inspectors to join Eastern
inspection teams . The United States government was reluctant to
participate, fearing that doing so would encourage more East-on-
East inspections. In May 1994, U.S. policy changed; OSIA would
send U.S. inspectors to join Eastern teams. This decision allowed
the U.S. inspectors to take advantage of opportunities that other-
wise would have been lost. The first U.S. inspector to participate
on an Eastern inspection team, Major Marc Lieber, USMC, joined
a Bulgarian-led inspection team on May 15, 1994, on a mission to
inspect Romanian forces. A day later, Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser
participated in an inspection of Ukrainian forces as a member of a
Polish-led inspection team.

Inspectors from the United Kingdom and Belgium were led by Lt. Colonel Ronald Tait, aSIA Team Chief,
during an inspection of Czech forces.
 RHllC 110 ) I ,\R 21

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Lt. Colonel Gabor Nagy of Hungary, a Coo/Jerative Partner inspector, served on a U.S. team
at Trencin, Slovakia, in November 1993.

One inspection that dramatically portrayed the changes that

had occurred in Europe and in the implementation of the CFE
Treaty took place in September 1994. Lt. Colonel Fred E. Busing,
USAF, led an inspection team to Cazarma Centru Oradea, Roma-
nia, to inspect the 21st Mechanized Battalion. This American-led
inspection team was a milestone of sorts because it included Rus-
sian guest inspectors Colonel Aleksandr Petrovich Kalinin and
Colonel Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Savostyuk. The two dominant
forces of the Cold War thus pooled their resources to conduct an
arms control treaty inspection. IS
The United States received only nine declared site inspections
during the first reduction year. A Bulgarian team conducted the
only inspection of U.S. facilities outside Germany during a mission
to a POMCUS (prepositioning of material configured to unit sets)
site at Grobbendonk, Belgium. The remaining eight inspections all
took place in Germany. The second year brought nine more in-
spections of U.S. forces, eight in Germany and one in Italy. During
the third year, OSIA teams escorted seven inspection teams: five in
Germany and one each in Luxembourg and Italy. The issue of
ambulances mounted on M-113 chassis arose several times during
these inspections. Ukrainian inspectors wrote a comment on their
report concerning this type of ambulance at the U.S . Tactical
Training Center at Hohenfels, Germany, on June 5, 1993. The U.S.
escort team chief, Lt. Co lonel Jan S. Karcz, USA, denied the Ukrai-
nian inspectors access to the interior of the ambulances. Karcz told
220 Or-..: - Slll hWI( r 10:-'; Au:,\( )

Colonel Aleksandr Petrovich Ka/inin , a Russian inspect01~ served on an American team in

Romania. He signals all's w ell after th e 1J/ane s/:, idded off the runway.

them that th e am bulances w ere neither arm ored combat vehicles

nor loo k-al ikes, and therefore were not subject to the treaty. The
inspection tea m chief did not decla re a n ambiguity, but co m -
m ented that there was no wa y to confirm that the vehicles were
ambulances instea d o f M- l 13s.
Colonel Law rence G. Ke ll ey, USMC, encountered a similar
situation while escorting Hu nga rian inspectors du r ing an inspec-
tion of the Leghorn Army Depo t in Livo rno , Italy, on June 21,
1994. Tec hnicia ns acc iden tally ha d left the doors to the ambu-
lances open, allowing th e in spec tors to obse rve the interior of
ambulances that had not yet bee n modifi ed . The site commander
prov ided th e H ungarian in specto rs documentation to show that
conve rsion kits had been ordered, but had not yet arrived. The
inspectors ulti ma tely mad e no co mments on the inspection
repon. 19
D uring th e reductio n period, U. S. inspection teams continued
thei r policy of strict ad herence to the provisions of the CFE Treaty.
They exercised their inspec tion rights and p rotected U.S. interests
to the full est. Desp ite en countering problems, U.S. inspection
tea m s maintained a profess io nal relationship with their counter-
parts whil e attempting to resolve those problems. They incorpo-
rated new team mem bers from d ifferent nations and participated
on tea ms from other na tions. T hey d ispla yed flexibility in complet-
ing their mission , while ma inta ining hi gh standards .
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RfSIDl Al LEYfl S
After the 40-month reduction period, how had the situation
in Europe changed? What remained? Tables 7-3 and 7-4 list the
holdings of TLE declared by each state at the end of the reduction
period. They also show the net change in holdings from July 17,
1992, to November 17, 1995. The change was significant. The
two groups of states' combined decrease was 64,854 pieces of
TLE: the Eastern nations were down by 37,482 pieces while the
NATO states dropped 27,372 items.
Both groups were below the treaty's ceilings in each TLE
category. Several states, such as Turkey, showed increases in
equipment because their national ceilings, agreed upon within

Table 7-3. Residual Levels-NATO States (November 17,1995)

Tanks ACVs Artillery Aircraft Helicopters Total
Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease
Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF

Belgium 334 28 704 679 316 62 169 33 46 +38 1,569 764

Canada o 76 o 136 6 26 o 28 o o 6 266

Denmark 343 156 303 13 552 75 31 12 o 1,285 201

France 1.289 46 3,556 831 1,251 185 667 28 317 49 7,080 1,139

Germany 3,061 4,109 2,679 6,420 2,056 2,679 578 462 225 31 8,599 13,701

Greece 1,735 236 2.324 +892 1,878 97 489 +34 6 +6 6,432 +599

Iceland 0 o o 0 o o o o o o o 0

Italy 1,162 70 2,986 788 1,939 74 524 18 137 39 6,748 989

Luxembourg 0 o o 0 o o o o o o o 0

Netherlands 734 179 1.002 443 580 257 182 +6 o 90 2,498 963

Norway 170 35 203 +79 246 298 75 14 o o 694 268

Portugal 174 +28 367 +87 320 34 105 +13 o o 966 +94

Spain 630 228 1,199 24 1,210 158 188 +10 28 o 3,255 400

Turkey 2,608 400 2,450 +391 3,125 +18 387 +27 20 8,590 +45

United Kingdom 662 497 2,574 632 536 +2 640 117 342 47 4,754 1,291

United States 1,254 3,909 2,238 2,725 854 1.119 222 176 150 199 4,718 8,128

TOTAL 14,156 9,941 22,585 11,242 14,869 4,970 4,301 817 1,283 402 57,194 27,372

Bloc Authorized
TLE Levels 20,000 30 ,000 20,000 6,800 2,000 78,800

Source: "Fact file : Final Weapons Reductions Under the CFE Treaty," Arms Control Today, December 1995/January 1996.
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Table 7-4. Residual Levels-Eastern States (November 17,1995)

Tanks ACVs Artillery Aircraft Helicopters Total
Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease Declared Decrease
Nov95 From ElF Nov95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF Nov 95 From ElF

Armenia 102 N/A 285 N/A 225 N/A 6 N/A 7 N/A 625 N/A

Azerbaijan 285 +151 835 +722 343 +217 58 +43 18 +9 1,539 +1 ,142

Belarus 2,320 1,137 2,984 840 1,533 29 335 55 79 +3 7,251 2,058

Bulgaria 1,475 794 1,985 247 1,750 404 235 100 44 0 5,489 1,545

Czech Republic 953 850 1,363 1,152 767 956 187 41 36 3,306 3,000

Georgia N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Hungary 835 510 1,540 191 840 207 144 +1 59 +20 3,418 887

Kazakslan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Moldova 0 0 209 +111 155 +47 27 3 0 0 391 +155

Poland 1,720 1,130 1,516 880 1,581 734 400 109 92 +62 5,309 2,791

Romania 1,375 1,592 2,073 1,098 1,471 2,471 373 135 16 +1 5,308 5,295

Russia 5,492 3,846 10,372 9,027 5,680 2, 646 2,986 1,638 826 179 25,356 17,336

Slovak Republic 478 423 683 575 383 478 114 0 19 0 1,677 1,476

Ukraine 4,026 2,102 4,919 1,784 3,727 +136 1,008 640 270 13,950 4,391

TOTAL 19,061 12,233 28,764 14,961 18,455 7,525 5,873 2,677 1,466 86 73,619 37,482

Bloc Authorized
TLE Levels 20,000 30 ,000 20,000 6,800 2,000 78,800

Source: "Fact file: Final Weapons Reductions Under the CFE Treaty," Arms Control Today, December 1995/January 1996.

their group of states, were higher than their holdings, allowing

them to increase their forces through purchases or cascading.
The total decrease in TLE was not entirely the result of treaty
reductions or a need to fulfill treaty-obligated reductions. While
the United States fulfilled its reduction obligations, it also with-
drew many of its forces from Europe for political and economic
reasons. Some nations-Russia, Poland, Ukraine-reduced TLE
beyond their required liabilities for economic reasons. Other
nations exported small quantities of weapons.
Iceland and Luxembourg were signatories but held no TLE,
so they reported none. Georgia and Armenia made no declaration
at entry into force, and Georgia did not make a declaration in
November 1995. Both were involved in fighting during the period
and disputed total numbers of items attributed to them from the
Tashkent agreement.
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o [E
I. Randall Forsberg, Rob Leavitt, and Steve Lilly-Weber, "Conventional
Forces Treaty Buries Cold War," Bulletin of the Atornic Scientists, January/
February 1991, pp. 32-37; Jim Nichol, "Conventional Forces in Europe
Treaty: Russian Attitudes and Implications for U.S. Interests." CRS Report
for Congress, updated September 15, 1995.
2. See Appendix B for the text of the pledges.
3. Arms Control Re/Jorter 1992, pp. 407.B.463-474.
4. President George Bush, Adherence to and ComlJliance with Arms Control
Agreements and the President's Report to Congress on Soviet Noncompli-
ance with Arms Control Agreements, prepared by the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, January 14, 1993.
5. Arms Control Reporter 1990, p. 407.E.08; Department of Defense, Acting
Director, Tactical Warfare Programs, "Report on Transfer of Certain CFE
Treaty-Limited Equipment," August 30, 1994; OSIA European Operations
Command, Plans Section, "Summary of Activity at Buccino, Iraly,"
November 1993; Joint Consultative Group, "Revised Report on the Work
of the JCG Informal Working Group," December 8, 1992.
6. Interview with Colonel Stanislaw Malinowski, Chief Inspector, Polish
Verification Center, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Warsaw,
Poland, February 3, 1994.
7. Ibid.
8. Interview with Lt. Colonel Thomas C. Fiser, USA, Team Chief, OSIA, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July
'12,1993.
9. Inspection Reports, C92-Blue-034-PL, October 29,1992; C93-Blue-013-
HU, March 17, 1993; C93-Blue-051-CZ, November 24,1993.
10. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-038-CZ, September 1, 1993.
11. Inspection Report, C94-Blue-007-CZ, March 30, 1994.
12. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-014-BO, April 1, 1993.
13. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-047-BO, November 9,1993.
14. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-021-UP, May 4, 1993.
15. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-034-CZ, July 14, 1993.
16. Inspection Reports, C94-Blue-003-BO, February 1, 1994; C94-Blue-028-
UP, August 22, 1994.
17. Inspection Report, C93-Blue-018-HU, April 28, 1993.
'18. Inspection Report, C94-Blue-033-RO, September 19, 1994.
19. Escort Mission Report Folders, 93-CFE-030-UP-GE; 94-CFE-021-HU-IT.
 Chapter 8

Verification agency leaders gathered at RAF Scampton, England, for a post-baseline conference in December 1992.

A
t the end of the CFE Treaty's third reduction year in
November 1995, one could draw six conclusions. First,
the treaty ratification process had been critical to achieving
national and international consensus on the detailed treaty provi-
sions and protocols that were so important throughout implemen-
tation. Second, three years into the process of providing data,
reducing weapons, accepting inspection teams, and adjudicating
disputes, the 30 signatory states remained committed to the CFE
Treaty. With some exceptions, the states were meeting their na-
tional reduction quotas in the treaty's five categories of offensive
weapons. The treaty specified that 100 percent of each nation's
final reduction liability had to be achieved by the end of the third
226 0 -Sill T WI (110 A.I C)

reduction year. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine,

and Russia did not meet their treaty-mandated reduction quotas. I
Of these states, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia had informed the
Joint Consultative Group in Vienna of the special circumstances
that forced them to postpone the date for completing their treaty
reductions. No nation indicated that it would withdraw from the
treaty. Despite the fact that these six nations were not in compli-
ance as of November 1995, collectively, the nations of the NATO
and WTO alliances had met and even exceeded the CFE Treaty
reduction quotas. By November 17, 1995, the end of the third
reduction year, the signatory states had destroyed, converted,
decommissioned, reclassified, or placed on static display more
than 19,200 battle tanks, 9,800 artillery pieces, 18,600 armored
personnel carriers, 2,200 combat aircraft, and 370 attack helicop-
ters. The total-50,170-exceeded the reduction quotas estab-
lished in the trea ty. 2
The third conclusion was that the CFE Treaty's principal
verification measure-the use of on-site inspection teams to con-
firm force data and to monitor reductions, recategorizations, and
suspect sites-was working well. National on-site inspection teams
had conducted more than 2,500 inspections of declared sites,
objects of verification (OOVs), specified areas, and reductions of
treaty-limited equipment (TLE). Disputes arose in fewer than 50
inspections. Many potentially contentious issues had been resolved
on-site by the inspectors and escorts acting within the treaty's
articles and protocols.

The Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, was the meeting place for the CFE Treaty 's Joint
Consultative Group.
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Fourth, the CFE Treaty's Joint Consultative

Group (JCG) had functioned as an important
forum throughout treaty ratification and imple-
mentation. The JCG had met almost continually
in Vienna since the treaty's signature in Paris on
November 19, 1990, to consider problems aris-
ing from national force data, on-site inspections,
notifications, and other treaty requirements. In
closed joint sessions and committees, representa-
tives of the treaty states discussed and formulated
solutions and, on many occasions, achieved the
required consensus on recommended changes to
treaty issues. Throughout implementation, the
JCG provided the CFE Treaty process a degree of
flexibility that was invaluable in a time of rapid
changes across Europe.
The fifth conclusion is that the political and
social upheavals sweeping across post-Cold War
Europe from 1992 to 1995 had a direct influence
on the CFE Treaty's implementation. Within a
year of the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991 The ICG approved Russian modified reduction
and the creation of the new successor states, procedures.
Western European governments and peoples
were interacting, formally and informally, with Eastern European
nations to a degree not seen for 50 years or more. This
activity influenced the composition of the CFE Treaty's national
inspection teams. In January 1993, just six months after the
treaty's entry into force, the NATO nations collectively invited the
treaty's Eastern states to join their CFE teams as guest inspectors.
They accepted. Shortly thereafter, individual inspectors from the
Eastern states began serving on the NATO nations' CFE inspection
teams. These multinational teams conducted inspections of CFE
sites throughout Eastern Europe and the successor states. Within a
matter of months in 1993, virtually all the NATO nations' CFE
inspection teams had become multinational, with inspectors from
several nations routinely serving on a single team.
The rapid thaw after the Cold War was reflected in other
cooperative efforts. In 1994, the treaty nations agreed to share
data from on-site inspections and from the annual national force
JIlt .. " IU"" fIlA,
data submissions. At that time, the NATO nations expanded VER-
ITY, their computerized database, incorporating information on
inspections and national force data from almost all treaty states. In
another development, in 1993 NATO opened its CFE Treaty train- • JJ..tu.t?-.r...<- ~-2(:...Ci"
ing courses to inspectors from the Eastern states and successor [,,_

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nations. Further, NATO's Verification Coordinating Committee ";";~~iJ';¥":V';;'W:''' ' ~:\\(.~·,,·.;';,"'Zat~k·~';Y1;#y

(VCC) sponsored special seminars each year from 1992 through
1996 for the directors and senior staffs of the national verification The NATO School's CFE Treaty
agencies from both groups of states. These seminars served as Course was open to all 30 nations.
22S O;\l-Srn IN~I'~( li ON A(;~, ;\lc)

important informal forums for raising implementation issues, and

they provided a setting in which the verification directors could
discuss common issues and approaches. When the CFE Treaty was
negotiated and signed in 1990, no one had anticipated the form or
the extent of these joint East-West treaty implementation activities.
Finally, one could conclude that collectively the 30 CFE
Treaty states had, in large measure, achieved the treaty's stated
objectives of establishing a "secure and stable balance of conven-
tional armed forces in Europe at lower levels" and eliminating "as
a matter of high priority, the capability for launching a surprise
attack or for initiating a large-scale offensive action in Europe." 3
Certainly, the demise of the Soviet Union and of the Warsaw
Treaty Organization as a viable military alliance were consequen-
tial events that contributed directly to these all-European treaty
objectives. Yet, one should not discount the treaty states' concrete
actions in carrying out their CFE Treaty commitments. In 1992,
1993, 1994, and 1995; daily, weekly, yearly; in thousands of dis-
crete actions, the signatory states had met their treaty obligations
and exercised their treaty rights.
By the end of the reduction period in November 1995, the
CFE Treaty was viewed widely across Europe as a valuable, legally
binding agreement for reducing military armaments and for en-
hancing openness of military forces across national borders. Since
it entered into force, a durable record had been achieved; that
record established a context for evaluating the CFE Treaty's next
major phase: the residual level validation period.

RESIDUAL LEVEL V AUDATION PERIOD:

NOVEMBER 1995 TO MARCH 1996

Following the 40-month reduction period, the treaty provided

for a brief 120-day phase during which every nation had the right,
under the group of states quota system, to verify the treaty-limited
weapons and forces possessed by the nations in the other group of
states. Based on the number of OOVs in the Eastern group of
states on November 17, 1995, the end of the reduction period, the
NATO nations could conduct up to 247 on-site inspections over
RLVP: the next 120 days, while the Eastern group of states could conduct
NOl'(!mber 17 , 1995- up to 254 inspections. Designated in the treaty as the residual level
validation period (RLYP), this phase preceded the treaty's final
March 16, 1996
stage: the residual period. That final period would be of unlimited
duration, with compliance monitoring by on-site inspections con-
tinuing indefinitely, though always based on a percentage of a
nation's OOYs. The RLYP was an important period, because it
allowed states to verify the accuracy of the other treaty nations'
postreduction numbers in order to establish a basis for monitoring
the national TLE holdings in the residual period. 4
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This RLVP phase resembled the treaty's baseline period in

both intent and duration. Both were periods of intense inspection
activities, with the treaty allowing inspections by the group of
states of up to 20 percent of all declared OOVs. The major differ-
ence between the two periods lay in the length of time for planning
and preparation. The CFE Treaty's final ratification developed
quickly in June-July 1992 as the states decided to implement the
treaty provisionally. Entry into force came immediately after the
Helsinki Summit on July 17, 1992; it caught some nations, espe-
cially some of the newer Eastern European republics, by surprise.
This element of surprise was not part of the treaty's RLVP phase.
All treaty nations knew that RLVP would begin on November 17,
1995, and end on March 16, 1996.
These dates were known to Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory,
U.S. Army, who assumed command of OSIA's European Opera-
tions (EO) Command in January 1995. He took over an active,
experienced, 145-person inspection command. The treaty's RLVP
was 10 months away, but he initiated an intensive planning effort
immediately. Guillory knew that the process of inspecting, escort-
ing, and conducting liaison operations would be the same as dur-
ing the baseline and reduction periods, but he recognized that the
pace during RLVP would be much faster. The command would be
called upon to conduct twice as many inspections in 120 days as it
normally did in an entire year. On the escort side, U.S. vulnerabil-
ity to being inspected would not be as great as during baseline.

Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, Commander of OSIA's European Operations Command, leads an OSCE
inspection in Bosnia.
230 O:\ - SIII h"l'l (,110:\ Au M)

Since 1992, thousands of u.s. troops had been withdrawn

from Europe and dozens of u.s. military bases closed. Conse-
quently, Colonel Guillory expected that the 56 U.S. Army and 5
U.S. Air Force OOVs in Europe would be inspected 12 times dur-
ing RLVP (20 percent of 61 OOVs). Further, Guillory assumed
that American liaison officers would be extremely busy during the
period, since the NATO nations' passive quota was 254 inspec-
tions. United States policy dictated that a U.S. liaison team travel
to every site subject to inspection in order to protect u.S. facilities
and units stationed or deployed there. As he added up numbers of
inspections, escorts, and liaison missions for the RLVP phase,
Guillory concluded that the command would be doing twice as
much work in one-third the time. To ensure the command's readi-
ness, he initiated an intensive planning effort to nail down every
aspect of OSIA's RLVP mission. 5
In mid-February -1995, Guillory brought the European Op-
erations Command staff together and explained his initial plan-
ning guidance. All RLVP planning and preparations would be a
joint staff effort involving operations, support, and logistics. Fur-
ther, the effort would involve extensive coordination with Head-
quarters and with OSIA's operating commands and consultation
with the staffs of the NATO nations' verification agencies, other
foreign verification agenci es, and NATO's VCe. Finally, he di-
rected at this initial meeting that the effort would be coordinated
by the operations division's planning cell. In November 1995, just
as the RLVP operation was getting under way, Colonel Guillory
recalled his objectives. "We went to work," he explained, "to
develop an operational concept and four interlocking plans. " 6 This
work, he said, produced the following?:
• An operational concept as part of the NATO plan. Since the
beginning of the CFE Treaty, the United States had conducted
its treaty responsibilities in concert with the NATO nations.
This would continue during RLVP.
• An aggressive liaison plan to ensure an American presence at
any U.S. facility in the NAT O nations.
• An augmentation plan to ensure that OSIA's EO Command
had the necessary manpower to conduct the escort and
inspection missions.
• A logistics plan to support all EO inspectors, escorts, liaison
officers, and augmentees_
• An aggressive training plan to prepare new EO members and
augmenrees for CFE Treaty operations.
As the planning got under way in the spring of 1995, Briga-
dier General Gregory G. Govan, Director of OSIA, decided that
the agency would augment the EO Command with people from
Headquarters and the other operational commands. By mid-
 fHl CH fRI\ly:ADIRUIII SIIH(IlRIIORPml - COII>W\REII{OI'I 211

summer the plan called for 41 augmentees. All would be trained

by September and would deploy to Europe in early November.
These OSIA people would serve on liaison teams, inspection
teams, and escort teams. They would also work in communica-
tions, planning, and administration. As the date grew closer,
Colonel Guillory reevaluated the command's requirement for
augmentees. He reduced the required number from 41 to 33,
largely on the basis of new personnel arriving earlier than antici-
pated and a new estimate of the logistics division's operational
capability. At Rhein-Main, three officers-Lt. Colonel Thomas
Carraway, USA; Lt. Colonel William L. Lefevers, USAF; and Ma-
jor Jon Rebholz, Jr., USMC-played key roles in shepherding
every aspect of the RLVP planning effort. Just as Colonel
Lawrence Kelley, USMC, had checked and rechecked every detail
of the command's planning prior to baseline, these three officers
forced every division, section, team, and individual to know and
understand their role during RLVP. 8 What were the results?
During the residual level validation period-from November
17, 1995, to March 16, 1996-NATO nations conducted 246
Brigadier General Gregory G.
inspections of Eastern bloc nations. The United States led 38 in-
Govan, USA, Directol~ aSIA.
spections and provided guest inspectors on 56 other na tional
teams. U.S. inspection teams hosted 65 guest inspectors. During
RLVP, U.S. inspection teams exercised all their treaty rights; when
appropriate, they wrote comments on the inspection reports. They
declared 11 ambiguities, which were referred to the JCG in Vienna
for resolution. As in every other period in the treaty, U.S. inspec-
tion teams and inspectors set high standards in their knowledge of
the treaty, its protocols, TLE status, and national force data. 9
From November to March, Eastern nations inspected NATO
nations 183 times. This tempo was somewhat slower than ex-
pected, although it was at an inspection level of 72 percent of the
maximum possibility of 254 inspections. Eastern nations used
sequential inspections to cover as many sites as possible in a single

NATO Quota: 247 Inspections Eastern Group Quota: 255 Inspections

Unused quota: 1 U.S. sites: 11
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Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, U.S. Army

Colonel Ken Guillory, U.S. Army, commanded OSIA's European
Operations Command during the RLVP period. A field artillery of-
ficer, he commanded a battalion at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma; fought in
Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia; and served as a civil-military
liaison officer to the German army under the US Army's Pershing II
command. Capable in German and Russian, Guillory holds a master's
degree in Soviet area studies from Georgetown University.

On the necessity for early planning for the CFE ways available. In Russia, however, the only entry
Treaty's RLVP operations: "We started the plan- point was Moscow. To get from Moscow to the
ning process in February 1995. We used the basic majority of the CFE Treaty sites, the team had to
joint operations planning system, which is similar fly. That presented us some problems. I expected
to the Army's system. We did it not because it that at least once, if not more, we were going to
was familiar to me, which it was, but because it have trouble reaching a Russian site in time to
tends to make you ask the right questions and do conduct the inspection, simply because of the
the kind of planning that you need to do. It's weather. And that, of course, was out of our
deliberately designed to expose things that may hands. The other problem was that it was really
be weaknesses, so that you can address them and very difficult to do a CFE inspection after dark.
take care of them in your planning. The other You needed daylight. In the winter the days are
thing that we did that was important was to shorter, so you had to plan the inspection to cover
coordinate all key issues with agencies here in all the areas you needed to cover and see within
Europe, with OSIA Headquarters in Washington, available daylight. Our inspectors know how to
and with the Inspection Support Staff. We didn't do it, and they're good at it, but it is just more
plan it just as operators, we had logistics people, difficult inspecting after August or September
personnel folks, counterintelligence folks; every- when the days are longer."
body was involved. It was a total, coordinated
effort. I think it made a big difference." On the coordination process at NATO's Verifica-
tion Coordinating Committee: "The process has
On the difference between normal operations and several steps. First, we decide which NATO coun-
the tempo during RLVP: "The difference, of tries get what percentage of the available inspec-
course, was the intensity of the operation. We tions in the East. Then, we decide which countries
were doing a greater number of inspections in a get what percentage of inspections in Russia, in
shorter period. What made the operation differ- Ukraine, in Poland, Belarus, and all the other
ent was the coordination needed to get people countries. Then the total period for the inspec-
briefed, transported to and from the inspection tions is divided into time blocks. A block is one
site, debriefed, and then having to coordinate week . Normally we do 52 blocks in a year. The
everything with several other nations simulta- RLVP was 18 blocks. Because of a high number
neously. It was a major coordination problem. of inspections we had to do for three countries-
Russia, Romania, and Ukraine-we had to create
"The one problem that you try to plan for, but
subordinate blocks. There was not just Block 2,
there really is nothing you can do about, is the
there was Block 2 Alpha, Block 2 Bravo, and
weather. RLVP, of course, happened from
Block 3 Alpha, Block 3 Bravo, and so on. For the
mid-November to mid-March, right in the middle
other nations, each block remained one week, so
of the Russian and East European winter. That
that you could go to Poland, Czech Republic,
made it hard. The difficulty was not as great in
Hungary, or wherever. Once that got settled,
the East European countries: Bulgaria, Hungary,
there was a process at NATO for each of the
Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, and
countries to say, 'Okay, I want to inspect this
Slovakia. There ground transportation was al-
country in this block.' That was negotiated and
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visit to Western Europe. The United States was inspected 11 times,

with 10 inspections occurring at U.S. facilities in Germany and 1
in Italy. OSIA's EO Command deployed full escort teams to each
site to conduct the foreign inspection teams through the U.S. facili-
ties. During RLVP operations, the U.S. liaison teams deployed on
163 Eastern nation inspections. They provided invaluable assis-
tance to U.S. military units and personnel, particularly in Turkey,
Italy, and Germany.IO
In March 1996, when the RLVP ended, Colonel Guillory
evaluated the American effort. He developed a method to compare
the "expected" level of operations with the "actual" level. Using
pluses and minuses, he evaluated the strengths and weaknesses in
the command's planning, training, operations, logistics, and inter-
national coordination. In early May, Brigadier General Thomas
E. Kuenning, Director of OSIA, and the senior staff held an all-
Agency operations conference at which Guillory briefed his analy-
sis of U.S. operations during RLVP. The operation was a success,
he thought, because the early, intensive planning effort had defined
the requirements and had produced an operations plan that was
comprehensive and realistic. The expected and actual levels of
operations matched up across the board, except for a few minuses
concerning forecasting efforts that had been unsuccessful in antici-

deconflicted as each country presented its sched- On incorporating an analysis of the CFE Treaty
ule. Then the VCC put them all together and said, baseline experience into RLVP operations:
'Okay, here is where there are conflicts,' and they "When we did the original plan, we did the
worked them all out. So NATO came up with a commander's estimate portion and one of the
deconflicted schedule. Once that was done, the things we looked at was how we, at EO, had
NATO countries went back and decided who handled the baseline operations. What we found
would be guest inspectors on their teams. In our out was that we had actually handled the inspec-
case, for example, sometimes we had a German tions pretty well. We had organized the teams
or a British officer; a Frenchman or a Dutchman; properly, we had the right number, and we were
a Belgian, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, or Turkish able to conduct virtually all of the required in-
officer. Those all got worked out in advance. spections. Remember, the treaty's baseline period
was in the summertime, so the weather was a lot
"Some inspections were 'paired.' That's the
better. On the escort side, we were well prepared,
term we use for inspections when we take repre-
although the Eastern states did not inspect us as
sentatives from our Eastern European treaty
much as we thought they would. On the liaison
partners. In some cases we will actually have
officer side, where we went to the different
Eastern officers on our teams. For example, we
NATO countries every time there was an inspec-
had some Hungarian officers with us on an in-
tion, there were problems. During baseline we
spection in Romania. There is no quota for how
had LNO teams standing by in several locations,
many times we do it. We don't have to do it at all,
and it was a waste of manpower. It wasn't the
but it's good for us. It helps us a lot. Also, it gives
best way to do things. For the RLVP, because of
them exposure and experience in working with
the distance, we are keeping an LNO team in
Allied teams. The United States is not the only
place in Turkey, with the rest based here in Ger-
country that does this."
many. We have more flexibility that way."
Source: Interview, Col. Kenneth D. Guillory, USA, with Technical Sergeant David Willford , USAF, November 13, and December 1, 1995.
234 O:-< - SIII I ~I'H I lOt\; Au :\c)

pating other nations' inspection activity. On the plus side, Guillory

gave high ratings to NATO's VCC deconfliction work and its
coordination of guest inspectors, the continuous dialogue among
the NATO nations' verification agencies, the West-to-East dia-
logue between verification agencies planning cooperative missions,
the work of the augmentees from OSIA Headquarters and opera-
tional commands, the determination of the U.S. liaison officer
teams, the professionalism of th e Inspection Support Staff and its
coordination efforts with the interagency policy community in
Washington, and the early planning and standardized packages
developed by the command's logistics experts."
In the end, the fact that there were many more pluses than
minuses was less important than the presence in the command of a
vigorous planning effort; rigorous tra ining standards; extensive
NATO nation coordination; thoroughness in inspections, escorts,
Brigadier General Thomas E. and liaison teams; responsiveness in logistics; and a willingness to
Kuenning, Jr., USAF, Directol~ conduct an honest postopera tion evaluation. Measured in this
OSIA. way, OSIA's European Operations Co mmand demonstrated that
the leadership and profess ional standards that had been present in
the execution of the U.S. CFE Treaty on-site inspection mission
during the baseline and reduction periods had continued during
RLVP.

PROBLEMS DURIN(. TREATY IMPLEMENTATTO

In the implementation of any multinational treaty, problems
arise as a result of changes in the international situation, changes
in one or more of the signatory nations' internal conditions, or,
more commonly, differing national interpretations of treaty rights
and obligations. A treaty may have unresolved or ambiguous
issues embedded in the text or protocols that come to the fore only
during implementation. Implementation of the CFE Treaty cer-
tainly proved these generalizations true. Five problems surfaced
from July 1992, entry into force, to November 1995, the end of
the reduction period:
• Inspector access at declared sites.
• Cost of treaty-limited equipment (TLE) reductions.
• Accounting for TLE among the Soviet Union's successor
states.
• Destruction of Russian TLE located east of th e Urals.
• Redefinition of the treaty's zonal restrictions for stationing
weapons in the flank areas of Russia and Ukraine.
Some of these problems, such as the inspectors' right of ac-
cess at declared sites, resulted from complex compromises in treaty
definitions during the final weeks of negotiations. Others were the
direct consequence of th e Soviet Union's collapse and the creation
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of eight successor states that subsequently be-

came parties to the treaty. When the Soviet
Union's massive holdings of TLE were divided
among the new nations, some states had diffi-
culty accounting for all the equipment trans-
ferred from the Russian army. Other states had
problems financing the destruction of their excess
weapons and equipment under the treaty's proto-
cols. Finally, in the period following the breakup
of the Soviet Union, some successor states faced
severe internal unrest, such as ethnic violence
in Chechnya and internal disruptions in Georgia,
Moldova, and Armenia. These internal problems
placed pressures on the governments, which
deployed military forces to suppress the unrest.
The movement of these forces and their weapons
threatened compliance with the treaty's zone
limits. Some nations, specifically Russia, argued
that key provisions of the treaty should be al-
tered to accommodate these problems.

The first significant problem, inspector

access to declared sites, arose shortly after the
treaty entered into force in July 1992. During the
initial inspections, Russian escorts routinely Unrest in the Soviet Union led to its breakup and the
granted inspectors access to the designated addition of eight new states to the CFE Treaty.
OOVs but often denied them access to the entire
declared site. These denials occurred also, to a lesser degree, in
Belarus and Ukraine. In mid-August, Russia and all other treaty
states presented, as required by the treaty, a revised set of data
charts, listing their declared sites, OOVs, units, and TLE. For most
of its CFE sites, Russia now stated that all its OOVs and declared
sites had identical boundary lines. Previously, Russia had stated in
its treaty data submissions that it had many declared sites (military
bases, garrisons, or installations) containing five, six, or more
OOVs (regiments or brigades). The new Russian treaty data charts
signaled a major change, one that had the potential of limiting the
CFE inspection team's access while on site. Also, the Russian data
charts essentially nullified the treaty's carefully negotiated compro-
mise on the inspection team's right of access to inspect both the
designated OOV and the declared site.
Among the NATO nations, the United States was most insis-
tent on challenging what it believed was Russia's unilateral reinter-
pretation of the treaty. It set out to force the issue. The United
States sent several inspection teams to Russia to conduct Section
VII Declared Site CFE Treaty inspections. These teams conducted
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A U.S.-led multinational inspection

in Romania.

inspections of the OOVs and declared sites, and in the process,

they insisted on their treaty right to inspect the entire site. 12
France, Germany, and Great Britain agreed with the United States.
Their inspection teams raised the issue with Russian m ilitary es-
corts and site commanders. Only the United States, however, de-
clared ambiguities. 13
While inspectors argued and documented the issue of inspec-
tion rights and inspectable sites, diplomatic delegations discussed
the problem in Moscow, Washington, and major European capi-
tals. The jeG held a series of meetings seeking resolution. In late
October, Ambassador Lynn M. Hansen, U.S. CFE Treaty Negotia-
tor, flew to Moscow for discussions on the issue with senior Rus-
sian diplomatic and military officials. In those meetings, Russian
officials declared categorically their intention to return to the
original treaty interpretation and to comply with the eFE Treaty's
definition of a declared site. ' 4 Four weeks later, in its December
15, 1992, data update, Russia stated that it had 431 OOVs and
299 declared sites. Subsequent inspections of Russian CFE sites in
1993 and 1994 by NATO nation teams reveakd that on this is-
sue-the inspection team's right of access to the declared site and
the common areas-Russia had, indeed, reverted to the complex
treaty understand ing tha t had been negotiated and rarified. 1\
It is important to recognize that in the resolution of this
treaty problem, the process worked. Inspectors raised and docu-
mented thc issuc on-sitc; they declared ambiguities, which were
recorded in the legal process of verifying compliance with the eFE
Treaty. Oncc documented, the problem was examined by the re-
spective national verification agency directors and staffs. Then
senior officials in Moscow, Washington, and other capitals evalu-
ated the issue and prepared government positions. In Vienna,
national representatives to the .ICG presented their views and
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worked in committees and joint sessions on a resolution accept-

able to all treaty states. In this case, the treaty problem was caused
by a change in Russia's designation of its national force data. It
was resolved when Russia, challenged by the United States and
other treaty states, decided to return to the data format used by all
other signatory states, thus acknowledging the original intent of
the treaty. Once the data were in the correct format, inspectors
could confirm, through direct observation on-site, that the site,
unit, and nation were in compliance with the treaty.

COST OF TLE REDUCTIONS

A persistent problem of a different nature arose shortly after
the CFE Treaty entered into force. Several nations complained
publicly and in treaty forums that the treaty's reduction protocols
required destruction methodologies that were too specific and too
expensive, given the thousands of weapons and pieces of equip-
ment that had to be reduced within the treaty-mandated 40
months. They suggested less costly, alternative methods. Only one
month after the treaty entered into force in July 1992, General-
Lieutenant Ivan Oleynik, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister for
Armaments, stated publicly that destroying T-54 tanks was too
expensive. To destroy one tank, according to General Oleynik, the
Ukrainian government bad to spend over 7,000 rubles. Destruc-
tion of just one armored personnel carrier, he maintained, would
cost over 4 ,000 rubles. Under the CFE Treaty, Ukraine was re-
sponsible for the destruction of 2,450 tanks, 2,222 APCs, and 550

U.S. inspection team recording data 011 T-S4 tank reductions in Ukraine.
2 iR O,\; - SITI I ·WI( flO" Ac,I:-;()

aircraft. To accomplish this work, the Ukrainian government had

to set up reduction sites at Zhitomer, Kiev, Lvov, Nikolayev, and
Kharkov. 16
Other states with substantial reduction liabilities agreed with
Ukraine. In December 1992, Germany, Russia, and Belarus joined
Ukraine in petitioning the CFE Treaty's Joint Consultative Group
to consider new, less costly procedures for reducing treaty-limited
equipment. I? Russia had 10 reduction sites, Germany 6, and
Belarus 4. From December through March, the JCG discussed
Ukraine's petition. Then in April 1993, Russia invited observers
from the other treaty nations to witness a demonstration reduction
of tanks using the new procedures. At a military base outside Saint
Petersburg, Russian army warrant officers demonstrated how
disabling one side of a tank's drive system-rather than two, as
prescribed in the treaty-would render it militarily ineffective.
They also demonstrated that making partial rather than complete
cuts would effectively disable the tank's major components: the
turret rings and gun barrels. At this demonstration, representatives
of the other treaty states observed the recommended modifica-
tions, and in Vienna, following discussions and comments, the
JCG representatives accepted the Russian proposal. The new pro-
cedures became acceptable ways to reduce tanks under the treaty. I S
Less than a month later, the JCG agreed to a German proposal for
modifying the procedures for reducing lightly armored vehicles.
The German delegates proposed that these weapons be destroyed
by crushing them in a large compactor. Known as the "cheese
slicer" or "cookie cutter," this compactor worked well in field
demonstrations. After further negotiations in Vienna, the JCG
approved its use in June 1993. 19

Poland's eight-ton ball crushed TLE efficiently and economically.

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Reduction costs caused Belarus,

Ukraine, Russia, and Germany to
petition the lCG to modify
reduction procedures.

Poland had a large reduction liability under the CFE Treaty:

1,120 tanks, 246 armored combat vehicles, 705 artillery pieces,
and 49 aircraft. In 1993, Poland recommended and the JCG ap-
proved a modification of the treaty protocol for destroying artil-
lery pieces. According to Colonel Stanislaw Malinowski, Director
of the Polish Verification Center, the new method called for a very
large, heavy steel wrecking ball to be lifted high in the air and
dropped on the weapons, thereby "smashing the gun components
until they were visibly cracked or bent." Colonel Malinowski
added that this method was "not very costly" but was "very
efficient. "20
Even with these procedural changes, the cost of reducing the
excess TLE was a burden for some of the smaller successor states.
Belarus is a small nation of 10 million people. At Tashkent it had
received a large portion of the Soviet Union's CFE Treaty conven-
tional weapons: 3,457 tanks, 3,824 ACVs, 1,562 artillery pieces,
and 390 aircraft. Belarus's total reduction liability was more than
3,750 weapons. To destroy these treaty weapons within the 40-
month reduction period, Belarus set up reduction centers at
Borisov, Lesnaya, Baranovichi, and Stankovo. When its economy
collapsed in 1992-93, Belarus said that the cost of carrying out
CFE Treaty reductions was excessive. In December 1992, Belarus
joined Russia, Ukraine, and Germany in petitioning the JCG to
modify the treaty's reduction protocols. In June 1993, Belarussian
senior officials stated that the government was under such finan-
cial pressure that it might not be able to meet its CFE Treaty re-
duction obligations. General-Major Viktor Vakar, Director of the
Belarus National Agency for Control and Inspection, raised the
issue with the NATO Verification Coordinating Committee in
November 1993. Other Belarussian senior officials took the issue
before the state parties at the Joint Consultative Group; still others
raised it in diplomatic exchanges with the United States. In the
latter instance, Belarus requested that Nunn-Lugar funds be obli-
24() O'\-SI n IS!'I (liON ACII\CY _ _

Minister of Defense Pavel

Kozlovskiy of Belarus and U.S.
Secretary of Defense Les Aspin
following the signing of a funding
agreement under the Nunn-Lugar
program.

gated to assist it in its CFE Treaty reductions. Here was a new

problem. Belarus was not requesting further modifications to the
treaty's reduction protocols; instead, it was asking for direct for-
eign aid to pay the cost of reducing the weapons. Belarus esti-
mated that it would cost $33 million to red uce its 3,758 pieces of
CFE Treaty TLE.21
When the United States did not respond (to avoid setting a
precedent of paying for TLE destruction for all the successor
states), Belarus took another tack. It called for the treaty states to
set up a voluntary CFE Treaty Support Fund. Among the treaty
nations, only Russia and Ukraine actively supported establishing
such a fund. Nevertheless, Belarus kept the concept alive. In
March 1994, senior government officials said they would be
forced to declare a force majeure in further treaty reductions if
economic conditions did not improve. In late March, U.S. Secre-
tary of Defense William S. Perry stated tha t the United States
would commit $5 million each to Belarus and Ukraine to support
their CFE Treaty reduction efforts. At the same time, Perry pointed
out that Belarus had already been granted $70 million, and
Ukraine $270 million, under the United States' Cooperative Threat
Reduction ProgramY
This action was sufficient for Belarus to continue its CFE
reduction program through 1994. Then in February 1995, Presi-
dent Aleksander R. Lukashenko suddenly announced that Belarus
would suspend all reduction efforts. Declaring that the cost of
destroying the CFE weapons was "economically unjust,"
Lukashenko said that he had made a unilateral decision to shut
down the reduction operations. Here was a direct threat to treaty
compliance. Lukashenko's announcement came a few weeks before
Russian President Boris Yeltsin threatened to pull out of the treaty
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if Russia did not receive some relief from the treaty's flank limit
restrictions and if NATO expanded into Central Europe. 23
Lukashenko's announcement and Yeltsin's threat had the effect
of forcing this problem out of treaty forums and into the realm of
international politics. Resolution of Russia's flank limit problem
will be discussed later; resolving Belarus's financial problem took
more than 15 months. Within a few days of Lukashenko's February
23, 1995, announcement, Deputy Foreign Minister Valeriy Tsepkalo
explained that Belarus was prepared to resume destruction of
weapons if sufficient funding was forthcoming immediately. When
no other nation came forth with funds, Belarus continued its sus-
pension throughout the spring, summer, and into the fall months.
The CFE Treaty's November 17, 1995, reduction deadline ap-
proached; nations with excessive TLE would not be in compliance.
In late August, German Defense Minister Klaus Kinkel flew to
Minsk and discussed the issue with the Belarussian president and
his ministers. As he left, the German defense minister made no
commitments, but he conceded that the Cold War's termination
had created great suffering for Belarus and the other successor
nations.
In September 1995, Belarus announced that it would resume
its reduction activities but indicated that for economic reasons it
would not meet its treaty reduction obligations. The following
month, James Collins, Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State, flew
to Minsk for consultations. No direct action followed until No-
vember, when the deadline came for all treaty states to meet their
reduction liabilities. On November 17, 1995, all 30 nations issued
a joint statement from Vienna identifying nations that were not in
compliance with the treaty. Belarus was not in compliance. Appar-
ently this statement and the promise of the United States and
Germany to provide financial assistance were sufficient motivation
for Belarus to commit to a definite plan for completing its TLE
reductions. Ten days after Belarus was singled out for noncompli-
ance, its representatives submitted a plan to the JCG for destroy-
ing all of the state's remaining TLE by April 26, 1996. The plan
was quickly approved, and the pace of reductions proceeded to
meet the schedule. Belarus, in fact, did not meet the April 1996
deadline, which meant that it was still not in full compliance with
the CFE Treaty's reduction quotas. 24

ACCOUNTING FOR TLE AMONG THE

SUCCESSOR STATES
Eight signatory states-Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia,
Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakstan-did not exist as
nations during CFE Treaty negotiations. Following the collapse of
the Soviet Union, these states received portions of its vast arsenal
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in the Tashkent Agreement of May 1992. During ratification, they

committed to the CFE Treaty's provisions and prorocols. However,
when it came time for implementation, some of the successor
states found it difficult to meet their treaty commitments. The
situation in the Transcaucasian region was chaotic. Nations were
ensnared in a web of civil wars, revolutions, ethnic conflicts, and
internal governmental chaos. Implementing the CFE Treaty was
not a pressing commitment for these states. To complicate matters,
the Russian army, which had inherited the USSR's forces and
equipment before Tashkent, was now withdrawing from some
parts of the region. Under the Tashkent Agreement, the Russian
army was responsible for turning over to the other successor states
their "agreed-upon" portion of the former USSR's arsenal. Under
the CFE Treaty, those nations would be responsible for the treaty-
limited equipment and for destroying excess weapons. However,
much of the Russian army's military equipment in the Trans-
caucasian region was old and unusable. When transferred, it was
rejected. This rejection, which included several hundred tanks,
ACYs, and artillery pieces, caused problems for the other signa-
tory states monitoring compliance with the CFE Treaty.
In the Transcaucasian region, all three states-Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia-experienced major difficulties in com-
plying with the CFE Treaty. When the treaty entered into force in
July 1992, Armenia reported almost no data on its conventional
equipment, despite having been authorized at Tashkent 258 tanks,
641 ACYs, 357 artillery pieces, and 7 helicopters. Furthermore,
Armenia did not admit to the JCG that it had any reduction liabili-
ties in the first or second treaty reduction years. In January 1993,
Armenia did submit its TLE listings, but it stated that some of the

Abandoned TLE presented accountability problems in the Transcaucasus nations.

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In November 1992) an American team conducted a declared site inspection in Azerbaijan.

CFE equipment left by the departing Russian army lacked parts,

critical elements, and functioning units. Armenia implied that it
would not account for or reduce this unacceptable CFE equip-
ment. Russia , in its CFE Treaty charts, had reported the equipment
as transferred to Armenia. However, Armenia, on its treaty charts,
did not report the same numbers. This caused a discrepancy,
which the lCG discussed but could not resolve.
Azerbaijan, when the treaty entered into force, submitted its
TLE data, but they were incomplete and inaccurate. The problem
with the Azerbaijani data stemmed from the same cause: the de-
parting Russian army had left tanks, ACVs, and artillery that were
in such poor shape or so stripped down that Azerbaijan refused to
accept and account for them. In addition, the Azerbaijanis were
involved in a lengthy ethnic war in Nagorno-Karabakh, and they
asserted that losses of conventional equipment in that conflict
could not be accounted for or reported. Azerbaijan did accept one
U.S . CFE inspection team in November 1992, thus indicating a
certain willingness to participate in the treaty. But Azerbaijan did
not report any CFE equipment or weapons reduction liabilities to
the lCG as required at the end of either the first or the second
treaty reduction year. Georgia, as a new nation, had major prob-
lems. An intense civil war threatened the existence of the govern-
ment. Under these circumstances, Georgia'S compliance with
the CFE Treaty was problematical. At the end of the third reduc-
tion year, the lCG issued a statement declaring that Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia were not in compliance with the treaty. 25
Ukraine and Russia were also not in compliance with the
CFE Treaty. They did not meet their quotas for reducing excess
treaty-limited equipment assigned to the Black Sea Fleet's naval
infantry and coastal defense units. This treaty problem was part of
244 ON-SITE IN~PECT I ON AGENCY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

a much larger issue: the Black Sea Fleet's partition by Russia and
Ukraine. At Tashkent, Russia agreed to cede to Ukraine a certain
portion of the former Soviet Union's weapons, units, and sites.
Since these weapons fell under the numerical and zone restrictions
of the CFE Treaty, Ukraine agreed in its articles of ratification to
reduce any excess TLE within 40 months of entry into force. As of
November 17, 1995, Ukraine was in compliance with all its treaty
reduction quotas, except for the weapons and units assigned to the
Black Sea Fleet. In 1995, the fleet had approximately 48,000 naval
and marine personnel, 14 submarines, 31 surface ships, 43 patrol
and coastal ships, 125 combat aircraft, and 85 helicopters. Equip-
ment covered by the CFE Treaty included one coastal defense
division with 175 tanks, 450 armored infantry fighting vehicles,
and 72 artillery pieces. The fleet also contained a naval infantry
brigade with 50 tanks, 218 ACVs, and 45 artillery pieces. Based in
the Odessa Military District in th e Crimea, this fleet was manned
predominantly by Russian sailors and officers. The fleet's Russian
commander and its senior officers resisted any partition and trans-
fer to Ukraine. 26
Partitioning the fleet proved to be to difficult at Tashkent;
consequently, the issue was left to bilateral Russian-Ukrainian nego-
tiations. In June 1993, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement that essentially
split the fleet in half, beginning in September 1993 and reaching
completion in 1996. No sooner had this agreement been announced
than it fell apart. Russian naval officers objected to any transfer, and
Ukrainian military leaders objected to any loss of territory from the
naval bases slated for transfer. The Black Sea Fleet agreement was
renegotiated in September 1993, again in April 1994, and once
again in February 1996. Two months later it fell apart again. Rus-
sian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev stopped the division because of
controversy over wh ere the Russian fl eet would be based. Through-

u.s. Secretary of Defense William

S. Perry, NATO Secretary Manfred
Woerner, and Russian Defense
Minister Pavel Grachev at NATO
Headquarters, March 29, 1993.
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out these indecisive negotiations and inconclusive agreements, nei-

ther Ukraine nor Russia destroyed any of the weapons or equipment
assigned to the naval infantry and coastal defense units of the Black
Sea Fleet. Consequently, the two nations were not in compliance
with the CFE Treaty, and until the fleet had been divided success-
fully, they would remain in that statusY

D~STRU( TIO COMMITMENT'i EAST OF

THE URAl S

In 1990, during the final months of CFE Treaty negotiations,

the Soviet Union transferred more than 50,000 pieces of TLE to
military bases and depots east of the Ural Mountains. This was a
legal movement of military equipment, since neither the Soviet
Union nor any other nation had signed the unfinished treaty. Nev-
ertheless, once the treaty was signed in Paris in November 1990,
the Soviet Union's initial TLE figures disturbed the other treaty
states. They were concerned with the sheer size of the transfers,
and some observers concluded that the Soviet military might be
trying to circumvent the treaty, since no other nation had trans-
ferred any conventional weapons or equipment outside its borders.
At the time of the treaty's signature in Paris, the Soviet Union's
data revealed a transfer of 6,289 CFE Treaty TLE items to units of
the naval infantry, coastal defense, civil defense, and Strategic
Rocket Forces. This transfer was considered a serious breach of
the treaty-so serious that many nations, including the United
States, suspended ratification actions until the Soviet Union
pledged to account for and destroy a large portion of the trans-
ferred equipment.
As explained in Chapter 3, "Ratification Delayed," intense
diplomatic negotiations led the Soviet Union to pledge in a legal
declaration to the Joint Consultative Group in June 1991 that it
\vould destroy or convert 6,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery pieces, and
1,500 ACVs (14,500 total) located east of the Urals by December
31,1995. At the same time, the Soviet Union obligated itself to
remove from the treaty's territorial zones 1,492 pieces of naval-
related equipment. This equipment would also be destroyed by the
end of 1995. None of the reductions would be subject to inspec-
tion; however, Moscow pledged to provide sufficient visible evi-
dence to indicate that the equipment had been destroyed or
converted. Is
During the CFE Treaty's 40-month reduction period, the
treaty states individually monitored Russia's progress in keeping
its pledge to reduce its TLE east of the Urals. There was little
reduction activity in 1992-93; only a slight increase in 1993-94;
and a steady low state in 1994-95. In January 1995, the U.S.
Congress was informed in a published Arms Control and Disarma-
246 O:-,:-SI II IMPI<- r 10:\ A(,I '\(') _ _

ment Agency (ACDA) report that "serious concern persists over

the pace and validation of the [Russian] reductions." In july 1995,
the agency raised the issue before Congress again, criticizing
Russia's slow pace of destruction or conversion Y Then, just six
weeks before the December 31, 1995, deadline, Russian General
Dmitri Kharchenko announced to the JCG that Russia would be
unable to meet its commitments, citing the expense of reducing
Kharchcnko disc()unted such a large number of conventional weapons. He asked for an
military threat ... ll'eather extension to December 1998. General Kharchenko discounted any
rendered equipment useless. military threat from the massed equipment, stating th at weather
exposure and lack of maintenance had rendered it effectively
useless. 30
Russia 's request was discussed in the JCG in Vienna, but
there was no agreement. However, in May 1996, at the CFE
Treaty Review Conference, all the signatory states accepted a new
Russian declaration on the issue. In that conference's Final Docu-
ment (see Appendix D), Russia declared that it would proceed
with reductions of all the committed weapons and equipment and
would provide documentary evidence of its destruction and con-
version. All battle tanks and armored combat vehicles that had
been exposed to the weather would be displayed with the "hatches
and covers of engines" opened. A group of experts, at their own
expense, would be invited to the reduction sites to examine the
equipment prior to its final disposal through scrapping. Finally,
Russia established the year 2000 as the new deadline for complet-
ing all reductions east of the Urals. 31

REDEFINING THE TREATY'S FLANK LIMITS

The problem of the treaty's flank limits was both consequen-

tial and controversial. 32 During negotiations the treaty states ac-
cepted a two-part flank zone that contained limits on the number
of active and stored conventional weapons . In the diplomatic end
game leading to treaty signature, President Gorbachev and the
Soviet Union accepted these zone limits and restrictions. The CFE
Treaty's Article V stipulated that each group of states could pos-
sess no more than 4,700 tanks, 6,000 artillery pieces, and 5,900
ACVs in the flank zones. Originally, the flank zones included the
following national territories: Iceland, Norway, Greece, and parts
of Turkey (NATO flanks) and Romania, Bulgaria, and four mili-
tary districts in the Soviet Union (WTO flanks). For the Warsaw
Treaty Organization, these military districts were located on the
northern and southern flanks of the alliance (see table 8-1). The
intent of treaty negotiators was to limit, through absolute numeri-
cal ceilings and storage and active sublimits, the number of offen-
sive weapons in these military districts.
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Table 8-1. CFE Treaty-Limited Equipment in the WTO Flank Zones

Tanks Artillery ACVs Total

Russia (2 military districts)' 700 1,280 580 2,560 active

600 400 800 1,800 storage

Ukraine (1 military districtj2 280 390 350 1,020 active

400 500 900 storage

Moldova (1 military districtj2 210 250 210 670 active

0 storage

Georgia3 220 285 220 725 active

0 storage

Azerbaijan 3 220 285 220 725 active

0 storage

Armenia 3 220 285 220 725 active

0 storage

Total former USSR 2,850 3,675 2,600 9,125 active and storage

Total former USSR 1,850 2,775 1,800 6,425 active only

Bulgaria4 1,475 1,750 2,000 5,225 active

0 storage

Romania 4 1,375 1,475 2,100 4,950 active

0 storage

WTO flank total 5 4,700 6,000 5,900 16,600 active only

'The flank zone included the Soviet military districts of Leningrad and Northern Caucasus , part of Russia.
2Ukraine contained the Soviet military districts of Kiev, Carpathia, and Odessa, but only Odessa was included in
the flank zone. The Odessa Military District also contained Moldova.
3Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan made up the Soviet Transcaucasus Military District.
' Bulgaria and Romania belonged entirely within the WTO Flank Zone.
5As determined by Article V of the CFE Treaty.
Source: Dorn Crawford, "Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), " ACDA, 1993.

In 1990, when the Soviet Union accepted these flank zone

limitations, no one anticipated the nation's collapse in 1991 and
the emergence of 15 new states so quickly. During the first six
months of 1992, Russia agreed to partition the former Soviet
Union's military forces and to ratify the CFE Treaty, including its
flank zone restrictions. The treaty entered into force on July 17,
1992; on-site inspections began immediately, and all the treaty's
provisions were in effect. Under Article V, Russia was allowed to
have approximately 10 percent of its total treaty entitlements in
the northern and southern flank zones in active units; more than
85 percent had to be placed in storage. These treaty restrictions on
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CFE TREATY FLANK REGIONS

• CFE FLANK REGIONS

o OTHER (FE REGIONS

D NON-CFE REGIONS

Russia's conventional force deployments irritated senior military

leaders. Only Ukraine had similar restrictions. In June 1993, Rus-
sian Minister of Defense Grachev declared categorically that the
CFE Treaty's flank limits had to be revised. Grachev said the Rus-
sian general staff needed to remove 400 tanks, 2,420 ACVs, and
820 artillery pieces from the flank limits in order to field an addi-
tional mechanized division. 3 ]
In September 1993, President Boris Yeltsin sent a letter to the
heads of state of the United States, Germany, France, and Great
Britain requesting that they recognize the CFE Treaty's flank limits
as a serious problem. Yeltsin asked for assistance in Russia's ef-
forts to modify the treaty. Ten days later, Russian Ambassador
Vyacheslav Kulebyakin presented a diplomatic demarche to all
CFE Treaty states. Specifically, Kulebyakin asked that the Joint
Consultative Group consider raising Russia's flank sublimits in the
Leningrad Military District and in the Northern Caucasus Military
District. In Vienna, Ukraine supported Russia on this issue, since
the CFE flank rule required the Ukrainian army to base 60 percent
of its forces on 40 percent of its territory. Ambassador Kulebyakin
explained that "generally recognized common norms of interna-
tional law provide for a possibility of suspending the effects of
treaty obligations due to a radical change of circumstances .... " He
argued that the internal situation in the Northern Caucasus region
warranted altering the CFE Treaty's flank limits. 34
The other CFE states did not respond formally to the Russian
and Ukrainian requests. NATO nations, in the main, preferred the
status quo. They indicated that while the treaty was being imple-
mented, they would not support any changes in the negotiated and
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ratified treaty. Two NATO nations, Turkey and Norway, objected

more strongly. Both nations bordered the Russian military districts
in question. Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin publicly stated
that modifying the CFE Treaty would both interrupt its implemen-
tation and open up the possibility of an arms race in the Caucasus.
Leaders of other NATO nations expressed their concerns about
reopening the treaty, suggesting that some Eastern European na-
tions-Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic-did not
like the current treaty-mandated restrictions on stored weapons.
Given this opposition, no other CFE Treaty state stepped forward in
the fall and winter of 1993-94 to support the Russian and Ukrai-
nian request to reconsider the CFE Treaty's flank limits.35
Russia, however, did not let the issue die. In February 1994,
two Russian general staff officers, General Dmitri Kharchenko and
General Leonid Shevstov, briefed the lCG delegates in Vienna on
precisely which TLE the Russian army intended to deploy in the
Leningrad and North Caucasus Military Districts and how that
equipment would be used. Then, in March 1994, the Russian CFE
Treaty delegate asked the lCG to consider modifying the CFE
Treaty provisions on weapons and equipment stored in the two
military districts. The Russian representative argued that the treaty
restrictions on the number of CFE weapons a state could remove
from storage were out of date and militarily cumbersome. The
lCG took no action on these Russian requests. Throughout the
remainder of 1994, Russia continued to raise these flank issues in
Vienna, and Ukraine continued its support. The other CFE Treaty
states, however, maintained their opposition to considering any
changes. At the end of the second treaty reduction year, the CFE
Treaty's flank limit problem remained unresolved. 36
On December 10, 1994, Russia launched a military assault
on rebel forces in Chechnya, in the Northern Caucasus region. The
Russian military sent personnel, tanks, ACVs, artillery, and other
conventional equipment into the region to quell the rebellion.
Within a month, more than 40,000 Russian military and police
troops had deployed into Chechnya. Under the CFE Treaty, Russia
was limited to a total of 700 tanks, 580 ACVs, and 1,200 artillery
pieces in active units in the southern flank zone. By the spring of
1995, Russian deployments far exceeded these limits. If Russia did
not reduce its deployments by November 17, 1995, the end of the
third reduction year, it faced being designated as out of compliance
with the CFE Treaty.
Here was a serious, consequential treaty problem. Quickly,
the issue was elevated above the diplomatic realm into interna-
tional politics. In May 1995, President Clinton discussed the
flanks issue with President Yeltsin at the Moscow Summit. In late
May, Turkey threatened to send its military to its northeastern
border if Russia continued to station excess forces in the southern President William J. Clinton.
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flank zone. Then, on June 1, the Russian High Command an-

nounced that the 58th Army would be organized and stationed in
the Northern Caucasus Military District. During the summer
months the rebellion abated as Chechen and Russian leaders
signed a series of declarations that established cease-fire dates and
set timetables for limited troop withdrawals. But these declara-
tions proved short-lived, as one side or the other resumed fighting.
In the fall of 1995, with the approach of the date for ending the
treaty's reduction period (November 17), there was a flurry of
diplomatic activity on the flanks issue. 3?
NATO nations presented a plan in mid-September for revis-
ing the treaty's flank zones. They proposed reducing the areas
designated as flanks by excluding two military oblasts (districts)
from Russia's southern flank and three from its northern flank.
These exclusions would give the Russian High Command greater
flexibility in deploying its conventional forces and equipment
internally. In return for this treaty modification, Russia had to
agree to remain in the treaty, accept a few additional inspections,
and provide some additional information, especially on any TLE
deployed in areas that were formerly located in the flank zones.
The Russians rejected this proposal categorically. In fact, they
rejected all offers of compromise in the fall of 1995. In those
months, President Clinton, Secretary of Defense Perry, and ACDA
Director John Holum discussed various plans with their Russian
counterparts. No common ground emerged. In Vienna, JGC repre-
sentatives tried to work out an acceptable compromise that all
nations could agree to. None worked. Consequently, when the
November 17, 1995, deadline arrived, the 30 CFE states issued a
joint statement identifying the states that had not met their treaty
obligations. Russia, because of the excess TLE stationed in the
southern flank zone and its failure to resolve the Black Sea Fleet
issue, was not in compliance. 38
The next demarcation point for possible resolution was May
1996. The CFE Treaty contained a provision for a mandatory all-
signatory states conference to be held 46 months after entry into
force. The CFE First Review Conference was held in Vienna May
15-31,1996. The flanks issue dominated the conference. The
Russian representative, Ambassador Kulebyakin, stated and re-
stated Russia's rationale for seeking relief from Article V and the
flank limits. The U.S. delegation, led by Thomas Graham, Jr.,
Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonpro-
liferation, and Disarmament, and Gregory G. Govan, U.S. Chief
Delegate to the JCG, tried repeatedly to shape a compromise re-
definition of the flanks that was acceptable to all 30 nations.
Netherlands Ambassador Frank Majoor chaired the conference
and intervened at key times to facilitate a solution. Negotiations
on the flanks issue were very, very difficult, but in the final hours
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Mamedov signaled
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Verification agency leaders

General-Major Yevgeniy Ivanovich
Nikulin of Belarus, General-Major
Vycheslav Aleksandrovich
Romanov of Russia, and General-
Major Nikolai Tikhonovich
Honcharenko of Ukraine visit
aSIA on July 31, 1995.

Moscow's acceptance of conference language and the agreement

went forward. Russia and the other signatory states agreed in the
Final Document that (1) Russia's flank zone areas would be re-
drawn, excluding certain military oblasts; (2) the total number of
CFE equipment allowed in the Russian military districts-battle
tanks, ACYs, and artillery-would be revised upward; (3) Russia
would provide the other treaty states with force data more often;
and (4) Russia would be liable for up to 10 additional declared site
inspections annually in the flank zonesY
During the difficult negotiations, four nations-Ukraine,
Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan-expressed major concerns
about Russia's future security intentions. In one way these nations
were articulating new regional concerns; in another way they were
expressing their fears about the possibility of large states' influenc-
ing small states and the significance of international law. In the
conference's Final Document, each of these four nations submitted
a separate annex statement explaining its concerns (see Appendix
D). During the conference, some of the NATO nations, particu-
larly France and Great Britain, supported these nations. France
took the position that every state had to respect the national sover-
eignty of every other state, especially states that were parties to the
CFE Treaty, the most important, modern, all-European multina-
tional arms control treaty. With the positions of these four nations
incorporated into the final statement, the delegates moved forward
with language redefining the treaty's flank limits. Not all the de-
tails were ironed out. Subsequent diplomatic negotiations on the
exact territorial demarcations and specific timetables for move-
ment of the forces remained to be worked out in the Joint Consul-
tative Group.

CHANGES IN EUROPE INFLUENCE CFE TREATY

IMPLEMENTATION

Throughout the first CFE Treaty year, 1992-93, considerable

pressures had developed within the NATO alliance for a program
 01'; - 5111 hWFC [[0:\ ACI:-';u

of cooperation with the treaty verification agencies of the Eastern

European nations-Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the other succes-
sor states. These pressures had originated as a political and diplo -
matic consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall; the revolutions in
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria; the unification of
Germany; and, of course, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
creation of the new republics. These continental upheavals influ-
GemlLm), o/Jencd }}lore them enced how the NATO nations approached implementation of the
50 /Jercent ()f Its inspecti()ns CFE Treaty. Within NATO, Belgium, Netherlands, Great Britain,
lor y'lfest ills/Jectors. and Germany were the strongest advocates of establishing joint
inspector training, authorizing joint inspection teams, and sharing
treaty data among all signatory nations.
In January 1993, seven months into the CFE Treaty's imple-
mentation, NATO's Verification Coordinating Committee invited
the directors of the national verification agencies, east and west, to
attend an important meeting at NATO Headquarters. At this
meeting, the 16 NATO nations, acting through the VCC, formally
invited the 14 Eastern CFE Treaty nations to have their inspectors
participate on NATO nations' joint multinational inspection
teams. They would be identified as NATO nation teams, but indi-
vidual inspectors from one, two, or more of the Eastern bloc na-
tions, as well as from the other NATO nations, could participate.
The NATO nation conducting the inspection would lead the team.

Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev signs the Partnership for Peace Framework Document for Russia at
NATO Headquarters.
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After hearing the concept, the directors of the

Eastern states' verification agencies accepted the
invitation. Within a matter of months, it became
.... _.'.. :
--
routine for inspectors from "cooperating part- nils IS TO CERTIFY THAT
LTC BROUSSARD Anthony
ner" nations to serve on NATO-led multinational
CFE inspection teams conducting reduction lIAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
inspections in Eastern Europe. 4o Brigadier Gen- nlE8TH CFE REDUCTION COURSE
eral Heinz Loquai, Director of the German Fed- LEOPOLDSBURG, BELGIUM
eral Armed Forces Verification Center, observed, 07· II MARCH 1994
"At first it was not so easy for the inspected NCl 1CU&:i 81Ql ot:
l4UJf.e.l-u..1 W . tr.Af
countries, especially the former Warsaw Pact
countries, to understand why guest inspectors
were coming along with the [NATO nation]
inspection teams. But, in my opinion, the partici-
pation of the guest inspectors is a good develop-
ment. Germany has opened more than 50 percent
of all its inspections for the guest inspectors. " 4 1
In 1993 and up to June 1994, 83 NATO-led multinational
inspection teams conducted CFE Treaty inspections in Eastern
Europe. According to Necil Nedimoglu, Director of NATO's Veri-
fication and Implementation Coordination Section (VICS), the
cooperative program for guest inspectors worked so well that it
stimulated other cooperative initiatives. Late in 1993, a few East-
ern European treaty nations invited the NATO nations to send
guest inspectors to serve on their inspection teams. After consider-
able discussion within the alliance, in June 1994 the VCC issued a
statement to NATO state verification agencies and staffs. It stated
that Western inspectors could join Eastern-led CFE inspection
teams that were conducting East-on-East inspections. During 1994
and 1995, the United States, France, Holland, and Belgium partici-
pated in many of these joint inspections. 42
Along with these changes, the VCC also invited the Eastern
nation treaty agencies to send individual inspectors to participate
in NATO-conducted CFE Treaty courses. They accepted; and in
1993 and 1994, 80 inspectors from Eastern nations' verification
agencies attended courses for CFE Treaty inspectors and escorts at
the NATO school at Oberammergau, Germany. Other Eastern
bloc inspectors participated in a NATO course on monitoring CFE
reductions held at the Belgian Military Camp at Leopoldville. The
guest inspectors at this Belgian reduction course even taught a
portion of the course. They discussed the reduction methods being
used in their nations, and, in turn, the NATO national inspectors
explained how they would monitor those reductions. The VCC
also sponsored seminars for all verification agency directors at
NATO Headquarters in Brussels. These two-day seminars focused
on treaty implementation issues and on strengthening director-to-
director communications, but they should not be construed as a
substitute for the CFE Treaty's Joint Consultative Group meeting
2 ')4 O:-.l - SIII 1 ~PI (110 A(,I (Y

in Vienna. The JCG was the official forum for resolving treaty
issues and for authorizing any modifications to the treaty.
Other cooperative initiatives demonstrated the new era of
West-East European relations associated with implementing the
CFE Treaty. In November 1993 the NATO nations offered all
Eastern nations access to the alliance's computerized CFE Treaty
database, VERITY. The database contained the NATO nations'
annual military force data, information from their treaty inspec-
tion reports, and data ext"racted from the inspections that moni-
tored TLE reductions. VERITY had an electronic mail feature and
was on-line 24 hours a day, every day at NATO Headquarters.
While VERITY had no legal status, most of the NATO nation
verification agencies found the system useful in preparing for
inspection missions and monitoring overall reductions. Of the 14
Eastern verification agencies, all except Armenia and Azerbaijan
accepted the November 13 invitation to participate in the comput-
erized data system. After a few months to schedule and conduct
training courses at NATO Headquarters for the verification agen-
cies' automated data managers, the expanded VERITY system
went into effect in March 1994. Among the participating nations
(28 of 30), the system helped verification agency staffs track the
annual data exchange of national military force holdings; notifica-
tions of reduction events; results of reductions; and inspection
information regarding the time, place, and type of inspection. By
mid-1994, the VERITY database included inspection reports from
all NATO nations, the Eastern European nations, and all but two
of the new republics Y

EVALUAIINCI fHI CFE TIUATY: THE FIRST

RF.VIF.\V Co FEIU CE

rvlodemizill£, b) liftillg the Incorporated into the treaty was a provision for a review
grollp ()f states eOlIL e/Jt.
conference of all the signatory states to be held 46 months after
entry into force. Since the CFE Treaty entered into force in mid-
July 1992, the treaty's First Review Conference was held in mid-
May 1996. Representatives from all states parties met in Vienna
from May 15-31. In 46 months, much had changed. The Warsaw
Treaty Organization had collapsed, prompting some states, princi-
pally Russia, to advocate "modernizing" the treaty by removing
the group of states concept from the treaty's text. This recommen-
dation was opposed by other states, principally the United States,
citing the conference's short duration and the opportunity to re-
solve more pressing treaty implementation issues. Specifically,
those issues were Russia's commitment to reducing its TLE east of
the Urals, the demands of Russia and Ukraine for adjusting the
flank zone limits, the problem of accounting for the TLE transfers
among the treaty states of the former Soviet Union, and the issue
of authorizing a review and update of the treaty's Protocol on
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Existing Types of Conventional Armaments and Equipment

(POET). The two major recommendations for the conference
agenda-treaty modernization and treaty compliancelimplementa-
tion issues-were not incompatible. Both were part of the
conference's final statement; however, implementation issues domi-
nated the conference agenda. 44
Because of the meeting's short two-week duration, the confer-
ence delegates formed working groups to develop recommenda-
tions and textual language for debate and decision. Negotiations
were conducted by representatives of individual states (or at times
by groups of states), while decisions were made by consensus of
all 30 state parties. The U.S. delegation was led by Ambassador
Thomas Graham, Jr. The U.S. representative to the Joint Consulta-
tive Group, Gregory G. Govan, formerly a Director of OSIA,
worked closely with the large U.S. delegation. Russia's representa-
tive to the JCG, Vyacheslav Kulebyakin, worked with Russia's
Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Mamedov. Germany was repre-
sented by Ambassador Rudiger Hartmann; France by Ambassador
Bernard Miget, and Ukraine by Deputy Foreign Minister
Konstyantyn Gryshchenko. Ambassador Frank Majoor of the
Netherlands chaired the conference. All discussions and negotia-
tions were conducted in confidence.

At Criel, France, officials observe a ceremony recognizing Brigadier General Francois Rozec,
Director, L'Unite Francaise de Verification. (Front row left) Brigadier General Colae
Corduneanu, Romania; Necil Nedimoglu, Head of the VICS; Brigadier General Thomas E.
Kuenning, aSIA; Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, aSIA; Brigadier General Peter Von Geyso,
Germany; Colonel Colin A. Heron and Lt. Colonel Michael Morgan, United Kingdom.
2) 6 0 -~ITI I SPI ( T10 A.f l'

When the conference concluded on May 31, the 30 states

issued a Final Document (see Appendix D). The states resolved the
thorny issue of redefining the treaty's flank zones. Russia made a
specific commitment to reduce its TLE holdings east of the Urals.
All the treaty states agreed that the JCG should update the POET
each year. The conference representatives also addressed the future
of the treaty. In the Final Document, the 30 state parties instructed
the delegates to the joint Consultative Group to "expand upon
their work" in accordance with the treaty's Article XVI. Since this
article had established and empowered the JCG, the Review Con-
ference representatives were essentially increasing and redirecting
the JCG's responsibilities. They charged the Vienna treaty group
with creating a process to modernize the treaty and to improve its
operations. On the subject of treaty modernization, the state repre-
sentatives agreed on 12 topics for the JCG's consideration (see
Appendix 0, Annex D). These topics included such fundamental
treaty terms as "groups of states parties," "area of application,"
and "designated permanent storage site." For improving treaty
operations, the conference representatives developed 15 specific
recommendations for "further consideration and resolution" by
the JCG (see Appendix 0, Annex E). Finally, the states instructed
the JCG to develop a progress report and present it at the meeting
of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in
Lisbon, Portugal, in December 1996.
One of the most interesting aspect of the First Review
Conference's Final Document was the section reviewing the CFE
Treaty's operations. In the 46 months that had elapsed since entry
into force, much had changed in Europe, and much had been
accomplished under the provisions of the treaty. The document
summarized some of these accomplishments 45 :
The states parties note with satisfaction that more than
58,000 pieces of conventional armaments and equipment
have been reduced, and that the overall holdings of conven-
tional armaments and equipment within the area of applica-
tion are substantially lower than the limits set in the treaty.
More than 2,500 inspections have taken place. A permanent
system for regular and routine exchange of treaty notifica-
tions and other information has been developed. The] oint
Consultative Group has been firmly established and has
demonstrated its utility and importance as the ongoing treaty
forum.
With regard to the concluding act, the states parties note with
satisfaction that the personnel strength of conventional armed
forces in the area of application was reduced by 1.2 million
persons.
The states parties note that the treaty established a high de-
gree of transparency in military relations through its compre-
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hensive system for exchange of information and for verifica-

tion. Together with the extensive reductions of conventional
armaments and equipment, this has led to greater predictabil-
ity and confidence in security relations. The treaty has also
nurtured the development of new patterns of cooperation in
Europe and provides a basis for stability and enhanced secu-
rity in Europe at substantially lower levels of conventional
armaments and equipment than heretofore. Although risks
and challenges still exist in some parts of Europe, the capabil-
ity for launching surprise attack and the danger of large-scale
offensive action in Europe as a whole have been diminished
substantially. Nevertheless, the achievement of the goals of
the treaty in the whole area of its application requires con-
tinuous efforts by the states parties.

EVALUATING THE TREATY: COMPARING THI--,

NUMBERS

Following the end of the CFE Treaty's 40-month reduction

period, all treaty states declared their force levels in the five cat-
egories of offensive weapons. This declaration allowed nations to
compare the "anticipated" number of tanks, artillery, armored
combat vehicles (ACVs), combat aircraft, and attack helicopters
with the" actual" figure at the end of the red uction phase. The
data were declared by each nation; when aggregated for the group
of state parties (Western Group and Eastern Group), the figures
indicated that the actual reductions were well below the CFE
Treaty's anticipated ceilings (table 8-2).

Table 8-2. Comparison of CFE Treaty Reductions by Group of States

Tanks Artillery ACVs Aircraft Helicopters Total

Western Group

July 1992' 24,097 19,839 33,827 5,118 1,685 84,566

CFE ceiling 19,142 18,286 29,822 6,662 2,000 75,912

Nov 1995** 14,156 14,869 22,585 4,301 1,283 57,194

Eastern Group

July 1992 31,269 25,755 43,468 8,544 1,545 110,581

CFE ceiling 20,000 20,000 30 ,000 6,800 2,000 78,800

Nov 1995 19,061 18,455 28,764 5,873 1,466 73,619

'CFE Treaty entry into force .

"CFE Treaty end of 40-month reduction period.
Sources: Arms Control Reporter, 407.A.11 (1993); Arms Control Reporter, 407.B.533 (1996).
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Many U.S. tanks deployed from u.s. Army units in Western Europe to the Gulf War.
For a variety of reasons, national reductions of these weapons
continued after the mid-November 1995 treaty deadline. A few
nations-such as Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia-had not reduced
all their TLE as required under the treaty. Other nations-Poland,
Romania, and others-continued to reduce CFE weapons because
they were excess to their national force structure. By the time of
the CFE Treaty's First Review Conference in May 1996, the state
parties announced that the total number of reductions had ex-
ceeded 58,000 items. At that conference, Russia pledged to destroy
by the year 2000 the weapons and equipment located beyond the
Ural Mountains and in certain naval units .
A comparison of selected states' CFE holdings at the begin-
ning of the baseline period (July 1992) and at the end of the reduc-
tion period (November 1995) indicates that the larger nations had
significantly reduced their conventional weapons in the treaty's
territorial zones (table 8-3).
Not all of these reductions were driven by the CFE Treaty.
The massive withdrawals of U.S. military forces from Western
Europe, for example, were caused by the need to deploy combat
troops to the Middle East for the Gulf War and by reductions in
the American military services following the Cold War. Russia's
large-scale reductions were also caused by historic forces, largely
economic and political, that were external to the requirements of
the CFE Treaty. Consequently, one must be cautious in drawing
conclusions from these numbers alone. Nations did not make
excess reductions in their military forces and weapons to comply
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Table 8-3. Comparison of Selected National Holdings of CFE Treaty TLE

Tanks Artillery ACVs Aircraft Helicopters Total

United States

July 1992* 5,163 1,973 4,963 398 349 12,846

Nov 1995** 1,254 854 2,238 222 150 4,718

Germany

July 92 7,170 4,735 9,099 1,040 256 22,300

Nov 95 3,061 2,056 2,679 578 225 8,599

France

July 92 1,335 1,436 4,387 695 366 8,219

Nov 95 1,289 1,251 3,556 667 317 7,080

Russia

July 92 9,338 8,326 19,399 4,624 1,005 42,692

Nov 95 5,492 5,680 10,372 2,986 826 25,356

Ukraine

July 92 6,128 3,591 6,703 1,648 271 18,341

Nov 95 4,026 3,727 4,919 1,008 270 13,950

Romania

July 92 2,967 3,942 3,171 508 15 10,603

Nov 95 1,375 1,471 2,073 373 16 5,308

'CFE Treaty entry into force.

"CFE Treaty 40-month reduction period.
Source: Arms Control Today, December 1995, pp. 29-30.

with the treaty; rather, they were compelled by economic, strate-

gic, and military reasons to reduce their military forces.
The numbers, however, do confirm that there have been
major reductions in national military forces on the European
continent. The United States, for instance, reduced or withdrew
8,128 CFE TLE items from its forces stationed in Western Europe.
This was a 63 percent reduction in its offensive forces on the Euro-
pean continent. Collectively, the states of the former Soviet Union
possessed 71,080 weapons in July 1992; three years later they had
reduced these weapons to 39,581 or 55 percent. For Russia, the
largest of the new republics, the figures indicate that its November
1995 holdings of tanks, artillery, ACYs, combat aircraft, and
helicopters west of the Ural Mountains was 25,261. In July 1992,
Russia had declared 42,692 CFE weapons; three years later it had
reduced 17,431 items or 41 percent. Germany reduced more CFE
weapons-13,701-than any other NATO nation. Certainly
260 ON-SITE INSI'H ' JlON A('I', () ~ __

Table 8-4. Comparison of CFE 1A Military

Manpower Figures for Selected Nations-
July 1992 to November 1995

CFE 1 A Ceiling Declared Holding

July 1992 November 1995

United States 250,000 107,166

Germany 345,000 293,889

Turkey 530,000 527 ,670

Russia 1,450,000 818,471

Poland 234,000 233,870

Ukraine 450,000 400,686

Source: Arms Control Reporter, 407.A.11 , (1993); Arms Control Reporter, 407.B .533
(1996).

German unification in 1990 had skewed these figures, with the

addition of the former German Democratic Republic's ground and
air forces, In July 1992, Germany declared 22,300 CFE items; in
November 1995, it stated it held 8,599 TLE, a reduction of
13,701 or 61 percent.
Reductions of full-time military personnel occurred in virtu-
ally every CFE Treaty state. The CFE 1A Agreement dealt with
limits on full-time military personnel. When the states parties
agreed to implement the treaty provisionall y in July 1992, they
declared that 40 months later their military manpower would be
at or below a specific numerical ceiling. The states, themselves, set
the ceilings; consequently, they were quite high. When the 40-
month reduction period ended in November 1995, all nations
reporting military personnel force data were in compliance with
the CFE 1A Agreement. Three nations-Armenia, Georgia, and
Belarus-reported no data. Table 8-4 contains military manpower
figures for selected nations at the starting and ending periods, July
1992 and November 1995.
One should approach these figures with caution. As in other
comparisons associated with the CFE Treaty, larger forces must be
considered. Most of the reasons for these manpower reductions lie
outside the CFE Treaty; the treaty was not the single causal factor
that forced these manpower reductions.
There is no comprehensive set of figures listing all on-site
inspections conducted by every nation und er the CFE Treaty. The
NATO nations recorded on their VERITY database system only
the inspections for the Group of Western States. Inspections con-
ducted by the Eastern nations, especially inspections on each other,
 Till CFE TRI\ I): A Dl R \1l11 S I RU( [l RI lOR Pm ,-COl I) WAR El ROI'l 26 I

were not systematically recorded in any central database or reposi-

tory. It was not until June 1994 that most of the CFE Treaty states
agreed to record their on-site inspections in the VERITY system;
thus, no comprehensive list exists of inspections by all states be-
fore June 1994. The United States, through the On-Site Inspection
Agency, did record the number and type of its own CFE Treaty
inspections. Compiled annually, these figures indicated an intense
involvement by the United States in monitoring every aspect of the
C FE Treaty (table 8-5).

Table 8-5. U.S. On-Site Inspections Under the CFE Treaty

Treaty Period Baseline1 19932 19942 19952 19963

Declared site 43 16 12 14 31

Challenge 2 5 7

Reduction 5 49 47 41

Singletons 4 9 86 89 50 56

Totals 58 153 153 106 94

tJuly 18, 1992-November 13, 1992.
2 Annual figures , mid-November-mid-November.
3 Residual level validation period (RLVP): November 18, 1995-March 16, 1996.
4 U.S. inspectors on teams led by other state parties.

Source: On-Site Inspection Agency, May 1996.

EVALUATING THE TREATY: FINAL THOUGHTS

If one asked in May 1996 why the CFE Treaty had succeeded
as a continental European arms control treaty, there were many
answers. On the geopolitical level, Europe had experienced his-
toric changes from 1989 through 1992 that ended the Cold War,
unified Germany, dissolved the Soviet Union, and created new
European states. On the military level, Europe had witnessed in
just five years (1989-1994) the Soviet Union's and Russia's with-
drawal of more than 700,000 military personnel from Germany,
the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Ro-
mania, and the Baltic states. The United States had withdrawn
220,000 troops from Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium,
Holland, and other Western European nations. On the economic
level, Central and Eastern European nations had shifted from
socialist economies to capitalist market economies, creating a
broad political consensus for consumer goods over military equip-
ment. In nation after nation, this economic transition proved
extraordinarily difficult, creating societies racked by inflation and
unemployment. Arms reduction treaties held a strong appeal for
the citizens of most European nations, east and west.
262 ON - SrfL INSPECTION ACH\C)

On the institutional level, some Eastern European nations

sought entry into the European Union and the established NATO
alliance. Adherence to the CFE Treaty, one of the NATO alliance's
fundamental post-Cold War objectives, furthered the foreign
policy objectives of these nations. Finally, on the level of interna-
tionallaw, the 30-nation CFE Treaty represented a fundamental
legal commitment to a single continental arms control treaty per-
Trust and [Jerif\,. manently limiting five categories of conventional military offensive
weapons. The treaty contained important provisions for sharing
force data and for verification by on-site inspection, thus creating
a legal basis for transparency across national borders on a heavily
armed continent. All things considered, national compliance with
the CFE Treaty was the result of a broad European consensus
constructed on significant changes in geopolitics, military strategy,
economics, institutional desires, and a determination to establish
international law across the vast continent.
These factors were widely known; what was not so well
known were the contributions of the 30 nations' verification agen-
cies, the on-site inspectors monitoring the treaty's provisions and
protocols, the military forces reducing the weapons, and the Verifi-
cation Coordinating Committee and the Joint Consultative Group
facilitating implementation. Collectively, these elements had imple-
mented the complex, continent-wide treaty day by day, month by
month, year by year.
The people of these organizations were predominantly, but
not exclusively, military officers and noncommissioned officers.
They were the closest to treaty operations; they knew whether the
treaty was meeting its objectives or not. Most believed that the
CFE Treaty had achieved its objectives: reducing the level of offen-
sive conventional arms on the continent, marking out territorial
zones for the permanent reduction of forces and weapons, and
establishing a rule of law for the future of Europe, west and east.
These achievements were important. The CFE Treaty states
were constructing the foundations of post-Cold War Europe.
Trust and verify.
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NOTES
1. Statement of the Joint Consultative Group, Vienna, Austria, November 17,
1995, cited in Arms Control Reporter 1995, pp. 407.B.S27-S28.
2. Arms Control Reporter 1995, p. 407.B.S28.
3. "Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe," Preamble, paragraph
7.
4. Ibid., Article XIV; Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, USA, Commander,
European Operations Command, OSIA, Briefing, "RLVP Summary," May
9, 1996.
5. Interview with Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, USA, Commander, European
Operations Command, OSIA, by Technical Sergeant David Willford, USAF,
History Office, OSIA, November 13, 1995, and December 1, 1995.
6. Colonel Kenneth Guillory, "We're Ready for the Newest Treaty Chal-
lenge," On-Site Insights, November/December 1995, p. 3.
7. Ibid., p. 3.
8. Interview, Guillory; Col. Kenneth Guillory, "We're Ready for the Newest
Treaty Challenge," p. 3; Technical Sergeant David Willford, "Treaty
Validation Period Begins in Europe: Agency Inspectors Check Destruction
of Weapons," On-Site Insights, November/December 1995, pp. 1,4.
9. Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, "RLVP Summary," May 9, 1996.
10. Ibid.; Interview, Guillory.
11. Colonel Kenneth D. Guillory, "RLVP Summary," May 9,1996.
12. See this history, Chapter 6, CFE Treaty Baseline. See also Interview with
Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Chief, Operations Division, European
Operations Command, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA,
Washington, D.C., May 18, 1994; Interview, Lt. Colonel Jan S. Karcz,
USA, Team Chief, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, December 13, 1993.
13. Interview, Kelley; Interview with Lt. Colonel David P. Gessert, USAF, Team
Chief, OSIA, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Rhein-Main Air
Base, Germany, July 12, 1993; Interview, Karcz.
14. Interview, Ambassador Lynn M. Hansen, U.S. Government CFE Treaty
Negotiator, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Ramstein Air Base,
Germany, December 14, 1993.
15. For a more detailed examination of the issue, see Chapter 6.
16. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.479.
17. Ibid., p. 407.B.481.
18. Arms Control Reporter 1993, pp. 407.B.487, 488-489.
19. Ibid., p. 407.B.489.
20. Arms Control Reporter 1994, p. 407.B.S03; Interview with Colonel
Stanislaw Malinowski, Chief Inspector, Polish Verification Center, by
Joseph P. Harahan, Historian, OSIA, Warsaw, Poland, February 3, 1994.
21. Arms Control Reporter 1992, p. 407.B.481; Arms Control Reporter 1993,
p. 407.B.499; Arms Control Reporter 1994, pp. 407.B.S06, 508.
22. Arms Control Reporter 1994, pp. 407.B.SOS-S07.
2h4 O~-Sl I f h~l'l( I Ill"! A( ,IV)

23. "Complying with CFE Suspended for Financial Reasons," INTERFAX

(Moscow), February 23,1995, in FBIS-Soviet Union, February 24,1995.
24. Arms Control Reporter 1994, pp. 407.B.516, 519, 525, 527-528, 530;
Arms Control Reporter 1996, p. 407.B.537.
25. Jim Nichol, "Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty: Russian Attitudes and
Implications for u.s. Interests," Congressional Research Service Report,
September 15, 1995; Jack Mendelsohn, "The CFE Treaty: In Retrospect
and Under Review," Arms Control Today, April 1996, pp. 7-11.
26. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 1995-96
(London: Brassey's Inc., 1995), pp. 71, 100, 105, 118.
27. Ibid., pp. 71, 100; Arms Control Reporter 1996, pp. 407.B.534-536.
28. See this history, Chapter 3, Ratification Delayed.
29. Nichol, "Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty."
30. Arms Control Reporter 1995, p. 407.B.529.
31. CFE Treaty Review Conference, Final Document, Appendix D.
32. For in incisive analysis of this flanks issue, see Richard A. Falkenrath, "The
CFE Flank Dispute: Waiting in the Wings"; International Security, Spring
1995, pp. 118-144; and Richard A. Falkenrath, "Resolving the CFE
'Flank' Dispute," Arms Control Today, May 1995, pp. 15-20.
33. Falkenrath, "CFE Flank Dispute," pp. 129-130.
34. Ibid., pp. 129-133.
35. Nichol, "Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty."
36. Arms Control Reporter 1994, pp. 407.B.502-503, 507, 509, 512, 513.
37. Nichol, "Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty"; Arms Control Reporter
1994, pp. 407.B.522-523, 526; Falkenrath, "Resolving the CFE 'Flank'
Dispute," pp. 15-17.
38. Arms Control Reporter 1995, pp. 407.B.518, 522-523, 525-526;
Mendelsohn, "The CFE Treaty: In Retrospect and Under Review," pp. 7-
11.
39. CFE Treaty Review Conference, Final Document, Appendix D.
40. Necil Nedimoglu, Head of the Verification and Implementation Coordina-
tion Section, NATO Verification Coordinating Committee, "NATO's Role
in Verification and Compliance Monitoring for the CFE Treaty and the
Vienna Document," speech presented to the United Nations Group of
Governmental Experts on Verification in All Its Aspects, New York, July
19, 1994. See also Interview, Kelley.
41. Interview with Brigadier General Dr. Heinz Loquai, Director, Zentrum Fur
Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr, by Joseph P. Harahan, Historian,
OSIA, Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 31, 1994.
42. Nedimoglu, "NATO's Role in Verification and Compliance Monitoring";
Arms Control Reporter 1993, p. 407.B.508.
43. Arms Control Reporter 1994, p. 407.B.502.
44. Interview with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Special Representative of
the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament, by
editors of Arms Control Today, April 25, 1996, published in "The CFE
Treaty Review Conference: Strengthening the 'Cornerstone' of European
Security," Arms Control Today, April 1996, pp. 3-6.
45. CFE Treaty Review Conference, Final Document, Appendix D.
 Appendix A
TREATY ON CONVEN'IIONAL
ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, Committed to the objective of ensuring that the numbers
Canada, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
Kingdom of Denmark, the French Republic, the Federal Treaty within the area of application of this Treaty do not
Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of exceed 40,000 battle tanks, 60,000 armoured combat
Hungary, the Republic of Iceland, the Italian Republic, the vehicles, 40,000 pieces of artillery, 13,600 combat aircraft
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the and 4,000 attack helicopters,
Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of
Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Kingdom of Affirming that this Treaty is not intended to affect
Spain, the Republic of Turkey, the Union of Soviet Socialist adversely the security interests of any State,
Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Affirming their commitment to continue the conventional
Northern Ireland and the United States of America, arms control process including negotiations, taking into
hereinafter referred to as the States Parties, account future requirements for European stability and
Guided by the Mandate for Negotiation on Conventional security in the light of political developments in Europe,
Armed Forces in Europe of January 10, 1989, and having Have agreed as follows:
conducted this negotiation in Vienna beginning on March 9,
1989, Article I
Guided by the objectives and the purposes of the 1. Each State Party shall carry out the obligations set
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, within forth in this Treaty in accordance with its provisions,
the framework of which the negotiation of this Treaty was including those obligations relating to the following five
conducted, categories of conventional armed forces: battle tanks,
Recalling their obligation to refrain in their mutual armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and
relations, as well as in their international relations in combat helicopters.
general, from the threat or use of force against the territorial 2. Each State Party also shall carry out the other
integrity or political independence of any State, or in any measures set forth in this Treaty designed to ensure security
other manner inconsistent with the purposes and principles and stability both during the period of reduction of
of the Charter of the United Nations, conventional armed forces and after the completion of
Conscious of the need to prevent any military conflict in reductions.
Europe,
3. This Treaty incorporates the Protocol on Existing
Conscious of the common responsibility which they all Types of Conventional Armaments and Equipment,
have for seeking to achieve greater stability and security in hereinafter referred to as the Protocol on Existing Types,
Europe, with an Annex thereto; the Protocol on Procedures
Governing the Reclassification of Specific Models or
Striving to replace military confrontation with a new Versions of Combat-Capable Trainer Aircraft Into Unarmed
pattern of security relations among all the States Parties Trainer Aircraft, hereinafter referred to as the Protocol on
based on peaceful cooperation and thereby to contribute to Aircraft Reclassification; the Protocol on Procedures
overcoming the division of Europe, Governing the Reduction of Conventional Armaments and
Committed to the objectives of establishing a secure and Equipment Limited by the Treaty on Conventional Armed
stable balance of conventional armed forces in Europe at Forces in Europe, hereinafter referred to as the Protocol on
lower levels than heretofore, of eliminating disparities Reduction; the Protocol on Procedures Governing the
prejudicial to stability and security and of eliminating, as a Categorisation of Combat Helicopters and the
matter of high priority, the capability for launching surprise Recategorisation of Multi-Purpose Attack Helicopters,
attack and for initiating large-scale offensive action in hereinafter referred to as the Protocol on Helicopter
Europe, Recategorisation; the Protocol on Notification and Exchange
of Information, hereinafter referred to as the Protocol on
Recalling that they signed or acceded to the Treaty of Information Exchange, with an Annex on the Format for the
Brussels of 1948, the Treaty of Washington of 1949 or the Exchange of Information, hereinafter referred to as the
Treaty of Warsaw of 1955 and that they have the right to be Annex on Format; the Protocol on Inspection; the Protocol
or not to be a party to treaties of alliance, on the Joint Consultative Group; and the Protocol on the
266 ON-SITE IMI'ECTIOI\ ACFNCY ___________________________________________________________ _

Provisional Application of Certain Provisions of the Treaty designed and equipped primarily to transport
on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, hereinafter combat troops. Such armoured vehicles serve as the
referred to as the Protocol on Provisional Application. Each principal weapon system of ground-force tank and
of these documents constitutes an integral part of this Treaty. other armoured formations.
Battle tanks are tracked armoured fighting
Article II vehicles which weigh at least 16.5 metric tonnes
1. For the purposes of this Treaty: unladen weight and which are armed with a
360-degree traverse gun of at least 75
(A) The term "group of States Parties" means the group millimetres calibre. In addition, any wheeled
of States Parties that signed the Treaty of Warsaw· of armoured fighting vehicles entering into service
1955 consisting of the Republic of Bulgaria, the which meet all the other criteria stated above
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of shall also be deemed battle tanks.
Hungary, the Republic of Poland, Romania and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the group of (D) The term "armoured combat vehicle" means a self-
States Parties that signed or acceded to the Treaty of propelled vehicle with armoured protection and
H

Brussels of 1948 or the Treaty of Washington'" of cross-country capability. Armoured combat vehicles
1949 consisting of the Kingdom of Belgium, Canada, include armoured personnel carriers, armoured
the Kingdom of Denmark, the French Republic, the infantry fighting vehicles and heavy armament
Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, combat vehicles.
the Republic of Iceland, the Italian Republic, the The term "armoured personnel carrier" means
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the an armoured combat vehicle which is designed
Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, the and equipped to transport a combat infantry
Portuguese Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the squad and which, as a rule, is armed with an
Republic of Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great integral or organic weapon of less than 20
Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States millimetres calibre.
of America.
The term "armoured infantry fighting vehicle"
(B) The term "area of application" means the entire land means an armoured combat vehicle which is
territory of the States Parties in Europe from the designed and equipped primarily to transport a
Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains, which combat infantry squad, which normally
includes all the European island territories of the provides the capability for the troops to deliver
States Parties, including the Faroe Islands of the fire from inside the vehicle under armoured
Kingdom of Denmark, Svalbard including Bear protection, and which is armed with an integral
Island of the Kingdom of Norway, the islands of or organic cannon of at least 20 millimetres
Azores and Madeira of the Portuguese Republic, the calibre and sometimes an antitank missile
Canary Islands of the Kingdom of Spain and Franz launcher. Armoured infantry fighting vehicles
Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya of the Union of serve as the principal weapon system of
Soviet Socialist Republics. In the case of the Union of armoured infantry or mechanised infantry or
Soviet Socialist Republics, the area of application motorised infantry formations and units of
includes all territory lying west of the Ural River and ground forces.
the Caspian Sea. In the case of the Republic of
Turkey, the area of application includes the territory The term "heavy armament combat vehicle"
of the Republic of Turkey north and west of a line means an armoured combat vehicle with an
extending from the point of intersection of the integral or organic direct fire gun of at least 75
Turkish border with the 39th parallel to Muradiye, millimetres calibre, weighing at least 6.0 metric
Patnos, Karayazi, Tekman, Kemaliye, Feke, Ceyhan, tonnes unladen weight, which does not fall
Dogankent, Gazne and thence to the sea. within the definitions of an armoured personnel
carrier, or an armoured infantry fighting vehicle
(C) The term "battle tank" means a self-propelled
or a battle tank.
armoured fighting vehicle, capable of heavy
firepower, primarily of a high muzzle velocity direct (E) The term "unladen weight" means the weight of a
fire main gun necessary to engage armoured and vehicle excluding the weight of ammunition; fuel, oil
other targets, with high cross-country mobility, with and lubricants; removable reactive armour; spare
a high level of self-protection, and which is not parts, tools and accessories; removable snorkelling
equipment; and crew and their personal kit.
(F) The term "artillery" means large calibre systems
'The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual
capable of engaging ground targets by delivering
Assistance signed in Warsaw, 14 May 1955
primarily indirect fire. Such artillery systems provide
.. The Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural the essential indirect fire support to combined arms
Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence signed in Brussels, formations.
17 March 1948
Large calibre artillery systems are guns,
... The North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, 4 April howitzers, artillery pieces combining the
1949 characteristics of guns and howitzers, mortars
 AI'I'E!\I>I\ A: '1RI ..\ I) ON CO!\\ 1:\ II().~ .\l. AR:\HD FORCES IN EUROPE 267

and multiple launch rocket systems with a (P) The term "combat support helicopter" means a
calibre of 100 millimetres and above. In combat helicopter which does not fulfill the
addition, any future large calibre direct fire requirements to qualify as an attack helicopter and
system which has a secondary effective indirect which may be equipped with a variety of self-defence
fire capability shall be counted against the and area suppression weapons, such as guns,
artillery ceilings. cannons and unguided rockets, bombs or cluster
bombs, or which may be equipped to perform other
(G) The term "stationed conventional armed forces" military functions.
means conventional armed forces of a State Party
that are stationed within the area of application on (Q) The term "conventional armaments and equipment
the territory of another State Party. subject to the Treaty" means battle tanks, armoured
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft, primary
(H) The term "designated permanent storage site" means trainer aircraft, unarmed trainer aircraft, combat
a place with a clearly defined physical boundary helicopters, unarmed transport helicopters,
containing conventional armaments and equipment armoured vehicle launched bridges, armoured
limited by the Treaty, which are counted within personnel carrier look-alikes and armoured infantry
overall ceilings but which are not subject to fighting vehicle look-a likes subject to information
limitations on conventional armaments and exchange in accordance with the Protocol on
equipment limited by the Treaty in active units. Information Exchange.
(I) The term "armoured vehicle launched bridge" means (R) The term "in service," as it applies to conventional
a self-propelled armoured transporter-launcher armed forces and conventional armaments and
vehicle capable of carrying and, through built-in equipment, means battle tanks, armoured combat
mechanisms, of emplacing and retrieving a bridge vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft, primary trainer
structure. Such a vehicle with a bridge structure aircraft, unarmed trainer aircraft, combat
operates as an integrated system. helicopters, unarmed transport helicopters,
(J) The term "conventional armaments and equipment armoured vehicle launched bridges, armoured
limited by the Treaty" means battle tanks, armoured personnel carrier look-alikes and armoured infantry
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack fighting vehicle look-alikes that are within the area
helicopters subject to the numerical limitations set of application, except for those that are held by
forth in Articles IV, V and VI. organisations designed and structured to perform in
peacetime internal security functions or that meet
(K) The term "combat aircraft" means a fixed-wing or any of the exceptions set forth in Article III.
variable-geometry wing aircraft armed and equipped
to engage targets by employing guided missiles, (S) The terms "armoured personnel carrier look-alike"
unguided rockets, bombs, guns, cannons, or other and "armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alike"
weapons of destruction, as well as any model or mean an armoured vehicle based on the same chassis
version of such an aircraft which performs other as, and externally similar to, an armoured personnel
military functions such as reconnaissance or carrier or armoured infantry fighting vehicle,
electronic warfare. The term "combat aircraft" does respectively, which does not have a cannon or gun of
not include primary trainer aircraft. 20 millimetres calibre or greater and which has been
constructed or modified in such a way as not to
(L) The term "combat helicopter" means a rotary wing permit the transportation of a combat infantry
aircraft armed and equipped to engage targets or squad. Taking into account the provisions of the
equipped to perform other military functions. The Geneva Convention "For the Amelioration of the
term "combat helicopter" comprises attack Conditions of the Wounded and Sick in Armed
helicopters and combat support helicopters. The Forces in the Field" of 12 August 1949 that confer a
term "combat helicopter" does not include unarmed special status on ambulances, armoured personnel
transport helicopters. carrier ambulances shall not be deemed armoured
(M) The term "attack helicopter" means a combat combat vehicles or armoured personnel carrier look-
helicopter equipped to employ anti-armour, air-to- alikes.
ground, or air-to-air guided weapons and equipped (T) The term "reduction site" means a clearly designated
with an integrated fire control and aiming system for location where the reduction of conventional
these weapons. The term "attack helicopter" armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in
comprises specialised attack helicopters and multi- accordance with Article VIII takes place.
purpose attack helicopters.
(U) The term "reduction liability" means the number in
(N) The term "specialised attack helicopter" means an each category of conventional armaments and
attack helicopter that is designed primarily to equipment limited by the Treaty that a State Party
employ guided weapons. commits itself to reduce during the period of 40
(0) The term "multi-purpose attack helicopter" means months following the entry into force of this Treaty
an attack helicopter designed to perform multiple in order to ensure compliance with Article VII.
military functions and equipped to employ guided 2. Existing types of conventional armaments and
weapons. equipment subject to the Treaty are listed in the Protocol on
 ON-SITE hi~I'HTI()N ACFNC)

Existing Types. The lists of existing types shall be Article IV

periodically updated in accordance with Article XVI,
paragraph 2, subparagraph (D) and Section IV of the 1. Within the area of application, as defined in Article
Protocol on Existing Types. Such updates to the existing II, each State Party shall limit and, as necessary, reduce its
types lists shall not be deemed amendments to this Treaty. battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat
aircraft and attack helicopters so that, 40 months after entry
3. The existing types of combat helicopters listed in the into force of this Treaty and thereafter, for the group of
Protocol on Existing Types shall be categorised in States Parties to which it belongs, as defined in Article II, the
accordance with Section I of the Protocol on Helicopter aggregate numbers do not exceed:
Recategorisation.
(A) 20,000 battle tanks, of which no more than 16,500
shall be in active units;
Article III
(B) 30,000 armoured combat vehicles, of which no more
1. For the purposes of this Treaty, the States Parties than 27,300 shall be in active units. Of the 30,000
shall apply the following counting rules: armoured combat vehicles, no more than 18,000
All battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, shall be armoured infantry fighting vehicles and
combat aircraft and attack helicopters, as defined in Article heavy armament combat vehicles; of armoured
II, within the area of application shall be subject to the infantry fighting vehicles and heavy armament
numerical limitations and other provisions set forth in combat vehicles, no more than 1,500 shall be heavy
Articles IV, V and VI, with the exception of those which in a armament combat vehicles;
manner consistent with a State Party's normal practices: (C) 20,000 pieces of artillery, of which no more than
(A) are in the process of manufacture, including 17,000 shall be in active units;
manufacturing-related testing; (D) 6,800 combat aircraft; and
(B) are used exclusively for the purposes of research and (E) 2,000 attack helicopters.
development;
Battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and artillery not
(C) belong to historical collections; in active units shall be placed in designated permanent
(D) are awaiting disposal, having been decommissioned storage sites, as defined in Article II, and shall be located
from service in accordance with the provisions of only in the area described in paragraph 2 of this Article.
Article IX; Such designated permanent storage sites may also be located
in that part of the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist
(E) are awaiting, or are being refurbished for, export or Republics comprising the Odessa Military District and the
re-export and are temporarily retained within the southern part of the Leningrad Military District. In the
area of application. Such battle tanks, armoured Odessa Military District, no more than 400 battle tanks and
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack no more than 500 pieces of artillery may be thus stored. In
helicopters shall be located elsewhere than at sites the southern part of the Leningrad Military District, no
declared under the terms of Section V of the Protocol more than 600 battle tanks, no more than 800 armoured
on Information Exchange or at no more than 10 combat vehicles, including no more than 300 armoured
such declared sites which shall have been notified in combat vehicles of any type with the remaining number
the previous year's annual information exchange. In consisting of armoured personnel carriers, and no more than
the latter case, they shall be separately 400 pieces of artillery may be thus stored. The southern part
distinguishable from conventional armaments and of the Leningrad Military District is understood to mean the
equipment limited by the Treaty; territory within that military district south of the line East-
(F) are, in the case of armoured personnel carriers, West 60 degrees 15 minutes northern latitude.
armoured infantry fighting vehicles, heavy armament 2. Within the area consisting of the entire land territory
combat vehicles or multi-purpose attack helicopters, in Europe, which includes all the European island territories,
held by organisations designed and structured to of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Czech and Slovak Federal
perform in peacetime internal security functions; or Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark including the Faroe
Islands, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of
(G) are in transit through the area of application from a
Germany, the Republic of Hungary, the Italian Republic, the
location outside the area of application to a final
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
destination outside the area of application, and are
Netherlands, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese
in the area of application for no longer than a total
Republic including the islands of Azores and Madeira, the
of seven days.
Kingdom of Spain including the Canary Islands, the United
2. If, in respect of any such battle tanks, armoured Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and that
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft or attack part of the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist
helicopters, the notification of which is required under Republics west of the Ural Mountains comprising the Baltic,
Section IV of the Protocol on Information Exchange, a State Byelorussian, Carpathian, Kiev, Moscow and Volga-Ural
Party notifies an unusually high number in more than two Military Districts, each State Party shall limit and, as
successive annual information exchanges, it shall explain the necessary, reduce its battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles
reasons in the Joint Consultative Group, if so requested. and artillery so that, 40 months after entry into force of this
Treaty and thereafter, for the group of States Parties to stations conventional armed forces on the territory of
which it belongs the aggregate numbers do not exceed: another State Party without the agreement of that State
Party.
(A) 15,300 battle tanks, of which no more than 11,800
shall be in active units; 6. If a group of States Parties' aggregate numbers of
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and artillery in
(B) 24,100 armoured combat vehicles, of which no more active units within the area described in paragraph 4 of this
than 21,400 shall be in active units; and Article are less than the numerical limitations set forth in
(C) 14,000 pieces of artillery, of which no more than paragraph 4 of this Article, and provided that no State Party
11,000 shall be in active units. is thereby prevented from reaching its maximum levels for
holdings notified in accordance with Article VII, paragraphs
3. Within the area consisting of the entire land territory 2, 3 and 5, then amounts equal to the difference between the
in Europe, which includes all the European island territories, aggregate numbers in each of the categories of battle tanks,
of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Czech and Slovak Federal armoured combat vehicles and artillery and the specified
Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark including the Faroe numerical limitations for that area may be located by States
Islands, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Parties belonging to that group of States Parties in the area
Germany, the Republic of Hungary, the Italian Republic, the described in paragraph 3 of this Article, consistent with the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the numerical limitations specified in paragraph 3 of this Article.
Netherlands, the Republic of Poland, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland and that part of the Article V
territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
comprising the Baltic, Byelorussian, Carpathian and Kiev 1. To ensure that the security of each State Party is not
Military Districts, each State Party shall limit and, as affected adversely at any stage:
necessary, reduce its battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles
and artillery so that, 40 months after entry into force of this (A) within the area consisting of the entire land territory
Treaty and thereafter, for the group of States Parties to in Europe, which includes all the European island
which it belongs the aggregate numbers in active units do territories, of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Hellenic
not exceed: Republic, the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of
Norway, Romania, the part of the Republic of
(A) 10,300 battle tanks; Turkey within the area of application and that part
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics comprising
(B) 19,260 armoured combat vehicles; and the Leningrad, Odessa, Transcaucasus and North
(C) 9,100 pieces of artillery; and Caucasus Military Districts, each State Party shall
limit and, as necessary, reduce its battle tanks,
(D) in the Kiev Military District, the aggregate numbers armoured combat vehicles and artillery so that, 40
in active units and designated permanent storage months after entry into force of this Treaty and
sites together shall not exceed: thereafter, for the group of States Parties to which it
(1) 2,250 battle tanks; belongs the aggregate numbers in active units do not
exceed the difference between the overall numerical
(2) 2,500 armoured combat vehicles; and limitations set forth in Article IV, paragraph 1 and
those in Article IV, paragraph 2, that is:
(3) 1,500 pieces of artillery.
(1) 4,700 battle tanks;
4. Within the area consisting of the entire land territory
in Europe, which includes all the European island territories, (2) 5,900 armoured combat vehicles; and
of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Czech and Slovak Federal
Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of (3) 6,000 pieces of artillery;
Hungary, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of (B) notwithstanding the numerical limitations set forth
the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland, each State in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, a State Party
Party shall limit and, as necessary, reduce its battle tanks, or States Parties may on a temporary basis deploy
armoured combat vehicles and artillery so that, 40 months into the territory belonging to the members of the
after entry into force of this Treaty and thereafter, for the same group of States Parties within the area
group of States Parties to which it belongs the aggregate described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph
numbers in active units do not exceed: additional aggregate numbers in active units for each
(A) 7,500 battle tanks; • group of States Parties not to exceed:

(B) 11,250 armoured combat vehicles; and (1) 459 battle tanks;

(C) 5,000 pieces of artillery. (2) 723 armoured combat vehicles; and

5. States Parties belonging to the same group of States (3) 420 pieces of artillery; and
Parties may locate battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles (C) provided that for each group of States Parties no
and artillery in active units in each of the areas described in more than one-third of each of these additional aggregate
this Article and Article V, paragraph 1, subparagraph (A) numbers shall be deployed to any State Party with territory
up to the numerical limitations applying in that area, within the area described in subparagraph (A) of this
consistent with the maximum levels for holdings notified paragraph, that is:
pursuant to Article VII and provided that no State Party
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(1) 153 battle tanks; on which such a change takes effect. In order not to exceed
any of the limitations set forth in Articles IV and V, any
(2) 241 armoured combat vehicles; and increase in the maximum levels for holdings of a State Party
(3) 140 pieces of artillery. that would otherwise cause those limitations to be exceeded
shall be preceded or accompanied by a corresponding
2. Notification shall be provided to all other States reduction in the previously notified maximum levels for
Parties no later than at the start of the deployment by the holdings of conventional armaments and equipment limited
State Party or States Parties conducting the deployment and by the Treaty of one or more States Parties belonging to the
by the recipient State Party or States Parties, specifying the same group of States Parties. The notification of a change in
total number in each category of battle tanks, armoured the maximum levels for holdings shall remain valid from the
combat vehicles and artillery deployed. Notification also date specified in the notification until the date specified in a
shall be provided to all other States Parties by the State Party subsequent notification of change pursuant to this
or States Parties conducting the deployment and by the paragraph.
recipient State Party or States Parties within 30 days of the
withdrawal of those battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles 4. Each notification required pursuant to paragraph 2
and artillery that were temporarily deployed. or 3 of this Article for armoured combat vehicles shall also
include maximum levels for the holdings of armoured
Article VI infantry fighting vehicles and heavy armament combat
vehicles of the State Party providing the notification.
With the objective of ensuring that no single State Party
possesses more than approximately one-third of the 5. Ninety days before expiration of the 40-month
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the period of reductions set forth in Article VIII and
Treaty within the area of application, each State Party shall subsequently at the time of any notification of a change
limit and, as necessary, reduce its battle tanks, armoured pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article, each State Party
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack shall provide notification of the maximum levels for its
helicopters so that, 40 months after entry into force of this holdings of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and
Treaty and thereafter, the numbers within the area of artillery with respect to each of the areas described in Article
application for that State Party do not exceed: IV, paragraphs 2 to 4 and Article V, paragraph 1,
subparagraph (A).
(A) 13,300 battle tanks;
6. A decrease in the numbers of conventional
(B) 20,000 armoured combat vehicles; armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty held by a
State Party and subject to notification pursuant to the
(C) 13,700 pieces of artillery; Protocol on Information Exchange shall by itself confer no
(D) 5,150 combat aircraft; and right on any other State Party to increase the maximum
levels for its holdings subject to notification pursuant to this
(E) 1,500 attack helicopters. Article.

Article VII 7. It shall be the responsibility solely of each individual

State Party to ensure that the maximum levels for its
1. In order that the limitations set forth in Articles IV, holdings notified pursuant to the provisions of this Article
V and VI are not exceeded, no State Party shall exceed, from are not exceeded. States Parties belonging to the same group
40 months after entry into force of this Treaty, the maximum of States Parties shall consult in order to ensure that the
levels which it has previously agreed upon within its group maximum levels for holdings notified pursuant to the
of States Parties, in accordance with paragraph 7 of this provisions of this Article, taken together as appropriate, do
Article, for its holdings of conventional armaments and not exceed the limitations set forth in Articles IV, V and VI.
equipment limited by the Treaty and of which it has
provided notification pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII
Article.
1. The numerical limitations set forth in Articles IV, V
2. Each State Party shall provide at the signature of this and VI shall be achieved only by means of reduction in
Treaty notification to all other States Parties of the accordance with the Protocol on Reduction, the Protocol on
maximum levels for its holdings of conventional armaments Helicopter Recategorisation, the Protocol on Aircraft
and equipment limited by the Treaty. The notification of the Reclassification, the Footnote to Section I, paragraph 2,
maximum levels for holdings of conventional armaments subparagraph (A) of the Protocol on Existing Types and the
and equipment limited by the Treaty provided by each State Protocol on Inspection.
Party at the signature of this Treaty shall remain valid until
the date specified in a subsequent notification pursuant to 2. The categories of conventional armaments and
paragraph 3 of this Article. equipment subject to reductions are battle tanks, armoured
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack
3. In accordance with the limitations set forth in helicopters. The specific types are listed in the Protocol on
Articles IV, V and VI, each State Party shall have the right to Existing Types.
change the maximum levels for its holdings of conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty. Any change (A) Battle tanks and armoured combat vehicles shall be
in the maximum levels for holdings of a State Party shall be reduced by destruction, conversion for non-military
notified by that State Party to all other States Parties at least purposes, placement on static display, use as ground
90 days in advance of the date, specified in the notification, targets, or, in the case of armoured personnel
 carriers, modification in accordance with the 5. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by
Footnote to Section I, paragraph 2, subparagraph the Treaty to be reduced shall have been declared present
(A) of the Protocol on Existing Types. within the area of application in the exchange of
information at signature of this Treaty.
(B) Artillery shall be reduced by destruction or
placement on static display, or, in the case of self- 6. No later than 30 days after entry into force of this
propelled artillery, by use as ground targets. Treaty, each State Party shall provide notification to all
other States Parties of its reduction liability.
(C) Combat aircraft shall be reduced by destruction,
• placement on static display, use for ground 7. Except as provided for in paragraph 8 of this
instructional purposes, or, in the case of specific Article, a State Party's reduction liability in each category
models or versions of combat-capable trainer shall be no less than the difference between its holdings
aircraft, reclassification into unarmed trainer notified, in accordance with the Protocol on Information
aircraft. Exchange, at signature or effective upon entry into force of
this Treaty, whichever is the greater, and the maximum
(D) Specialised attack helicopters shall be reduced by levels for holdings it notified pursuant to Article VII.
destruction, placement on static display, or use for
ground instructional purposes. 8. Any subsequent revision of a State Party's holdings
notified pursuant to the Protocol on Information Exchange
(E) Multi-purpose attack helicopters shall be reduced by or of its maximum levels for holdings notified pursuant to
destruction, placement on static display, use for Article VII shall be reflected by a notified adjustment to its
ground instructional purposes, or recategorisation. reduction liability. Any notification of a decrease in a State
3. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by Party's reduction liability shall be preceded or accompanied
the Treaty shall be deemed to be reduced upon execution of by either a notification of a corresponding increase in
the procedures set forth in the Protocols listed in paragraph holdings not exceeding the maximum levels for holdings
1 of this Article and upon notification as required by these notified pursuant to Article VII by one or more States
Protocols. Armaments and equipment so reduced shall no Parties belonging to the same group of States Parties, or a
longer be counted against the numerical limitations set forth notification of a corresponding increase in the reduction
in Articles IV, V and VI. liability of one or more such States Parties.

4. Reductions shall be effected in three phases and 9. Upon entry into force of this Treaty, each State
completed no later than 40 months after entry into force of Party shall notify all other States Parties, in accordance
this Treaty, so that: with the Protocol on Information Exchange, of the
locations of its reduction sites, including those where the
(A) by the end of the first reduction phase, that is, no final conversion of battle tanks and armoured combat
later than 16 months after entry into force of this vehicles for non-military purposes will be carried out.
Treaty, each State Party shall have ensured that at
least 25 percent of its total reduction liability in each 10. Each State Party shall have the right to designate as
of the categories of conventional armaments and many reduction sites as it wishes, to revise without
equipment limited by the Treaty has been reduced; restriction its designation of such sites and to carry out
reduction and final conversion simultaneously at a
(B) by the end of the second reduction phase, that is, no maximum of 20 sites. States Parties shall have the right to
later than 28 months after entry into force of this share or co-locate reduction sites by mutual agreement.
Treaty, each State Party shall have ensured that at
least 60 percent of its total reduction liability in each 11. Notwithstanding paragraph 10 of this Article,
of the categories of conventional armaments and during the baseline validation period, that is, the interval
equipment limited by the Treaty has been reduced; between entry into force of this Treaty and 120 days after
entry into force of this Treaty, reduction shall be carried
(C) by the end of the third reduction phase, that is, no out simultaneously at no more than two reduction sites for
later than 40 months after entry into force of this each State Party.
Treaty, each State Party shall have reduced its total
reduction liability in each of the categories of 12. Reduction of conventional armaments and
conventional armaments and equipment limited by equipment limited by the Treaty shall be carried out at
the Treaty. States Parties carrying out conversion for reduction sites, unless otherwise specified in the Protocols
non-military purposes shall have ensured that the listed in paragraph 1 of this Article, within the area of
conversion of all battle tanks in accordance with application.
Section VIII of the Protocol on Reduction shall have 13. The reduction process, including the results of the
been completed by the end of the third reduction conversion of conventional armaments and equipment
phase; and limited by the Treaty for non-military purposes both during
(D) armoured combat vehicles deemed reduced by reason the reduction period and in the 24 months following the
of having been partially destroyed in accordance reduction period, shall be subject to inspection, without
with Section VIII, paragraph 6 of the Protocol on right of refusal, in accordance with the Protocol on
Reduction shall have been fully converted for non- Inspection.
military purposes, or destroyed in accordance with
Section IV of the Protocol on Reduction, no later
than 64 months after entry into force of this Treaty.
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Article IX perimeter fence shall have no more than three gates

providing the sole means of entrance and exit for armaments
1. Other than removal from service in accordance with and equipment.
the provisions of Article VIII, battle tanks, armoured combat
vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters 4. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by
within the area of application shall be removed from service the Treaty located within designated permanent storage sites
only by decommissioning, provided that: shall be counted as conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty not in active units, including when they
(A) such conventional armaments and equipment limited are temporarily removed in accordance with paragraphs 7,
by the Treaty are decommissioned and awaiting 8,9 and 10 of this Article. Conventional armaments and
disposal at no more than eight sites which shall be equipment limited by the Treaty in storage other than in
notified as declared sites in accordance with the designated permanent storage sites shall be counted as
Protocol on Information Exchange and shall be conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
identified in such notifications as holding areas for Treaty in active units.
decommissioned conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty. If sites containing 5. Active units or formations shall not be located
conventional armaments and equipment limited by within designated permanent storage sites, except as
the Treaty decommissioned from service also contain provided for in paragraph 6 of this Article.
any other conventional armaments and equipment
subject to the Treaty, the decommissioned 6. Only personnel associated with the security or
conventional armaments and equipment limited by operation of designated permanent storage sites, or the
the Treaty shall be separately distinguishable; and maintenance of the armaments and equipment stored
therein, shall be located within the designated permanent
(B) the numbers of such decommissioned conventional storage sites.
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty do
not exceed, in the case of any individual State Party, 7. For the purpose of maintenance, repair or
one percent of its notified holdings of conventional modification of conventional armaments and equipment
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty, or a limited by the Treaty located within designated permanent
total of 250, whichever is greater, of which no more storage sites, each State Party shall have the right, without
than 200 shall be battle tanks, armoured combat prior notification, to remove from and retain outside
vehicles and pieces of artillery, and no more than 50 designated permanent storage sites simultaneously up to 10
shall be attack helicopters and combat aircraft. percent, rounded up to the nearest even whole number, of
the notified holdings of each category of conventional
2. Notification of decommissioning shall include the armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in each
number and type of conventional armaments and equipment designated permanent storage site, or 10 items of the
limited by the Treaty decommissioned and the location of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
decommissioning and shall be provided to all other States Treaty in each category in each designated permanent
Parties in accordance with Section IX, paragraph 1, storage site, whichever is less.
subparagraph (B) of the Protocol on Information Exchange.
8. Except as provided for in paragraph 7 of this Article,
no State Party shall remove conventional armaments and
Article X equipment limited by the Treaty from designated permanent
1. Designated permanent storage sites shall be notified storage sites unless notification has been provided to all
in accordance with the Protocol on Information Exchange to other States Parties at least 42 days in advance of such
all other States Parties by the State Party to which the removal. Notification shall be given by the State Party to
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the which the conventional armaments and equipment limited
Treaty contained at designated permanent storage sites by the Treaty belong. Such notification shall specify:
belong. The notification shall include the designation and (A) the location of the designated permanent storage site
location, including geographic coordinates, of designated from which conventional armaments and equipment
permanent storage sites and the numbers by type of each limited by the Treaty are to be removed and the
category of its conventional armaments and equipment numbers by type of conventional armaments and
limited by the Treaty at each such storage site. equipment limited by the Treaty of each category to
2. Designated permanent storage sites shall contain be removed;
only facilities appropriate for the storage and maintenance (B) the dates of removal and return of conventional
of armaments and equipment (e.g., warehouses, garages, armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty; and
workshops and associated stores as well as other support
accommodation). Designated permanent storage sites shall (C) the intended location and use of conventional
not contain firing ranges or training areas associated with armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the while outside the designated permanent storage site.
Treaty. Designated permanent storage sites shall contain only
armaments and equipment belonging to the conventional 9. Except as provided for in paragraph 7 of this Article,
armed forces of a State Party. the aggregate numbers of conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty removed from and retained
3. Each designated permanent storage site shall have a outside designated permanent storage sites by States Parties
clearly defined physical boundary that shall consist of a belonging to the same group of States Parties shall at no time
continuous perimeter fence at least 1.5 metres in height. The exceed the following levels:
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(A) 550 battle tanks; 4. Except as provided for in paragraph 6 of this Article,
armoured vehicle launched bridges removed from designated
(B) 1,000 armoured combat vehicles; and permanent storage sites shall be returned to them no later
(C) 300 pieces of artillery. than 42 days after the actual date of removal.

10. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by 5. The aggregate number of armoured vehicle launched
the Treaty removed from designated permanent storage sites bridges removed from and retained outside of designated
pursuant to paragraphs 8 and 9 of this Article shall be permanent storage sites by each group of States Parties shall
returned to designated permanent storage sites no later than not exceed 50 at anyone time.
42 days after their removal, except for those items of 6. States Parties shall have the right, for the purpose of
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the maintenance or modification, to remove and have outside of
Treaty removed for industrial rebuild. Such items shall be designated permanent storage sites simultaneously up to 10
returned to designated permanent storage sites immediately percent, rounded up to the nearest even whole number, of
on completion of the rebuild. their notified holdings of armoured vehicle launched bridges
11. Each State Party shall have the right to replace in each designated permanent storage site, or 10 armoured
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the vehicle launched bridges from each designated permanent
Treaty located in designated permanent storage sites. Each storage site, whichever is less.
State Party shall notify all other States Parties, at the 7. In the event of natural disasters involving flooding or
beginning of replacement, of the number, location, type and damage to permanent bridges, States Parties shall have the
disposition of conventional armaments and equipment right to withdraw armoured vehicle launched bridges from
limited by the Treaty being replaced. designated permanent storage sites. Notification to all other
States Parties of such withdrawals shall be given at the time
Article XI of withdrawal.
1. Each State Party shall limit its armoured vehicle
launched bridges so that, 40 months after entry into force of Article XII
this Treaty and thereafter, for the group of States Parties to 1. Armoured infantry fighting vehicles held by
which it belongs the aggregate number of armoured vehicle organisations of a State Party designed and structured to
launched bridges in active units within the area of perform in peacetime internal security functions, which are
application does not exceed 740. not structured and organised for ground combat against an
2. All armoured vehicle launched bridges within the external enemy, are not limited by this Treaty. The foregoing
area of application in excess of the aggregate number notwithstanding, in order to enhance the implementation of
specified in paragraph 1 of this Article for each group of this Treaty and to provide assurance that the number of such
States Parties shall be placed in designated permanent armaments held by such organisations shall not be used to
storage sites, as defined in Article II. When armoured vehicle circumvent the provisions of this Treaty, any such
launched bridges are placed in a designated permanent armaments in excess of 1,000 armoured infantry fighting
storage site, either on their own or together with vehicles assigned by a State Party to organisations designed
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the and structured to perform in peacetime internal security
Treaty, Article X, paragraphs 1 to 6 shall apply to armoured functions shall constitute a portion of the permitted levels
vehicle launched bridges as well as to conventional specified in Articles IV, V and VI. No more than 600 such
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty. Armoured armoured infantry fighting vehicles of a State Party, assigned
vehicle launched bridges placed in designated permanent to such organisations, may be located in that part of the area
storage sites shall not be considered as being in active units. of application described in Article V, paragraph 1,
subparagraph (A). Each State Party shall further ensure that
3. Except as provided for in paragraph 6 of this Article, such organisations refrain from the acquisition of combat
armoured vehicle launched bridges may be removed, subject capabilities in excess of those necessary for meeting internal
to the provisions of paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Article, from security requirements.
designated permanent storage sites only after notification
has been provided to all other States Parties at least 42 days 2. A State Party that intends to reassign battle tanks,
prior to such removal. This notification shall specify: armoured infantry fighting vehicles, artillery, combat
aircraft, attack helicopters and armoured vehicle launched
(A) the locations of the designated permanent storage bridges in service with its conventional armed forces to any
sites from which armoured vehicle launched bridges organisation of that State Party not a part of its conventional
are to be removed and the numbers of armoured armed forces shall notify all other States Parties no later than
vehicle launched bridges to be removed from each the date such reassignment takes effect. Such notification
such site; shall specify the effective date of the reassignment, the date
(B) the dates of removal of armoured vehicle launched such equipment is physically transferred, as well as the
bridges from and return to designated permanent numbers, by type, of the conventional armaments and
storage sites; and equipment limited by the Treaty being reassigned.

(C) the intended use of armoured vehicle launched Article XIII

bridges during the period of their removal from
designated permanent storage sites. 1. For the purpose of ensuring verification of
compliance with the provisions of this Treaty, each State
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Party shall provide notifications and exchange information Article XV

pertaining to its conventional armaments and equipment in
accordance with the Protocol on Information Exchange. 1. For the purpose of ensuring verification of
compliance with the provisions of this Treaty, a State Party
2. Such notifications and exchange of information shall shall have the right to use, in addition to the procedures
be provided in accordance with Article XVII. referred to in Article XIV, national or multinational
technical means of verification at its disposal in a manner
3. Each State Party shall be responsible for its own
consistent with generally recognised principles of
information; receipt of such information and of notifications
international law.
shall not imply validation or acceptance of the information
provided. 2. A State Party shall not interfere with national or
multinational technical means of verification of another
Article XIV State Party operating in accordance with paragraph 1 of this
Article.
1. For the purpose of ensuring verification of
compliance with the provisions of this Treaty, each State 3. A State Party shall not use concealment measures
Party shall have the right to conduct, and the obligation to that impede verification of compliance with the provisions of
accept, within the area of application, inspections in this Treaty by national or multinational technical means of
accordance with the provisions of the Protocol on verification of another State Party operating in accordance
Inspection. with paragraph 1 of this Article. This obligation does not
apply to cover or concealment practices associated with
2. The purpose of such inspections shall be: normal personnel training, maintenance or operations
(A) to verify, on the basis of the information provided involving conventional armaments and equipment limited by
pursuant to the Protocol on Information Exchange, the Treaty.
the compliance of States Parties with the numerical
limitations set forth in Articles IV, V and VI; Article XVI

(B) to monitor the process of reduction of battle tanks, 1. To promote the objectives and implementation of the
armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft provisions of this Treaty, the States Parties hereby establish a
and attack helicopters carried out at reduction sites Joint Consultative Group.
in accordance with Article VIII and the Protocol on 2. Within the framework of the Joint Consultative
Reduction; and Group, the States Parties shall:
(C) to monitor the certification of recategorised multi-
(A) address questions relating to compliance with or
purpose attack helicopters and reclassified combat- possible circumvention of the provisions of this
capable trainer aircraft carried out in accordance Treaty;
with the Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation
and the Protocol on Aircraft Reclassification, (B) seek to resolve ambiguities and differences of
respectively. interpretation that may become apparent in the way
this Treaty is implemented;
3. No State Party shall exercise the rights set forth in
paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article in respect of States Parties (C) consider and, if possible, agree on measures to
which belong to the group of States Parties to which it enhance the viability and effectiveness of this Treaty;
belongs in order to elude the objectives of the verification
regime. (D) update the lists contained in the Protocol on Existing
Types, as required by Article II, paragraph 2;
4. In the case of an inspection conducted jointly by
more than one State Party, one of them shall be responsible (E) resolve technical questions in order to seek common
for the execution of the provisions of this Treaty. practices among the States Parties in the way this
Treaty is implemented;
5. The number of inspections pursuant to Sections VII
and VIII of the Protocol on Inspection which each State (F) work out or revise, as necessary, rules of procedure,
Party shall have the right to conduct and the obligation to working methods, the scale of distribution of
accept during each specified time period shall be determined expenses of the Joint Consultative Group and of
in accordance with the provisions of Section II of that conferences convened under this Treaty and the
Protocol. distribution of costs of inspections between or
among States Parties;
6. Upon completion of the 120-day residual level
validation period, each State Party shall have the right to (G) consider and work out appropriate measures to
conduct, and each State Party with territory within the area ensure that information obtained through exchanges
of application shall have the obligation to accept, an agreed of information among the States Parties or as a result
number of aerial inspections within the area of application. of inspections pursuant to this Treaty is used solely
Such agreed numbers and other applicable provisions shall for the purposes of this Treaty, taking into account
be developed during negotiations referred to in Article the particular requirements of each State Party in
XVIII. respect of safeguarding information which that State
Party specifies as being sensitive;
 (H) consider, upon the request of any State Party, any Article XIX
matter that a State Party wishes to propose for
examination by any conference to be convened in 1. This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration. It may be
accordance with Article XXI; such consideration supplemented by a further treaty.
shall not prejudice the right of any State Party to 2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national
resort to the procedures set forth in Article XXI; and sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Treaty if it
(I) consider matters of dispute arising out of the decides that extraordinary events related to the subject
implementation of this Treaty. matter of this Treaty have jeopardised its supreme interests.
A State Party intending to withdraw shall give notice of its
3. Each State Party shall have the right to raise before decision to do so to the Depositary and to all other States
the Joint Consultative Group, and have placed on its agenda, Parties. Such notice shall be given at least 150 days prior to
any issue relating to this Treaty. the intended withdrawal from this Treaty. It shall include a
statement of the extraordinary events the State Party regards
4. The Joint Consultative Group shall take decisions or as having jeopardised its supreme interests.
make recommendations by consensus. Consensus shall be
understood to mean the absence of any objection by any 3. Each State Party shall, in particular, in exercising its
representative of a State Party to the taking of a decision or national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this
the making of a recommendation. Treaty if another State Party increases its holdings in battle
tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft
5. The Joint Consultative Group may propose or attack helicopters, as defined in Article II, which are
amendments to this Treaty for consideration and outside the scope of the limitations of this Treaty, in such
confirmation in accordance with Article XX. The Joint proportions as to pose an obvious threat to the balance of
Consultative Group may also agree on improvements to the forces within the area of application.
viability and effectiveness of this Treaty, consistent with its
provisions. Unless such improvements relate only to minor
matters of an administrative or technical nature, they shall Article XX
be subject to consideration and confirmation in accordance 1. Any State Party may propose amendments to this
with Article XX before they can take effect. Treaty. The text of a proposed amendment shall be
6. Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to prohibit or submitted to the Depositary, which shall circulate it to all
restrict any State Party from requesting information from or the States Parties.
undertaking consultations with other States Parties on 2. If an amendment is approved by all the States
matters relating to this Treaty and its implementation in Parties, it shall enter into force in accordance with the
channels or fora other than the Joint Consultative Group. procedures set forth in Article XXII governing the entry into
7. The Joint Consultative Group shall follow the force of this Treaty.
procedures set forth in the Protocol on the Joint
Consultative Group. Article XXI
1. Forty-six months after entry into force of this Treaty,
Article XVII and at five-year intervals thereafter, the Depositary shall
The States Parties shall transmit information and convene a conference of the States Parties to conduct a
notifications required by this Treaty in written form. They review of the operation of this Treaty.
shall use diplomatic channels or other official channels 2. The Depositary shall convene an extraordinary
designated by them, including in particular a conference of the States Parties, if requested to do so by any
communications network to be established by a separate State Party which considers that exceptional circumstances
arrangement. relating to this Treaty have arisen, in particular, in the event
that a State Party has announced its intention to leave its
Article XVIII group of States Parties or to join the other group of States
Parties, as defined in Article II, paragraph 1, subparagraph
1. The States Parties, after signature of this Treaty, shall (A). In order to enable the other States Parties to prepare for
continue the negotiations on conventional armed forces with this conference, the request shall include the reason why that
the same Mandate and with the goal of building on this State Party deems an extraordinary conference to be
Treaty. necessary. The conference shall consider the circumstances
2. The objective for these negotiations shall be to set forth in the request and their effect on the operation of
conclude an agreement on additional measures aimed at this Treaty. The conference shall open no later than 15 days
further strengthening security and stability in Europe, and after receipt of the request and, unless it decides otherwise,
pursuant to the Mandate, including measures to limit the shall last no longer than three weeks.
personnel strength of their conventional armed forces within 3. The Depositary shall convene a conference of the
the area of application. States Parties to consider an amendment proposed pursuant
3. The States Parties shall seek to conclude these to Article XX, if requested to do so by three or more States
negotiations no later than the follow-up meeting of the Parties. Such a conference shall open no later than 21 days
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to be after receipt of the necessary requests.
held in Helsinki in 1992.
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4. In the event that a State Party gives notice of its 1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
decision to withdraw from this Treaty pursuant to Article Parties the following information about the structure of its
XIX, the Depositary shall convene a conference of the States land forces and air and air defence aviation forces within the
Parties which shall open no later than 21 days after receipt area of application:
of the notice of withdrawal in order to consider questions
relating to the withdrawal from this Treaty. (A) the command organization of its land forces,
specifying the designation and subordination of all
combat, combat support and combat service support
Article XXII formations and units at each level of command down
1. This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by each to the level of brigadelregiment or equivalent level,
State Party in accordance with its constitutional procedures. including air defence formations and units
Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the subordinated at or below the military district or
Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, hereby equivalent level. Independent units at the next level
designated the Depositary. of command below the brigade/regiment level
directly subordinate to formations above the brigade/
2. This Treaty shall enter into force 10 days after regiment level (i.e., independent battalions) shall be
instruments of ratification have been deposited by all States identified, with the information indicating the
Parties listed in the Preamble. formation or unit to which such units are
3. The Depositary shall promptly inform all States subordinated; and
Parties of: (B) the command organisation of its air and air defence
(A) the deposit of each instrument of ratification; aviation forces, specifying the designation and
subordination of formations and units at each level
(B) the entry into force of this Treaty; of command down to wing/air regiment or
equivalent level. Independent units at the next level
(C) any withdrawal in accordance with Article XIX and of command below the wing/air regiment level
its effective date; directly subordinate to formations above the wing/
(D) the text of any amendment proposed in accordance air regiment level (i.e., independent squadrons) shall
with Article XX; be identified, with the information indicating the
formation or unit to which such units are
(E) the entry into force of any amendment to this Treaty; subordinated.
(F) any request to convene a conference in accordance
with Article XXI; SECTION II. INFORMATION ON THE OVERALL
HOLDINGS IN EACH CATEGORY OF
(G) the convening of a conference pursuant to Article CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT
XXI; and LIMITED BY THE TREATY
(H) any other matter of which the Depositary is required 1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
by this Treaty to inform the States Parties. Parties information on:
4. This Treaty shall be registered by the Depositary (A) overall numbers and numbers by type of its holdings
pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter of the United in each category of conventional armaments and
Nations. equipment limited by the Treaty; and

Article XXIII (B) overall numbers and numbers by type of its holdings
of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and
The original of this Treaty, of which the English, French, artillery limited by the Treaty in each of the areas
German, Italian, Russian and Spanish texts are equally described in Articles IV and V of the Treaty.
authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the
Depositary. Duly certified copies of this Treaty shall be SECTION III. INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION,
transmitted by the Depositary to all the States Parties. NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT IN SERVICE WITH
THE CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES OF THE
PROTOCOL ON NOTIFICATION AND STATES PARTIES
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
1. For each of its formations and units notified
The States Parties hereby agree on procedures and pursuant to Section I, paragraph 1, subparagraphs (A) and
provisions regarding notification and exchange of (B) of this Protocol, as well as separately located battalions/
information pursuant to Article XIII of the Treaty on squadrons or equivalents subordinate to those formations
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, and units, each State Party shall provide to all other States
1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty. Parties the following information:
(A) the designation and peacetime location of its
SECTION I. INFORMATION ON THE STRUCTURE formations and units at which conventional
OF EACH STATE PARTY'S LAND FORCES AND AIR armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in
AND AIR DEFENCE AVIATION FORCES WITHIN the following categories are held, including
THE AREA OF APPLICATION
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headquarters, specifying the geographic name and (D) the holdings of its formations and units notified
coordinates: pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph
giving numbers (by type in the case of formations
(1) battle tanks; and units at the level of division or equivalent and
(2) armoured combat vehicles; below) in each category specified above; and, in the
case of armoured vehicle launched bridges, those
(3) artillery; which are in active units.
(4) combat aircraft; and 2. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties information on conventional armaments and
(5) attack helicopters;
equipment in service with its conventional armed forces but
(B) the holdings of its formations and units notified not held by its land forces or air or air defence aviation
pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, forces, specifying:
giving numbers (by type in the case of formations
(A) the designation and peacetime location of its
and units at the level of division or equivalent and
formations and units down to the level of brigade/
below) of the conventional armaments and
regiment, wing/air regiment or equivalent as well as
equipment listed in subparagraph (A) of this
units at the next level of command below the
paragraph, and of:
brigade/regiment, wing/air regiment level which are
(1) combat support helicopters; separately located or are independent (i.e.,
battalions/squadrons or equivalent) at which
(2) unarmed transport helicopters; conventional armaments and equipment limited by
(3) armoured vehicle launched bridges, specifying the Treaty in the following categories are held,
those in active units; including headquarters, specifying the geographic
name and coordinates:
(4) armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes;
(1) battle tanks;
(5) armoured personnel carrier look-alikes;
(2) armoured combat vehicles;
(6) primary trainer aircraft;
(3) artillery;
(7) reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft; and
(4) combat aircraft; and
(8) Mi-24R and Mi-24K helicopters not subject to
the numerical limitations set forth in Article IV, (5) attack helicopters; and
paragraph 1 and Article VI of the Treaty! ; (B) the holdings of its formations and units notified
(C) the designation and peacetime location of its pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph,
formations and units, other than those notified giving numbers (by type in the case of formations
pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, at and units at the level of division or equivalent and
which the following categories of conventional below) of conventional armaments and equipment
armaments and equipment, as defined in Article II of listed in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, and of:
the Treaty, specified in the Protocol on Existing (1) combat support helicopters;
Types, or enumerated in the Protocol on Aircraft
Reclassification, are held, including headquarters, (2) unarmed transport helicopters;
specifying the geographic name and coordinates:
(3) armoured vehicle launched bridges, specifying
(1) combat support helicopters; those in active units;
(2) unarmed transport helicopters; (4) armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes;
(3) armoured vehicle launched bridges; (5) armoured personnel carrier look-alikes;
(4) armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes; (6) primary trainer aircraft;
(5) armoured personnel carrier look-alikes; (7) reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft; and
(6) primary trainer aircraft; (8) Mi-24R and Mi-24K helicopters not subject to
the numerical limitations set forth in Article IV,
(7) reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft; and paragraph 1 and Article VI of the Treaty3
(8) Mi-24R and Mi-24K helicopters not subject to 3. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
the numerical limitations set forth in Article IV, Parties the following information:
paragraph 1 and Article VI of the Treaty2 ; and

2Pursuant to Section I, paragraph 3 of the Protocol on

Helicopter Recategorisation.
! Pursuant to Section I, paragraph 3 of the Protocol on 3 Pursuant to Section I, paragraph 3 of the Protocol on
Helicopter Recategorisation. Helicopter Recategorisation.
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(A) the location of its designated permanent storage and equipment in each administrative region or
sites, specifying geographic name and coordinates, division;
and the numbers and types of conventional
armaments and equipment in the categories listed in (3) in respect of its battle tanks, armoured combat
paragraph 1, subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack
Section held at such sites; helicopters awaiting disposal having been
decommissioned in accordance with the
(B) the location of its military storage sites not organic provisions of Article IX of the Treaty, the
to formations and units identified as objects of location, including geographic name and
verification, independent repair and maintenance coordinates, of sites at which such armaments
units, military training establishments and military and equipment are held and the numbers and
airfields, specifying geographic name and types at each site;
coordinates, at which conventional armaments and
equipment in the categories listed in paragraph 1, (4) in respect of its battle tanks, armoured combat
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this Section are held or vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack
routinely present, giving the holdings by type in each helicopters, each State Party shall provide to all
category at such locations; and other States Parties, following entry into force of
the Treaty and coincident with each annual
(C) the location of its sites at which the reduction of exchange of information pursuant to Section
conventional armaments and equipment limited by VII, paragraph 1, subparagraph (C) of this
the Treaty will be undertaken pursuant to the Protocol, an identifiable location of each site at
Protocol on Reduction, specifying the location by which there are normally more than a total of
geographic name and coordinates, the holdings by 15 battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and
type in each category of conventional armaments pieces of artillery or more than five combat
and equipment limited by the Treaty awaiting aircraft or more than 10 attack helicopters
reduction at such locations, and indicating that it is a which are, pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1,
reduction site. subparagraph (E) of the Treaty, awaiting or are
being refurbished for export or re-export and
SECTION IV. INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION are temporarily retained within the area of
AND NUMBERS OF BATTLE TANKS, ARMOURED application. Each State Party shall provide to all
COMBAT VEHICLES, ARTILLERY, COMBAT other States Parties, following entry into force of
AIRCRAFT AND ATTACK HELICOPTERS WITHIN the Treaty and coincident with each annual
THE AREA OF APPLICATION BUT NOT IN SERVICE exchange of information pursuant to Section
WITH CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES VII, paragraph 1, subparagraph (C) of this
Protocol, the numbers of such battle tanks,
1. Each State Party shall provide information to all armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat
other States Parties on the location and numbers of its battle aircraft and attack helicopters. The States
tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft Parties shall, within the framework of the Joint
and attack helicopters within the area of application not in Consultative Group, agree as to the form in
service with its conventional armed forces but of potential which the information on the numbers shall be
military significance. provided pursuant to this provision;
(A) Accordingly, each State Party shall provide the (5) in respect of its battle tanks and armoured
following information: combat vehicles which have been reduced and
(1) in respect of its battle tanks, artillery, combat are awaiting conversion pursuant to Section VIII
aircraft and specialised attack helicopters, as of the Protocol on Reduction, the location,
well as armoured infantry fighting vehicles as including geographic name and coordinates, of
specified in Article XII of the Treaty, held by each site at which such armaments and
organisations down to the independent or equipment are held and the numbers and types
separately located battalion or equivalent level at each site; and
designed and structured to perform in peacetime (6) in respect of its battle tanks, armoured combat
internal security functions, the location, vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and attack
including geographic name and coordinates, of helicopters used exclusively for the purpose of
sites at which such armaments and equipment research and development pursuant to Article
are held and the numbers and types of III, paragraph 1, subparagraph (B) of the Treaty,
conventional armaments and equipment in these each State Party shall provide to all other States
categories held by each such organisation; Parties following entry into force of the Treaty
(2) in respect of its armoured personnel carriers, and coincident with each annual exchange of
heavy armament combat vehicles and multi- information pursuant to Section VII, paragraph
purpose attack helicopters held by organisations 1, subparagraph (C) of this Protocol the
designed and structured to perform in peacetime aggregate numbers in each category of such
internal security functions, the aggregate conventional armaments and equipment.
numbers in each category of such armaments
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SECTION V. INFORMATION ON OBJECTS OF SECTION VI. INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF

VERIFICATION AND DECLARED SITES SITES FROM WHICH CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS
AND EQUIPMENT HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN
1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties information specifying its objects of verification, 1. Each State Party shall provide annually to all other
including the total number and the designation of each States Parties, coincident with the annual exchange of
object of verification, and enumerating its declared sites, as information provided pursuant to Section VII, paragraph 1,
defined in Section I of the Protocol on Inspection, providing subparagraph (C) of this Protocol, information about the
the following information on each site: locations of sites which have been notified previously as
declared sites from which all conventional armaments and
(A) the site's designation and location, including equipment in the categories listed in Section III, paragraph 1
geographic name and coordinates; of this Protocol have been withdrawn since the signature of
(B) the designation of all objects of verification, as the Treaty if such sites continue to be used by the
specified in Section I, paragraph 1, subparagraph (J) conventional armed forces of that State Party. The locations
of the Protocol on Inspection, at that site, it being of these sites shall be notified for three years following such
understood that subordinate elements at the next withdrawal.
level of command below the brigade/regiment or
wing/air regiment level located in the vicinity of each SECTION VII. TIMETABLE FOR THE PROVISION OF
other or of the headquarters immediately superior to INFORMATION IN SECTIONS I TO V OF THIS
such elements may be deemed as not separately PROTOCOL
located, if the distance between such separately
located battalions/squadrons or equivalent or to their 1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
headquarters does not exceed 15 kilometres; Parties the information pursuant to Sections I to V of this
Protocol as follows:
(C) the overall numbers by type of conventional
armaments and equipment in each category specified (A) upon signature of the Treaty, with information
in Section III of this Protocol held at that site and by effective as of that date; and, no later than 90 days
each object of verification, as well as those belonging after signature of the Treaty, each State Party shall
provide to all other States Parties within the
to any object of verification located at another
declared site, specifying the designation of each such framework of the Joint Consultative Group any
necessary corrections to its information reported
object of verification;
pursuant to Sections III, IV and V of this Protocol.
(D) in addition, for each such declared site, the number Such corrected information shall be deemed
of conventional armaments and equipment not in information provided at Treaty signature and valid
service with its conventional armed forces, indicating as of that date;
those that are:
(B) 30 days following entry into force of the Treaty, with
(1) battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, information effective as of the date of entry into
artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters force;
awaiting disposal having been decommissioned
(C) on the 15th day of December of the year in which
in accordance with the provisions of Article IX
of the Treaty or reduced and awaiting the Treaty comes into force (unless entry into force
conversion pursuant to the Protocol on occurs within 60 days of the 15th day of December),
Reduction; and and on the 15th day of December of every year
thereafter, with the information effective as of the
(2) battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, first day of January of the following year; and
artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters
held by organisations designed and structured to (D) following completion of the 40-month reduction
perform in peacetime internal security functions; period specified in Article VIII of the Treaty, with
information effective as of that date.
(E) declared sites that hold battle tanks, armoured
combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft or attack SECTION VIII. INFORMATION ON CHANGES IN
helicopters awaiting or being refurbished for export ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES OR FORCE LEVELS
or re-export and temporarily retained within the area
of application or used exclusively for research and 1. Each State Party shall notify all other States Parties
development shall be identified as such, and the of:
aggregate numbers in each category at that site shall (A) any permanent change in the organisational structure
be provided; and of its conventional armed forces within the area of
(F) point(s) of entry/exit associated with each declared application as notified pursuant to Section I of this
site, including geographic name and coordinates. Protocol at least 42 days in advance of that change;
and
(B) any change of 10 percent or more in anyone of the
categories of conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty assigned to any of
its combat, combat support or combat service
 support formations and units down to the brigade/ (C) conventional armaments and equipment limited by
regiment, wing/air regiment, independent or the Treaty in service with its conventional armed
separately located battalion/squadron or equivalent forces within the area of application which exit and
level as notified in Section III, paragraph 1, re-enter the area of application, including for
subparagraphs (A) and (B) and paragraph 2, purposes such as training or military activities,
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this Protocol since the within a seven-day period shall not be subject to the
last annual exchange of information. Such reporting provisions in this Section.
notification shall be given no later than five days
after such change occurs, indicating actual holdings SECTION XI. CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND
after the notified change. EQUIPMENT IN TRANSIT THROUGH THE AREA OF
APPLICATION
SECTION IX. INFORMATION ON THE ENTRY INTO
AND REMOVAL FROM SERVICE WITH THE 1. The provisions of this Protocol shall not apply to
CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES OF A STATE conventional armaments and equipment that are in transit
PARTY OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND through the area of application from a location outside the
EQUIPMENT LIMITED BY THE TREATY area of application to a final destination outside the area of
application. Conventional armaments and equipment in the
1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States categories specified in Section III of this Protocol which
Parties following entry into force of the Treaty coincident entered the area of application in transit shall be reported
with each annual exchange of information provided pursuant to this Protocol if they remain within the area of
pursuant to Section VII, paragraph 1, subparagraph (C) of application for a period longer than seven days.
this Protocol:
(A) aggregate information on the numbers and types of SECTION XII. FORMAT FOR THE PROVISION OF
conventional armaments and equipment limited by INFORMATION
the Treaty which entered into service with its 1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
conventional armed forces within the area of Parties the information specified in this Protocol in
application during the previous 12 months; and accordance with the procedures set forth in Article XVII of
(B) aggregate information on the numbers and types of the Treaty and the Annex on Format. In accordance with
conventional armaments and equipment limited by Article XVI, paragraph 5 of the Treaty, changes to the
the Treaty which have been removed from service Annex on Format shall be deemed improvements to the
with its conventional armed forces within the area of viability and effectiveness of the Treaty relating only to
application during the previous 12 months. minor matters of a technical nature.

SECTION X. INFORMATION ON ENTRY INTO AND SECTION XIII. OTHER NOTIFICATIONS PURSUANT
EXIT FROM THE AREA OF APPLICATION OF TO THE TREATY
CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT 1. After signature of the Treaty and prior to its entry
LIMITED BY THE TREATY IN SERVICE WITH THE into force, the Joint Consultative Group shall develop a
CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES OF THE STATES document relating to notifications required by the Treaty.
PARTIES Such document shall list all such notifications, specifying
1. Each State Party shall provide annually to all other those that shall be made in accordance with Article XVII of
States Parties following entry into force of the Treaty and the Treaty, and shall include appropriate formats, as
coincident with each annual exchange of information necessary, for such notifications. In accordance with Article
provided pursuant to Section VII, paragraph 1, XVI, paragraph 5 of the Treaty, changes to this document,
subparagraph (C) of this Protocol: including any formats, shall be deemed to be improvements
to the viability and effectiveness of the Treaty relating only
(A) aggregate information on the numbers and types of to minor matters of a technical nature.
each category of conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty in service with its
conventional armed forces that have entered the area ANNEX ON THE FORMAT FOR THE
of application within the last 12 months and whether EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
any of these armaments and equipment were
organised in a formation or unit; 1. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties information pursuant to the Protocol on Information
(B) aggregate information on the numbers and types of Exchange, hereinafter referred to as the Protocol, in
each category of conventional armaments and accordance with the formats specified in this Annex. The
equipment limited by the Treaty in service with its information in each data listing shall be provided in
conventional armed forces that have been removed mechanically or electronically printed form and in one of the
from, and remain outside of, the area of application six official languages of the Conference on Security and
within the last 12 months and the last reported Cooperation in Europe. In each table (column a), each data
locations within the area of application of such entry shall be assigned a sequential line number.
conventional armaments and equipment; and
2. Each set of listings sha"1I begin with a cover page
showing the name of the State Party providing the listings,
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the language in which the listings are being provided, the 2. Data on armoured combat vehicles shall include the
date on which the listings are to be exchanged and the total numbers of heavy armament combat vehicles,
effective date of the information set forth in the listings. armoured infantry fighting vehicles and armoured personnel
carriers, and their number (column fie) and type (column e/
SECTION I. INFORMATION ON THE STRUCTURE OF d) in each of these subcategories (column d/c).
LAND FORCES AND AIR AND AIR DEFENCE 3. In the case of battle tanks, armoured combat
AVIATION FORCES WITHIN THE AREA OF vehicles, artillery and armoured vehicle launched bridges,
APPLICATION stored in accordance with Article X of the Treaty, the total
1. Pursuant to Section I of the Protocol, each State of such equipment in designated permanent storage sites
Party shall provide information on the command shall be specified (column g).
organisation of its land forces, including air defence
formations and units subordinated at or below the military Chart IIA: OVERALL HOLDINGS OF BATTLE TANKS,
district or equivalent level, and air and air defence aviation ARMOURED COMBAT VEHICLES AND ARTILLERY
forces in the form of two separate hierarchical data listings SUBJECT TO NUMERICAL LIMITATION OF (State
as set forth in Chart I. Party) VALID AS OF (date)
2. The data listings shall be provided beginning at the
highest level and proceeding through each level of command Chart lIB: OVERALL HOLDINGS OF COMBAT
down to the level of brigade/regiment, independent AIRCRAFT AND ATTACK HELICOPTERS SUBJECT TO
battalion, and wing/air regiment, independent squadron or NUMERICAL LIMITATION OF (State Party)
their equivalent. For example, a military district/army/corps VALID AS OF (date)
would be followed by any subordinate independent
regiments, independent battalions, depots, training SECTION III. INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION,
establishments, then each subordinate division with its NUMBERS, AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL
regimentslindependent battalions. After all the subordinate ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT IN SERVICE WITH
organisations are listed, entries shall begin for the next THE CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES
military district/army/corps. An identical procedure shall be 1. Each State Party shall provide a hierarchical data
followed for air and air defence aviation forces. listing of all its land forces' and air and air defence aviation
(A) Each organisation shall be identified (column b) forces' organisations reported pursuant to Section III,
by a unique designator (i.e., formation or unit record paragraph 1 of the Protocol, formations and units reported
number) which shall be used on subsequent listings pursuant to Section III, paragraph 2 of the Protocol and
with that organisation and for all subsequent installations at which conventional armaments and
information exchanges; its national designation (i.e., equipment are held as specified in Section III, paragraph 3 of
name) (column c); and, in the case of divisions, the Protocol.
brigades/regiments, independent battalions, and 2. For each organisation and installation, the
wings/air regiments, independent squadrons or information shall reflect:
equivalent organisations, where appropriate, the
formation or unit type (e.g., infantry, tank, artillery, (A) the formation or unit record number (column b)
fighter, bomber, supply); and and designation of the organisation (column c)
reported in Chart I. Separately located battalions/
(B) for each organisation, the two levels of command squadrons specified pursuant to paragraph 1 of this
within the area of application immediately superior Section, formations and units reported pursuant to
to that organization shall be designated (columns d Section III, paragraph 2 of the Protocol and
and e). installations listed in accordance with Section III,
paragraph 3 of the Protocol shall also be given a
Chart I: COMMAND ORGANISATION OF THE LAND unique formation or unit record number (column b),
FORCES AND AIR AND AIR DEFENCE AVIATION and their national designation (i.e., name), (column
FORCES OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (date) c) shall be provided. Their position on the listing
shall reflect their subordination with the exception of
SECTION II. INFORMATION ON OVERALL formations and units reported pursuant to Section
HOLDINGS OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND III, paragraph 2 of the Protocol, which shall be
EQUIPMENT SUBJECT TO NUMERICAL specified together at the conclusion of the listing:
LIMITATIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLES IV AND V OF
THE TREATY (1) designated permanent storage sites shall be
identified with the notation "DPSS" following
1. Pursuant to Section II of the Protocol, each State the national designation; and
Party shall provide data on its overall holdings by type of
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and artillery (Chart (2) reduction sites shall be identified with the
IIA) subject to the numerical limitations set forth in Articles notation "reduction" following the national
IV and V of the Treaty (column b), and on its overall designation;
holdings by type of combat aircraft and attack helicopters (B) location (column d), including the geographic name
(Chart lIB) subject to the numerical limitations set forth in and coordinates accurate to the nearest 10 seconds.
Article IV of the Treaty (column b).
 For locations containing stationed forces, the host paragraph 1, subparagraph (A), sub-
State Party shall also be included; subparagraphs (1), (3) and (5) of the Protocol,
the geographic name and coordinates accurate
(C) for each level of command from the highest down to
to the nearest 10 seconds of sites containing
the division/air division level, the overall total of such equipment; and
conventional armaments and equipment in each
category (columns f to m/I). For example, the overall (2) in respect of conventional armaments and
total held by a division would be the sum of the equipment reported pursuant to Section IV,
holdings of all its subordinate organisations; and paragraph 1, subparagraph (A), sub-
subparagraph (2) of the Protocol, the national
(D) for each level of command at the division level and
designation of the administrative region or
below as specified in paragraph 1 of this Section, the
division containing such equipment;
number of conventional armaments and equipment
by type under the headings specified in Charts IlIA (C) in respect of conventional armaments and equipment
and I1IB (columns f to m/I). In the armoured combat reported pursuant to Section IV, paragraph 1,
vehicle column in Chart IlIA (column g), the subparagraph (A), sub-subparagraphs (1) and (2) of
subcategories (i.e., armoured personnel carriers, the Protocol, the national-level designation of
armoured infantry fighting vehicles, heavy armament organisations holding the equipment specified
combat vehicles) shall be presented separately. In the (column c); and
attack helicopter column (column k/i), the
subcategories (i.e., specialised attack, multi-purpose (D) for each location, the number by type under the
attack) shall be presented separately. The column (I) headings specified in Chart IV (columns d to h),
labelled "other" in Chart I1IB shall include battle except as follows:
tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, armoured in respect of conventional armaments and
personnel carrier look-a likes, armoured infantry equipment reported pursuant to Section IV,
fighting vehicle look-alikes, and armoured vehicle paragraph 1, subparagraph (A), sub-
launched bridges, if any, in service with the air and subparagraph (2) of the Protocol, only the
air defence aviation forces. numbers in each category shall be provided
solely for the administrative region or division
Chart IlIA: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION, specified (column c).
NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED Chart IV: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF
PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE PROTOCOL ON CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT
INFORMATION EXCHANGE OF (State Party) PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SECTION IV OF THE
VALID AS OF (date) PROTOCOL ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE OF (State
Party) VALID AS OF (date)
Chart IIIB: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION,
NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL SECTION V. INFORMATION ON OBJECTS OF
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED VERIFICATION AND DECLARED SITES
PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE PROTOCOL ON
INFORMATION EXCHANGE OF (State Party) 1. Pursuant to Section V of the Protocol, each State
VALID AS OF (date) Party shall provide a listing of its objects of verification and
declared sites, as defined in Section I of the Protocol on
SECTION IV. INFORMATION ON CONVENTIONAL Inspection. Declared sites (Chart V) shall be listed in
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT NOT IN SERVICE alphabetical order.
WITH THE CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES 2. Information about each declared site shall include:
PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SECTION IV OF THE
PROTOCOL ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE (A) a unique designator (i.e., declared site record
number) (column b) which shall be used with that
1. Pursuant to Section IV of the Protocol, each State site for all subsequent information exchanges;
Party shall provide information on the location, number and
type of its battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, (B) the site's name and location using geographic name
combat aircraft and attack helicopters within the area of and coordinates accurate to the nearest 10 seconds
application but not in service with its conventional armed (column c). For locations containing objects of
forces. verification of stationed forces, the host State Party
shall also be included;
2. For each location, the information shall reflect:
(C) the point(s) of entry/exit associated with the declared
(A) the provision of Section IV of the Protocol pursuant site (column d);
to which the information is being provided (column
b); (D) a unique sequential number and the designation and
formation or unit record number of all objects of
(B) the location (column c): verification stationed at the declared site as specified
(1) in respect of conventional armaments and in Section III of this Annex (column e). Unique
equipment reported pursuant to Section IV, sequential numbers shall be assigned such that the
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AI'I'INDIX A: TRHT) ON C()1'\H1'\II()1'\AL AR.\lID f()RCI-~ 11'\ b!RO!'1 2?\1

number assigned to the last object of verification (c) equipment awaiting or being refurbished
appearing in the listing shall equal the State Party's for export or re-export, with the notation
total number of objects of verification; and "export";
(E) the overall number of conventional armaments and (d) reduced equipment awaiting conversion,
equipment in each category specified in Section III of with the notation "reduced"; and
the Protocol held at the declared site and by each
object of verification (columns f to p) and specifying, (e) equipment used exclusively for research and
in addition: development, with the notation "research."

(1) conventional armaments and equipment held in Chart V: INFORMATION ON OBJECTS OF

each category on the declared site belonging to VERIFICATION AND DECLARED SITES OF (State Party)
an object of verification located at another VALID AS OF (date)
declared site, specifying the designation and
formation or unit record number of each such 3. Each State Party shall provide a listing of points of
object of verification (column e); and entry/exit (Chart VI). The listing shall assign a unique
sequential numerical designator (column b) which shall be
(2) conventional armaments and equipment not used to indicate the point(s) of entry/exit for each site
belonging to an object of verification shall be provided pursuant to paragraph 2, subparagraph (C) of this
identified with the following notations Section. The location shall include the geographic name
immediately following/below each such entry in (column c) and coordinates accurate to the nearest 10
columns f to p: seconds (column d). The type(s) of transportation
(a) equipment held by organisations designed acceptable-"air," "sea," "ground"-for each point of
and structured to perform in peacetime entry/exit also shall be specified (column e).
internal security functions, with the
notation "security"; Chart VI: POINTS OF ENTRY/EXIT (POE) OF (State
Party) VALID AS OF (date)
(b) decommissioned equipment, with the
notation "decommissioned";
Chart I: COMMAND ORGANISATION OF THE LAND FORCES AND AIR AND AIR DEFENCE AVIATION
FORCES OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Subordination

Line Formation or Designation of

Number Unit Record Number Formation of Unit 1st Higher Echelon 2nd Higher Echelon

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

Chart IIA: OVERALL HOLDINGS OF BATTLE TANKS, ARMOURED COMBAT VEHICLES AND ARTILLERY
SUBJECT TO NUMERICAL LIMITATION OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Overall Number
(including in Number in
Line Number Area Category Sub-Category Type(s) DPSSs) DPSSs
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g)

Chart liB: OVERALL HOLDINGS OF COMBAT AIRCRAFT AND ATTACK HELICOPTERS SUBJECT TO
NUMERICAL LIMITATION OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Line Number Category Sub-Category Type Overall Number

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

Chart IliA: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION, NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED
PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE PROTOCOL ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Formation
or Unit Designation NOT Armoured Combat Unarmed
Line Record of Formation Peacetime USED Battle Combat APC &AIFV Attack Support Transport
Number Number or Unit Location Tanks Vehicles Look-Alikes Artillery AVLBs Helicopters Helicopters Helicopters
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (I) (m)
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Chart IIIB: INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION, NUMBERS AND TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED n
-l
PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE PROTOCOL ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date) C
Z
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n
Formation -<
or Unit Designation NOT Reclassified Primary Combat Unarmed
Line Record of Formation Peacetime USED Combat CCT Trainer Attack Support Transport
Number Number or Unit Location Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Helicopters Helicopters Helicopters Other
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (I)
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Chart V: INFORMATION ON OBJECTS OF VERIFICATION AND DECLARED SITES OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Declared
Site Armoured APC& Combat Unarmed Reclassified Primary
Line Record Point of Object of Battle Combat AIFV Attack Support Transport Combat CCT Trainer
Number Number Location Entry/Exit Verification Tanks Vehicles Look-Alikes Artillery AVLBs Helicopters Helicopters Helicopters Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft
(a) (b) (c) "----- (d)
(d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (I) (m) (n) (0) (p)
Chart VI: POINTS OF ENTRY/EXIT (POE) OF (State Party) VALID AS OF (Date)

Line Number POE Record Number Name of POE Location Type(s)

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

 PROTOCOL ON EXISTING TYPES OF EBR-ETT
CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND M3A1
YP40S
EQUIPMENT BLR
The States Parties hereby agree upon: (a) lists, valid as of VIB
the date of Treaty signature, of existing types of LVTP-7
conventional armaments and equipment subject to the 6614/G
measures of limitation, reduction, information exchange and BTR-152
verification; (b) procedures for the provision of technical BTR-50
data and photographs relevant to such existing types of BTR-60
conventional armaments and equipment; and (c) procedures BTR-70
for updating the lists of such existing types of conventional MT-LB"
armaments and equipment, in accordance with Article II of All models and versions of an existing type of armoured
the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of personnel carrier listed above shall be deemed to be
November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty. armoured personnel carriers of that type, unless such models
and versions are included in the armoured personnel carrier
SECTION I. EXISTING TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL look-alike list in Section II, paragraph 1 of this Protocol.
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT LIMITED BY THE
TREATY ". This multi-purpose lightly armoured vehicle may be
exceptionally modified within 40 months of entry into force
1. Existing types of battle tanks are: of the Treaty into an armoured personnel carrier look-alike
M-1 T-34 listed in Section II, paragraph 1 of this Protocol as MT-LB-
M-60 T-54 AT by alteration of the interior of the vehicle through the
M-4S T-55 removal of the left-hand combat infantry squad seating and
M-47 'T-62 the welding of the ammunition racking to the side and the
Leopard 1 T-64 floor at a minimum of six points so that the vehicle is not
Leopard 2 T-72 capable of transporting a combat infantry squad. Such
AMX-30 T-SO modifications may be accomplished at locations other than
Challenger TR-S5 reduction sites. MT-LB armoured personnel carriers that
Chieftain TR-5S0 have not been modified shall be reported in accordance with
Centurion the Protocol on Information Exchange as armoured
M-41 personnel carriers.
NM-116 (B) Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles:
T-54
T-55 YPR-765 (25mm) BMP-l/BRM-1
T-72 Marder BMP-2
AMX-10P BMP-23
All models and versions of an existing type of battle tank Warrior MU-S4
listed above shall be deemed to be battle tanks of that type. M2/M3 Bradley BMD-1
2. Existing types of armoured combat vehicles are: AFV 432 Rarden BMD-2
NM-135 BMP-3
(A) Armoured Personnel Carriers: BMP-l/BRM-1
BMP-2
YPR-765 BTR-40
AMX-13 VTT BTR-152 All models and versions of an existing type of an
Ml13 BTR-50 armoured infantry fighting vehicle listed above shall be
M75 BTR-60 deemed to be armoured infantry fighting vehicles of that
Spartan OT-62 (TOPAS) type, unless such models and versions are included in the
Grizzly OT-64 (SKOT) armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alike list in Section
Tpz-1 Fuchs OT-90 II, paragraph 2 of this Protocol.
VAB FUG D-442
(C) Heavy Armament Combat Vehicles:
M59 BTR-70
Leonidas BTR-SO AMX-10RC PT-76
VCC1 BTR-D ERC 90 Sagaye SU-76
VCC2 TAB-77 BMR-625-90 SU-100
Saxon OT-S10 Commando V150 ISU-152
AFV 432 PSZH D-944 Scorpion
Saracen TABC-79 Saladin
Humber TAB-71 JPK-90
BDX MLVM M-24
BMR-600 MT-LB" AMX-13
Chaimite V200 EBR-75 Panhard
V150S PT-76
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ApPENDIX A: TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE 291

All models and versions of an existing type of heavy or on Ml13 armored

armament combat vehicle listed above shall be deemed to be vehicle) 160mm: M160
heavy armament combat vehicles of that type. Ecia Mod L (ground
mounted M-L or 240mm: M240
3. Existing types of artillery are: mounted on either the 2S4 SP Mortar
BMR-600 or Ml13
(A) Guns, Howitzers and Artillery Pieces Combining the armoured vehicle)
Characteristics of Guns and Howitzers: HY12 (Tosam)
2Bll (2S12)
105mm: 105 Light Gun 100mm: BS-3 Field Gun
M18 Model 53 Field Gun (C) Multiple Launch Rocket Systems:
105 Krupp Gun Skoda How (Model
105 R Metal Gun 1914/1934,1930,1934) 110mm: LARS 122mm: BM-21 (BM-21-1,BM-21V)
105 Pack How Skoda How (Model 1939) BM-21 RM-70
M 56 Pack How 122mm: RM-70 APR-21
M 101 Towed How 105mm: Schneider Field Gun APR-40
MI02 Towed How (Model 1936) 140mm: Teruel MLAS
Abbot SP Gun 130mm: M-51
MI08 SPHow 120mm: 2B16 How 227mm: MLRS RM-130
M52 SP How 2S9 SP How BM-13
105 HM-2 How R.2
M-38 Gun (Skoda) 122mm: 030 How BM-14
105 AU 50 How M-30How 140mm: BM-22/27
R58/M26 Towed How 074 How 220mm: BM-24
2S1 SP How 240mm: Uragan 9P140
122mm: 122/46 Field Gun A19 Gun (Model 31137) 280mm: Smerch
030 How Model 89 SP How 300mm:
M30How
2S1 SP How 130mm: Gun 82
All models and versions of an existing type of artillery
M-46 Gun listed above shall be deemed to be artillery of that type.
130mm: M 46 Gun 4. Existing types of combat aircraft are:
150mm: Skoda How (Model 1934)
140mm: 5.5" (139.7mm) Ceh How (Model 1937) A-7 IAR-93
Towed How A-10 IL-28
152mm: 01 How Alpha Jet A MiG-15
150mm: 150 Skoda Gun 2S3 SP How
2A65 How
AM-X MiG-17
152mm: 020 Gun-How ML20 How-Gun Buccaneer MiG-21
2S3 SP How 020 Gun-How Canberra MiG-23
Gun 81 Draken MiG-25
155mm: M1l4 Towed How 2A36 Gun F-4 MiG-27
M1l4/39 (M-139) Dana SP Gun-How M77 F-5 MiG-29
Towed How 2S5 SP Gun F-15 MiG-31
FH-70 Towed How 2S19 SP How F-16 SU-7
MI09 SP How Gun-How 85 F-18 SU-15
M198 Towed How How Model 1938
155 TRFI Gun How 81
F-84 SU-17
155 AUFI Gun F-102 SU-20
155 AMF3 Gun 203mm: B4How F-104 SU-22
155 BF50 Gun 2S7 SP Gun F-ll1 SU-24
M44SPHow G-91 SU-25
M59 Towed Gun Harrier SU-27
SP70 SP How Hunter TU-16
MI07 SP Gun Jaguar TU-22
175mm: MUS Towed How
Lightning TU-22M
203mm: MIlO SPHow
M55 SPHow MiG-21 TU-128
MiG-23 Yak-28
(B) Mortars: MiG-29
MB-339
107mm: 4.2" (ground mounted 107mm: Mortar M-1938
or on MI06 armoured
Mirage F1
vehicle) Mirage III
120mm: 2Bll (2S12) Mirage IV
120mm: Brandt (M60, M 120 Model 38/43 Mirage V
M-120-60; TundzhalTundzha Sani SP Mirage 2000
SLM-120-AM-50) Mortar (mounted on SU-22
M120 RTF 1 MT-LB) Tornado
M120 M51
SoltamlTampella Mortar Model 1982
(ground mounted B-24
 All models or versions of an existing type of combat CPSVC P-240BT
aircraft listed above shall be deemed to be combat aircraft of AICP P-24IBT
that type. AIECP E-35IBR
4.2"/MI06 Al 4.2" R-975
5. Existing types of attack helicopters are: MI068Imm MTP-2
M-1258Imm 1V18, IVI9
(A) Specialised Attack Helicopters: M125 Al 81mm IV118
M125 A2 81mm B
A-129 Mangusta Mi-24 NM-1258Imm
AH-l Cobra BTR-70 KShM
AH-64 Apache Tpz-I FUCHS HFTRSM SPR-2
Mi-24 ADCP BREM
CP ZS-88
Subject to the provisions in Section I, paragraph 3 of the ENGRCP Kh
Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation, all models or ELOKA
versions of an existing type of specialised attack helicopter NBC BTR-80 IV119
listed above shall be deemed to be specialised attack RASIT RCHM-4
helicopters of that type. M59 CP BTR-D ZD
RD
(B) Multi-Purpose Attack Helicopters: LEONIDAS I
OT-62 (TOPAS) CP
A-I09 Hirundo IAR-316 VAB PC WPTIDPT-62
Alouette III Mi-8/Mi-17 BREM
BO-I05/PAH-l BMR-600SIG R-2M
Fennec AS 550 C-2 PC R-3M
Gazelle 8Imm R-3MT
Lynx RAMT
Mi-8 SPARTAN STRIKER
SAMSON OT-64 (SKOT) CP
OH-58 Kiowa/AB-206/CH-136 CP R-3Z
Scout JAVELIN R-2M
Wessex MILAN R-3MT
R-4
Subject to the provisions in Section I, paragraphs 4 and 5 SAXON AD R-4MT
of the Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation, all models or CP R-2AM
versions of an existing type of multi-purpose attack MAINT PROPAGANDA
helicopter listed above shall be deemed to be multi-purpose RAM
attack helicopters of that type. AFV 432 CP/RA R-6
81mm WPTIDR-64
SECTION II. EXISTING TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL CYMB BREM
AFV 435 S-260 inz.
ARMAMENTS AND EQUIPMENT NOT LIMITED BY AFV 436 S-260 art.
THE TREATY AFV 439
1. Existing types of armoured personnel carrier look- OT-810 OT-810/R-112
HUMBER SQUIRT
alikes are: OT 90 VP 90
YPR-765 MILAN BTR-40 CP SARACEN SQUIRT
CP CP FUG D-442 VS
PRCOCI BTR-50 PU ADR MRP
PRCOC2 PUM OT-65/R-112
PRCOC4 P YP408 PWMR OT-65 DP
PRCOC5 PUR 82 PWCO OT-65 CH
PRMR PK(MRF) PWAT
UR-67 PWRDR PSZH D-944 CP
AMX-13 VTT MILAN PK(B) PWV
PC MTP-I MT-LB AT
BTR-152 CP BTR-50 PU KShM-R-81
MI13 MILAN PK(MRF) R-80
AlIA2 (ATGW) BTR-60 PU PK(B) 9S743
FJWTOW PU-12IPA PU-12 PI
ARTFC PAU BTR-60 PU-12IPA PU-12 1W-13-16
ARTOBS BBS BBS IW-21-25
FACONT ABS ABS lW-12
MORTFC R-137 B R-137B MP-21-25
AlE R-140 BM R-140BM AFMS
Mortar Carrier R-145 R-145 R-381T
SIG R-156 R-156 R-330P
HFTRSM R-409 BM R-409 BM Beta 3M
CP P-238BT P-238 BT SPR-1
 ",' '} \..! . \ I,;, '

P-240 BT WPT/DTP Mi-8

P-241 BT BREM OH-58 Kiowa/AB-206ICH-136
B TRI Puma
MTP-LB Sea King
MT-LB PI BRM Soval
UH-INlB/AB-204
MP-21-25 BRM 30
lW-13-16
UH-lD/lH/AB-205
AFMS TAB-71 A UH-IN/AB-212
R-3S1 T TERA-71-L Wessex
R-330 P AR
Beta 3M
5. Existing types of unarmed transport helicopters
-MTP-LB- TAB-77 A which are not equipped for the employment of weapons are:
TERA-77-L
AB47 Mi-2
RCH-S4
PCOMA
AB-4l2 Mi-26
AR Alouette II SA-365N Dauphin
TABC-79 A-POMA CH53 W-3 Sokol
TAB TCG-SO Chinook
MLVM AR Cougar AS 532 U
Dauphin AS 365 Nl
2. Existing types of armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-
Hughes 300
alikes are: NH500
WARRlORRA BMP-l KSh
REP 9S743 Puma
REC PRP-3, -4 Sea KingIH-3FIHAR 3
MP-31 SH-3D
BMP-l MTP B UH-lD/IHI AB-205
MP-31 SVO UH-lN/AB-2l2
DTB-SO
VPV 6. Existing types of armoured vehicle launched bridges
IRM are:
MTP
BREM-4, -2, -D M47 AVLB MTU
BMD-l KSh M48 AVLB MT-20
BRM-l KSh M60AVLB MT-55A
Centurion AVLB MTU-72
3. Existing types of primary trainer aircraft which are Chieftain AVLB BLG-60
designed and constructed for primary flying training and Brueckenlegepanzer Biber! BLG-67M
which may possess only limited armament capability Leopard 1 AVLB BLG-67M2
necessary for basic training in weapon delivery techniques
are:
SECTION III. TECHNICAL DATA AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Alpha Jet E 1-22
C-lOl Aviojet IAR-99 1. Technical data, in accordance with the agreed
L-29 categories in the Annex to this Protocol, together with
Fouga
L-39 photographs presenting the right or left side, top and front
Hawk
TS-ll views for each of its existing types of conventional
Jet Provost
L-39 armaments and equipment listed in Sections I and II of this
MB-326 Protocol shall be provided by each State Party to all other
PD-808 States Parties at the signature of the Treaty. In addition,
T-2 photographs of armoured personnel carrier look-alikes and
T-33/CT-133 armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes shall include a
T-37 view of such vehicles so as to show clearly their internal
T-38 configuration illustrating the specific characteristic which
distinguishes this particular vehicle as a look-alike.
4. Existing types of combat support helicopters are: Photographs in addition to those required by this paragraph
may be provided at the discretion of each State Party.
A-l09 Hirundo IAR-3l6
AB-4l2 IAR-330 2. Each existing type of conventional armaments and
Alouette II Mi-2 equipment listed in Sections I and II of this Protocol shall
Alouette III Mi-6 have a model or version of that type designated as an
Blackhawk Mi-8/Mi-17 exemplar. Photographs shall be provided for each such
Bell 47/AB 47/Sioux designated exemplar pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Section.
BO-l05 Photographs shall not be required of models and versions of
CH53 a type that have no significant externally observable
Chinook differences from the exemplar of that type. The photographs
Fennec AS 555 A of each exemplar of a type shall contain an annotation of the
Hughes 300 existing type designation and national nomenclature for all
Hughes 50010H-6 models and versions of the type that the photographs of the
2l)4 O"l-SITIC. II\~PHII()I\ A( ;F"Jc) _____ ~_ __________ ______ ~ _______ .

exemplar represent. The photographs of each exemplar of a

type shall contain an annotation of the technical data for
that type in accordance with the agreed categories in the Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles
Annex to this Protocol. In addition, the annotation shall Existing Type
indicate all models and versions of the type that the National Nomenclature
photographs of the exemplar represent. Such technical data Type and Calibre of Armaments
shall be annotated on the side view photograph.
Heavy Armament Combat Vehicles
Existing Type
SECTION IV. UPDATES OF EXISTING TYPES LISTS National Nomenclature
AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE STATES PARTIES Main Gun Calibre
1. This Protocol constitutes agreement by the States Unladen Weight
Parties only with respect to existing types of conventional 3. Artillery
armaments and equipment as well as with respect to the
categories of technical data set forth in Sections I and II of Guns, Howitzers and Artillery Pieces Combining the
the Annex to this Protocol. Characteristics of Guns and Howitzers
2. Each State Party shall be responsible for the accuracy Existing Type
of technical data for only its own conventional armaments National Nomenclature
and equipment provided in accordance with Section III of Calibre
this Protocol.
Mortars
3. Each State Party shall notify all other States Parties, Existing Type
upon the entry into service with the armed forces of that National Nomenclature
State Party within the area of application, of: (a) any new Calibre
type of conventional armaments and equipment which meets
one of the definitions in Article II of the Treaty or which Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
falls under a category listed in this Protocol, and (b) any Existing Type
new model or version of a type listed in this Protocol. At the National Nomenclature
same time, each State Party shall provide all other States Calibre
Parties with the technical data and photographs required by
Section III of this Protocol. 4. Combat Aircraft

4. As soon as possible, and in any case no later than 60 Existing Type

days following a notification pursuant to paragraph 3 of this National Nomenclature
Section, the States Parties shall initiate update actions, in
accordance with the provisions set forth in Article XVI of 5. Attack Helicopters
the Treaty and the Protocol on the Joint Consultative Group,
for the lists of existing types of conventional armaments and Existing Type
equipment in Sections I and II of this Protocol. National Nomenclature
6. Armoured Personnel Carrier Look-Alikes
ANNEX TO THE PROTOCOL ON EXISTING Existing Type
TYPES OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS National Nomenclature
AND EQUIPMENT Type and Calibre of Armaments, if any
7. Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle Look-Alikes
SECTION I. AGREED CATEGORIES OF TECHNICAL
DATA Existing Type
The following are agreed categories of technical data for National Nomenclature
each model and version of existing types of conventional Type and Calibre of Armaments, if any
armaments and equipment: 8. Primary Trainer Aircraft
1. Battle Tanks
Existing Type
National Nomenclature
Existing Type Type of Armaments, if any
National Nomenclature
Main Gun Calibre 9. Combat Support Helicopters
Unladen Weight
Existing Type
2. Armoured Combat Vehicles National Nomenclature

Armoured Personnel Carriers 10. Unarmed Transport Helicopters

Existing Type
National Nomenclature Existing Type
Type and Calibre of Armaments, if any National Nomenclature
 11. Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridges obligations of the inspected State Party as set
forth in this Protocol for the duration of the
Existing Type inspection within that inspection site where its
National Nomenclature conventional armaments and equipment limited
by the Treaty are located.
SECTION II. SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS (B) The term "stationing State Party" means a State
Photographs provided pursuant to Section III of this Party stationing conventional armaments and
Protocol shall be in black and white. The use of flash and equipment in service with its conventional armed
lighting equipment shall be allowed. The object being forces outside its own territory and within the area
photographed shall contrast with the background of the of application.
photograph. All photographs shall be of high definition, (C) The term "host State Party" means a State Party
with continuous tone and in sharp focus. Photographs receiving on its territory within the area of
measuring 13 centimetres by 18 centimetres, not including a application conventional armaments and equipment
border, shall be provided. For aspects other than overhead, in service with the conventional armed forces of
all photographs shall be taken from the same level as the another State Party stationed by that State Party.
equipment being photographed, with the camera placed
along or perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the object (D) The term "inspecting State Party" means a State
being photographed; for the top view, photographs shall Party which requests and is therefore responsible for
show the top and may show the rear aspects of the carrying out an inspection.
equipment. The object being photographed shall fill at least
(E) The term "inspector" means an individual
80 percent of the photograph in either horizontal or vertical
aspect. A reference gauge shall be included in each designated by one of the States Parties to carry out
photograph together with the object. The gauge shall have an inspection and who is included on that State
alternating half-metre sections in black and white. It shall be Party's accepted list of inspectors in accordance with
long enough to provide accurate scaling and shall be placed the provisions of Section III of this Protocol.
on or against the object or in close proximity to it. Each (F) The term "transport crew member" means an
photograph shall be labelled to provide the information individual who performs duties related to the
required by Section III, paragraph 2 of this Protocol as well operation of a transportation means and who is
as the date when the photograph was taken. included on a State Party's accepted list of transport
crew members in accordance with the provisions of
Section III of this Protocol.
PROTOCOL ON INSPECTION
(G) The term "inspection team" means a group of
The States Parties hereby agree on procedures and other inspectors designated by an inspecting State Party to
provisions governing the conduct of inspections as provided conduct a particular inspection.
for in Article XIV of the Treaty on Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred (H) The term "escort team" means a group of
to as the Treaty. individuals assigned by an inspected State Party to
accompany and to assist inspectors conducting a
SECTION I. DEFINITIONS particular inspection, as well as to assume other
responsibilities as set forth in this Protocol. In the
1. For the purposes of the Treaty: case of inspection of a stationing State Party's
conventional armaments and equipment limited by
(A) The term "inspected State Party" means a State Party the Treaty, an escort team shall include individuals
on whose territory an inspection is carried out in assigned by both the host and stationing States
compliance with Article XIV of the Treaty: Parties, unless otherwise agreed between them.
(1) in the case of inspection sites where only a (I) The term "inspection site" means an area, location
stationing State Party's conventional armaments or facility where an inspection is carried out.
and equipment limited by the Treaty are present,
such a stationing State Party shall exercise, in (J) The term "object of verification" means:
compliance with the provisions of this Protocol,
the rights and obligations of the inspected State (1) any formation or unit at the organizational
Party as set forth in this Protocol for the level of brigadelregiment, wing/air regiment,
duration of the inspection within that inspection independent battaliOn/artillery battalion,
site where its conventional armaments and independent squadron or equivalent as well as
equipment limited by the Treaty are located; and any separately located battalion/squadron or
equivalent unit at the next level of command
(2) in the case of inspection sites containing below the brigade/regiment, wing/air regiment
conventional armaments and equipment limited level holding conventional armaments and
by the Treaty of more than one State Party, each equipment limited by the Treaty at a location
such State Party shall exercise, in compliance notified pursuant to Section III, paragraph 1,
with the provisions of this Protocol, each in subparagraph (A) of the Protocol on
respect of its own conventional armaments and Information Exchange;
equipment limited by the Treaty, the rights and
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(2) any designated permanent storage site, military more objects of verification. A declared site shall
storage site not organic to formations and units consist of all territory within its man-made or
referred to in sub-subparagraph (1) of this natural outer boundary or boundaries as well as
subparagraph, independent repair or associated territory comprising firing ranges, training
maintenance unit, military training areas, maintenance and storage areas, helicopter
establishment or military airfield at which airfields and railroad loading facilities at which
conventional armaments and equipment limited battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery,
by the Treaty are notified pursuant to Section combat helicopters, combat aircraft, reclassified
III, paragraph 3, subparagraphs (A) and (B) of combat-capable trainer aircraft, armoured personnel
the Protocol on Information Exchange as being carrier look-alikes, armoured infantry fighting
permanently or routinely present; vehicle look-alikes or armoured vehicle launched
bridges are permanently or routinely present.
(3) a reduction site for conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty as notified (0) The term "specified area" means an area anywhere
pursuant to Section III, paragraph 3, on the territory of a State Party within the area of
subparagraph (C) of the Protocol on application other than a site inspected pursuant to
Information Exchange; Section VII, IX or X of this Protocol within which a
challenge inspection is conducted pursuant to Section
(4) in the case of units below the level of battalion VIII of this Protocol. A specified area shall not
holding conventional armaments and equipment exceed 65 square kilometres. No straight line
limited by the Treaty that are directly between any two points in that area shall exceed 16
subordinate to a unit or formation above the kilometres.
level of brigadelregiment or equivalent, that unit
or formation to which the units below the level (P) The term "sensitive point" means any equipment,
of battalion are subordinated shall be structure or location which has been designated to be
considered an object of verification, if it has no sensitive by the inspected State Party or the State
subordinate unit or formation at the level of Party exercising the rights and obligations of the
brigade/regiment or equivalent; and inspected State Party through the escort team and to
which access or overflight may be delayed, limited or
(5) a formation or unit holding conventional refused.
armaments and equipment subject to the Treaty,
but not in service with the conventional armed (Q) The term "point of entry/exit" means a point
forces of a State Party shall not be considered an designated by a State Party on whose territory an
object of verification. inspection is to be carried out, through which
inspection teams and transport crews arrive on the
(K) The term "military airfield" means a permanent territory of that State Party and through which they
military complex, not otherwise containing an object depart from the territory of that State Party.
of verification, at which the frequent operation, i.e.,
launch and recovery, of at least six combat aircraft (R) The term "in-country period" means the total time
or combat helicopters limited by the Treaty or spent continuously on the territory of the State Party
subject to internal inspection is routinely performed. where an inspection is carried out by an inspection
team for inspections pursuant to Sections VII and
(L) The term "military training establishment" means a VIII of this Protocol from arrival of the inspection
facility, not otherwise containing an object of team at the point of entry/exit until the return of the
verification, at which a military unit or subunit using inspection team to a point of entry/exit after
at least 30 conventional armaments and equipment completion of that inspection team's last inspection.
limited by the Treaty or more than 12 of any single
category of conventional armaments and equipment (S) The term "baseline validation period" means, for the
limited by the Treaty is organised to train military purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the
personnel. specified time period consisting of the first 120 days
following entry into force of the Treaty.
(M) The term "military storage site" not organic to
formations and units identified as objects of (T) The term "reduction period" means, for the purpose
verification means any storage site, other than of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time
designated permanent storage sites or sites period consisting of the three years following the
subordinate to organisations designed and structured 120-day baseline validation period.
for internal security purposes, holding conventional
(U) The term "residual level validation period" means,
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty
for the purpose of calculating inspection quotas, the
without respect to organisational or operational
specified time period consisting of the 120 days
status. Conventional armaments and equipment
following the three-year reduction period.
limited by the Treaty contained in such sites shall
constitute a portion of the permitted holdings (V) The term "residual period" means, for the purpose
counted in active units pursuant to Article IV of the of calculating inspection quotas, the specified time
Treaty. period following the 120-day residual level
(N) The term "declared site" means a facility or precisely validation period for the duration of the Treaty.
delineated geographic location which contains one or
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(W) The term "passive declared site inspection quota" the Treaty of both the host State Party and the
means the total number of inspections of objects of stationing State Party, the escort team shall be
verification pursuant to Section VII of this Protocol composed of representatives from both States Parties
that each State Party shall be obliged to receive when conventional armaments and equipment
within a specified time period at inspection sites limited by the Treaty of the stationing State Party are
where its objects of verification are located. actually inspected. During the inspection within that
inspection site, the host State Party shall exercise the
(X) The term "passive challenge inspection quota" rights and obligations of the inspected State Party
means the maximum number of challenge with the exception of those rights and obligations
inspections within specified areas pursuant to Section related to the inspection of the conventional
VIII of this Protocol that each State Party with armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty of
territory within the area of application shall be the stationing State Party, which shall be exercised
obliged to receive within a specified time period. by this stationing State Party.
(Y) The term "active inspection quota" means the total 4. If an inspection team requests access to a structure or
number of inspections pursuant to Sections VII and premises utilised by another State Party by agreement with
VIII of this Protocol that each State Party shall be the inspected State Party, such other State Party shall, in
entitled to conduct within a specified time period. cooperation with the inspected State Party and to the extent
(Z) The term "certification site" means a clearly consistent with the agreement on utilisation, exercise the
designated location where the certification of rights and obligations set forth in this Protocol with respect
recategorised multi-purpose attack helicopters and to inspections involving equipment or materiel of the State
reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft in Party utilising the structure or premises.
accordance with the Protocol on Helicopter 5. Structures or premises utilised by another State Party
Recategorisation and the Protocol on Aircraft by agreement with the inspected State Party shall be subject
Reclassification takes place. to inspection only when that other State Party's
(AA) The term "calendar reporting period" means a representative is on the escort team.
period of time defined in days during which the 6. Inspection teams and sub-teams shall be under the
intended reduction of the planned number of items control and responsibility of the inspecting State Party.
of conventional armaments and equipment limited
by the Treaty in accordance with Article VIII of the 7. No more than one inspection team conducting an
Treaty is to be carried out. inspection pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this Protocol
may be present at the same time at anyone inspection site.
SECTION II. GENERAL OBLIGATIONS 8. Subject to the other provisions of this Protocol, the
1. For the purpose of ensuring verification of inspecting State Party shall decide for how long each
compliance with the provisions of the Treaty, each State inspection team will stay on the territory of the State Party
Party shall facilitate inspections pursuant to this Protocol. where an inspection is to be carried out, and at how many
and at which inspection sites it will conduct inspections
2. In the case of conventional armaments and during the in-country period.
equipment in service with the conventional armed forces of a
State Party stationed in the area of application outside 9. Travel expenses of an inspection team to the point of
national territory, the host State Party and the stationing entry/exit prior to conducting an inspection and from the
State Party shall, in fulfillment of their respective point of entry/exit after completion of the last inspection
responsibilities, cooperatively ensure compliance with the shall be borne by the inspecting State Party.
relevant provisions of this Protocol. The stationing State 10. Each State Party shall be obliged to receive a number
Party shall be fully responsible for compliance with the of inspections pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this
Treaty obligations in respect of its conventional armaments Protocol not to exceed its passive declared site inspection
and equipment in service with its conventional armed forces quota for each specified time period: a 120-day baseline
stationed on the territory of the host State Party. validation period, a three-year reduction period, a 120-day
3. The escort team shall be placed under the residual level validation period and a residual period for the
responsibility of the inspected State Party: duration of the Treaty. The passive declared site inspection
quota shall be determined for each specified time period as a
(A) in the case of inspection sites at which only a percentage of that State Party's objects of verification,
stationing State Party's conventional armaments and excluding reduction sites and certification sites, located
equipment limited by the Treaty are present and are within the area of application of the Treaty:
under this State Party's command, the escort team
shall be placed under the responsibility of a (A) during the first 120 days after entry into force of the
representative of the stationing State Party for the Treaty, the passive declared site inspection quota
duration of the inspection within that inspection site shall be equal to 20 percent of a State Party's objects
where the stationing State Party's conventional of verification notified pursuant to Section V of the
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty are Protocol on Information Exchange;
located; and (B) during each year of the reduction period, after
(B) in the case of inspection sites containing completion of the initial 120-day period, the passive
conventional armaments and equipment limited by declared site inspection quota shall be equal to 10
 percent of a State Party's objects of verification 16. Inspection pursuant to Section VIII of this Protocol
notified pursuant to Section V of the Protocol on within one specified area shall count as one inspection
Information Exchange; against the passive challenge inspection quota and one
inspection against the passive declared site inspection quota
(C) during the first 120 days after completion of the
of the State Party on whose territory the inspection is
three-year reduction period, the passive declared site conducted.
inspection quota shall be equal to 20 percent of a
State Party's objects of verification notified pursuant 17. Unless otherwise agreed between the escort team and
to Section V of the Protocol on Information the inspection team, an inspection team's in-country period
Exchange; and shall, up to a total of 10 days, not exceed the total number
of hours calculated according to the following formula:
(D) each year, commencing after completion of the 120-
day residual level validation period, for the duration (A) 48 hours for the first inspection of an object of
of the Treaty, the passive declared site inspection verification or within a specified area; plus
quota shall be equal to 15 percent of a State Party's
objects of verification notified pursuant to Section V (B) 36 hours for each sequential inspection of an object
of the Protocol on Information Exchange. of verification or within a specified area.

11. Each State Party with territory within the area of 18. Subject to the limitations in paragraph 17 of this
application shall be obliged to accept challenge inspections Section, an inspection team conducting an inspection
as follows: pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this Protocol shall spend
no more than 48 hours at a declared site and no more than
(A) during the baseline validation period, during each 24 hours in inspection within a specified area.
year of the reduction period and during the residual
level validation period, up to 15 percent of the 19. The inspected State Party shall ensure that the
number of inspections of declared sites which that inspection team travels to a sequential inspection site by the
State Party is obliged to receive on its territory of its most expeditious means available. If the time between
own objects of verification as well as of objects of completion of one inspection and arrival of the inspection
verification belonging to stationing States Parties; team at a sequential inspection site exceeds nine hours, or if
and the time between completion of the last inspection
conducted by an inspection team on the territory of the State
(B) during each year of the residual period, up to 23 Party where an inspection is carried out and the arrival of
percent of the number of inspections of declared sites that inspection team at the point of entry/exit exceeds nine
which that State Party is obliged to receive on its hours, such excess time shall not count against that
territory of its own objects of verification and of inspection team's in-country period.
objects of verification belonging to stationing States
Parties. 20. Each State Party shall be obliged to accept on its
territory within the area of application simultaneously no
12. Notwithstanding any other limitations in this more than either two inspection teams conducting
Section, each State Party shall be obliged to accept a inspections pursuant to Sections VII and VIII of this Protocol
minimum of one inspection each year of its objects of or a number of inspection teams conducting inspections
verification pursuant to Section VII of this Protocol, and pursuant to Sections VII and VIII of this Protocol equal to
each State Party with territory within the area of application two percent of the total number of objects of verification
shall be obliged to accept a minimum of one inspection each that are to be inspected during a specified time period on the
year within a specified area pursuant to Section VIII of this territory of that State Party, whichever number is greater.
Protocol.
21. Each State Party shall be obliged to accept
13. Inspection pursuant to Section VII of this Protocol of simultaneously no more than either two inspection teams
one object of verification at an inspection site shall count as conducting inspections of its conventional armed forces
one inspection against the passive declared site inspection pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this Protocol or a number
quota of that State Party whose object of verification is of inspection teams conducting inspections of its
inspected. conventional armed forces pursuant to Section VII or VIII of
this Protocol equal to two percent of the total number of its
14. The proportion of inspections pursuant to Section objects of verification that are to be inspected during a
VII of this Protocol on the territory of a host State Party specified time period, whichever number is greater.
within a specified time period used to inspect objects of
verification belonging to a stationing State Party shall be no 22. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 20
greater than the proportion which that stationing State and 21 of this Section, each State Party with military
Party's objects of verification constitute of the total number districts specified in Articles IV and V of the Treaty shall be
of objects of verification located on the territory of that host obliged to accept on its territory within the area of
State Party. application simultaneously no more than two inspection
teams conducting inspections pursuant to Sections VII and
15. The number of inspections pursuant to Section VII of VIII of this Protocol within anyone of those military
this Protocol of objects of verification within a specified time districts.
period on any State Party's territory shall be calculated as a
percentage of the total number of objects of verification 23. No State Party shall be obliged to accept inspections
present on that State Party's territory. pursuant to Sections VII and VIII of this Protocol
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representing more than 50 percent of its passive declared site lists do not exceed the numbers specified in paragraph 3 of
inspection quota in a calendar year from the same State this Section. Proposed additions shall be reviewed in
Party. accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Section.
24. Each State Party shall have the right to conduct 7. A State Party may request, without right of refusal,
inspections within the area of application on the territory of deletion of any individual it wishes from lists of inspectors
other States Parties. However, no State Party shall conduct and transport crew members provided by any other State
more than five inspections annually pursuant to Sections VII Party.
and VIII of this Protocol of another State Party belonging to
8. The State Party on whose territory an inspection is
the same group of States Parties. Any such inspections shall
count against the passive declared site inspection quota of conducted shall provide to the inspectors and transport crew
the State Party being inspected. It shall otherwise be the members accepted in accordance with paragraph 5 of this
Section visas and any other documents as required to ensure
responsibility solely of each group of States Parties to
determine the allocation of inspections for each State Party that these inspectors and transport crew members may enter
and remain in the territory of that State Party for the
within its group of States Parties. Each State Party shall
notify to all other States Parties its active inspection quota: purpose of carrying out inspection activities in accordance
with the provisions of this Protocol. Such visas and any
(A) for the baseline validation period, no later than 120 other necessary documents shall be provided either:
days after signature of the Treaty;
(A) within 30 days after the acceptance of the lists or
(B) for the first year of the reduction period, no later subsequent changes in such lists, in which case the
than 60 days after entry into force of the Treaty; and visa shall be valid for a period of no less than 24
months; or
(C) for each subsequent year of the reduction period, for
the residual level validation period and for each year (B) within one hour after the arrival of the inspection
of the residual period, no later than the 15th day of team and transport crew members at the point of
January preceding each such specified time period. entry/exit, in which case the visa shall be valid for
the duration of their inspection activities.
SECTION III. PRE-INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS 9. Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each
1. Inspections conducted pursuant to the Treaty shall State Party shall provide notification to all other States
be carried out by inspectors designated in accordance with Parties of the standing diplomatic clearance number for the
paragraphs 3 to 7 of this Section. transportation means of that State Party transporting
inspectors and equipment necessary for an inspection into
2. Inspectors shall be nationals of the inspecting State and out of the territory of the State Party in which such an
Party or other States Parties. inspection is conducted. Routings to and from the
3. Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each designated point(s) of entry/exit shall be along established
State Party shall provide to all other States Parties a list of its international airways or other routes that are agreed upon
proposed inspectors and a list of its proposed transport crew by the States Parties concerned as the basis for such
members, containing the full names of inspectors and diplomatic clearance. Inspectors may use commercial flights
transport crew members, their gender, date of birth, place of for travel to those points of entry/exit that are served by
birth and passport number. No list of proposed inspectors airlines. The provisions of this paragraph relating to
provided by a State Party shall contain at any time more diplomatic clearance numbers shall not apply to such flights.
than 400 individuals, and no list of proposed transport crew 10. Each State Party shall indicate in the notification
members provided by a State Party shall contain at any time provided pursuant to Section V of the Protocol on
more than 600 individuals. Information Exchange a point or points of entry/exit in
4. Each State Party shall review the lists of inspectors respect of each declared site with its objects of verification.
and transport crew members provided to it by other States Such points of entry/exit may be ground border crossing
Parties and, within 30 days after receipt of each list, shall points, airports or seaports which must have the capacity to
provide notification to the State Party providing that list of receive the transportation means of the inspecting State
any individual whose name it wishes to be deleted from that Party. At least one airport shall be notified as a point of
list. entry/exit associated with each declared site. The location of
any point of entry/exit notified as associated with a declared
5. Subject to paragraph 7 of this Section, inspectors and site shall be such as to allow access to that declared site
transport crew members for whom deletion has not been within the time specified in Section VII, paragraph 8 of this
requested within the time interval specified in paragraph 4 of Protocol.
this Section shall be considered as accepted for the purposes
of issuing visas and any other documents in accordance with 11. Each State Party shall have the right to change the
paragraph 8 of this Section. point or points of entry/exit to its territory by notifying all
other States Parties no less than 90 days before such a
6. Each State Party shall have the right to amend its change becomes effective.
lists within one month after entry into force of the Treaty.
Thereafter, each State Party may once every six months 12. Within 90 days after signature of the Treaty, each
propose additions to or deletions from its lists of inspectors State Party shall provide notification to all other States
and transport crew members, provided that such amended Parties of the official language or languages of the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to be
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used by inspection teams conducting inspections of its (D) for each inspection at a reduction or certification
conventional armed forces. site, reference to the notification provided pursuant
to Section IX, paragraph 3 or Section X, paragraph S
SECTION IV. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO of this Protocol;
INSPECT (E) the language to be used by the inspection team,
1. The inspecting State Party shall notify the inspected which shall be a language designated in accordance
State Party of its intention to carry out an inspection with Section III, paragraph 12 of this Protocol;
provided for in Article XIV of the Treaty. In the case of (F) the language to be used for the inspection report
inspection of stationed conventional armed forces, the prepared in accordance with Section XII of this
inspecting State Party shall simultaneously notify the host Protocol; and
and stationing States Parties. In the case of inspection of
certification or reduction procedures carried out by a (G) the full names of inspectors and transport crew
stationing State Party, the inspecting State Party shall members, their gender, date of birth, place of birth
simultaneously notify the host and stationing States Parties. and passport number.
2. For inspections conducted pursuant to Sections VII 4. The States Parties notified pursuant to paragraph 1
and VIII of this Protocol, such notifications shall be made in of this Section shall acknowledge in accordance with Article
accordance with Article XVII of the Treaty no less than 36 XVII of the Treaty receipt of notification within three hours.
hours in advance of the estimated time of arrival of the Subject to the provisions set forth in this Section, the
inspection team at the point of entry/exit on the territory of inspection team shall be permitted to arrive at the point of
the State Party where an inspection is to be carried out and entry/exit at the estimated time of arrival notified pursuant
shall include: to paragraph 2, subparagraph (B) or paragraph 3,
subparagraph (B) of this Section.
(A) the point of entry/exit to be used;
S. An inspected State Party receiving a notification of
(B) the estimated time of arrival at the point of entry/ intent to inspect shall immediately upon its receipt send
exit; copies of such notification to all other States Parties in
(C) the means of arrival at the point of entry/exit; accordance with Article XVII of the Treaty.

(D) a statement of whether the first inspection shall be 6. If the State Party on whose territory an inspection is
conducted pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this to be carried out is unable to allow the entry of the
Protocol and whether the inspection will be inspection team at the estimated time of arrival, the
conducted on foot, by cross-country vehicle, by inspection team shall be permitted to enter the territory of
helicopter or by any combination of these; that State Party within two hours before or after the notified
estimated time of arrival. In such a case, the State Party on
(E) the time interval between the arrival at the point of whose territory an inspection is to be carried out shall notify
entry/exit and the designation of the first inspection the inspecting State Party of the new time of arrival no later
site; than 24 hours following the issuance of the original
(F) the language to be used by the inspection team, notification.
which shall be a language designated in accordance 7. If the inspection team finds itself delayed more than
with Section III, paragraph 12 of this Protocol; two hours beyond the notified estimated time of arrival or
(G) the language to be used for the inspection report beyond the new time of arrival communicated pursuant to
prepared in accordance with Section XII of this paragraph 6 of this Section, the inspecting State Party shall
Protocol; inform the States Parties notified pursuant to paragraph 1 of
this Section of:
(H) the full names of inspectors and transport crew
members, their gender, date of birth, place of birth (A) a new estimated time of arrival, which in no case
and passport number; and shall be more than six hours beyond the initial
estimated time of arrival or beyond the new time of
(I) the likely number of sequential inspections. arrival communicated pursuant to paragraph 6 of
this Section; and
3. For inspections conducted pursuant to Sections IX
and X of this Protocol, such notifications shall be made in (B) if the inspecting State Party desires, a new time
accordance with Article XVII of the Treaty no less than 96 interval between arrival at the point of entry/exit and
hours in advance of the estimated time of arrival of the the designation of the first inspection site.
inspection team at the designated point of entry/exit on the
territory of the State Party where an inspection is to be 8. In the event non-commercial flights are used to
transport the inspection team to the point of entry/exit, no
carried out and shall include:
less than 10 hours before the planned time of entry into the
(A) the point of entry/exit to be used; air space of the State Party on whose territory the inspection
is to be carried out, the inspecting State Party shall provide
(B) the estimated time of arrival at the point of entry/ that State Party with a flight plan in accordance with Article
exit; XVII of the Treaty. The flight plan shall be filed in
(C) the means of arrival at the point of entry/exit; accordance with the procedures of the International Civil
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Aviation Organisation applicable to civil aircraft. The structure or premises it utilises by agreement with the
inspecting State Party shall include in the remarks section of inspected State Party.
each flight plan the standing diplomatic clearance number
and the notation: "CFE inspection aircraft. Priority 8. Throughout the period in which the inspection team
clearance processing required." and transport crew remain on the territory of the State Party
where the inspection site is located, the inspected State Party
9. No more than three hours following the receipt of a shall provide or arrange for the provision of meals, lodging,
flight plan that has been filed in accordance with paragraph work space, transportation and, as necessary, medical care
8 of this Section, the State Party on whose territory an or any other emergency assistance.
inspection is to be carried out shall ensure that the flight
plan is approved so that the inspection team may arrive at 9. The State Party on whose territory an inspection is
the point of entry/exit at the estimated time of arrival. carried out shall provide accommodation, security
protection, servicing and fuel for the transportation means
of the inspecting State Party at the point of entry/exit.
SECTION V. PROCEDURES UPON ARRIVAL AT POINT
OF ENTRY/EXIT
SECTION VI. GENERAL RULES FOR CONDUCTING
1. The escort team shall meet the inspection team and INSPECTIONS
transport crew members at the point of entry/exit upon their
arrival. 1. An inspection team may include inspectors from
States Parties other than the inspecting State Party.
2. A State Party which utilises structures or premises
by agreement with the inspected State Party will designate a 2. For inspections conducted in accordance with
liaison officer to the escort team who will be available as Sections VII, VIII, IX and X of this Protocol, an inspection
needed at the point of entry/exit to accompany the team shall consist of up to nine inspectors and may divide
inspection team at any time as agreed with the escort team. itself into up to three sub-teams. In the case of simultaneous
inspections on the territory of States Parties that do not have
3. Times of arrival at and return to a point of entry/ military districts specified in Articles IV and V of the Treaty
exit shall be agreed and recorded by both the inspection or within a single military district of a State Party with such
team and the escort team. military districts, only one inspection team may divide itself
at the inspection site into three sub- teams, the others into
4. The State Party on whose territory an inspection is two sub-teams.
to be carried out shall ensure that luggage, equipment and
supplies of the inspection team are exempt from all customs 3. Inspectors and escort team members shall wear some
duties and are expeditiously processed at the point of entry/ clear identification of their respective roles.
exit.
4. An inspector shall be deemed to have assumed his or
5. Equipment and supplies that the inspecting State her duties upon arrival at the point of entry/exit on the
Party brings into the territory of the State Party where an territory of the State Party where an inspection is to be
inspection is to be carried out shall be subject to carried out and shall be deemed to have ceased performing
examination each time they are brought into that territory. those duties after leaving the territory of that State Party
This examination shall be completed prior to the departure through the point of entry/exit.
of the inspection team from the point of entry/exit to the
inspection site. Such equipment and supplies shall be 5. The number of transport crew members shall not
examined by the escort team in the presence of the exceed 10.
inspection team members. 6. Without prejudice to their privileges and immunities,
6. If the escort team determines upon examination that inspectors and transport crew members shall respect the
an item of equipment or supplies brought by inspectors is laws and regulations of the State Party on whose territory an
capable of performing functions inconsistent with the inspection is carried out and shall not interfere in the
inspection requirements of this Protocol or does not meet internal affairs of that State Party. Inspectors and transport
the requirements set forth in Section VI, paragraph 15 of crew members shall also respect regulations at an inspection
this Protocol, then the escort team shall have the right to site, including safety and administrative procedures. In the
deny permission to use that item and to impound it at the event that the inspected State Party determines that an
point of entry/exit. The inspecting State Party shall remove inspector or transport crew member has violated such laws
such impounded equipment or supplies from the territory of and regulations or other conditions governing the inspection
the State Party where an inspection is to be carried out at activities set forth in this Protocol, it shall so notify the
the earliest opportunity at its own discretion, but no later inspecting State Party, which upon the request of the
than the time when the inspection team which brought that inspected State Party shall immediately delete the name of
impounded equipment or supplies leaves the country. the individual from the list of inspectors or transport crew
members. If the individual is on the territory of the State
7. If a State Party has not participated during Party where an inspection is carried out, the inspecting State
examination of equipment of an inspection team at the Party shall promptly remove that individual from that
point of entry/exit, that State Party shall be entitled to territory.
exercise the rights of the escort team pursuant to paragraphs
5 and 6 of this Section prior to inspection at a declared site 7. The inspected State Party shall be responsible for
at which its conventional armed forces are present or of a ensuring the safety of the inspection team and transport
crew members from the time they arrive at the point of
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entry/exit until the time they leave the point of entry/exit to that has been approved by the escort team in accordance
depart the territory of that State Party. with Section V, paragraphs 5 to 7 of this Protocol.
8. The escort team shall assist the inspection team in 16. In the case of an inspection conducted pursuant to
carrying out its functions. At its discretion, the escort team Section VII or VIII of this Protocol, the inspection team shall
may exercise its right to accompany the inspection team specify on each occasion it designates the inspection site to
from the time it enters the territory of the State Party where be inspected whether the inspection will be conducted on
an inspection is to be carried out until the time it departs foot, by cross-country vehicle, by helicopter or by any
that territory. combination of these. Unless otherwise agreed, the inspected
State Party shall provide and operate the appropriate cross-
9. The inspecting State Party shall ensure that the country vehicles at the inspection site.
inspection team and each sub-team have the necessary
linguistic ability to communicate freely with the escort team 17. Whenever possible, subject to the safety
in the language notified in accordance with Section IV, requirements and flight regulations of the inspected State
paragraph 2, subparagraph (F) and paragraph 3, Party and subject to the provisions of paragraphs 18 to 21 of
subparagraph (E) of this Protocol. The inspected State Party this Section, the inspection team shall have the right to
shall ensure that the escort team has the necessary linguistic conduct helicopter overflights of the inspection site, using a
ability to communicate freely in this language with the helicopter provided and operated by the inspected State
inspection team and each sub-team. Inspectors and members Party, during inspections conducted pursuant to Sections VII
of the escort team may also communicate in other languages. and VIII of this Protocol.
10. No information obtained during inspections shall be 18. The inspected State Party shall not be obliged to
publicly disclosed without the express consent of the provide a helicopter at any inspection site that is less than 20
inspecting State Party. square kilometres in area.
11. Throughout their presence on the territory of the 19. The inspected State Party shall have the right to
State Party where an inspection is to be carried out, delay, limit or refuse helicopter overflights above sensitive
inspectors shall have the right to communicate with the points, but the presence of sensitive points shall not prevent
embassy or consulate of the inspecting State Party located on helicopter overflight of the remaining areas of the inspection
that territory, using appropriate telecommunications means site. Photography of or above sensitive points during
provided by the inspected State Party. The inspected State helicopter overflights shall be permitted only with the
Party shall also provide means of communication between approval of the escort team.
the sub-teams of an inspection team.
20. The duration of such helicopter overflights at an
12. The inspected State Party shall transport the inspection site shall not exceed a cumulative total of one
inspection team to, from and between inspection sites by a hour, unless otherwise agreed between the inspection team
means and route selected by the inspected State Party. The and the escort team.
inspecting State Party may request a variation in the selected
21. Any helicopter provided by the inspected State Party
route. The inspected State Party shall if possible grant such a
request. Whenever mutually agreed, the inspecting State shall be large enough to carry at least two members of the
Party will be permitted to use its own land vehicles. inspection team and at least one member of the escort team.
Inspectors shall be allowed to take and use on overflights of
13. If an emergency arises that necessitates travel of the inspection site any of the equipment specified in
inspectors from an inspection site to a point of entry/exit or paragraph 15 of this Section. The inspection team shall
to the embassy or consulate of the inspecting State Party on advise the escort team during inspection flights whenever it
the territory of the State Party where an inspection is carried intends to take photographs. A helicopter shall afford the
out, the inspection team shall so notify the escort team, inspectors a constant and unobstructed view of the ground.
which shall promptly arrange such travel, and if necessary,
22. In discharging their functions, inspectors shall not
shall provide appropriate means of transportation.
interfere directly with ongoing activities at the inspection site
14. The inspected State Party shall provide for use by the and shall avoid unnecessarily hampering or delaying
inspection team at the inspection site an administrative area operations at the inspection site or taking actions affecting
for storage of equipment and supplies, report writing, rest safe operation.
breaks and meals.
23. Except as provided for in paragraphs 24 to 29 of this
15. The inspection team shall be permitted to bring such Section, during an inspection of an object of verification or
documents as needed to conduct the inspection, in particular within a specified area, inspectors shall be permitted access,
its own maps and charts. Inspectors shall be permitted to entry and unobstructed inspection:
bring and use portable passive night vision devices,
(A) in the case of a specified area, within the entire
binoculars, video and still cameras, dictaphones, tape
specified area; or
measures, flashlights, magnetic compasses and lap-top
computers. The inspectors shall be permitted to use other (B) in the case of an object of verification, within the
equipment, subject to the approval of the inspected State entire territory of the declared site except within
Party. Throughout the in-country period, the escort team those areas delineated on the site diagram as
shall have the right to observe the equipment brought by belonging exclusively to another object of
inspectors, but shall not interfere with the use of equipment verification which the inspection team has not
designated for inspection.
 24. During an inspection of an object of verification or display or declare such conventional armaments and
within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this equipment to the inspection team and shall take steps to
Protocol and subject to the provisions of paragraph 25 of satisfy the inspection team that no more than the declared
this Section, inspectors shall have the right, within the areas number of such conventional armaments and equipment are
cited in paragraph 23 of this Section, to enter any location, present.
structure or area within a structure in which battle tanks,
armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat helicopters, 30. If, during an inspection of an object of verification
combat aircraft, reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft, or within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of
armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured infantry this Protocol, a helicopter of a type that is or has been on
fighting vehicle look-a likes or armoured vehicle launched the multi-purpose attack helicopter list in the Protocol on
bridges are permanently or routinely present. Inspectors Existing Types is present at an inspection site and is
shall not have the right to enter other structures or areas declared by the escort team to be a combat support
within structures the entry points to which are physically helicopter, or if an Mi-24R or Mi-24K helicopter is present
accessible only by personnel doors not exceeding two metres at an inspection site and is declared by the escort team to be
in width and to which access is denied by the escort team. limited pursuant to Section I, paragraph 3 of the Protocol
on Helicopter Recategorisation, such a helicopter shall be
25. During an inspection of an object of verification or subject to internal inspection in accordance with Section IX,
within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this paragraphs 4 to 6 of this Protocol.
Protocol, inspectors shall have the right to look into a
hardened aircraft shelter to confirm visually whether any 31. If, during an inspection of an object of verification
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat or within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of
helicopters, combat aircraft, reclassified combat-capable this Protocol, an aircraft of a specific model or version of
trainer aircraft, armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, combat-capable trainer aircraft listed in Section II of the
armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes or armoured Protocol on Aircraft Reclassification is present at an
vehicle launched bridges are present and, if so, their number inspection site and is declared by the escort team to have
and type, model or version. Notwithstanding the provisions been certified as unarmed in accordance with the Protocol
of paragraph 24 of this Section, inspectors shall enter the on Aircraft Reclassification, such an aircraft shall be subject
interior of such hardened aircraft shelters only with the to internal inspection in accordance with Section IX,
approval of the escort team. If such approval is denied and if paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Protocol.
the inspectors so request, any battle tanks, armoured combat 32. If, during an inspection of an object of verification
vehicles, artillery, combat helicopters, combat aircraft, or within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of
reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft, armoured this Protocol, an armoured vehicle declared by the escort
personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured infantry fighting team to be an armoured personnel carrier look-alike or an
vehicle look-alikes or armoured vehicle launched bridges in armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alike is present at
such hardened aircraft shelters shall be displayed outside. an inspection site, the inspection team shall have the right to
26. During an inspection of an object of verification or determine that such vehicle cannot permit the transport of a
within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of this combat infantry squad. Inspectors shall have the right to
Protocol, except as provided in paragraphs 27 to 33 of this require the doors and/or hatches of the vehicle to be opened
Section, inspectors shall have the right to have access to so that the interior can be visually inspected from outside
conventional armaments and equipment only in so far as is the vehicle. Sensitive equipment in or on the vehicle may be
necessary to confirm visually their number and type, model shrouded.
or version. 33. If, during an inspection of an object of verification
27. The inspected State Party shall have the right to or within a specified area pursuant to Section VII or VIII of
shroud individual sensitive items of equipment. this Protocol, items of equipment declared by the escort
team to have been reduced in accordance with the
28. The escort team shall have the right to deny access to provisions in the Protocol on Reduction are present at an
sensitive points, the number and extent of which should be inspection site, the inspection team shall have the right to
as limited as possible, to shrouded objects and to containers inspect such items of equipment to confirm that they have
any dimension (width, height, length or diameter) of which been reduced in accordance with the procedures specified in
is less than two metres. Whenever a sensitive point is Sections III to XII of the Protocol on Reduction.
designated, or shrouded objects or containers are present,
the escort team shall declare whether the sensitive point, 34. Inspectors shall have the right to take photographs,
shrouded object or container holds any battle tanks, including video, for the purpose of recording the presence of
armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat helicopters, conventional armaments and equipment subject to the
combat aircraft, reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft, Treaty, including within designated permanent storage sites,
armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured infantry or other storage sites containing more than 50 such
fighting vehicle look-a likes or armoured vehicle launched conventional armaments and equipment. Still cameras shall
bridges and, if so, their number and type, model or version. be limited to 35mm cameras and to cameras capable of
producing instantly developed photographic prints. The
29. If the escort team declares that a sensitive point, inspection team shall advise the escort team in advance
shrouded object or container does contain any of the whether it plans to take photographs. The escort team shall
conventional armaments and equipment specified in cooperate with the inspection team's taking of photographs.
paragraph 28 of this Section, then the escort team shall
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35. Photography of sensitive points shall be permitted Section V of the Protocol on Information Exchange;
only with the approval of the escort team. or
36. Except as provided for in paragraph 38 of this (C) at any location within 200 kilometres of the
Section, photography of interiors of structures other than preceding inspection site within the same military
storage sites specified in paragraph 34 of this Section shall district; or
be permitted only with the approval of the escort team.
(D) at the location which the inspected State Party
37. Inspectors shall have the right to take measurements claims, pursuant to Section VII, paragraph 11,
to resolve ambiguities that might arise during inspections. subparagraph (A) of this Protocol, is the temporary
Such measurements recorded during inspections shall be location of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles,
confirmed by a member of the inspection team and a artillery, combat helicopters, combat aircraft or
member of the escort team immediately after they are taken. armoured vehicle launched bridges which were
Such confirmed data shall be included in the inspection absent during inspection of an object of verification
report. at the preceding inspection site, if such conventional
armaments and equipment constitute more than 15
38. States Parties shall, whenever possible, resolve during percent of the number of such conventional
an inspection any ambiguities that arise regarding factual armaments and equipment notified in the most
information. Whenever inspectors request the escort team to recent notification pursuant to the Protocol on
clarify such an ambiguity, the escort team shall promptly Information Exchange; or
provide the inspection team with clarifications. If inspectors
decide to document an unresolved ambiguity with (E) at the declared site which the inspected State Party
photographs, the escort team shall, subject to the provision claims, pursuant to Section VII, paragraph 11,
in paragraph 35 of this Section, cooperate with the subparagraph (B) of this Protocol, is the site of origin
inspection team's taking of appropriate photographs using a for battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery,
camera capable of producing instantly developed combat helicopters, combat aircraft or armoured
photographic prints. If an ambiguity cannot be resolved vehicle launched bridges at the preceding inspection
during the inspection, then the question, relevant site which are in excess of the number provided in
clarifications and any pertinent photographs shall be the most recent notification pursuant to the Protocol
included in the inspection report in accordance with Section on Information Exchange as being present at that
XII of this Protocol. preceding inspection site, if such conventional
armaments and equipment exceed by 15 percent the
39. For inspections conducted pursuant to Sections VII number of such conventional armaments and
and VIII of this Protocol, the inspection shall be deemed to equipment so notified.
have been completed once the inspection report has been
signed and countersigned. 42. After completion of an inspection at a declared site
or within a specified area, if no sequential inspection has
40. No later than completion of an inspection at a been declared, then the inspection team shall be transported
declared site or within a specified area, the inspection team to the appropriate point of entry/exit as soon as possible and
shall inform the escort team whether the inspection team shall depart the territory of the State Party where the
intends to conduct a sequential inspection. If the inspection inspection was carried out within 24 hours.
team intends to conduct a sequential inspection, the
inspection team shall designate at that time the next 43. The inspection team shall leave the territory of the
inspection site. In such cases, subject to the provisions in State Party where it has been conducting inspections from
Section VII, paragraphs 6 and 17 and Section VIII, the same point of entry/exit at which it entered, unless
paragraph 6, subparagraph (A) of this Protocol, the otherwise agreed. If an inspection team chooses to proceed
inspected State Party shall ensure that the inspection team to a point of entry/exit on the territory of another State
arrives at the sequential inspection site as soon as possible Party for the purpose of conducting inspections, it shall have
after completion of the previous inspection. If the inspection the right to do so provided that the inspecting State Party
team does not intend to conduct a sequential inspection, has provided the necessary notification in accordance with
then the provisions in paragraphs 42 and 43 of this Section Section IV, paragraph 1 of this Protocol.
shall apply.
SECTION VII. DECLARED SITE INSPECTION
41. An inspection team shall have the right to conduct a
sequential inspection, subject to the provisions of Sections 1. Inspection of a declared site pursuant to this
VII and VIII of this Protocol, on the territory of the State Protocol shall not be refused. Such inspections may be
Party on which that inspection team has conducted the delayed only in cases of force majeure or in accordance with
preceding inspection: Section II, paragraphs 7 and 20 to 22 of this Protocol.
(A) at any declared site associated with the same point of 2. Except as provided for in paragraph 3 of this
entry/exit as the preceding inspection site or the same Section, an inspection team shall arrive on the territory of
point of entry/exit at which the inspection team the State Party where an inspection is to be carried out
arrived; or through a point of entry/exit associated under Section V of
(B) within any specified area for which the point of the Protocol on Information Exchange with the declared site
entry/exit at which the inspection team arrived is the it plans to designate as the first inspection site pursuant to
nearest point of entry/exit notified pursuant to paragraph 7 of this Section.
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3. If an inspecting State Party desires to use a ground of nine hours shall not count against that inspection team's
border crossing point or seaport as a point of entry/exit and in-country period.
the inspected State Party has not previously notified a
ground border crossing point or seaport as a point of entry/ 9. Immediately upon arrival at the declared site, the
exit pursuant to Section V of the Protocol on Information inspection team shall be escorted to a briefing facility where
it shall be provided with a diagram of the declared site,
Exchange as associated with the declared site the inspecting
State Party desires to designate as the first inspection site unless such a diagram has been provided in a previous
pursuant to paragraph 7 of this Section, the inspecting State exchange of site diagrams. The declared site diagram,
Party shall indicate in the notification provided pursuant to provided upon arrival at the declared site, shall contain an
Section IV, paragraph 2 of this Protocol the desired ground accurate depiction of the:
border crossing point or seaport as point of entry/exit. The (A) geographic coordinates of a point within the
inspected State Party shall indicate in its acknowledgement inspection site, to the nearest 10 seconds, with
of receipt of notification, as provided for in Section IV, indication of that point and of true north;
paragraph 4 of this Protocol, whether this point of entry/exit
is acceptable or not. In the latter case, the inspected State (B) scale used in the site diagram;
Party shall notify the inspecting State Party of another point (C) perimeter of the declared site;
of entry/exit which shall be as near as possible to the desired
point of entry/exit and which may be an airport notified (D) precisely delineated boundaries of those areas
pursuant to Section V of the Protocol on Information belonging exclusively to each object of verification,
Exchange, a seaport or a ground border crossing point indicating the formation or unit record number of
through which the inspection team and transport crew each object of verification to which each such area
members may arrive on its territory. belongs and including those separately located areas
where battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles,
4. If an inspecting State Party notifies its desire to use a artillery, combat aircraft, combat helicopters,
ground border crossing point or seaport as a point of entry/ reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft,
exit pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Section, it shall armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured
determine prior to such notification that there is reasonable infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes or armoured
certainty that its inspection team can reach the first declared vehicle launched bridges belonging to each object of
site where that State Party desires to carry out an inspection verification are permanently assigned;
within the time specified in paragraph 8 of this Section using
ground transportation means. (E) major buildings and roads on the declared site;
5. If an inspection team and transport crew arrive (F) entrances to the declared site; and
pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Section on the territory of
the State Party on which an inspection is to be carried out (G) location of an administrative area for the inspection
through a point of entry/exit other than a point of entry/exit team provided in accordance with Section VI,
that was notified pursuant to Section V of the Protocol on paragraph 14 of this Protocol.
Information Exchange as being associated with the declared 10. Within one-half hour after receiving the diagram of
site it desires to designate as the first inspection site, the the declared site, the inspection team shall designate the
inspected State Party shall facilitate access to this declared object of verification to be inspected. The inspection team
site as expeditiously as possible, but shall be permitted to shall then be given a pre-inspection briefing which shall last
exceed, if necessary, the time limit specified in paragraph 8 no more than one hour and shall include the following
of this Section. elements:
6. The inspected State Party shall have the right to (A) safety and administrative procedures at the
utilise up to six hours after designation of a declared site to inspection site;
prepare for the arrival of the inspection team at that site.
(B) modalities of transportation and communication for
7. At the number of hours after arrival at the point of inspectors at the inspection site; and
entry/exit notified pursuant to Section IV, paragraph 2,
subparagraph (E) of this Protocol, which shall be no less (C) holdings and locations at the inspection site,
than one hour and no more than 16 hours after arrival at the including within the common areas of the declared
point of entry/exit, the inspection team shall designate the site, of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles,
first declared site to be inspected. artillery, combat aircraft, combat helicopters,
reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft,
8. The inspected State Party shall ensure that the armoured personnel carrier look-alikes, armoured
inspection team travels to the first declared site by the most infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes and armoured
expeditious means available and arrives as soon as possible vehicle launched bridges, including those belonging
but no later than nine hours after the designation of the site to separately located subordinate elements belonging
to be inspected, unless otherwise agreed between the to the same object of verification to be inspected.
inspection team and the escort team, or unless the inspection
site is located in mountainous terrain or terrain to which 11. The pre-inspection briefing shall include an
access is difficult. In such case, the inspection team shall be explanation of any differences between the numbers of battle
transported to the inspection site no later than 15 hours tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft,
after designation of that inspection site. Travel time in excess combat helicopters or armoured vehicle launched bridges
present at the inspection site and the corresponding numbers
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provided in the most recent notification pursuant to the 17. If, during an inspection at a declared site, the
Protocol on Information Exchange, in accordance with the inspection team decides to conduct at the same declared site
following provisions: an inspection of an object of verification that had not been
previously designated, the inspection team shall have the
(A) if the numbers of such conventional armaments and right to commence such inspection within three hours of that
equipment present at the inspection site are less than designation. In such case, the inspection team shall be given
the numbers provided in that most recent a briefing on the object of verification designated for the
notification, such explanation shall include the next inspection in accordance with paragraphs 10 and 11 of
temporary location of such conventional armaments this Section.
and equipment; and
(B) if the numbers of such armaments and equipment SECTION VIII. CHALLENGE INSPECTION WITHIN
present at the inspection site exceed the numbers SPECIFIED AREAS
provided in that most recent notification, such
explanation shall include specific information on the 1. Each State Party shall have the right to conduct
origin, departure times from origin, time of arrival challenge inspections within specified areas in accordance
and projected stay at the inspection site of such with this Protocol.
additional conventional armaments and equipment. 2. If the inspecting State Party intends to conduct a
12. When an inspection team designates an object of challenge inspection within a specified area as the
verification to be inspected, the inspection team shall have first inspection after arrival at a point of entry/exit:
the right, as part of the same inspection of that object of (A) it shall include in its notification pursuant to Section
verification, to inspect all territory delineated on the site IV of this Protocol the designated point of entry/exit
diagram as belonging to that object of verification, including nearest to or within that specified area capable of
those separately located areas on the territory of the same receiving the inspecting State Party's chosen means of
State Party where conventional armaments and equipment transportation; and
belonging to that object of verification are permanently
assigned. (B) at the number of hours after arrival at the point of
entry/exit notified pursuant to Section IV, paragraph
13. The inspection of one object of verification at a 2, subparagraph (E)of this Protocol, which shall be
declared site shall permit the inspection team access, entry no less than one hour and no more than 16 hours
and unobstructed inspection within the entire territory of the after arrival at the point of entry/exit, the inspection
declared site except within those areas delineated on the site team shall designate the first specified area it wishes
diagram as belonging exclusively to another object of to inspect. Whenever a specified area is designated,
verification which the inspection team has not designated for the inspection team shall, as part of its inspection
inspection. During such inspections, the provisions of request, provide to the escort team a geographic
Section VI of this Protocol shall apply. description delineating the outer boundaries of that
14. If the escort team informs the inspection team that area. The inspection team shall have the right, as
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat part of that request, to identify any structure or
helicopters, combat aircraft, reclassified combat-capable facility it wishes to inspect.
trainer aircraft, armoured personnel carrier look-a likes, 3. The State Party on whose territory a challenge
armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-alikes or armoured inspection is requested shall, immediately upon receiving a
vehicle launched bridges that have been notified as being designation of a specified area, inform other States Parties
held by one object of verification at a declared site are which utilise structures or premises by agreement with the
present within an area delineated on the site diagram as inspected State Party of that specified area, including its
belonging exclusively to another object of verification, then geographic description delineating the outer boundaries.
the escort team shall ensure that the inspection team, as part
of the same inspection, has access to such conventional 4. The inspected State Party shall have the right to
armaments and equipment. refuse challenge inspections within specified areas.

15. If conventional armaments and equipment limited by 5. The inspected State Party shall inform the inspection
the Treaty or armoured vehicle launched bridges are present team within two hours after the designation of a specified
within areas of a declared site not delineated on the site area whether the inspection request will be granted.
diagram as belonging exclusively to one object of 6. If access to a specified area is granted:
verification, the escort team shall inform the inspection team
to which object of verification such conventional armaments (A) the inspected State Party shall have the right to use
and equipment belong. up to six hours after it accepts the inspection to
prepare for the arrival of the inspection team at the
16. Each State Party shall be obliged to account for the specified area;
aggregate total of any category of conventional armaments
and equipment limited by the Treaty notified pursuant to (B) the inspected State Party shall ensure that the
Section III of the Protocol on Information Exchange, at the inspection team travels to the first specified area by
-organisational level above brigade/regiment or equivalent, if the most expeditious means available and arrives as
such an accounting is requested by another State Party. soon as possible after the designation of the site to be
inspected, but no later than nine hours from the time
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such an inspection is accepted, unless otherwise multi-purpose attack helicopters and reclassified combat-
agreed between the inspection team and the escort capable trainer aircraft in accordance with the provisions of
team, or unless the inspection site is located in this Section, the Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation
mountainous terrain or terrain to which access is and the Protocol on Aircraft Reclassification. Such
difficult. In such case, the inspection team shall be inspections shall not count against the quotas established in
transported to the inspection site no later than 15 Section II of this Protocol. Inspection teams conducting such
hours after such an inspection is accepted. Travel inspections may be composed of representatives of different
time in excess of nine hours shall not count against States Parties. The inspected State Party shall not be obliged
that inspection team's in-country period; and to accept more than one inspection team at a time at each
certification site.
(C) the provisions of Section VI of this Protocol shall
apply. Within such specified area the escort team 2. In conducting an inspection of certification in
may delay access to or overflight of particular parts accordance with this Section, an inspection team shall have
of that specified area. If the delay exceeds more than the right to spend up to two days at a certification site,
four hours the inspection team shall have the right to unless otherwise agreed.
cancel the inspection. The period of delay shall not
count against the in-country period or the maximum 3. No less than 15 days before the certification of
time allowed within a specified area. recategorised multi-purpose attack helicopters or reclassified
combat-capable trainer aircraft, the State Party conducting
7. If an inspection team requests access to a structure or the certification shall provide to all other States Parties
premises which another State Party utilises by agreement notification of:
with the inspected State Party, the inspected State Party shall
immediately inform that State Party of such a request. The (A) the site at which the certification is to take place,
escort team shall inform the inspection team that the other including geographic coordinates;
State Party, by agreement with the inspected State Party, (B) the scheduled dates of the certification process;
shall, in cooperation with the inspected State Party and to
the extent consistent with the agreement on utilisation, (C) the estimated number and type, model or version of
exercise the rights and obligations set forth in this Protocol helicopters or aircraft to be certified;
with respect to inspections involving equipment or materiel (D) the manufacturer's serial number for each helicopter
of the State Party utilising the structure or premises. or aircraft;
8. If the inspected State Party so wishes, the inspection (E) the unit or location to which the helicopters or
team may be briefed on arrival at the specified area. This aircraft were previously assigned;
briefing is to last no more than one hour. Safety procedures
and administrative arrangements may also be covered in this (F) the unit or location to which the certified helicopters
briefing. or aircraft will be assigned in the future;
9. If access to a specified area is denied: (G) the point of entry/exit to be used by an inspection
team; and
(A) the inspected State Party or the State Party exercising
the rights and obligations of the inspected State Party (H) the date and time by which an inspection team shall
shall provide all reasonable assurance that the arrive at the point of entry/exit in order to inspect
specified area does not contain conventional the certification.
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty. If
such armaments and equipment are present and 4. Inspectors shall have the right to enter and inspect
assigned to organisations designed and structured to visually the helicopter or aircraft cockpit and interior to
perform in peacetime internal security functions in include checking the manufacturer's serial number, without
the area defined in Article V of the Treaty, the right of refusal on the part of the State Party conducting the
inspected State Party or the State Party exercising the certification.
rights and obligations of the inspected State Party 5. If requested by the inspection team, the escort team
shall allow visual confirmation of their presence, shall remove, without right of refusal, any access panels
unless precluded from so doing by force majeure, in covering the position from which components and wiring
which case visual confirmation shall be allowed as were removed in accordance with the provisions of the
soon as practicable; and Protocol on Helicopter Recategorisation or the Protocol on
(B) no inspection quota shall be counted, and the time Aircraft Reclassification.
between the designation of the specified area and its 6. Inspectors shall have the right to request and
subsequent refusal shall not count against the in- observe, with the right of refusal on the part of the State
country period. The inspection team shall have the Party conducting the certification, the activation of any
right to designate another specified area or declared weapon system component in multi-purpose attack
site for inspection or to declare the inspection helicopters being certified or declared to have been
concluded. recategorised.

SECTION IX. INSPECTION OF CERTIFICATION 7. At the conclusion of each inspection of certification,

the inspection team shall complete an inspection report in
1. Each State Party shall have the right to inspect, accordance with the provisions of Section XII of this
without right of refusal, the certification of recategorised Protocol.
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8. Upon completion of an inspection at a certification notification. Such notification shall include the designation
site, the inspection team shall have the right to depart the of the reduction site with geographic coordinates, the
territory of the inspected State Party or to conduct a scheduled date for initiation of reduction and the scheduled
sequential inspection at another certification site or at a date for completion of the reduction of conventional
reduction site if the appropriate notification has been armaments and equipment identified for reduction during
provided by the inspection team in accordance with Section the calendar reporting period. In addition, the notification
IV, paragraph 3 of this Protocol. The inspection team shall shall identify:
notify the escort team of its intended departure from the
certification site and, if appropriate, of its intention to (A) the estimated number and type of conventional
proceed to another certification site or to a reduction site at armaments and equipment to be reduced;
least 24 hours before the intended departure time. (B) the object or objects of verification from which the
9. Within seven days after completion of the items to be reduced have been withdrawn;
certification, the State Party responsible for the certification (C) the reduction procedures to be used, pursuant to
shall notify all other States Parties of the completion of the Sections III to VIII and Sections X to XII of the
certification. Such notification shall specify the number, Protocol on Reduction, for each type of conventional
types, models or versions and manufacturer's serial numbers armaments and equipment to be reduced;
of certified helicopters or aircraft, the certification site
involved, the actual dates of the certification, and the units (D) the point of entry/exit to be used by an inspection
or locations to which the recategorised helicopters or team conducting an inspection of reduction notified
reclassified aircraft will be assigned. for that calendar reporting period; and
(E) the date and time by which an inspection team must
SECTION X. INSPECTION OF REDUCTION arrive at the point of entry/exit in order to inspect
1. Each State Party shall have the right to conduct the conventional armaments and equipment before
inspections, without the right of refusal by the inspected the initiation of their reduction.
State Party, of the process of reduction carried out pursuant 6. Except as specified in paragraph 11 of this Section,
to Sections I to VIII and X to XII of the Protocol on an inspection team shall have the right to arrive at or depart
Reduction in accordance with the provisions of this Section. from a reduction site at any time during the calendar
Such inspections shall not count against the quotas reporting period, including three days beyond the end of a
established in Section II of this Protocol. Inspection teams notified calendar reporting period. In addition, the
conducting such inspections may be composed of inspection team shall have the right to remain at the
representatives of different States Parties. The inspected State reduction site throughout one or more calendar reporting
Party shall not be obliged to accept more than one periods provided that these periods are not separated by
inspection team at a time at each reduction site. more than three days. Throughout the period that the
2. The inspected State Party shall have the right to inspection team remains at the reduction site, it shall have
organise and implement the process of reduction subject the right to observe all the reduction procedures carried out
only to the provisions set forth in Article VIII of the Treaty in accordance with the Protocol on Reduction.
and in the Protocol on Reduction. Inspections of the process 7. In accordance with the provisions set forth in this
of reduction shall be conducted in a manner that does not Section, the inspection team shall have the right to freely
interfere with the ongoing activities at the reduction site or record factory serial numbers from the conventional
unnecessarily hamper, delay or complicate the armaments and equipment to be reduced or to place special
implementation of the process of reduction. marks on such equipment before reduction and to record
3. If a reduction site notified pursuant to Section III of subsequently such numbers or marks at the completion of
the Protocol on Information Exchange is used by more than the reduction process. Parts and elements of reduced
one State Party, inspections of the reduction process shall be conventional armaments and equipment as specified in
conducted in accordance with schedules of such use Section II, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Protocol on Reduction
provided by each State Party using the reduction site. or, in the case of conversion, the vehicles converted for non-
military purposes shall be available for inspection for at least
4. Each State Party that intends to reduce conventional three days after the end of the notified calendar reporting
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty shall notify period, unless inspection of those reduced elements has been
all other States Parties which conventional armaments and completed earlier.
equipment are to be reduced at each reduction site during a
8. The State Party engaged in the process of reducing
calendar reporting period. Each such calendar reporting
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
period shall have a duration of no more than 90 days and no
less than 30 days. This provision shall apply whenever Treaty shall establish at each reduction site a working
reduction is carried out at a reduction site, without regard to register in which it shall record the factory serial numbers of
whether the reduction process is to be carried out on a each item undergoing reduction as well as the dates on
continuous or intermittent basis. which the reduction procedures were initiated and
completed. This register shall also include aggregate data for
5. No less than 15 days before the initiation of each calendar reporting period. The register shall be made
reduction for a calendar reporting period, the State Party available to the inspection team for the period of inspection.
intending to implement reduction procedures shall provide
to all other States Parties the calendar reporting period
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9. At the conclusion of each inspection of the reduction Protocol. In such a case, the notification of intent to inspect
process, the inspection team shall complete a standardised shall lapse and the inspection shall be cancelled.
report which shall be signed by the inspection team leader
2. In the case of delay, due to circumstances beyond the
and a representative of the inspected State Party. The
control of the inspecting State Party, occurring after the
provisions of Section XII of this Protocol shall apply.
inspection team has arrived at the point of entry/exit and
10. Upon completion of an inspection at a reduction site, which has prevented the inspection team from arriving at the
the inspection team shall have the right to depart the first designated inspection site within the time specified in
territory of the inspected State Party or to conduct a Section VII, paragraph 8 or Section VIII, paragraph 6,
sequential inspection at another reduction site or at a subparagraph (B) of this Protocol, the inspecting State Party
certification site if the appropriate notification has been shall have the right to cancel the inspection. If an inspection
provided in accordance with Section IV, paragraph 3 of this is cancelled under such circumstances, it shall not be counted
Protocol. The inspection team shall notify the escort team of against any quotas provided for in the Treaty.
its intended departure from the reduction site and, if
appropriate, of its intention to proceed to another reduction SECTION XII. INSPECTION REPORTS
site or to a certification site at least 24 hours before the
intended departure time. 1. In order to complete an inspection carried out in
accordance with Section VII, VIII, IX or X of this Protocol,
11. Each State Party shall be obliged to accept up to 10 and before leaving the inspection site:
inspections each year to validate the completion of
conversion of conventional armaments and equipment into (A) the inspection team shall provide the escort team
vehicles for non-military purposes pursuant to Section VIII of with a written report; and
the Protocol on Reduction. Such inspections shall be (B) the escort team shall have the right to include its
conducted in accordance with the provisions of this Section written comments in the inspection report and shall
with the following exceptions: countersign the report within one hour after having
(A) the notification pursuant to paragraph 5, received the report from the inspection team, unless
subparagraph (E) of this Section shall identify only an extension has beerr agreed between the inspection
the date and time by which an inspection team must team and the escort team.
arrive at the point of entry/exit in order to inspect the 2. The report shall be signed by the inspection team
items of equipment at the completion of their leader and receipt acknowledged in writing by the leader of
conversion into vehicles for non-military purposes; the escort team.
and
3. The report shall be factual and standardised. Formats
(B) the inspection team shall have the right to arrive at or for each type of inspection shall be agreed by the Joint
depart from the reduction site only during the three Consultative Group prior to entry into force of the Treaty,
days beyond the end of the notified completion date taking into account paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Section.
of conversion.
4. Reports of inspections conducted pursuant to
12. Within seven days after the completion of the process Sections VII and VIII of this Protocol shall include:
of reduction for a calendar reporting period, the State Party
responsible for reductions shall notify all other States Parties (A) the inspection site;
of the completion of reduction for that period. Such
notification shall specify the number and types of (B) the date and time of arrival of the inspection team at
conventional armaments and equipment reduced, the the inspection site;
reduction site involved, the reduction procedures employed (C) the date and time of departure of the inspection team
and the actual dates of the initiation and completion of the from the inspection site; and
reduction process for that calendar reporting period. For
conventional armaments and equipment reduced pursuant to (D) the number and type, model or version of any battle
Sections X, XI and XII of the Protocol on Reduction, the tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat
notification shall also specify the location at which such aircraft, combat helicopters, reclassified combat-
conventional armaments and equipment will be permanently capable trainer aircraft, armoured personnel carrier
located. For conventional armaments and equipment reduced look-alikes, armoured infantry fighting vehicle look-
pursuant to Section VIII of the Protocol on Reduction, the alikes or armoured vehicle launched bridges that
notification shall specify the reduction site at which final were observed during the inspection, including, if
conversion will be carried out or the storage site to which appropriate, an indication of the object of
each item designated for conversion will be transferred. verification to which they belonged.
5. Reports of inspections conducted pursuant to
SECTION XI. CANCELLATION OF INSPECTIONS Sections IX and X of this Protocol shall include:
1. If an inspection team finds itself unable to arrive at (A) the reduction or certification site at which the
the point of entry/exit within six hours after the initial reduction or certification procedures were carried
estimated time of arrival or after the new time of arrival out;
communicated pursuant to Section IV, paragraph 6 of this
Protocol, the inspecting State Party shall so inform the States (B) the dates the inspection team was present at the site;
Parties notified pursuant to Section IV, paragraph 1 of this
 (C) the number and type, model or version of provisions of the Treaty. The immunity of inspectors and
conventional armaments and equipment for which transport crew members who are not nationals of the
the reduction or certification procedures were inspecting State Party may be waived only by the States
observed; Parties of which those inspectors are nationals. Waiver must
always be express.
(D) a list of any serial numbers recorded during the
inspections; 5. The privileges and immunities provided for in this
Section shall be accorded to inspectors and transport crew
(E) in the case of reductions, the particular reduction members:
procedures applied or observed; and
(A) while transiting through the territory of any State
(F) in the case of reductions, if an inspection team was Party for the purpose of conducting an inspection on
present at the reduction site throughout the calendar the territory of another State Party;
reporting period, the actual dates on which the
reduction procedures were initiated and completed. (B) throughout their presence on the territory of the
State Party where the inspection is carried out; and
6. The inspection report shall be written in the official
language of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in (C) thereafter with respect to acts previously performed
Europe designated by the inspecting State Party in in the exercise of official functions as an inspector or
accordance with Section IV, paragraph 2, subparagraph (G) transport crew member.
or paragraph 3, subparagraph (F) of this Protocol.
6. If the inspected State Party considers that an
7. The inspecting State Party and the inspected State inspector or transport crew member has abused his or her
Party shall each retain one copy of the report. At the privileges and immunities, then the provisions set forth in
discretion of either State Party, the inspection report may be Section VI, paragraph 6 of this Protocol shall apply. At the
forwarded to other States Parties and, as a rule, made request of any of the States Parties concerned, consultations
available to the Joint Consultative Group. shall be held between them in order to prevent a repetition
of such an abuse.
8. The stationing State Party shall in particular:
(A) have the right to include written comments related
to the inspection of its stationed conventional armed PROTOCOL ON PROCEDURES
forces; and GOVERNING THE REDUCTION OF
(B) retain one copy of the inspection report in the case
CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND
of inspection of its stationed conventional armed EQUIPMENT LIMITED BY THE TREATY ON
forces. CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN
EUROPE
SECTION XIII. PRMLEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF
INSPECTORS AND TRANSPORT CREW MEMBERS The States Parties hereby agree upon procedures
governing the reduction of conventional armaments and
1. To exercise their functions effectively, for the equipment limited by the Treaty as set forth in Article VIII of
purpose of implementing the Treaty and not for their the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of
personal benefit, inspectors and transport crew members November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty.
shall be accorded the privileges and immunities enjoyed by
diplomatic agents pursuant to Article 29; Article 30, SECTION I. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
paragraph 2; Article 31, paragraphs 1,2 and 3; and Articles REDUCTION
34 and 35 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations of April 18, 1961. 1. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by
the Treaty shall be reduced in accordance with the
2. In addition, inspectors and transport crew members procedures set forth in this Protocol and the other protocols
shall be accorded the privileges enjoyed by diplomatic agents listed in Article VIII, paragraph 1 of the Treaty. Anyone of
pursuant to Article 36, paragraph 1, subparagraph (b) of such procedures shall be deemed sufficient, when conducted
the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII of the
1961. They shall not be permitted to bring into the territory Treaty or this Protocol, to carry out reduction.
of the State Party where the inspection is to be carried out
articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law 2. Each State Party shall have the right to use any
or controlled by quarantine regulations of that State Party. technological means it deems appropriate to implement the
procedures for reducing conventional armaments and
3. The transportation means of the inspection team equipment limited by the Treaty.
shall be inviolable, except as otherwise provided for in the
Treaty. 3. Each State Party shall have the right to remove,
retain and use those components and parts of conventional
4. The inspecting State Party may waive the immunity armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty which are
from jurisdiction of any of its inspectors or transport crew not themselves subject to reduction in accordance with the
members in those cases when it is of the opinion that provisions of Section II of this Protocol, and to dispose of
immunity would impede the course of justice and that it can debris.
be waived without prejudice to the implementation of the
 4. Unless otherwise provided for in this Protocol, SECTION III. PROCEDURES FOR REDUCTION OF
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the BATTLE TANKS BY DESTRUCTION
Treaty shall be reduced so as to preclude their further use or
1. Each State Party shall have the right to choose any
restoration for military purposes.
one of the following sets of procedures each time it carries
5. After entry into force of the Treaty, additional out the destruction of battle tanks at reduction sites.
procedures for reduction may be proposed by any State
Party. Such proposals shall be communicated to all other 2. Procedure for destruction by severing:
States Parties and shall provide the details of such (A) removal of special equipment from the chassis,
procedures in the same format as the procedures set forth in including detachable equipment, that ensures the
this Protocol. Any such procedures shall be deemed operation of on-board armament systems;
sufficient to carry out the reduction of conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty upon a (B) removal of the turret, if any;
decision to that effect by the Joint Consultative Group. (C) for the gun breech system, either:

SECTION II. STANDARDS FOR PRESENTATION AT (1) welding the breech block to the breech ring in
REDUCTION SITES at least two places; or

1. Each item of conventional armaments and (2) cutting of at least one side of the breech ring
equipment limited by the Treaty which is to be reduced shall along the long axis of the cavity that receives
be presented at a reduction site. Each such item shall the breech block;
consist, at a minimum, of the following parts and elements: (D) severing of the gun tube into two parts at a distance
(A) for battle tanks: the hull, turret and integral main of no more than 100 millimetres from the breech
armament. For the purposes of this Protocol, an ring;
integral main armament of a battle tank shall be (E) severing of either of the gun trunnions and its
deemed to include the gun tube, breech system, trunnion mount in the turret;
trunnions and trunnion mounts;
(F) severing of two sections from the perimeter of the
(B) for armoured combat vehicles: the hull, turret and hull turret aperture, each constituting a portion of a
integral main armament, if any. For the purposes of sector with an angle of no less than 60 degrees and,
this Protocol, an integral main armament of an at a minimum, 200 millimetres in radial axis,
armoured combat vehicle shall be deemed to include centred on the longitudinal axis of the vehicle; and
the gun tube, breech system, trunnions and trunnion
mounts. For the purposes of this Protocol, an (G) severing of sections from both sides of the hull
integral main armament shall be deemed not to which include the final drive apertures, by vertical
include machine guns of less than 20 millimetre and horizontal cuts in the side plates and diagonal
calibre, all of which may be salvaged; cuts in the deck or belly plates and front or rear
plates, so that, the final drive apertures are
(C) for artillery: the tube, breech system, cradle contained in the severed portions.
including trunnions and trunnion mounts, trails, if
any; or launcher tubes or launcher rails and their 3. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition:
bases; or mortar tubes and their base plates. In the
case of self-propelled pieces of artillery, the vehicle (A) hull, hatches and cornerplates shall be open to
hull and turret, if any, shall also be presented; maximise venting;

(D) for combat aircraft: the fuselage; and (B) an explosive charge shall be placed inside the gun
tube where the trunnions connect to the gun mount
(E) for attack helicopters: the fuselage, including the or cradle;
transmission mounting area.
(C) an explosive charge shall be placed on the outside of
2. In each case, the item presented at the reduction site the hull between the second and third road wheels,
in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Section shall consist or between the third and fourth road wheels in a six
of a complete assembly. road wheel configuration, avoiding natural
weaknesses such as welds or escape hatches. The
3. Parts and elements of conventional armaments and charge must be located within the radius of the
equipment limited by the Treaty not specified in paragraph turret casting. A second charge shall be placed on
1 of this Section, as well as parts and elements which are the inside of the hull on the same side of the tank,
not affected by reduction under the procedures of this offset and opposite to the external charge;
Protocol, including the turrets of armoured personnel
carriers equipped only with machine guns, may be disposed (D) an explosive charge shall be placed on the inside of
of as the State Party undertaking the reduction decides. the turret casting in the area of the main armament
mounting; and
(E) all charges shall be fired simultaneously so that the
main hull and turret are cracked and distorted; the
breech block is stripped from the gun tube, fused or
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deformed; the gun tube is split or longitudinally cut; mounting areas are included in the severed portions
the gun mount or cradle is ruptured so as to be at a distance of no less than 100 millimetres from the
unable to mount a gun tube; and damage is caused cuts; and
to the running gear so that at least one of the road
wheel stations is destroyed. (D) in addition, for armoured infantry fighting vehicles
and heavy armament combat vehicles:
4. Procedure for destruction by deformation:
(1) removal of the turret;
(A) removal of special equipment from the chassis,
including detachable equipment, that ensures the (2) severing of either of the gun trunnions and its
operation of on-board armament systems; trunnion mount in the turret;

(B) removal of the turret, if any; (3) for the gun breech system:

(C) for the gun breech system, either: (a) welding the breech block to the breech ring
in at least two places;
(1) welding the breech block to the breech ring in at
least two places; or (b) cutting of at least one side of the breech
ring along the long axis of the cavity that
(2) cutting of at least one side of the breech ring receives the breech block; or
along the long axis of the cavity that receives the
breech block; (c) severing of the breech casing into two
approximately equal parts;
(D) severing of the gun tube into two parts at a distance
of no more than 100 millimetres from the breech (4) severing of the gun tube into two parts at a
nng; distance of no more than 100 millimetres from
the breech ring; and
(E) severing of either of the gun trunnions; and
(5) severing of two sections from the perimeter of
(F) the hull and turret shall be deformed so that their the hull turret aperture, each constituting a
widths are each reduced by at least 20 percent. portion of a sector with an angle of no less than
60 degrees and, at a minimum, 200 millimetres
s. Procedure for destruction by smashing: in radial axis, centred on the longitudinal axis of
(A) a heavy steel wrecking ball, or the equivalent, shall the vehicle.
be dropped repeatedly onto the hull and turret until 3. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition:
the hull is cracked in at least three separate places
and the turret in at least one place; (A) an explosive charge shall be placed on the interior
floor at the mid-point of the vehicle;
(B) the hits of the ball on the turret shall render either of
the gun trunnions and its trunnion mount (B) a second explosive charge shall be placed as follows:
inoperative, and deform visibly the breech ring; and
(1) for heavy armament combat vehicles, inside the
(C) the gun tube shall be visibly cracked or bent. gun where the trunnions connect to the gun
mount or cradle;
SECTION IV. PROCEDURES FOR THE REDUCTION OF (2) for armoured infantry fighting vehicles, on the
ARMOURED COMBAT VEHICLES BY DESTRUCTION exterior of the receiver/breech area and lower
1. Each State Party shall have the right to choose any of barrel group;
the following sets of procedures each time it carries out the (C) all hatches shall be secured; and
destruction of armoured combat vehicles at reduction sites.
(D) the charges shall be detonated simultaneously so as
2. Procedure for destruction by severing: to split the sides and top of the hull. For heavy
(A) for all armoured combat vehicles, removal of special armament combat vehicles and armoured infantry
equipment from the chassis, including detachable fighting vehicles, damage to the gun system shall be
equipment, that ensures the operation of on-board equivalent to that specified in paragraph 2,
armament systems; subparagraph (D) of this Section.

(B) for tracked armoured combat vehicles, severing of 4. Procedure for destruction by smashing:
sections from both sides of the hull which include the (A) a heavy steel wrecking ball, or the equivalent, shall
final drive apertures, by vertical and horizontal cuts be dropped repeatedly onto the hull and the turret, if
in the side plates and diagonal cuts in the deck or any, until the hull is cracked in at least three separate
belly plates and front or rear plates, so that the final places and the turret, if any, in one place;
drive apertures are contained in the severed portions;
(B) in addition, for heavy armament combat vehicles:
(C) for wheeled armoured combat vehicles, severing of
sections from both sides of the hull which include the (1) the hits of the ball on the turret shall render
front wheel final gearbox mounting areas by vertical, either of the gun trunnions and its trunnion
horizontal and irregular cuts in the side, front, deck mount inoperative, and shall deform visibly the
and belly plates so that the front wheel final gearbox breech ring; and
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(2) the gun tube shall be visibly cracked or bent. detonated, the mortar tube is ruptured in its lower
half and the base plate is severed into two
SECTION V. PROCEDURES FOR THE REDUCTION OF approximately equal parts.
ARTILLERY BY DESTRUCTION 5. Procedure for destruction by deformation of mortars
1. Each State Party shall have the right to choose any that are not self-propelled:
one of the following sets of procedures each time it carries (A) the mortar tube shall be visibly bent approximately
out the destruction of guns, howitzers, artillery pieces at its mid-point; and
combining the characteristics of guns and howitzers,
multiple launch rocket systems or mortars at reduction sites. (B) the base plate shall be bent approximately on the
centerline at an angle of at least 45 degrees.
2. Procedure for destruction by severing of guns,
howitzers, artillery pieces combining the characteristics of 6. Procedure for destruction by severing of self-
guns and howitzers, or mortars, that are not self-propelled: propelled guns, howitzers, artillery pieces combining the
characteristics of guns and howitzers or mortars:
(A) removal of special equipment, including detachable
equipment, that ensures the operation of the gun, (A) removal of special equipment, including detachable
howitzer, artillery piece combining the characteristics equipment, that ensures the operation of the gun,
of guns and howitzers or mortar; howitzer, artillery piece combining the characteristics
of guns and howitzers or mortar;
(B) for the breech system, if any, of the gun, howitzer,
artillery piece combining the characteristics of guns (B) for the breech system, if any, of the gun, howitzer,
and howitzers or mortar, either: artillery piece combining the characteristics of guns
and howitzers or mortar, either:
(1) welding the breech block to the breech ring in at
least two places; or (1) welding the breech block to the breech ring in at
least two places; or
(2) cutting of at least one side of the breech ring
along the long axis of the cavity that receives the (2) cutting of at least one side of the breech ring
breech block; along the long axis of the cavity that receives the
breech block;
(C) severing of the tube into two parts at a distance of
no more than 100 millimetres from the breech ring; (C) severing of the tube into two parts at a distance of no
more than 100 millimetres from the breech ring;
(D) severing of the left trunnion of the cradle and the
mounting area of that trunnion in the upper carriage; (D) severing of the left trunnion and trunnion mount;
and and
(E) severing of the trails, or the base plate of the mortar, (E) severing of sections of both sides from the hull which
into two approximately equal parts. include the final drive apertures, by vertical and
horizontal cuts in the side plates and diagonal cuts in
3. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition of the deck or belly plates and front or rear plates, so
guns, howitzers, or artillery pieces combining the
that the final drive apertures are contained in the
characteristics of guns and howitzers that are not self- severed portions.
propelled:
7. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition of
(A) explosive charges shall be placed in the tube, on one
self-propelled guns, howitzers, artillery pieces combining the
cradle mount in the upper carriage and on the trails, characteristics of guns and howitzers or mortars:
and detonated so that:
(A) for self-propelled guns, howitzers, artillery pieces
(1) the tube is split or longitudinally torn within 1.5 combining the characteristics of guns and howitzers
metres of the breech;
or mortars with a turret: the method specified for
(2) the breech block is torn off, deformed or battle tanks in Section III, paragraph 3 of this
partially melted; Protocol shall be applied in order to achieve results
equivalent to those specified in that provision; and
(3) the attachments between the tube and the
breech ring and between one of the trunnions of (B) for self-propelled guns, howitzers, artillery pieces
the cradle and the upper carriage are destroyed combining the characteristics of guns and howitzers
or sufficiently damaged to make them further or mortars without a turret: an explosive charge shall
inoperative; and be placed in the hull under the forward edge of the
traversing deck that supports the tube, and detonated
(4) the trails are separated into two approximately so as to separate the deck plate from the hull. For the
equal parts or sufficiently damaged to make destruction of the weapon system, the method
them further inoperative. specified for guns, howitzers, or artillery pieces
4. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition of combining the characteristics of guns and howitzers
mortars that are not self-propelled: in paragraph 3 of this Section shall be applied in
order to achieve results equivalent to those specified
explosive charges shall be placed in the mortar tube in that provision.
and on the base plate so that, when the charges are
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8. Procedure for destruction by smashing of self- (A) each State Party shall have the right to reduce by use
propelled guns, howitzers, artillery pieces combining the as target drones no more than 200 combat aircraft
characteristics of guns and howitzers or mortars: during the 40-month reduction period;
(A) a heavy steel wrecking ball, or the equivalent, shall be (B) the target drone shall be destroyed in flight by
dropped repeatedly onto the hull and turret, if any, munitions fired by the armed forces of the State Party
until the hull is cracked in at least three separate owning the target drone;
places and the turret in at least one place;
(C) if the attempt to shoot down the target drone fails
(B) the hits of the ball on the turret shall render either of and it is subsequently destroyed by a self-destruct
the trunnions and its trunnion mount inoperative, mechanism, the procedures of this paragraph shall
and deform visibly the breech ring; and continue to apply. Otherwise the target drone may be
recovered or may be claimed destroyed by accident in
(C) the tube shall be visibly cracked or bent at accordance with Section IX of this Protocol,
approximately its mid-point. depending on the circumstances; and
9. Procedure for destruction by severing of multiple (D) notification of destruction shall be made to all other
launch rocket systems: States Parties. Such notification shall include the type
(A) removal of special equipment from the multiple of the destroyed target drone and the location where
launch rocket system, including detachable it was destroyed. Within 90 days of the notification,
equipment, that ensures the operation of its combat the State Party claiming such reduction shall send
systems; and documentary evidence, such as a report of the
investigation, to all other States Parties. In the event
(B) removal of tubes or launch rails, screws (gears) of of ambiguities relating to the destruction of a
elevation mechanism sectors, tube bases or launch particular target drone, reduction shall not be
rail bases and their rotatable parts and severing them considered complete until final resolution of the
into two approximately equal parts in areas that are matter.
not assembly joints.
10. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition of SECTION VII. PROCEDURES FOR THE REDUCTION
multiple launch rocket systems: OF ATTACK HELICOPTERS BY DESTRUCTION

a linear shaped charge shall be placed across the 1. Each State Party shall have the right to choose any
tubes or launcher rails, and tube or launcher rail one of the following sets of procedures each time it carries
bases. When detonated, the charge shall sever the out the destruction of attack helicopters at reduction sites.
tubes or launcher rails, tube or launcher rail bases 2. Procedure for destruction by severing:
and their rotatable parts, into two approximately
equal parts in areas that are not assembly joints. (A) the tail boom or tail part shall be severed from the
fuselage so that the assembly joint is contained in the
11. Procedure for destruction by deformation of multiple severed portion; and
launch rocket systems:
(B) at least two transmission mounts on the fuselage shall
all tubes or launcher rails, tube or launcher rail bases be severed, fused or deformed.
and the sighting system shall be visibly bent at
approximately the mid-point. 3. Procedure for destruction by explosive demolition:
any type and number of explosives may be used so that, at a
SECTION VI. PROCEDURES FOR THE REDUCTION OF minimum, after detonation the fuselage is cut into two pieces
COMBAT AIRCRAFT BY DESTRUCTION through that section of the fuselage that contains the
transmission mounting area.
1. Each State Party shall have the right to choose any
one of the following sets of procedures each time it carries 4. Procedure for destruction by deformation: the
out the destruction of combat aircraft at reduction sites. fuselage shall be deformed throughout by compression so
that its height, width or length is reduced by at least 30
2. Procedure for destruction by severing: percent.
the fuselage of the aircraft shall be divided into three
parts not on assembly joints by severing its nose SECTION VIII. RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR
immediately forward of the cockpit and its tail in the REDUCTION OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS
central wing section area so that assembly joints, if AND EQUIPMENT LIMITED BY THE TREATY BY
there are any in the areas to be severed, shall be CONVERSION FOR NON-MILITARY PURPOSES
contained in the severed portions. 1. Each State Party shall have the right to reduce a
3. Procedure for destruction by deformation: certain number of battle tanks and armoured combat vehicles
by conversion. The types of vehicles that may be converted
the fuselage shall be deformed throughout by are listed in paragraph 3 of this Section and the specific non-
compression, so that its height, width or length is military purposes for which they may be converted are listed
reduced by at least 30 percent. in paragraph 4 of this Section. Converted vehicles shall not
be placed in service with the conventional armed forces of a
4. Procedure for destruction by use as target drones:
State Party.
 2. Each State Party shall determine the number of battle Parties at least 15 days in advance in accordance with
tanks and armoured combat vehicles it will convert. This Section X, paragraph 5 of the Protocol on Inspection. It shall
number shall not exceed: specify the number and types of vehicles to be converted, the
starting date and completion date of conversion, as well as
(A) for battle tanks, 5.7 percent (not to exceed 750 the specific non-military purpose vehicles to emerge after
battle tanks) of the maximum level for holdings of conversIOn.
battle tanks it notified at the signature of the Treaty
pursuant to Article VII of the Treaty, or 150 items 6. The following procedures shall be carried out before
whichever is the greater; and conversion of battle tanks and armoured combat vehicles at
reduction sites:
(B) for armoured combat vehicles, 15 percent (not to
exceed 3,000 armoured combat vehicles) of the (A) for battle tanks:
maximum level for holdings of armoured combat
(1) removal of special equipment from the chassis,
vehicles it notified at the signature of the Treaty
including detachable equipment, that ensures
pursuant to Article VII of the Treaty, or 150 items
the operation of on-board armament systems;
whichever is the greater.
(2) removal of the turret, if any;
3. The following vehicles may be converted for non-
military purposes: T-54, T-55, T-62, T-64, T-72, Leopard 1, (3) for the gun breech system, either:
BMP-1, BTR-60, OT-64. The States Parties, within the
framework of the Joint Consultative Group, may make (a) welding the breech block to the breech ring
changes to the list of vehicles which may be converted to in at least two places; or
non-military purposes. Such changes, pursuant to Article (b) cutting of at least one side of the breech
XVI, paragraph 5 of the Treaty shall be deemed ring along the long axis of the cavity that
improvements to the viability and effectiveness of the Treaty receives the breech block;
relating only to minor matters of a technical nature.
(4) severing of the gun tube into two parts at a
4. Such vehicles shall be converted for the following distance of no more than 100 millimetres from
specific non- military purposes: the breech ring;
(A) general purpose prime movers; (5) severing of either of the gun trunnions and its
(B) bulldozers; trunnion mount in the turret; and

(C) fire fighting vehicles; (6) cutting out and removal of a portion of the hull
top armour beginning from the front glacis to
(D) cranes; the middle of the hull turret aperture, together
with the associated portions of the side armour
(E) power unit vehicles;
at a height of no less than 200 millimetres (for
(F) mineral fine crushing vehicles; the T-64 and T-72, no less than 100 millimetres)
below the level of the hull top armour, as well as
(G) quarry vehicles; the associated portion of the front glacis plate
(H) rescue vehicles; severed at the same height. The severed portion
of this front glacis plate shall consist of no less
(I) casualty evacuation vehicles; than the upper third; and
(J) transportation vehicles; (B) for armoured combat vehicles:
(K) oil rig vehicles; (1) for all armoured combat vehicles, removal of
(L) oil and chemical product spill cleaning vehicles; special equipment from the chassis, including
detachable equipment, that ensures the
(M) tracked ice breaking prime movers; operation of on- board armament systems;
(N) environmental vehicles. (2) for rear-engined vehicles, cutting out and
removal of a portion of the hull top armour
The States Parties, within the framework of the Joint from the front glacis to the bulkhead of the
Consultative Group, may make changes to the list of specific engine-transmission compartment, together with
non-military purposes. Such changes, pursuant to Article the associated portions of the side and front
XVI, paragraph 5 of the Treaty shall be deemed armour at a height of no less than 300
improvements to the viability and effectiveness of the Treaty millimetres below the level of the top of the
relating only to minor matters of a technical nature. assault crew compartment;
5. On entry into force of the Treaty, each State Party (3) for front-engined vehicles, cutting out and
shall notify to all other States Parties the number of battle removal of a portion of the hull top armour
tanks and armoured combat vehicles that it plans to convert plate from the bulkhead of the engine-
in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty. Notification transmission compartment to the rear of the
of a State Party's intention to carry out conversion in vehicle, together with the associated portions of
accordance with this Section shall be given to all other States the side armour at a height of no less than 300
.) 16 OI\:-SIlT I~sI'ECTION ACI'«i

millimetres below the level of the top of the SECTION IX. PROCEDURE IN THE EVENT OF
assault crew compartment; and DESTRUCTION BY ACCIDENT
(4) in addition, for armoured infantry fighting 1. Each State Party shall have the right to reduce its
vehicles and heavy armament combat vehicles: reduction liability for each category of conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in the event
(a) removal of the turret; of destruction by accident by an amount no greater than 1.5
(b) severing of either of the gun trunnions and percent of the maximum levels for holdings it notified at the
its trunnion mount in the turret; signature of the Treaty for that category.

(c) for the gun breech system: 2. An item of conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty shall be deemed reduced, in accordance
(i) welding the breech block to the breech with Article VIII of the Treaty, if the accident in which it was
ring in at least two places; destroyed is notified to all other States Parties within seven
(ii) cutting of at least one side of the days of its occurrence. Notification shall include the type of
breech ring along the long axis of the the destroyed item, the date of the accident, the approximate
cavity that receives the breech block; location of the accident and the circumstances related to the
or accident.

(iii) severing of the breech casing into two 3. Within 90 days of the notification, the State Party
approximately equal parts; and claiming such reduction shall provide documentary evidence,
such as a report of the investigation, to all other States
(d) severing of the gun tube into two parts at a Parties in accordance with Article XVII of the Treaty. In the
distance of no more than 100 millimetres event of ambiguities relating to the accident, such reduction
from the breech ring. shall not be considered complete until final resolution of the
matter.
7. Battle tanks and armoured combat vehicles being
reduced pursuant to paragraph 6 of this Section shall be
subject to inspection, without right of refusal, in accordance SECTION X. PROCEDURE FOR REDUCTION BY
with Section X of the Protocol on Inspection. Battle tanks MEANS OF STATIC DISPLAY
and armoured combat vehicles shall be deemed reduced 1. Each State Party shall have the right to reduce by
upon completion of the procedures specified in paragraph 6 means of static display a certain number of conventional
of this Section and notification in accordance with Section X armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty.
of the Protocol on Inspection.
2. No State Party shall use static display to reduce more
8. Vehicles reduced pursuant to paragraph 7 of this than one percent or eight items, whichever is the greater
Section shall remain subject to notification pursuant to number, of its maximum levels for holdings it declared at the
Section IV of the Protocol on Information Exchange until signature of the Treaty for each category of conventional
final conversion for non-military purposes has been armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty.
completed and notification has been made in accordance
with Section X, paragraph 12 of the Protocol on Inspection. 3. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Section,
each State Party also shall have the right to retain in working
9. Vehicles undergoing final conversion for non- order two items of each existing type of conventional
military purposes shall also be subject to inspection in armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty for the
accordance with Section X of the Protocol on Inspection, purpose of static display. Such conventional armaments and
with the following changes: equipment shall be displayed at museums or other similar
(A) the process of final conversion at a reduction site sites.
shall not be subject to inspection; and 4. Conventional armaments and equipment placed on
(B) all other States Parties shall have the right to inspect static display or in museums prior to the signature of the
fully converted vehicles, without right of refusal, Treaty shall not be subject to any numerical limitations set
upon receipt of a notification from the State Party forth in the Treaty, including the numerical limitations set
conducting final conversion specifying when final forth in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Section.
conversion procedures will be completed. 5. Such items to be reduced by means of static display
10. If, having completed the procedures specified in shall undergo the following procedures at reduction sites:
paragraph 6 of this Section on a given vehicle, it is decided (A) all items to be displayed that are powered by self-
not to proceed with final conversion, then the vehicle shall contained engines shall have their fuel tanks
be destroyed within the time limits for conversion set forth rendered incapable of holding fuel and:
in Article VIII of the Treaty in accordance with the
appropriate procedures set forth elsewhere in this Protocol. (1) have their engine(s) and transmission removed
and their mounts damaged so that these pieces
cannot be refitted; or
(2) have their engine compartment filled with
concrete or a polymer resin;
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(B) all items to be displayed equipped with 75 millimetre (a) welding the breech block to the breech ring
or larger guns with permanently fixed elevation and in at least two places;
traversing mechanisms shall have their elevation and
(b) cutting of at least one side of the breech
traversing mechanisms welded so that the tube can
ring along the axis of the cavity that
be neither traversed nor elevated. In addition, those
receives the breech block; or
items to be displayed which use pinion and rack or
pinion and ring mechanisms for traversing or (c) severing of the breech casing into two
elevating shall have three consecutive gear teeth cut approximately equal parts;
off from the rack or ring on each side of the pinion
of the gun tube; (2) severing of either of the gun trunnions and its
trunnion mount in the turret;
(C) all items to be displayed which are equipped with
weapon systems that do not meet the criteria set (3) for tracked armoured combat vehicles, severing
forth in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph shall of sections from both sides of the hull which
have their barrel and receiver group filled with either include the final drive apertures, by vertical and
concrete or a polymer resin, beginning at the face of horizontal cuts in the side plates and diagonal
the bolt/breech and ending within 100 millimetres of cuts in the deck or belly plates and front or rear
the muzzle. plates, so that the final drive apertures are
contained in the severed portions; and
SECTION XI. PROCEDURE FOR REDUCTION BY USE (4) for wheeled armoured combat vehicles, severing
AS GROUND TARGETS of sections from both sides of the hull which
1. Each State Party shall have the right to reduce by use include the front wheel final gearbox mounting
as ground targets a certain number of battle tanks, armoured areas by vertical, horizontal and irregular cuts in
combat vehicles and self-propelled pieces of artillery. the side, front, deck and belly plates so that the
front wheel final gear box mounting areas are
2. No State Party shall reduce by use as ground targets included in the severed portions at a distance of
numbers of battle tanks or armoured combat vehicles greater no less than 100 millimetres from the cuts.
than 2.5 percent of its maximum level for holdings in each
of those two categories as notified at the signature of the SECTION XII. PROCEDURE FOR REDUCTION BY USE
Treaty pursuant to Article VII of the Treaty. In addition, no FOR GROUND INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES
State Party shall have the right to reduce by use as ground
targets more than 50 self-propelled pieces of artillery. 1. Each State Party shall have the right to reduce by use
for ground instructional purposes a certain number of
3. Conventional armaments and equipment in use as combat aircraft and attack helicopters.
ground targets prior to the signature of the Treaty shall not
be subject to any numerical limitations set forth in Articles 2. No State Party shall reduce by use for ground
IV, V or VI of the Treaty, or to the numerical limitations set instructional purposes numbers of combat aircraft or attack
forth in paragraph 2 of this Section. helicopters greater than five percent of its maximum level for
holdings in each of those two categories as notified at the
4. Such items to be reduced by use as ground targets signature of the Treaty pursuant to Article VII of the Treaty.
shall undergo the following procedures at reduction sites:
3. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by
(A) for battle tanks and self-propelled pieces of artillery: the Treaty in use for ground instructional purposes prior to
(1) for the breech system, either: the signature of the Treaty shall not be subject to any
numerical limitations set forth in Article IV, V or VI of the
(a) welding the breech block to the breech ring Treaty, or the numerical limitations set forth in paragraph 2
in at least two places; or of this Section.
(b) cutting of at least one side of the breech 4. Such items to be reduced by use for ground
ring along the long axis of the cavity that instructional purposes shall undergo the following
receives the breech block; procedures at reduction sites:
(2) severing of either of the trunnions and its (A) for combat aircraft:
trunnion mount in the turret; and
(1) severing of the fuselage into two parts in the
(3) severing of sections from both sides of the hull central wing area;
which include the final drive apertures, by
vertical and horizontal cuts in the side plates (2) removal of engines, mutilation of engine
and diagonal cuts in the deck or belly plates and mounting points and either filling of all fuel
front or rear plates, such that the final drive tanks with concrete, polymer or resin setting
apertures are contained in the severed portions; compounds or removal of the fuel tanks and
and mutilation of the fuel tank mounting points; or

(B) for armoured combat vehicles: (3) removal of all internal, external and removable
armament and armament systems equipment,
(1) for the gun breech system: removal of the tail fin and mutilation of the tail
31 S O",-SI IF h~I'L( I i()" Au '\(1

fin mounting points, and filling of all but one (A) the total number of each specific model or version of
fuel tank with concrete, polymer or resin setting combat-capable trainer aircraft that the State Party
compounds; and intends to disarm and certify in accordance with
Section I, paragraph 1, subparagraph (A), Section III
(B) for attack helicopters:
and Section IV of this Protocol; and
severing of the tail boom or tail part from the
(B) the total number of each specific model or version of
fuselage so that the assembly joint is contained
combat-capable trainer aircraft that the State Party
in the severed portion.
intends to certify alone, in accordance with Section I,
paragraph 1, subparagraph (B) and Section IV of
this Protocol.
PROTOCOL ON PROCEDURES
GOVERNING THE RECLASSIFICATION OF 4. Each State Party shall use whatever technological
SPECIFIC MODELS OR VERSIONS OF means it deems necessary to implement the total disarming
procedures set forth in Section III of this Protocol.
COMBAT-CAPABLE TRAINER AIRCRAFT
INTO UNARMED TRAINER AIRCRAFT SECTION II. MODELS OR VERSIONS OF COMBAT-
The States Parties hereby agree upon procedures and CAPABLE TRAINER AIRCRAFT ELIGIBLE FOR TOTAL
provisions governing total disarming and certification of the DISARMING AND CERTIFICATION
unarmed status of specific models or versions of combat-
1. Each State Party shall have the right to remove from
capable trainer aircraft in accordance with Article VIII of the
the numerical limitations on combat aircraft in Articles IV
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of
and VI of the Treaty in accordance with the provisions of
November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty.
this Protocol only the following specific models or versions
of combat-capable trainer aircraft:
SECTION I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SU-1SU
1. Each State Party shall have the right to remove from
the numerical limitations on combat aircraft in Articles IV SU-17U
and VI of the Treaty only those specific models or versions MiG-1SU
of combat-capable trainer aircraft listed in Section II,
paragraph 1 of this Protocol in accordance with the MiG-21U
procedures set forth in this Protocol.
MiG-23U
(A) Each State Party shall have the right to remove from
the numerical limitations on combat aircraft in MiG-2SU
Articles IV and VI of the Treaty individual aircraft of UIL-28
the specific models or versions listed in Section II,
paragraph 1 of this Protocol that have any of the 2. The foregoing list of specific models or versions of
components set forth in Section III, paragraphs 1 and combat-capable trainer aircraft is final and not subject to
2 of this Protocol only by total disarming and reVISIOn.
certification.
SECTION III. PROCEDURES FOR TOTAL DISARMING
(B) Each State Party shall have the right to remove from
the numerical limitations on combat aircraft in 1. Models or versions of combat-capable trainer
Articles IV and VI of the Treaty individual aircraft of aircraft being totally disarmed shall be rendered incapable of
the specific models or versions listed in Section II, further employment of any type of weapon system as well as
paragraph 1 of this Protocol that do not have any of further operation of electronic warfare and reconnaissance
the components set forth in Section III, paragraphs 1 systems by the removal of the following components:
and 2 of this Protocol by certification alone.
(A) provisions specifically for the attachment of weapon
2. Models or versions of combat-capable trainer systems, such as special hardpoints, launching
aircraft listed in Section II of this Protocol may be disarmed devices, or weapon mounting areas;
and certified, or certified alone, within 40 months after entry
into force of the Treaty. Such aircraft shall count against the (B) units and panels of weapon control systems
numerical limitations on combat aircraft in Articles IV and including weapon selection, arming and firing or
VI of the Treaty until such aircraft have been certified as launching systems;
unarmed in accordance with the procedures set forth in (C) units of aiming equipment and weapon guidance
Section IV of this Protocol. Each State Party shall have the systems not integral to navigation and flight control
right to remove from the numerical limitations on combat systems; and
aircraft in Articles IV and VI of the Treaty no more than 550
such aircraft, of which no more than 130 shall be of the (D) units and panels of electronic warfare and
MiG-25U model or version. reconnaissance systems including associated
antennae.
3. No later than entry into force of the Treaty, each
State Party shall notify all other States Parties of: 2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Section, any
special hard points which are integral to the aircraft, as well
as any special elements of general purpose hardpoints which
are designed for use only with the components described in an ambiguity relating to the certification and reclassification
paragraph 1 of this Section, shall be rendered incapable of process. In the event of such an ambiguity being raised, such
further employment with such systems. Electrical circuits of reclassification shall not be deemed complete until the matter
the weapon, electronic warfare, and reconnaissance systems relating to the ambiguity is resolved.
described in paragraph 1 of this Section shall be rendered
incapable of further employment by removal of the wiring 5. The State Party conducting the certification shall
or, if that is not technically practicable, by cutting out notify all other States Parties in accordance with Section IX
sections of the wiring in accessible areas. of the Protocol on Inspection of completion of the
certification.
3. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties the following information, no less than 42 days in 6. Certification shall be conducted in the area of
advance of the total disarming of the first aircraft of each application. States Parties belonging to the same group of
model or version of combat-capable trainer aircraft listed in States Parties shall have the right to share locations for
Section II of this Protocol: certification.

(A) a basic block diagram portraying all major SECTION V. PROCEDURES FOR INFORMATION
components of weapon systems including aiming EXCHANGE AND VERIFICATION
equipment and weapon guidance systems, provisions
designed for the attachment of weapons as well as All models or versions of combat-capable trainer aircraft
components of electronic warfare and certified as unarmed shall be subject to information
reconnaissance systems, the basic function of the exchange, in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol
components described in paragraph 1 of this Section, on Information Exchange, and verification, including
and the functional connections of such components inspection, in accordance with the Protocol on Inspection.
to each other;
(B) a general description of the disarming process PROTOCOL ON PROCEDURES GOVERNING
including a list of components to be removed; and THE CATEGORISATION OF COMBAT
(C) a photograph of each component to be removed HELICOPTERS AND THE
illustrating its position in the aircraft prior to its RECATEGORISATION OF MULTI-PURPOSE
removal, and a photograph of the same position ATTACK HELICOPTERS
after the corresponding component has been
removed. The States Parties hereby agree upon procedures and
provisions governing the categorisation of combat
SECTION IV. PROCEDURES FOR CERTIFICATION helicopters and recategorisation of multi-purpose attack
helicopters as provided for in Article VIII of the Treaty on
1. Each State Party that intends to disarm and certify, Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19,
or certify alone, models or versions of combat-capable 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty.
trainer aircraft shall comply with the following certification
procedures in order to ensure that such aircraft do not SECTION I. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
possess any of the components listed in Section III, CATEGORISATION OF COMBAT HELICOPTERS
paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Protocol.
1. Combat helicopters shall be categorised as specialised
2. Each State Party shall notify all other States Parties
attack, multi-purpose attack or combat support helicopters
in accordance with Section IX, paragraph 3 of the Protocol and shall be listed as such in the Protocol on Existing Types.
on Inspection of each certification. In the event of the first
certification of an aircraft that does not require total 2. All models or versions of a specialised attack
disarming, the State Party that intends to conduct the helicopter type shall be categorised as specialised attack
certification shall provide to all other States Parties the helicopters.
information required in Section III, paragraph 3,
subparagraphs (A), (B) and (C) of this Protocol for an armed 3. Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph 2 of
model or version of the same aircraft type. this Section and as a unique exception to that paragraph, the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may hold an aggregate
3. Each State Party shall have the right to inspect the total not to exceed 100 Mi-24R and Mi-24K helicopters
certification of combat-capable trainer aircraft in accordance equipped for reconnaissance, spotting, or chemicaUbiological
with Section IX of the Protocol on Inspection. Iradiological sampling which shall not be subject to the
limitations on attack helicopters in Articles IV and VI of the
4. The process of total disarming and certification, or Treaty. Such helicopters shall be subject to exchange of
certification alone, shall be deemed completed when the
information in accordance with the Protocol on Information
certification procedures set forth in this Section have been
Exchange and to internal inspection in accordance with
completed regardless of whether any State Party exercises Section VI, paragraph 30 of the Protocol on Inspection. Mi-
the certification inspection rights described in paragraph 3 of
24R and Mi-24K helicopters in excess of this limit shall be
this Section and Section IX of the Protocol on Inspection,
categorised as specialised attack helicopters regardless of
provided that within 30 days of receipt of the notification of
how they are equipped and shall count against the
completion of the certification and reclassification provided
limitations on attack helicopters in Articles IV and VI of the
pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Section no State Party has Treaty.
notified all other States Parties that it considers that there is
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4. Each State Party that holds both combat support and (A) a basic block diagram portraying all major
multi-purpose attack models or versions of a helicopter type components of guided weapon integrated fire control
shall categorise as attack helicopters all helicopters which and aiming systems as well as components of
have any of the features listed in Section III, paragraph 1 of equipment designed for the attachment of guided
this Protocol and shall have the right to categorise as combat weapons, the basic function of the components
support helicopters any helicopters that have none of the described in paragraph 1 of this Section, and the
features listed in Section III, paragraph 1 of this Protocol. functional connections of such components to each
other;
5. Each State Party that holds only combat support
models or versions of a helicopter type included on both the (B) a general description of the conversion process,
Multi-Purpose Attack Helicopter and the Combat Support including a list of components to be removed; and
Helicopter lists in the Protocol on Existing Types shall have
(C) a photograph of each component to be removed,
the right to categorise such helicopters as combat support
illustrating its position in the helicopter prior to its
helicopters.
removal, and a photograph of the same position
after the corresponding component has been
SECTION II. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR removed.
RECATEGORISATION
1. Only combat helicopters that are categorised as SECTION IV. PROCEDURES FOR CERTIFICATION
multi-purpose attack helicopters in accordance with the
1. Each State Party that is recategorising multi-purpose
categorisation requirements set forth in this Protocol shall be
attack helicopters shall comply with the following
eligible for recategorisation as combat support helicopters.
certification procedures, in order to ensure that such
2. Each State Party shall have the right to recategorise helicopters do not possess any of the features listed in
individual multi-purpose attack helicopters that have any of Section III, paragraph 1 of this Protocol.
the features set forth in Section III, paragraph 1 of this
2. Each State Party shall notify all other States Parties
Protocol only by conversion and certification. Each State
of each certification in accordance with Section IX,
Party shall have the right to recategorise individual multi-
purpose attack helicopters that do not have any of the paragraph 3 of the Protocol on Inspection.
features set forth in Section III, paragraph 1 of this Protocol 3. Each State Party shall have the right to inspect the
by certification alone. certification of helicopters in accordance with Section IX of
the Protocol on Inspection.
3. Each State Party shall use whatever technological
means it deems necessary to implement the conversion 4. The process of recategorisation shall be deemed
procedures set forth in Section III of this Protocol. complete when the certification procedures set forth in this
Section have been completed regardless of whether any State
4. Each combat helicopter subject to the
Party exercises the certification inspection rights described in
recategorisation procedure shall bear the original
paragraph 3 of this Section and Section IX of the Protocol
manufacturer's serial number permanently stamped in a
on Inspection, provided that within 30 days of receipt of the
main airframe structural member.
notification of completion of the certification and
recategorisation provided pursuant to paragraph 5 of this
SECTION III. PROCEDURES FOR CONVERSION Section no State Party has notified all other States Parties
1. Multi-purpose attack helicopters being converted that it considers that there is an ambiguity relating to the
shall be rendered incapable of further employment of guided certification and recategorisation process. In the event of
weapons by the removal of the following components: such an ambiguity being raised, such recategorisation shall
not be deemed complete until the matter relating to the
(A) provisions specifically for the attachment of guided ambiguity is resolved.
weapons, such as special hard points or launching
devices. Any such special hardpoints which are 5. The State Party conducting the certification shall
integral to the helicopter, as well as any special notify all other States Parties in accordance with Section IX
elements of general purpose hard points which are of the Protocol on Inspection of completion of the
designed for use only by guided weapons, shall be certification and recategorisation.
rendered incapable of further employment with 6. Certification shall be conducted within the area of
guided weapons; and application. States Parties belonging to the same group of
(B) all integrated fire control and aiming systems for States Parties shall have the right to share locations for
guided weapons, including wiring. certification.

2. A State Party shall provide to all other States Parties SECTION V. PROCEDURES FOR INFORMATION
the following information, either at least 42 days in advance EXCHANGE AND VERIFICATION
of the conversion of the first helicopter of a type or at entry
into force of the Treaty in the event that a State Party All combat helicopters within the area of application
declares both multi-purpose attack helicopters and combat shall be subject to information exchange in accordance with
support helicopters of the same type: the provisions of the Protocol on Information Exchange and
verification, including inspection, in accordance with the
Protocol on Inspection.
 AI'I'H\I)IX A: TRIAl Y 0:\ CO:\\F;\;T101\\1 AR.\IFD FOR(F~ 11\ ELROI'E 321

PROTOCOL ON THE JOINT 2.34% for the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic,
CONSULTATIVE GROUP the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Hungary
and the Kingdom of Norway;
The States Parties hereby agree upon procedures and
other provisions relating to the Joint Consultative Group 0.88% for the Hellenic Republic, Romania and the
established by Article XVI of the Treaty on Conventional Republic of Turkey;
Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990, hereinafter 0.68% for the Republic of Bulgaria, the Grand
referred to as the Treaty. Duchy of Luxembourg and the Portuguese Republic;
1. The Joint Consultative Group shall be composed of and
representatives designated by each State Party. Alternates, 0.16% for the Republic of Iceland.
advisers and experts of a State Party may take part in the
proceedings of the Joint Consultative Group as deemed 12. During the period that this Protocol is applied
necessary by that State Party. provisionally in accordance with the Protocol on Provisional
Application, the Joint Consultative Group shall:
2. The first session of the Joint Consultative Group
shall open no later than 60 days after the signing of the (A) work out or revise, as necessary, rules of procedure,
Treaty. The Chairman of the opening meeting shall be the working methods, the scale of distribution of
representative of the Kingdom of Norway. expenses of the Joint Consultative Group and of
conferences, and the distribution of the costs of
3. The Joint Consultative Group shall meet for regular inspections between or among States Parties, in
sessions to be held two times per year. accordance with Article XVI, paragraph 2,
4. Additional sessions shall be convened at the request subparagraph (F) of the Treaty; and
of one or more States Parties by the Chairman of the Joint (B) consider, upon the request of any State Party, issues
Consultative Group, who shall promptly inform all other relating to the provisions of the Treaty that are
States Parties of the request. Such sessions shall open no applied provisionally.
later than 15 days after receipt of such a request by the
Chairman.
5. Sessions of the Joint Consultative Group shall last
PROTOCOL ON THE PROVISIONAL
no longer than four weeks, unless it decides otherwise. APPLICATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF
THE TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED
6. States Parties shall assume in rotation, determined
by alphabetical order in the French language, the
FORCES IN EUROPE
Chairmanship of the Joint Consultative Group. To promote the implementation of the Treaty on
7. The Joint Consultative Group shall meet in Vienna, Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19,
unless it decides otherwise. 1990, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty, the States Parties
hereby agree to the provisional application of certain
8. Representatives at meetings shall be seated in provisions of the Treaty.
alphabetical order of the States Parties in the French
language. 1. Without detriment to the provisions of Article XXII
of the Treaty, the States Parties shall apply provisionally the
9. The official languages of the Joint Consultative following provisions of the Treaty:
Group shall be English, French, German, Italian, Russian
and Spanish. (A) Article VII, paragraphs 2, 3, and 4;

10. The proceedings of the Joint Consultative Group (B) Article VIII, paragraphs 5, 6 and 8;
shall be confidential, unless it decides otherwise. (C) Article IX;
11. The scale of distribution for the common expenses (D) Article XIII;
associated with the operation of the Joint Consultative
Group shall be applied, unless otherwise decided by the (E) Article XVI, paragraphs 1, 2(F), 2(G), 4, 6 and 7;
Joint Consultative Group, as follows: (F) Article XVII;
10.35% for the French Republic, the Federal (G) Article XVIII;
Republic of Germany, the Italian Republic, the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United (H) Article XXI, paragraph 2;
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and
the United States of America; (I) Protocol on Existing Types, Sections III and IV;

6.50% for Canada; (J) Protocol on Information Exchange, Sections VII, XII
and XIII;
5.20% for the Kingdom of Spain;
(K) Protocol on Inspection, Section II paragraph 24,
4.00% for the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of subparagraph (A) and Section III, paragraphs 3, 4, 5,
the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland; 7,8,9,10,11 and 12;
(L) Protocol on the Joint Consultative Group; and
 (M) Protocol on Reduction, Section IX. 5. This Declaration will become effective as of entry
into force of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in
2. The States Parties shall apply provisionally the Europe.
provisions listed in paragraph 1 of this Protocol in the light
of and in conformity with the other provisions of the Treaty.
DECLARATION OF THE STATES PARTIES TO THE
3. This Protocol shall enter into force at the signature TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN
of the Treaty. It shall remain in force for 12 months, but EUROPE WITH RESPECT TO PERSONNEL STRENGTH
shall terminate earlier if:
In connection with the signature of the Treaty on
(A) the Treaty enters into force before the period of 12 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19,
months expires; or 1990, and with a view to the follow-on negotiations referred
to in Article XVIII of that Treaty, the States Parties to that
(B) a State Party notifies all other States Parties that it Treaty declare that, for the period of these negotiations, they
does not intend to become a party to the Treaty. will not increase the total peacetime authorized personnel
The period of application of this Protocol may be strength of their conventional armed forces pursuant to the
extended if all the States Parties so decide. Mandate in the area of application.

DECLARATION OF THE STATES PARTIES DECLARATION BY THE GOVERNMENT OF

TO THE TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE WITH ON THE PERSONNEL STRENGTH OF
RESPECT TO LAND-BASED NAVAL GERMAN ARMED FORCES
AIRCRAFT In connection with the signature of the Treaty on
To promote the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the Government of
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the States Parties to the Federal Republic of Germany confirms the declaration
the Treaty undertake the following political commitments made by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs on 30
outside the framework of the Treaty. August 1990 in the plenary session of the Negotiations on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which reads as
1. No one State will have in the area of application of follows:
the Treaty more that 400 permanently land-based combat
naval aircraft. It is understood that this commitment applies "The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany
to combat aircraft armed and equipped to engage surface or undertakes to reduce the personnel strength of the armed
air targets and excludes types designed as maritime patrol forces of the united Germany to 370,000 (ground, air and
aircraft. naval forces) within three to four years. This reduction will
commence on the entry into force of the first CFE
2. The aggregate number of such permanently land- agreement.
based combat naval aircraft held by either of the two groups
of States defined under the terms of the Treaty will not Within the scope of this overall ceiling no more than
exceed 430. 345,000 will belong to the ground and air forces which,
pursuant to the agreed mandate, alone are the subject of the
3. No one State will hold in its naval forces within the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
area of application any permanently land-based attack
helicopters. The Federal Government regards its commitment to
reduce ground and air forces as a significant German
4. The limitations provided for in this Declaration will contribution to the reduction of conventional armed forces
apply beginning 40 months after entry into force of the in Europe. It assumes that in follow-on negotiations the
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. other participants in the negotiations, too, will render their
contribution to enhancing security and stability in Europe,
including measures to limit personnel strengths."
 Appendix B
CFE STATEMENTS
Statement by the Government of the 2. Such additional reduction shall be carried out by
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics means of destruction or conversion into civilian equipment
of 933 battle tanks and destruction of 1,080 pieces of
In order to promote the implementation of the Treaty on artillery. Of the 1,725 armoured combat vehicles to be
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, additionally reduced, 972 armoured combat vehicles shall be
1990 (the Treaty), the Government of the Union of Soviet destroyed or converted into civilian equipment and 753
Socialist Republics states that it assumes the following armoured combat vehicles of the MT-LB type, included in
obligations outside the framework of the Treaty. the armoured combat vehicle category and belonging to the
number declared as of the date of signature of the Treaty,
I shall be modified, in accordance with the Protocol on
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall hold within Existing Types, into armoured personnel carrier look-alikes
the area of application of the Treaty conventional armaments of the MT-LB-AT type, which are not limited by the Treaty.
and equipment in the Treaty-limited categories not to exceed: 3. Fifty percent of the 933 battle tanks and 972
in Coastal Defence forces - 813 battle tanks, 972 armoured armoured combat vehicles shall be destroyed or converted
combat vehicles and 846 pieces of artillery; in Naval Infantry within the area of application of the Treaty and 50 percent
-120 battle tanks, 753 armoured combat vehicles and 234 of the 1,080 pieces of artillery shall be destroyed within the
pieces of artillery; in the Strategic Rocket Forces -1,701 area of application of the Treaty, within the time limits and
armoured combat vehicles, each being an armoured personnel in accordance with the procedures established by the Treaty.
carrier as that term is defined in the Treaty. The remainder of these conventional armaments and
equipment shall be withdrawn from the area of application
II of the Treaty; an equivalent number of conventional
armaments and equipment shall be destroyed or converted
Forty months after entry into force of the Treaty and
outside of the area of application of the Treaty within the
thereafter, within the levels and sublevels that ensue from the time limits established by the Treaty and in accordance with
obligations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under
procedures which provide sufficient visible evidence that the
the Treaty, the holdings of the Union of Soviet Socialist
conventional armaments and equipment have been destroyed
Republics of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and
or rendered militarily unusable. The States Parties to the
pieces of artillery shall be less than its maximum level for
Treaty shall be notified in advance, giving the location,
holdings, as notified in accordance with Article VII of the number and types of conventional armaments and
Treaty, by the number it will have in Coastal Defence forces
equipment to be destroyed or converted.
and Naval Infantry within the area of application of the
Treaty. For example, with regard to battle tanks, unless the IV
maximum levels for holdings for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics are revised in accordance with Article VII The holdings of armoured combat vehicles in the Strategic
of the Treaty, the numbers for the Union of Soviet Socialist Rocket Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall
Republics within the area of application of the Treaty, not be subject to the numerical limitations of the Treaty, in
including battle tanks in Coastal Defence forces and Naval accordance with Article III, paragraph 1, subparagraph (F) of
Infantry, will not exceed: 13,150 overall; 10,500 in active the Treaty. These forces shall not be equipped with
units overall; 7,150 in active units within the region conventional armaments and equipment in the Treaty-limited
described in Article IV, paragraph 3 of the Treaty; and 1,850 categories, other than armoured personnel carriers.
in active units within the area described in Article V, V
paragraph 1, subparagraph (A) of the Treaty.
The conventional armaments and equipment of Coastal
III Defence forces and Naval Infantry in the categories subject
to the Treaty within the area of application of the Treaty
1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall shall be subject to challenge inspections in accordance with
reduce, in addition to the reduction liability established for the provisions of the Protocol on Inspection. Effective
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under the Treaty on verification of such armaments and equipment shall be
the basis of information it supplied, its holding of ensured. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall
conventional armaments and equipment in the Treaty- provide separate information to all States Parties on such
limited categories within the area of application of the armaments and equipment of the same scope and with the
Treaty by the number which it had as of the date of same degree of detail as provided for in Section III,
signature of the Treaty in Coastal Defense forces and Naval paragraph 2 of the Protocol on Information Exchange, and
Infantry, that is, by 933 battle tanks, 1,725 armoured under the same timetable for the provision of information as
combat vehicles, and 1,080 pieces of artillery. provided for in Section VII of that Protocol.
324 O,,-SIII rr\~I'H ,10" ACfr\()

VI the locations and numbers of battle tanks, armoured combat

vehicles and pieces of artillery undergoing destruction or
Unless otherwise specified (a) in this Statement, (b) in the conversion.
Treaty, or (c) in the Declaration on Land-Based Naval
Aircraft, all conventional armaments and equipment in the Elimination of armaments in the Treaty-limited categories
Treaty-limited categories, based on land within the area of will also be carried out subsequently as their operational and
application of the Treaty, irrespective of assignment, shall be service life is expended.
subject to all numerical limitations of the Treaty.
2. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in the
VII period between January 1989 and signature of the Treaty on
November 19, 1990, in connection with activities related to
This Statement of the Government of the Union of Soviet unilateral reductions of the Soviet armed forces, the
Socialist Republics regarding the aforementioned obligations withdrawal of Soviet troops from countries of Eastern
assumed outside the framework of the Treaty shall enter into Europe and adaption of the armed forces to the new
force simultaneously with the Treaty, shall be legally binding defensive doctrine, withdrew beyond the Urals the following
and shall have the same duration as the Treaty. numbers of conventional armaments and equipment in the
June 14, 1991. Treaty-limited categories: 16,400 battle tanks, 15,900
armoured combat vehicles and 25,000 pieces of artillery.
Statement of the Government of the United States of Of these numbers of armaments and equipment, 8,000
America and Statements Identical in Content of the Other battle tanks, 11,200 armoured combat vehicles and 1,600
20 Signatory States pieces of artillery have been turned over to military units and
Statement of the Government of the United States of America subunits in the eastern Soviet Union for the purpose of
reequipping them and supplementing their armaments.
The Government of the United States of America hereby
agrees that the Statement of the Government of the Union of Another part of the conventional armaments and
Soviet Socialist Republics of today's date provides a equipment in the Treaty-limited categories which have been
satisfactory basis for proceeding toward ratification and transferred beyond the Urals (8,400 battle tanks, 4,700
implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed armoured combat vehicles and 16,400 pieces of artillery),
Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990 (the Treaty). has been placed in storage. In addition, 7,000 pieces of
artillery are being used for replacement and repair.
The aforementioned Statement of the Government of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and this Statement of the These stored conventional armaments and equipment
Government of the United States of America shall be equally withdrawn beyond the Urals will be used up in the process
legally binding; they shall enter into force simultaneously of replacing obsolete armaments and equipment that have
with the Treaty, and shall have the same duration as the expended their established operational and service life and,
Treaty. in the eastern Soviet Union, also in supplementing units.

June 14, 1991. With respect to the armaments and equipment transferred
beyond the Urals before signature of the Treaty that have
been placed in storage or are used for replacement and
Statement of the Representative of the Union of Soviet repair beyond the Urals, upon entry into force of the Treaty,
Socialist Republics in the Joint Consultative Group information will be provided to all States Parties about the
In order to promote the implementation of the Treaty on location and numbers of battle tanks, armoured combat
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, vehicles and pieces of artillery at such locations as of July 1,
1990, (the Treaty) I have been instructed by the Government 1991. Armaments in each of these categories (battle tanks,
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to state the armoured combat vehicles and pieces of artillery) will be
following: stored separately.

1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will, during 3. The conventional armaments and equipment in the
1991-1995, destroy or convert into civilian equipment no Treaty-limited categories withdrawn beyond the Urals prior
less than 6,000 battle tanks, 1,500 armoured combat to signature of the Treaty will not be used to create a
vehicles and 7,000 pieces of artillery from among the strategic reserve or operational groupings, and will not be
conventional armaments and equipment in the Treaty- stored in any way permitting their rapid return to the area of
limited categories beyond the Urals, in addition to the application of the Treaty, that is, such armaments and
numbers of armaments subject to destruction and conversion equipment withdrawn beyond the Urals will not be stored in
specified in the Statement of the Government of the Union of sets for military formations.
Soviet Socialist Republics of June 14, 1991 concerning Military formations and units deployed within the
obligations outside the framework of the Treaty. area of application of the Treaty will be organized in line
The armaments will be destroyed or converted under the with the Soviet defensive doctrine and taking into account
procedures that will provide sufficient visible evidence, the sufficiency levels of armaments established by the Treaty
which confirms that they have been destroyed or rendered for a single state.
militarily unusable. Advance notification and information June 14, 1991.
will be provided to the States Parties to the Treaty regarding
 Appendix C
CONCLUDING Acr OF THE NEGOTIATION ON
PERSONNEL STRENGTH OF CONVENTIONAL
ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE (CFE 1A)
The Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the security building in accordance with their commitment in the
Republic of Belarus, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic Charter of Paris for a New Europe, and, accordingly, to the
of Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, possibility, within the context of those new negotiations, for
the Kingdom of Denmark, the French Republic, the Republic all CSCE Participating States to subscribe to a common
of Georgia, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic regime based upon the measures adopted in this Concluding
Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Iceland, Act, hereinafter referred to as the Act,
the Italian Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Grand
Taking into account the principle of sufficiency, and
Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Moldova, the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, the recalling the undertaking of the Participating States to
Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the maintain only such military capabilities as are necessary to
Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, the Republic of prevent war and provide for effective defence, bearing in
mind the relationship between military capabilities and
Turkey, Ukraine, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, doctrines,
hereinafter referred to as the Participating States. Recognising the freedom of each Participating State to
Recalling the obligations undertaken in the Treaty on choose its own security arrangements,
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, Have adopted the following:
1990, hereinafter referred to as the CFE Treaty, and the
important achievements attained in that treaty, SECTION 1. SCOPE OF LIMITATION
In accordance with the obligation in Article XVIII of the 1. Each Participating State will limit, as specified in
CFE Treaty to continue the negotiations on conventional Section II of this Act, its personnel based on land within the
armed forces with the same mandate and with the goal of area of application in the following categories of
building on the CFE Treaty and with the objective of conventional armed forces:
concluding an agreement, no later than the 1992 follow-up
of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (A) All full-time military personnel serving with land
(CSCE), on additional measures aimed at further forces, including air defence formations and units
strengthening security and stability in Europe, subordinated at or below the military district or
equivalent level, as specified in Section I of the
Guided by the mandate for negotiation on conventional Protocol on Information Exchange of the CFE
armed forces in Europe of January 10, 1989, and having Treaty;
conducted negotiations in Vienna,
(B) All full-time military personnel serving with air and
Having decided to limit and, if applicable, reduce, on a air defence aviation forces, including long-range
national basis, the personnel strength of their conventional aviation forces reported pursuant to Section I of the
armed forces within the area of application,1 Protocol on Information Exchange of the CFE
Guided by the objectives and the purposes of the CSCE, Treaty, as well as military transport aviation forces;
within the framework of which these negotiations were (C) All full-time military personnel serving with air and
conducted, air defence forces other than those specified in
Looking forward to a more structured cooperation subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph;
among all CSCE Participating States on security matters and (D) All full-time military personnel, excluding naval
to new negotiations on disarmament and confidence and personnel, serving with all central headquarters,
command and staff elements
1 The area of application of the measures adopted in this Act
(E) All full-time military personnel, excluding naval
is the area of application of the CFE Treaty as defined in personnel, serving with all centrally-controlled
Paragraph 1, Subparagraph (B) of Article II of the CFE formations, units and other organisations, including
Treaty, taking into account the understanding specified in those of rear services;
Paragraph 5 of Annex A of the final document of the
extraordinary conference of the States Parties to the Treaty (F) All full-time military personnel serving with all land-
on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of June 5, 1992. based naval formations and units which hold battle
 tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, armoured The Republic of Armenia ................................................. ..
vehicle launched bridges, armoured infantry fighting
vehicle look-alikes, or armoured personnel carrier The Republic of Azerbaijan .............................................. .
look-alikes as defined in Article II of the CFE Treaty The Republic of Belarus ........................................ 100,000
or which hold land-based naval combat aircraft
referred to in the Declaration of the States Parties to The Kingdom of Belgium ........................................ 70,000
the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe The Republic of Bulgaria ...................................... 104,000
with respect to land-based naval aircraft of
November 19, 1990; Canada ................................................................... 10,660
(G) All full-time military personnel serving with all other The Czech and Slovak Federal Republic ............... 140,000
formations, units and other organisations which hold
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, The Kingdom of Denmark ...................................... 39,000
combat aircraft or attack helicopters in service with The French Republic ............................................. 325,000
its conventional armed forces, as defined in Article II
of the CFE Treaty; and The Republic of Georgia .................................................. ..
(H) All reserve personnel who have completed their The Federal Republic of Germany ........................ 345,000
initial military service or training and who are called The Hellenic Republic ........................................... 158,621
up or report voluntarily for full-time military service
or training in conventional armed forces for a The Republic of Hungary ..................................... 100,000
continuous period of more than 90 days.
The Republic of Iceland ................................................... 0
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 1 of
this section, the following categories of personnel are not The Italian Republic ............................................. 315,000
included within the scope of limitation specified in this Act: The Republic of Kazakhstan ............................................ 0
(A) Personnel serving with organisations designed and The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ............................... 900
structured to perform in peacetime internal security
functions; The Republic of Moldova ................................................. .
(B) Personnel in transit from a location outside the area The Kingdom of the Netherlands ............................ 80,000
of application to a final destination outside the area The Kingdom of Norway ........................................ 32,000
of application who are in the area of application for
no longer than seven days; and The Republic of Poland ........................................ 234,000
(C) Personnel serving under the command of the United The Portuguese Republic ........................................ 75,000
Nations.
Romania ............................................................... 230,248
3. If, after the date on which this Act comes into effect,
any land-based formations or units are formed within the The Russian Federation ..................................... 1,450,000
area of application which, according to their structure and The Kingdom of Spain .......................................... 300,000
armaments, have a capability for ground combat outside
national borders against an external enemy, a Participating The Republic of Turkey ........................................ 530,000
State may raise in the Joint Consultative Group any issue Ukraine ................................................................. 450,000
regarding personnel serving with such formations and units.
The Joint Consultative Group will consider any such issue The United Kingdom of Great Britain
on the basis of all available information, including and Northern Ireland ............................................ 260,000
information provided by the Participating States concerned,
with a view to deciding whether the above-mentioned The United States of America ................................ 250,000
criteria are applicable to such formations and units; if such 2. For the purpose of recording changes to the
criteria are deemed to apply, the personnel serving with such information specified in Paragraph 1 of this Section, the
formations and units will be included within the scope of Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will
limitation specified in this Act. distribute to all the Participating States a revised version of
the information in that paragraph.
SECTION II. NATIONAL PERSONNEL LIMITS
3. Each Participating State may revise its national
1. Each Participating State will limit its military personnel limit in accordance with Section IV of this Act.
personnel based on land within the area of application in the
categories of conventional armed forces specified in Section SECTION III. REVISION PROCEDURES
I, Paragraph 1 of this Act so that, 40 months after entry into
force of the CFE Treaty and thereafter, the aggregate number 1. A Participating State may revise downward its
of such personnel will not exceed the number representing national personnel limit by providing a notification of its
its national personnel limitation as specified in this revised limit to all other Participating States. Such
paragraph: notification will specify the date on which the revised limit
will become effective.
 2. A Participating State intending to revise upward its and coordinates, for each such formation and
national personnel limit will provide notification of such organisation;
intended revision to all other Participating States. Such
(E) In respect of all full-time military personnel of
notification will include an explanation of the reasons for
conventional armed forces, excluding naval
such a revision. Any Participating State may raise any
question concerning the intended revision. A revised national personnel, serving with all central headquarters,
command and staff elements, the aggregate number;
personnel limit will become effective 42 days after
notification has been provided, unless a Participating State (F) In respect of all full-time military personnel of
raises an objection to such revision by providing notification conventional armed forces, excluding naval
of its objection to all other Participating States. personnel, serving with all centrally-controlled
formations, units and other organisations, including
3. If an objection is raised, any Participating State may
those of rear services, the aggregate number and the
request the convening of an extraordinary conference which
number in each formation, unit and other
will examine the intended revision in the light of the
organisation down to the brigade/regiment, wing/air
explanations provided and seek to decide on a future
regiment or equivalent level, specifying the command
national personnel limit. The extraordinary conference will
organisation, designation, subordination and
open no later than 15 days after receipt of the request and,
peacetime location, including the geographic name
unless it decides otherwise, will last no longer than three
and coordinates, for each such formation, unit and
weeks.
organisation;
SECTION IV. INFORMATION EXCHANGE (G) In respect of all full-time military personnel serving
with all land-based naval formations and units which
1. Each Participating State will provide to all other hold conventional armaments and equipment in the
Participating States, in accordance with the provisions of this categories specified in Section III of the Protocol on
section, the following information in respect of its personnel Information Exchange of the CFE Treaty or which
based on land within the area of application: hold land-based naval combat aircraft referred to in
(A) In respect of all personnel specified in Section I, the Declaration of the States Parties to the Treaty on
Paragraph I of this Act, the aggregate number; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe with respect
to land-based naval aircraft of November 19, 1990,
(B) In respect of all full-time military personnel serving the aggregate number and the number in each
with land forces, including air defence formations formation and unit down to the brigade/regiment,
and units subordinated at or below the military wing/air regiment or equivalent level, as well as units
district or equivalent level, as specified in Section I of at the next level of command below the brigade/
the Protocol on Information Exchange of the CFE regiment, wing/air regiment level which are
Treaty, the aggregate number and the number in each separately located or independent (i.e., battalions/
formation, unit and other organisation down to the squadrons or equivalent), specifying the designation
brigade/regiment or equivalent level, specifying the and peacetime location, including the geographic
command organisation, designation, subordination name and coordinates, for each such formation and
and peacetime location, including the geographic unit;
name and coordinates, for each such formation, unit
and organisation; (H) In respect of all full-time military personnel serving
with all formations, units and other organisations of
(C) In respect of all full-time military personnel serving conventional armed forces specified in Section III of
with air and air defence aviation forces, including the Protocol on Information Exchange of the CFE
long-range aviation forces reported pursuant to Treaty, the number in each such formation, unit and
Section I of the Protocol on Information Exchange of organisation down to the brigade/regiment, wing/air
the CFE Treaty, as well as military transport aviation regiment or equivalent level, as welJ as units at the
forces, the aggregate number and the number in each next level of command below the brigade/regiment,
formation, unit and other organisation of wing/air regiment level which are separately located
conventional armed forces down to the wing/air or independent (i.e., battalions/squadrons or
regiment or equivalent level, specifying the command equivalent), specifying the designation and peacetime
organisation, designation, subordination and location, including the geographic name and
peacetime location, including the geographic name coordinates, for each such formation, unit and
and coordinates, for each such formation, unit and organisation;
organisation;
(1) In respect of all personnel serving with all formations
(D) In respect of all full-time military personnel serving and units down to the independent or separately
with air defence forces other than those specified in located battalion or equivalent level which hold
Subparagraphs (B) and (C) of this paragraph, the battle tanks, artillery, combat aircraft or specialised
aggregate number and the number in each formation attack helicopters as well as armoured infantry
and other organisation down to the next level of fighting vehicles as specified in Article XII of the
command above division or equivalent level (i.e., air CFE Treaty, in organisations designed and structured
defence army or equivalent), specifying the command to perform in peacetime internal security functions,
organisation, designation, subordination and the number in each such formation and unit at each
peacetime location, including the geographic name site at which such armaments and equipment are
held, specifying the national-level designation of each
32H O~-SrTE INSI'FC II()~ ACFNU

such organisation and the location, including the channels designated by them in accordance with the
geographic name and coordinates, of each site at following timetable:
which such armaments and equipment are held;
(A) No later than 30 days following entry into force of
(J) In respect of all personnel serving with all formations the CFE Treaty, with the information effective as of
and units in organisations designed and structured to the date of entry into force of that Treaty; and
perform in peacetime internal security functions,
excluding unarmed or lightly armed civil police (B) On the 15th day of December of the year in which
forces and protective services, the aggregate number the CFE Treaty comes into force (unless entry into
and the aggregate number in each administrative force of that Treaty occurs within 60 days of the 1st
region or equivalent; day of December), and on the 15th day of December
of every year thereafter, with the information
(K) In respect of all reserve personnel who have effective as of the first day of January of the
completed their military service or training and who following year.
have been called up or have reported voluntarily for
military service or training in conventional armed 7. Beginning with the date on which national personnel
forces since the most recent exchange of information limits become effective in accordance with Section II of this
provided in accordance with this section, the Act, each Participating State will provide to all other
aggregate number, specifying the number, if any, of Participating States all the information specified in
those who have been called up or have reported Paragraph 1 of this section in written form, in one of the
voluntarily for full-time military service or training official CSCE languages, using diplomatic channels or other
in conventional armed forces for a continuous period official channels designated by them, in accordance with the
of more than 90 days; following timetable:

(L) In respect of all military personnel serving under the (A) On the date on which national personnel limits
command of the United Nations, the aggregate become effective in accordance with Section II of this
number; and Act, with the information effective as of that date;
and
(M) In respect of all military personnel serving with all
other formations, units and other organisations of (B) On the 15th day of December of the year in which
conventional armed forces, the aggregate number, the national personnel limits become effective in
specifying the designation of such formations, units accordance with Section II of this Act, and on the
and organisations. 15th day of December of every year thereafter, with
the information effective as of the first day of
2. In providing information on personnel strengths in January of the following year
accordance with this section, each Participating State will
provide the peacetime authorized personnel strength, which 8. The Participating States will, at the first review of the
will approximate the number of personnel serving within the operation of this Act in accordance with Paragraph 3 of
area of application with each of the formations, units and Section VII of this Act, consider issues relating to the
other organisations specified in Paragraph 1 of this section. adequacy and effectiveness of the disaggregation of the
information specified in Paragraph 1, Subparagraphs (B), (C)
3. The provisions of this section will not apply to and (F) of this section.
personnel who are in transit through the area of application
from a location outside the area of application to a final SECTION V. STABILISING MEASURES
destination outside the area of application. Personnel in the
categories specified in Paragraph 1 of this section who Notification Of Increases In Unit Strengths
entered the area of application in transit will be subject to
the provisions of this section if they remain within the area 1. Each Participating State will notify all other
of application for a period longer than seven days. Participating States at least 42 days in advance of any
permanent increase in the personnel strength of any
4. Each Participating State will be responsible for its formation, unit or other organisation which was reported in
own information; receipt of such information will not imply the most recent exchange of information at the brigade/
validation or acceptance of the information provided. regiment, wing/air regiment or equivalent level in accordance
5. The Participating States will provide the information with Section IV of this Act when such increase equals 1,000
specified in this section in accordance with the formats and or more at the brigade/regiment level, or 500 or more at the
procedures to be agreed in the Joint Consultative Group. wing/air regiment level, or equivalent levels.

6. Prior to the date on which national personnel limits Notification Of Call-Up Of Reserve Personnel
become effective in accordance with Section II of this Act,
each Participating State will provide to all other 2. Any Participating State intending to call up reserve
Participating States the information specified in Paragraph 1, personnel of its conventional armed forces based on land
Subparagraphs (A), (D), (E) and(G) to (K) of this section, as within the area of application will notify all other
well as the information on aggregate numbers of personnel Participating States whenever the cumulative total of the
in the categories specified in Subparagraphs (B), (C) and (F) personnel called up and retained on full-time military service
of that paragraph, in written form, in one of the official will exceed a threshold of 35,000.
CSCE languages, using diplomatic channels or other official
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3. Such notification will be provided at least 42 days in resubordination becomes effective, after which time the
advance of such threshold being exceeded. As an exception, procedure specified in Paragraph 8 of this section will apply.
in the case of emergency situations where advance
notification is not practical, notification will be provided as 8. Forty-two days prior to the end of the one-year
soon as possible and, in any event, no later than the date period specified in Paragraph 7 of this section, the
such threshold is exceeded. Participating State resubordinating such formations, units or
other organisations will provide to all other Participating
4. Such notification will include the following States notification of the planned exclusion. Upon the
information: request of any other Participating State, the Participating
State resubordinating such formations, units or other
(A) The total number of reserve personnel to be called organisations will provide all relevant information
up, specifying the number to be called up for more supporting such exclusion.
than 90 days;
(B) A general description of the purpose of the call-up; SECTION VI. VERIFICATIONIEVALUATION
(C) The planned start and end dates of the period during 1. For the purpose of evaluating observance of national
which such threshold will be exceeded; and personnel limits and the other provisions of this Act,
Participating States will apply Section VII and Section VIII of
(D) The designation and location of any formation in the Protocol on Inspection of the CFE Treaty and other
which more than 7,000 at the division or equivalent relevant provisions of that Treaty, together with the
level or more than 9,000 at the army/army corps or provisions set out in this section.
equivalent level of the personnel so called up will
serve. 2. In the case of an inspection pursuant to Section VII
of the Protocol on Inspection of the CFE Treaty, the
Resubordination Of Units pre inspection briefing will include information on the
number of personnel serving with any formation, unit or
5. After the first exchange of information in accordance other organisation which was notified in the most recent
with Section IV of this Act, a Participating State intending to exchange of information in accordance with Section IV of
resubordinate formations, units or other organisations this Act and which is located at that inspection site. If the
whose personnel are subject to limitation in accordance with number of such personnel differs from the number of
Section I of this Act to a formation, unit or other personnel noted in that most recent exchange of
organisation whose personnel would not otherwise be information, the inspection team will be provided with an
subject to limitation will notify all other Participating States explanation of such difference. The pre inspection briefing
of the planned resubordination no later than the date on will also include information on the number of personnel
which such resubordination will become effective. serving with any other formation or unit down to the
6. Such notification will include the following brigade/regiment, wing/air regiment or equivalent level, as
information: well as independent units at the battalion/squadron or
equivalent level, in the categories specified in Paragraph 1,
(A) The date on which such resubordination will become Subparagraphs (B), (C) and (F) of Section IV of this Act,
effective; which is located at that inspection site.
(B) The subordination, designation and peacetime 3. In the case of an inspection pursuant to Section VIII
location of each formation, unit and organisation to of the Protocol on Inspection of the CFE Treaty, the escort
be resubordinated, both before and after such team will provide, if requested by the inspection team,
resubordination will become effective; information on the number of personnel serving with any
formation, unit or other organisation which was notified in
(C) The peacetime authorized personnel strength for
the most recent exchange of information in accordance with
each formation, unit and organisation to be Section IV of this Act, which is located at that inspection site
resubordinated, both before and after such
and whose facilities are being inspected. If the number of
resubordination will become effective; and
such personnel differs from the number of personnel notified
(D) The number, if any, of battle tanks, armoured in that most recent exchange of information, the inspection
infantry fighting vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft, team will be provided with an explanation of such
attack helicopters and armoured vehicle launched difference.
bridges as defined in Article II of the CFE Treaty
4. During an inspection pursuant to Section VII or
held by each formation, unit and organisation to be
Section VIII of the Protocol on Inspection of the CFE Treaty,
resubordinated, both before and after such
inspectors may have access, consistent with the provisions of
resubordination will become effective.
that Protocol, to all facilities subject to inspection at the
7. Personnel serving with formations, units or other inspection site, including those used by all formations, units
organisations resubordinated after the date on which and other organisations located at that inspection site.
national personnel limits become effective in accordance During such an inspection, the escort team will specify, if
with Section II of this Act will remain subject to limitation in requested by the inspection team, whether a particular
accordance with Section I of this Act until the date of the building on the inspection site is a personnel barracks or
exchange of information in accordance with Section IV of messing facility.
this Act one year subsequent to the year in which such
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5. Inspectors will include in the inspection report 4. The Participating States will meet in an
prepared pursuant to Section XII of the Protocol on extraordinary conference if requested to do so by any
Inspection of the CFE Treaty information provided to the Participating State which considers that exceptional
inspection team in accordance with Paragraphs 2 and 3 of circumstances relating to this Act have arisen. Such a request
this section in a format to be agreed in the Joint Consultative will be transmitted to all other Participating States and will
Group. Inspectors may also include in that report written include an explanation of exceptional circumstances relating
comments pertaining to the evaluation of personnel to this Act, e.g., an increase in the number of military
strengths. personnel in categories listed in Section I of this Act in a
manner or proportion which the Participating State
6. Evaluation of observance of the provisions of this Act requesting such an extraordinary conference deems to be
will be further facilitated through confidence and security prejudicial to security and stability within the area of
building measures that have ~en developed and that may be application. The conference will open no later than 15 days
developed in the context of the new negotiations on after receipt of the request and, unless it decides otherwise,
disarmament and confidence and security building following will last no longer than three weeks.
the Helsinki follow-up meeting. In this context, Participating
States are prepared to join in considering ways and means to
refine the evaluation provisions specified in the Vienna SECTION VIII. CLOSING PROVISIONS
Document 1992. 1. The measures adopted in this Act are politically
binding. Accordingly, this Act is not eligible for registration
SECTION VII. REVIEW MECHANISMS under Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. This
Act will come into effect simultaneously with the entry into
1. The Participating States will review the force of the CFE Treaty.
implementation of this Act in accordance with the
procedures set out in this section, using the relevant bodies 2. This Act will have the same duration as the CFE
and channels within the framework of the CSCE process. Treaty and may be supplemented, modified or superseded.
2. In particular, any Participating State may at any time 3. The government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
raise and clarify questions relating to the implementation of will transmit true copies of this Act, the original of which is
this Act within the framework, as appropriate, of the Joint in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, to
Consultative Group. The Participating States will consider in all Participating States, and bring this Act to the attention of
the context of the new negotiations on disarmament and the Secretariat of the CSCE and the Secretary General of the
confidence and security building which will be conducted United Nations.
following the Helsinki follow-up meeting, the role of the
conflict prevention centre in this regard, as appropriate. 4. Wherefore, we have subscribed our signatures below:

3. Six months after the date on which national Done at Helsinki on 10 July 1992, at the meeting of the
personnel limits become effective in accordance with Section Heads of State or Government of the Participating States.
II of this Act and at five-year intervals thereafter, the
Participating States will conduct a review of the operation of
this Act.
 Appendix D
FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE FIRST
CONFERENCE TO REvIEw THE OPERATION
OF THE TREATY ON CoNVENTIONAL ARMED
FORCES IN EUROPE AND THE
CONCLUDING ACT OF THE NEGOTIATION
ON PERSONNEL STRENGTH
VIENNA, 15-31 MAY 1996 Have adopted the following:
The Republic of Armenia, the Azerbaijan Republic, the
Republic of Belarus, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic I. INTRODUCTION
of Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of 1. The States Parties reaffirm the fundamental role of
Denmark, the French Republic, Georgia, the Federal the Treaty as a cornerstone of European security and their
Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of adherence to its goals and objectives. It is their common
Hungary, the Republic of Iceland, the Italian Republic, the interest to preserve the integrity of the Treaty and the
Republic of Kazakstan, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Concluding Act as well as the predictability and
the Republic of Moldova, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, transparency they have created. The States Parties reaffirm
the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the their determination to fulfill in good faith all obligations and
Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Russian Federation, the commitments arising from the Treaty and its associated
Slovak Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the Republic of documents. Bearing that in mind, they commit themselves to
Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and enhance the viability and effectiveness of the Treaty.
Northern Ireland and the United States of America, which
are the States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed 2. The negotiation, conclusion and implementation of
Forces in Europe of 19 November 1990, hereinafter referred the Treaty and the Concluding Act, as well as the ratification
to as the States Parties, of the Treaty, took place in times of change during which the
European security environment evolved significantly. The
Fulfilling the obligation set forth in Article XXI, paragraph Warsaw Treaty Organization has ceased to exist. New states
1, of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, have emerged and became States Parties to the Treaty. At the
hereinafter referred to as the Treaty, to conduct a review of same time, new risks and challenges to security have come to
the operation of the Treaty, and thereby taking into account the fore. As a result of common efforts of the States Parties,
the Final Documents of the Extraordinary Conferences of the Treaty and the Concluding Act have remained vital
the States Parties of 10 July 1992 in Helsinki and 13 stabilizing factors in this period of transition and
November 1992 in Vienna, contributed to its peaceful unfolding.
Acting in accordance with the provision of Section VII, 3. The States Parties stress that security and stability in
paragraph 3, of the Concluding Act of the Negotiation of Europe are vitally underpinned by the continuation and
Personnel Strength of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe enhancement of robust arms control measures. Recognizing
of 10 July 1992, hereinafter referred to as the Concluding the evolution of the European political and security
Act, environment, the States Parties are resolved to continue the
Recalling the results of the Extraordinary Conferences held conventional arms control process, including through the
thus far, enhancement of the viability and effectiveness of the Treaty.
They see this as a common responsibility.
Reaffirming all the decisions of the Joint Consultative Group
made thus far, 4. The States Parties recognize that the Treaty and the
Concluding Act are essential contributions to the
Having met at the First Review Conference, chaired by the achievement of the goals and purposes of the Organization
Kingdom ofthe Netherlands, from 15 to 31 May 1996 in for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), in
Vienna, particular the promotion of confidence, stability and security
in an undivided Europe. In that context, they stress the
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importance of the development of a common and their readiness to follow this process to its completion in
comprehensive security model for Europe for the twenty-first accordance with the provisions of the Treaty. In this context,
century, of the implementation of the Treaty on Open Skies being aware of difficulties which have delayed the
and of the ongoing security dialogue and negotiations in the completion of reductions, they take positive note of efforts
Forum for Security Co-operation. undertaken in order to meet fully obligations under the
Treaty.
II. REVIEW OF THE OPERATION OF THE TREATY
9. States Parties express their concern with serious
AND THE CONCLUDING ACT difficulties of some States Parties to comply fully within their
5. The States Parties note with satisfaction that more territory with the provisions of the Treaty and its related
than 58,000 pieces of conventional armaments and documents due to TLE unaccounted for and uncontrolled
equipment have been reduced, and that the overall holdings within the Treaty. This situation adversely affects the
of conventional armaments and equipment within the area operation of the Treaty and complicates its implementation.
of application are substantially lower than the limits set in They stress the need to reach as soon as possible relevant
the Treaty.
political solutions and to elaborate necessary measures to
More than 2,500 inspections have taken place. A enable the implementation of the Treaty in accordance with
permanent system for regular and routine exchange of its provisions.
Treaty notifications and other information has been They express their readiness to address the issue of this
developed. The Joint Consultative Group has been firmly TLE in the Joint Consultative Group, including the ways and
established and has demonstrated its utility and importance means to facilitate the resolution of this issue.
as the ongoing Treaty forum.
10. The States Parties have adopted the understandings
With regard to the Concluding Act, the States Parties and agreed interpretations with regard to implementation
note with satisfaction that the personnel strength of and ways and means to improve the viability and
conventional armed forces in the area of application was effectiveness of the Treaty as specified in Annex B of this
reduced by 1.2 million persons. Final Document.
6. The States Parties note that the Treaty established a 11. The States Parties have agreed that the
high degree of transparency in military relations through its implementation issues contained in Annex C of this Final
comprehensive system for exchange of information and for Document require further consideration and resolution in
verification. Together with the extensive reductions of the Joint Consultative Group.
conventional armaments and equipment, this has led to
greater predictability and confidence in security relations. 12. The States Parties reaffirm the arrangements of
The Treaty has also nurtured the development of new Article XII reached at the Extraordinary Conferences in Oslo
patterns of co-operation in Europe and provides a basis for in 1992.
stability and enhanced security in Europe at substantially
lower levels of conventional armaments and equipment than They understand that for successor states that had
heretofore. Although risks and challenges still exist in some become States Parties by 1992, paragraph 2 of the Article
parts of Europe, the capability for launching surprise attack XII part of the Oslo arrangement should be read as: "In
and the danger of large-scale offensive action in Europe as a particular, no State Party will increase within the area of
whole have been diminished substantially. Nevertheless, the application its holdings of armoured infantry fighting
achievement of the goals of the Treaty in the whole area of vehicles held by organizations designed and structured to
its application requires continuous efforts by the States perform in peacetime internal security functions above that
Parties. aggregate number held by such organizations at the time of
signature of the Treaty, as notified on their territory
7. The States Parties reaffirm the continued relevance of pursuant to the information exchange as of November 19,
the basic structures of the Treaty including the principle of 1990."
zonal limitations, as embodied in Articles IV and V of the
Treaty. In this respect, and in line with the decision of the They agree to work further on this issue of Article XII in
Joint Consultative Group of 17 November 1995, the States the Joint Consultative Group, taking into account the
Parties have agreed on a document, which is contained in proposals made at the Review Conference.
Annex A, reflecting a combination of measures agreed in 13. States Parties stressed the importance of full and
cooperative fashion and acceptable to all parties to the continuous respect for the provisions of Article IV,
Treaty. paragraph 5, in the context of maintaining the viability of
8. States Parties regret that not all reduction obligations the Treaty, as well as for the sovereignty of the States Parties
pursuant to the Treaty have been met. They stress the involved.
necessity to complete as soon as possible reductions of States Parties noted that, in certain instances, bilateral
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the agreements are under negotiation-or in the process of
Treaty (TLE) in accordance with obligations under the ratification or implementation -which relate to the
Treaty. They note with satisfaction the reiterated provisions of Article IV, paragraph 5. States Parties-
commitment of those States Parties which still have to expressed their support for early and positive results of the
complete reductions to comply with the provisions of the ongomg processes.
Treaty and associated documents. All States Parties express
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States Parties consider that the importance of the Article in the European security architecture. Its scope and
IV provisions on stationing forces should be recognised in parameters should be defined as a matter of priority.
the context of the process foreseen in Section III of this Final
Document. 20. Until the entry into force of such measures and
adaptations, the States Parties will observe all provisions of
14. In the context of the process foreseen in Section III of the Treaty and its associated documents.
this Final Document, States Parties will examine different
interpretations of temporary deployments so as to ensure 21. The States Parties will consider a progress report on
that these temporary deployments do not become indefinite. the intermediate results of this process at the time of the
OSCE Lisbon Summit. This report will inter alia include
15. The States Parties recall that according to Article II, recommendations on the way ahead.
paragraph 2 of the Treaty, the lists of existing types
contained in Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional In accordance with Article XXI, paragraph 1, the States
Armaments and Equipment (POET) shall be updated Parties look forward to gathering again in five years time to
periodically by the Joint Consultative Group in accordance conduct the second review of the operation of the Treaty on
with Section IV of the POET. However, it has not been Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
updated since the Treaty's conclusion. This Final Document, together with its Annexes A, B, C,
The States Parties instruct their delegations to the Joint D, and E, which are integral to it, having been drawn up in
Consultative Group to update the POET. They further all the official languages of the Organization for Security
agreed that: and Co-operation in Europe, shall be deposited with the
government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as the
• any inaccuracies should be corrected; including by designated depositary for the Treaty, which shall circulate
removal of types, models and versions of copies of this Final Document to all the States Parties.
conventional armaments and equipment that do not
meet Treaty criteria;
ANNEXA:
• the Joint Consultative Group should consider if a
yearly update of the lists would be appropriate; Document agreed among the States Parties to the Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19,
• the Joint Consultative Group should consider an 1990.
electronic version of the lists in all official languages.
The 30 States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed
16. The States Parties also discussed the topics contained Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990, hereinafter referred
in Annex D of this Final Document.
to as the Treaty, have agreed as follows:
17. The States Parties welcome the statement of the
representative of the Russian Federation to promote the I
implementation of the statement of the representative of the
Union of Soviet Socialists Republics in the Joint Consultative 1. Each State Party shall, taking into account the
Group on 14 June 1991 in Vienna. The text of the Russian clarification set forth in this Document relating to the area
statement is laid down in Annex E of this Final Document. described in Article V, subparagraph I(A), of the Treaty and
taking into account the understandings on flexibility set
18. The States Parties recommend that in view of the forth in this Document, comply fully with the numerical
issues that have been referred to the Joint Consultative limitations set forth in the Treaty, including Article V
Group, most effective use is made of the provisions of thereof, no later than 31 May 1999.
Article XVI and the Protocol on the Joint Consultative
Group, in order to allow the Joint Consultative Group to 2. Paragraph 1 of this Section shall be understood as
address all those issues in a proper manner. not giving any State Party, which was in compliance with the
numerical limitations set forth in the Treaty, including
Article V thereof, as of 1 January 1996, the right to exceed
III. FUTURE WORK ON THE TREATY
any of the numerical limitations set forth in the Treaty.
19. In view of Sections I and II of this Final Document,
3. Pursuant to the decision of the Joint Consultative
the States Parties instruct their delegations to the Joint
Group of 17 November 1995, the States Parties shall
Consultative Group to expand upon their work in
cooperate to the maximum extent possible to ensure the full
accordance with Article XVI of the Treaty. Taking fresh
implementation of the provisions of this Document.
impetus from this Review Conference, they will immediately
start a thorough process aimed at improving the operation
of the Treaty in a changing environment and, through that, II
the security of each State Party, irrespective of whether it 1. Within the area described in Article V, subparagraph
belongs to a politico-military alliance. As part of this I(A), of the Treaty, as understood by the Union of Soviet
process, the States Parties will consider measures and Socialist Republics at the time the Treaty was signed, the
adaptations with the aim of promoting the objectives of the Russian Federation shall limit its battle tanks, armoured
Treaty and of enhancing its viability and effectiveness, combat vehicles, and artillery so that, no later than 31 May
including but not limited to the consideration of proposals 1999 and thereafter, the aggregate numbers do not exceed:
already made to that effect. The character of this process
should be such as to permit the Treaty to sustain its key role (A) 1,800 battle tanks;
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(B) 3,700 armoured combat vehicles, of which no more on temporary deployment of battle tanks, armoured
than 552 shall be located within the Astrakhan combat vehicles, and artillery within its territory and
Oblast; no more than 552 shall be located within the outside its territory. Such temporary deployments on the
Volgograd Oblast; no more than 310 shall be located territory of other States Parties shall be achieved by means
within the eastern part of the Rostov Oblast of free negotiations and with full respect for the sovereignty
described in Section III, paragraph I, of this of the States Parties involved.
Document; and no more than 600 shall be located
within the Pskov Oblast; and 3. The Russian Federation shall have the right to
utilize to the maximum extent possible reallocation, in
(C) 2,400 pieces of artillery. accordance with existing agreements, of the current quotas
for battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, and artillery
2. Within the Odessa Oblast, Ukraine shall limit its established by the Agreement on the Principles and
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, and artillery so that, Procedures for the Implementation of the Treaty on
upon provisional application of this Document and Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, done at Tashkent,
thereafter, the aggregate numbers do not exceed: on 15 May 1992. Such reallocations shall be achieved by
(A) 400 battle tanks; means of free negotiations and with full respect for the
sovereignty of the States Parties involved.
(B) 400 armoured combat vehicles; and
4. The Russian Federation shall count against the
(C) 350 pieces of artillery. numerical limitations established in the Treaty and
3. Upon provisional application of this document and paragraph 1 of Section II of this Document any armoured
until 31 May 1999, the Russian Federation shall limit its combat vehicles listed as "to be removed" in its
battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, and artillery, within information exchange of 1 January 1996 that are not so
the area described in Article V, subparagraph l(A), of the removed by 31 May 1999.
Treaty, as understood by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics at the time the Treaty was signed, so that the V
aggregate numbers do not exceed: 1. In addition to the annual information exchange
(A) 1,897 battle tanks; provided pursuant to Section VII, subparagraph 1(C), of
the Protocol on Notification and Exchange of Information,
(B) 4,397 armoured combat vehicles; and the Russian Federation shall provide information equal to
that reported in the annual information exchange on the
(C) 2,422 pieces of artillery.
area described in Article V, subparagraph l(A), of the
Treaty, as understood by the Union of Soviet Socialist
ill Republics at the time the Treaty was signed, upon
1. For the purposes of this Document and the Treaty, provisional application of this Document and every six
the following territory, as constituted on 1 January 1996, of months after the annual information exchange. In the case
the Russian Federation shall be deemed to be located in the of Kushchevskaya, the Russian Federation shall provide
area described in Article IV, paragraph 2, of the Treaty such additional information every three months after the
rather than in the area described in Article V, subparagraph annual information exchange.
l(A), of the Treaty: the Pskov Oblast; the Volgograd Oblast; 2. Upon provisional application of this Document,
the Astrakhan Oblast; that part of the Rostov Oblast east of Ukraine shall provide "F21" notifications for its holdings
the line extending from Kushchevskaya to Volgodonsk to the within the Odessa Oblast on the basis of changes of five,
Volgograd Oblast border, including Volgodonsk; and rather than ten, percent or more in assigned holdings.
Kushchevskaya and a narrow corridor in Krasnodar Kray
leading to Kushchevskaya. 3. Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Section, the
Russian Federation shall, upon provisional application of
2. For the purposes of this Document and the Treaty, this Document, accept each year, in addition to its passive
the territory of the Odessa Oblast, as constituted on 1 declared site inspection quota established pursuant to
January 1996, of Ukraine shall be deemed to be located in Section II, subparagraph 10(D), of the Protocol on
the area described in Article IV, paragraph 3, of the Treaty Inspection, up to a total of 10 supplementary declared site
rather than in the area described in Article V, subparagraph inspections, conducted in accordance with the Protocol on
l(A), of the Treaty. Inspection, at objects of verification:

IV (A) Located within the Pskov Oblast; the Volgograd

Oblast; the Astrakhan Oblast; that part of the
1. The States Parties shall, during the period before 31 Rostov Oblast east of the line extending from
May 1999, examine the Treaty provisions on designated Kushchevskaya to Volgodonsk to the Volgograd
permanent storage sites so as to allow all battle tanks, Oblast border, including Volgodonsk; and
armoured combat vehicles, and artillery in designated Kushchevskaya and a narrow corridor in Krasnodar
permanent storage sites, including those subject to regional Kray leading to Kushchevskaya;
numerical limitations, to be located with active units.
(B) Containing conventional armaments and equipment
2. The Russian Federation shall have the right to utilize limited by the Treaty designated by the Russian
to the maximum extent possible the provisions of the Treaty Federation in its annual information exchange of 1
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January 1996 as "to be removed," until such time (A) In case an inspected State Party or the State Party
that a declared site inspection confirms that such exercising the rights and obligations of the inspected
equipment has been removed. State Party delays an inspection on grounds of force
majeure, it shall, in written form, explain the reasons
4. Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Section, for this delay in detail;
Ukraine shall, upon provisional application of this
Document, accept each year, in addition to its passive This should take place as follows:
declared site inspection quota established pursuant to
Section II, subparagraph 10(D), of the Protocol on • If force majeure is declared prior to the arrival of the
Inspection, up to a total of one supplementary declared site inspection team, through the answer to the relevant
inspection, conducted in accordance with the Protocol on notifications;
Inspection, at objects of verification located within the • If force majeure is declared after the arrival of the
Odessa Oblast. inspection team at the point of entry, the explanation
5. The number of supplementary declared site should be presented as soon as possible, through
inspections conducted at objects of verification pursuant to diplomatic channels or other official channels.
paragraph 3 or 4 of this Section shall not exceed the number (B) In case of such a delay due to force majeure, the
of declared site passive quota inspections, established in provisions of Section XI, paragraph 2 of the Protocol
accordance with Section II, subparagraph 10(D) of the on Inspection shall apply.
Protocol on Inspection, conducted at those objects of
verification in the course of the same year. 3. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties annually, but not later than 15 December, the
6. All supplementary declared site inspections complete updated list of inspectors and transport crew
conducted pursuant to paragraph 3 or 4 of this Section: members. In case of additions to the list of inspectors and
(A) Shall be carried out at the cost of the inspecting State transport crew members, the State Party shall provide the
Party, consistent with prevailing commercial rates; complete updated list highlighting the additions.
and 4. Each State Party with territory in the area of
(B) At the discretion of the inspecting State Party, shall
application shall provide to all other States Parties during
be conducted either as a sequential inspection or as a the annual exchange of information the standing diplomatic
separate inspection. clearance numbers for their aviation transportation means
for the subsequent calendar year.
VI 5. Each State Party shall provide to all other States
Parties during the annual exchange of information the list of
1. This document shall enter into force upon receipt by its officially recognized holidays for the subsequent calendar
the Depositary of notification of confirmation of approval year.
by all States Parties. Section II, paragraphs 2 and 3, Section
IV, and Section V of this Document are hereby provisionally 6. The State Party whose inspection team intends to
applied as of 31 May 1996 through 15 December 1996. If transit the territory of another State Party prior to
this Document does not enter into force by 15 December conducting the inspection should inform the transited
1996, then it shall be reviewed by the States Parties. State(s) Party (Parties) about the estimated time of transit,
cross-border points and transportation means to be used by
2. This Document, in all six official languages of the the inspection team, as well as a list of inspectors and drivers
Treaty, shall be deposited with the Government of the with passport numbers.
Kingdom of the Netherlands, as the designated Depositary
for the Treaty, which shall circulate copies of this document 7. States Parties agree that a specified area may contain
to all States Parties. declared sites of their own and stationed forces; but all
declared sites within a specified area are excluded from an
inspection of the specified area (inspections in accordance
ANNEX B: UNDERSTANDINGS AND with Section VIII of the Protocol on Inspection) as they can
AGREED INTERPRETATIONS WITH be inspected only in accordance with Section VII of the
REGARD TO IMPLEMENTATION AND Protocol on Inspection.
WAYS AND MEANS TO IMPROVE THE 8. States Parties agree to send the notification of the
VIABILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE intent to inspect simultaneously to the host and the
TREATY stationing States Parties, if the inspecting State intends to
conduct a sequential inspection which involves stationed
1. The States Parties stress the need to ensure that forces.
relevant Government authorities charged with Treaty
implementation fulfill all the obligations of the Decision of 9. Where appropriate and with the agreement of the
the Joint Consultative Group on the cost of inspection dated State Party on whose territory an inspection is to be carried
23 May 1995. out in respect of conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty of a stationing State Party, the
2. The States Parties agree that pursuant to the Protocol stationing State Party shall assist the host nation in the
on Inspection, Section VII, paragraph 1, provision of security protection to both the inspection team
and the escort team for the duration of the inspection.
336 ON-SITE INSPECTION ACENCY ______________________

10. Notifications of changes of 10 per cent of holdings: 7. Calendar year/possibility of synchronization with
implementation year.
• The States Parties agree that, pursuant to Section
VIII, paragraph 1, subparagraph (B) of the Protocol 8. Financing of the inspections.
on Notification and Exchange of Information, the
most recent update of information on holdings will 9. Common understanding of the obligation pursuant
always constitute the basis for any subsequent to the Protocol on Notification and Exchange of
change to be notified under this paragraph. Information, Section VIII, paragraph 1, subparagraph (B).

• The notification of any change of 10 per cent or 10. Review and updating of the Treaty Notification
more shall be given no later than five days after such Formats to ensure their continued viability.
change occurs. The time period of five days is 11. The issue of TLE which has left, on a temporary
understood as being five working days. basis, without re-assignment, the normal peacetime location,
11. States Parties agree to notify: for commitments under the auspices of the United Nations
or the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
• Any changes in the designation of formations or Europe.
units pursuant to Section I, III, and V of the Protocol
on Notification and Exchange of Information at least 12. A question whether, with reference to the Protocol
42 days in advance; on Notification and Exchange of Information, Section I,
paragraph 1, all units and formations holding equipment
• Any closures of objects of verification within the last subject to the Treaty, including depots, bases, and
month pursuant to Section V, on the fifteenth of each Designated Permanent Storage Sites, should be notified in
month; both Charts I and III.
• Any creation or move to another location of an 13. Disposal of TLE in excess of reduction liabilities and
object of verification at least 42 days in advance. disposal of decommissioned TLE.
12. The States Parties agree that, in addition to the 14. Rounding of passive inspection quotas.
requirements for the submission of information and
notifications as prescribed in Article XVII of the Treaty and 15. Enhanced transparency measures on ambulances
in paragraph 1 of the Annex on the Format for the Exchange built on the chassis of ACVs or APC look-alikes as listed in
of Information to the Protocol on Notification and the Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional Armaments
Exchange of Information, they will endeavour to supplement and Equipment.
the annual exchange of information pursuant to the
aforementioned Protocol in written form by an electronic
data version on diskette in the agreed format; the written
ANNEX D: TOPICS THAT HAVE BEEN
form remaining the official version. DISCUSSED DURING THE REVIEW
CONFERENCE OF THE TREATY ON
13. Each State Party should notify to all other States
Parties its passive declared site inspection quota coincident
CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN
with each annual exchange of information provided EUROPE
pursuant to the Protocol on Notification and Exchange of 1. Article II: definitions of;
Information, Section VII, paragraph 1(C).
"group of States Parties";

ANNEX C: IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES "area of application";

REQUIRING FURTHER CONSIDERATION "accession of other OSCE States Parties";
AND RESOLUTION IN THE JOINT "designated permanent storage site";
CONSULTATIVE GROUP
"armoured vehicle launched bridge";
1. Introducing common procedures concerning flights
of the aviation transportation means with the inspection "combat aircraft",
team. And the Protocol on Existing Types of
2. Point of entry/exit. Conventional Armaments and Equipment

3. Immunity of the transportation means of an 2. Article III:

inspection team. Export of equipment;
4. Formulation of principles for the elaboration of Transparency concerning TLE assigned to
declared site diagrams including the possibility of a more Internal Security Forces;
precise formulation/interpretation of the term "routinely."
United peacekeeping force proposal.
5. Equipment to be used during inspections.
6. Rules on photography.
 AI'I'I~I)I,( D: FI~\1 DO(l.,\W\T OJ THE FIRST CFE REVIEW CONFERENCE 337

3. Article IV: ANNEX E: STATEMENT OF THE

Approach to limitations and maximum levels of REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN
holdings; FEDERATION
Stationing forces on the territory of another To promote the implementation of the Statement of the
State Party. Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to
the Joint Consultative Group of 14 June 1991 (the Statement
4. Article V: of the Soviet Representative), I have been instructed by the
Implementation; Government of the Russian Federation to state the
following.
Temporary deployment;
1. It is understood that conventional armaments and
Stationed forces. equipment in the three Treaty limited categories referred to
5. Article VI: in paragraph 1 of the Statement of the Soviet Representative
(battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery) will be
Sufficiency rule. deemed destroyed or rendered militarily unusable, in
accordance with that statement, upon the application of any
6. Article X: of the following methods:
Removal from DPSS. (A) Destruction or conversion of conventional
7. Article XI: armaments and equipment under procedures that
provide sufficient visible evidence, which confirms
Implementation; that they have been destroyed or rendered militarily
Limits; unusable;

Removal from storage. (B) Provision of satisfactory documentary evidence as

meeting requirements of sufficient visible evidence,
S. Article XII: only in case of such armaments and equipment
destroyed prior to the promulgation of this
Armoured infantry fighting vehicles held by statement. The Russian Federation intends to
internal security forces (pursuant to Oslo Final provide such documentary evidence with regard to
Document, 5 June 1992); armaments and equipment destroyed in the area of
Transparency; application of the Treaty after 17 November 1995;

Need of those states which joined the Treaty in (C) Segregation of battle tanks and armoured combat
1992; vehicles exposed to the influence of atmospheric
factors, with hatches and covers of engine
Criteria concerning internal security force levels. compartments opened, with the invitation of a group
9. Article XIV: of experts to conduct-at its own expense-an
examination of a random sample representative of
Aerial inspections. those conventional armaments and equipment, prior
to their removal from a display site for final disposal
10. Article XVI: (scrapping), and notification of such removal;
Future role of the Joint Consultative Group; (D) Visit of group of experts, at its own expense and
Duration of sessions of the Joint Consultative upon invitation, to count already derelict
Group. conventional armaments and equipment;
11. Article XVIII: (E) Notification preceding or accompanying each
transfer of conventional armaments and equipment
Follow-up negotiations; to other States Parties within the area of application
Modalities; of the Treaty, with equivalent relevant notification
from the recipient State Party. Such transfers will be
Proposal for a Supplementary Agreement. done in line with Treaty provisions and will be
compatible with the objectives and terms of the
12. Miscellaneous
Statement of the Soviet Representative.
United peacekeeping force proposal;
2. Continuing its efforts aimed at the implementation
Exceptional circumstances; of the statement of the Soviet representative, the Russian
Federation will apply methods referred to in paragraph 1 of
Joint Consultative Group dialogue on Treaty this statement to conventional armaments and equipment
support fund. located on its territory. It will co-operate with the Republic
of Kazakstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan in applying
those methods to conventional armaments and equipment
located on their territories. The Russian Federation will
negotiate the necessary arrangements with those states for
the purpose of completing by joint efforts the process STATEMENT OF UKRAINE AT THE CONFERENCE TO
referred to in paragraph 1 of the Statement of the Soviet REVIEW THE OPERATION OF THE TREATY ON
Representative by the year 2000. CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE
3. If, despite good faith efforts, the quota of 6000
battle tanks subject to elimination is not fully met, the 31 MAY 1996
shortfall of not more than 2300 battle tanks will be covered In connection with the decision of the CFE Review
by applying methods referred to in paragraph 1 of this Conference of 31 May 1996 to adopt the "Document
statement to an equal number of armoured combat vehicles Agreed by the States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional
in excess of the quota of 1500 pieces; and thus the overall Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990," Ukraine
process referred to in paragraph 1 of the Statement of the gives consent to such a decision, with the understanding
Soviet Representative will be in general deemed completed. that, in implementing its provisions, the States Parties will
Notwithstanding that, a number of battle tanks equal to the proceed from the following:
above-mentioned shortfall will be subsequently eliminated.
The envisaged date for the completion of the process of their 1. The rights and obligations of the Russian Federation
elimination will depend on the duration of their operational set forth in Section II, paragraphs 1 and 3, and Section V,
and service life and on the availability of financial resources. paragraph 1, of the Document, in relation to "the area
That elimination will be carried out in line with paragraph 1 described in Article V, subparagraph 1 (A), of the Treaty, as
of this statement. understood by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at the
time the Treaty was signed," do not cover the territory of
4. Upon completion of initial visits referred to in Ukraine, namely the autonomous Republic of the Crimea,
paragraph 1 of this statement, the Russian Federation will be Nikolayev Oblast, Zaporozhskaya Oblast and Kherson
ready to discuss in the lCG their results and in the light of Oblast.
these to make arrangements, as necessary, for further visits,
as well as to discuss possible modalities for further visits. In 2. Section II, paragraphs 1 and 3, and Section IV,
general, relevant practices established in the process of paragraph 2, of the Document, do not cover that portion of
Treaty implementation will be followed as much as the TLE of the naval infantry and coastal defence forces
applicable in the organization and conduct of the visits. which, as a result of the Black Sea Fleet division between
Ukraine and the Russian Federation, will be assigned to the
STATEMENTS OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FIRST Russian Federation and subject to their withdrawal from the
CONFERENCE TO REVIEW THE OPERATION OF THE territory of Ukraine with the agreed timeframes.
TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN 3. The provisions of Section IV, paragraph 2, of the
EUROPE AND THE CONCLUDING ACT OF THE Document, shall in no way restrict the right and possibilities
NEGOTIATION ON PERSONNEL STRENGTH: of Ukraine to deploy on a temporary basis, under Article V,
• Notwithstanding the rights of each state as stated in paragraph 1, of the Treaty, combat tanks, armoured combat
Article XIV of the Treaty, each State Party should vehicles and artillery within the "new" flank area.
attempt to avoid conducting inspections during the 4. The provisions of Section IV, paragraph 3, of the
officially recognized holidays of the other State Document, shall in no way bear upon the rights and
Party. obligations of Ukraine under the Agreement on the
• With regard to the phrase "on the availability of Principles and Procedures for the Implementation of the
financial resources" in the Statement of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 15 May
Representative of the Russian Federation as 1992.
contained in Annex E of the Final Document of the The delegation of Ukraine requests to distribute this
Review Conference of the Treaty on Conventional Statement as an Annex to the Final Document of the
Armed Forces in Europe, it is understood that this Conference.
phrase is without prejudice to other arms control
obligations. STATEMENT OF THE DELEGATION OF MOLDOVA
• Temporary deployment and reallocation of quotas TO THE REVIEW CONFERENCE OF THE CFE TREATY
referred to in Section IV, paragraphs 2 and 3, of the ON 31 MAY 1996
Document will not be used in the context of the In relation to paragraph 7 Section 2 of the Final Document,
Azerbaijan Republic. the Republic of Moldova would like to make the following
statement:
STATEMENT BY THE DELEGATION OF THE RUSSIAN
FEDERATION AT THE CFE REVIEW CONFERENCE The early entry into force of the bilateral agreement on
the withdrawal of Russian troops, signed between the
31 MAY 1996 Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation on 21
Unless flexibilities listed in the agreement on the flank issue October 1994 shall contribute to full implementation of the
are realized by 31 May 1999 the Russian Federation retains Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on
the right to use other Treaty flexibilities discussed but not Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
mentioned in the above agreement. In relation to Section IV, paragraph 2 of the Document
Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on
 Apl'f.f\iI)IX D: FINAL DOCUMFNT OF THE FIRST CFE REVIEW CONFERENCE :n9

Conventional Armed Forces in Europe contained in the that a similar examination is carried out for the clarification
Annex A of the Final Document, the Republic of Moldova of the question of "temporary deployments," in particular
would like to make the following interpretative statement: with regard to their duration.
The constitution of the Republic of Moldova has 5. In view of the continued relevance of the regional
proclaimed the permanent neutrality of the country, sublimits even under changing conditions, the Turkish
prohibiting the stationing of foreign troops on the territory government will not enter into any negotiation prejudicial to
of the Republic. In view of these constitutional provisions, the principle of regional sub-limits, nor accept any force
the Republic of Moldova cannot allow even temporary limits which would not take due consideration of the size of
deployment of conventional armaments belonging to other its territory, population and the security environment in
countries on its territory. adjacent regions not subject to Treaty limitations.
I would like to ask you Mr. Chairman to annex this I request that this statement be attached to the Final
statement to the Final Document with the translation into all Document.
official languages.
STATEMENT OF THE DELEGATION OF GEORGIA
THE STATEMENT OF THE TURKISH DELEGATION
ON THE "DOCUMENT AGREED AMONG THE The Georgian delegation has considered paragraphs 2 and 3
STATES PARTIES TO THE CFE TREATY OF of Section IV of the Document Amongst the States Parties on
NOVEMBER 19, 1990." the flank issue very carefully. We still have some very serious
concerns about the future implementation of their content.
On the occasion of the adoption of the Final Document of In this context we would like to make the following
the First Review Conference, the Turkish delegation registers statement:
the following understanding:
Any agreement on temporary deployment of conventional
1. The Document in question does not change in any armed forces on the territory of Georgia or for the
way the legally binding character of the CFE Treaty and its reallocation of equipment quotas established by the
associated documents, nor the obligations of individual Tashkent Agreement must be the result of free negotiation
States Parties to the Treaty. and must be taken with full respect for the sovereignty of
Georgia and for its constitution. All parties must implement
2. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Section IV of the Document all the provisions of any such agreements in good faith and
cannot be interpreted in a manner which may prejudice the in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.
provision contained in Article IV, paragraph 5 of the CFE
Treaty, nor the principle of free consent enshrined in the
OSCE documents in the use of such rights. STATEMENT BY THE NETHERLANDS

3. The "flexibilities" contained in the Treaty consist of THE NETHERLANDS

those mentioned in the above paragraphs and can only be
used in full respect of the relevant Treaty provisions and on 31 MAY 1996
the basis of agreements concluded and implemented with
free consent of the States Parties involved. It is the view of the 16 members of the Atlantic Alliance that
any future flexibility must be consistent with the legal
4. While the Turkish delegation accepts an examination framework of the Treaty, as agreed by all 30 States Parties.
of the DPSS provisions, it makes it clear that it can accept
eventual modifications only if they do not result in force I request that this statement will be attached to the Final
concentrations prejudicial to regional balances and provided Document.
 Appendix E
CFE TREATY: NATIONAL
VERIFICATION ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ITALY
ORGANIZATION AGENCY: Joint Armaments Verification Center
LOCATION: Rome, Italy
BELGIUM CFE TREATY TLE: 7,737
AGENCY: Ministere de la Defense Nationale, Verification
Unit (JSO-DIWV) LUXEMBOURG
LOCATION: Brussels, Belgium AGENCY: Inspection, Verification and Observation Group
CFE TREATY TLE: 2,333'> LOCATION: Luxembourg
'-Note: All CFE Treaty TLE figures were drawn from the CFE TREATY TLE: No Treaty Limited Equipment
August 1992, data exchange
NETHERLANDS
CANADA AGENCY: Defence Staff, Arms Control Branch
AGENCY: J3 Arms Control Verification Directorate, LOCATION: The Hague, Netherlands
National Defense Headquarters CFE TREATY TLE: 3,461
LOCATION: Ottawa, Canada
CFE TREATY TLE: 272 NORWAY
AGENCY: Headquarters Defense Command Norway
DENMARK LOCATION: Oslo, Norway
AGENCY: Headquarters, Chief of Defense Arms Control CFE TREATY TLE: 962
Section
LOCATION: Copenhagen, Denmark PORTUGAL
CFE TREATY TLE: 1,486 AGENCY: Unidade Nacional De Verificacoes
LOCATION: Lisbon, Portugal
FRANCE CFE TREATY TLE: 872
AGENCY: L'Unite Fran~aise de Verification
LOCATION: Creil Cedex, France SPAIN
CFE TREATY TLE: 8,219 AGENCY: Unidad De Verificacion Espanola
LOCATION: Madrid, Spain
GERMANY CFE TREATY TLE: 3, 655
AGENCY: Federal Armed Forces Verification Center
LOCATION: Geilenkirchen, Germany TURKEY
CFE TREATY TLE: 22,300 AGENCY: International Security Affairs Division
Verification and Implementation Branch
GREECE LOCATION: Ankara, Turkey
AGENCY: Hellenic National Defence General Staff, Arms CFE TREATY TLE: 8,545
Control Directorate
LOCATION: Athens, Greece UNITED KINGDOM
CFE TREATY TLE: 5,833 AGENCY: Joint Arms Control Implementation Group
LOCATION: RAF Henlow, United Kingdom (moved in
ICELAND May 1996 from RAF Scampton)
AGENCY: Defense Department Ministry for Foreign Affairs CFE TREATY TLE: 6,025
LOCATION: Reykjavik, Iceland
CFE TREATY TLE: No Treaty Limited Equipment
UNITED STATES ARMENIA
AGENCY: On-Site Inspection Agency, European Operations AGENCY: Unit of International Treaties Realization
LOCATION: Frankfurt, Germany LOCATION: Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
CFE TREATY TLE: 12,846 CFE TREATY TLE: Data Not Available

AZERBAIJAN
WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION
AGENCY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Note: In November 1990, the Budapest Group (Bulgaria, LOCATION: Baku, Azerbaijan
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak CFE TREATY TLE: 397
Republic) superseded the WTO and accepted all CFE Treaty
responsibilities.
BELARUS
BULGARIA AGENCY: National Agency for Verification and Inspections
LOCATION: Minsk, Belarus
AGENCY: Director of Disarmament CFE TREATY TLE: 9,254
LOCATION: Sofia, Bulgaria
CFE TREATY TLE: 7,034
GEORGIA
CZECH REPUBLIC AGENCY: Department of Foreign Affairs and Disarmament
LOCATION: Tbilisi, Georgia
AGENCY: Disarmament Control Office CFE TREATY TLE: 105
LOCATION: Prague, Czech Republic
CFE TREATY TLE: 6,306 KAZAKSTAN
HUNGARY AGENCY: Treaty Implementation Section, International
Department, Ministry of Defense
AGENCY: Arms Control and Verification Center LOCATION: Almaty, Kazakstan
LOCATION: Budapest, Hungary CFE TREATY TLE: No Treaty Limited Equipment
CFE TREATY TLE: 4,305
MOLDOVA
POLAND
AGENCY: Department for International Treaty Compliance
AGENCY: Polish Verification Center LOCATION: Chisinau (Kishinev), Moldova
LOCATION: Warsaw, Poland CFE TREATY TLE: 236
CFE TREATY TLE: 8,100
RUSSIA
ROMANIA
AGENCY: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
AGENCY: Directorate for International Relations and LOCATION: Moscow, Russian Federation
Treaties CFE TREATY TLE: 42,692
LOCATION: Bucharest, Romania
CFE TREATY TLE: 10,603 UKRAINE
SLOVAK REPUBLIC (SLOVAKIA) AGENCY: Verification Center Armed Forces of Ukraine
LOCATION: Kiev, Ukraine
AGENCY: Verification Centre, Ministry of Defense CFE TREATY TLE: 18,341
LOCATION: Bratislava, Slovak Republic
CFE TREATY TLE: 3,153

FORMER SOVIET UNION

"-Note: In May 1992, at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the successor
states to the Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine) formally
accepted all CFE Treaty responsibilities. The Tashkent
Group divided the former Soviet Union's treaty limited
equipment.
 Appendix F

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ASSIGNED
 Appendix G
CHRONOLOGY: CFE TREATY
NEGOTIATIONS AND
IMPLEMENTATION, 1972-1996
1972 May 24. President Richard M. Nixon and General 1979 December. Negotiations for MBFR stalled because
Secretary Leonid Brezhnev reached a compromise of the NATO decision to deploy new intermediate-
agreement to hold separate political and military range nuclear weapons in Europe.
negotiations. The Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) would deal with December. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
political issues, and Mutual Balanced Force Reduc-
tions (MBFR) in Europe with actual force reduc- 1980 November 11. The second CSCE review conference
tions. Detente in Europe began. began in Madrid, Spain. These negotiations would
continue for almost three years, leading to the
November 22. The CSCE process formally began in adoption of the Madrid Mandate.
Helsinki, Finland. These preliminary negotiations
of the 35 CSCE member nations involved setting up 1983 September 6-9. The Madrid CSCE conference
a framework to negotiate confidence and security ended after almost three years of negotiations. The
building measures. 35 CSCE states signed the Madrid Concluding
Document, or Madrid Mandate, which established
1973 July 3. CSCE negotiations began after six months the Stockholm Conference on Confidence and
of preparatory meetings. The 35 nations of the Security Building Measures. The mandate called
CSCE met to begin the process of negotiating for member nations to negotiate treaties reducing
confidence and security building measures in the size of their armed forces in Europe, in addition
Europe. to continuing work to develop confidence and
security building measures.
October 30. Negotiations on MBFR began. The
object of negotiations was to reduce conventional 1984 January 17. The CSCE Stockholm Conference on
forces in the zone of Central Europe surrounding Confidence and Security Building Measures and
East and West Germany and to provide a stable Disarmament in Europe (CDE) began.
military balance in Central Europe.
1985 March 10. Mikhail Gorbachev became General
1975 August 1. The CSCE resulted in 35 nations signing Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
the concluding document. The Helsinki Final Act Union.
was primarily designed to build confidence within
Europe. Confidence-building measures included March 13. President Ronald Reagan reversed his
notification of major military maneuvers involving position on holding high-level talks with leaders of
more than 25,000 troops. the Soviet Union.

1977 October 4. A first CSCE review conference on November 19-20. President Reagan and General
implementation of the Helsinki Final Act began in Secretary Gorbachev held their first summit
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. meeting.

1978 March 9. The Belgrade CSCE review conference 1986 April 18. General Secretary Gorbachev proposed in
closed, with no conclusions reached. MBFR negotiations to reduce ground and air forces,
and to include conventional and nuclear weapons
May 25. French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing from the Atlantic to the Urals. Gorbachev recog-
proposed a two-stage security conference during a nized the presence of significant asymmetries of
UN meeting. conventional forces and proposed large-scale force
reductions to be verified by on-site inspection.
 June 11. Gorbachev's proposals were formalized sized the importance of stability and security in
during a Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) Europe, specifically calling for data exchange,
meeting in Budapest, with the proposals later verification of these data, and then reductions.
known as the Budapest Appeal or Budapest
Communique. December 7. General Secretary Gorbachev an-
nounced at the United Nations a unilateral with-
September 22. In Stockholm, 35 CSCE nations, drawal of 50,000 troops from Eastern Europe, and
meeting as the Conference on Confidence and demobiliztion of 500,000 Soviet troops.
Security Building and Disarmament in Europe,
adopted an accord, the Stockholm Document, 1989 January 14. Twenty-three member nations of
designed to increase Mansparency of military activi- NATO and the Warsaw Pact produced the Mandate
ties and to reduce the risk of war in Europe. The for the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces
agreement required notification of military exercises in Europe. The mandate set out objectives for the
of 13,000 troops or more, and allowed on-site CFE Treaty and established negotiating principles.
inspections of field activities of more than 17,000
ground troops or 5,000 airborne troops. January 15. The Vienna CSCE review conference
ended after more than two years, resulting in the
October 11-12. A summit between President Vienna Concluding Document, which set a mandate
Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev was held for CSBM talks, specifying that the talks would
at Reykjavik, Iceland. It created a positive context work toward "elaborating and adopting a new set
for further negotiations. of mutually complementary confidence and security
building measures designed to reduce the risk of
November 4. The third CSCE review conference confrontation in Europe."
began in Vienna.
February 2. After 15 years of negotiations, the
December 12. NATO's North Atlantic Council of Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks ended
foreign ministers issued the Brussels Declaration on in Vienna.
Conventional Arms Control. The declaration called
for two distinct sets of negotiations: one to build on March 9. The Vienna Confidence and Security
the CSBM results of the Stockholm Conference and Building Measures negotiations mandated by the
the other to establish conventional stability in Vienna Concluding Document began, with 35 states
Europe through negotiations on conventional arms participating.
control from the Atlantic to the Urals (ATTU).
March 9. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
1987 January 7. The Stockholm Document entered into (CFE) Treaty negotiations commenced in Vienna
force. The agreement for the first time provided for with 23 members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
a negotiated right to conduct on-site inspections of
military forces in the field. May 20-25. President George Bush and France's
President Fran~ois Mitterrand met at
February 17. Informal talks between the 16 NATO Kennebunkport, Maine. President Bush announced
and the 7 Warsaw Pact nations began in Vienna on the acceptance of combat aircraft and helicopters in
a mandate for conventional negotiations in Europe, the reductions as proposed by the WTO. He also
which would set out treaty negotiating guidelines. proposed a ceiling of 275,000 personnel stationed
in Europe by the U.S. and Soviet Union.
July 27. NATO presented a draft mandate during
the 23-nation conference in Vienna. The mandate May 29-30. During a NATO summit in Brussels,
called for elimination of force disparities, capability President Bush's proposal was adopted and subse-
for surprise attack, and large-scale offensive opera- quently presented in Vienna.
tions, and the establishment of an effective verifica-
tion system. November 9. The Berlin Wall fell. Revolutions in
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria
December 8. The INF treaty was signed in Wash- followed within four weeks.
ington, D.C., between the United States and the
Soviet Union. December 2-3. Presidents Bush and Gorbachev met
at sea off Malta and agreed to speed up arms
1988 January 26. The Secretary of Defense established control and economic negotiations.
the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) as a Depart-
ment of Defense agency responsible for conducting 1990 January I5-February 22. Non-Soviet WTO states
on-site inspection, monitoring, and escort opera- negotiated for deeper Soviet cuts and earlier with-
tions under the INF Treaty. drawals.

May 29-June 2. At the Moscow Summit, President January 16-February 5. The 35 CSCE states held a
Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev empha- seminar on military doctrine in Vienna.
January 31. In his State of the Union address, Four" gave up their occupation rights in Germany on
President Bush proposed lower levels of Soviet and October 3, paving the way for German unification.
U.S. forces in Europe. The proposal called for
195,000 personnel for each nation and 30,000 for October 1. With German unification drawing near,
the u.s. in the periphery. the Soviet Union had 17 divisions stationed in East
Germany, totaling more than 363,700 troops,
February 26. Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union which had to be withdrawn by 1994.
signed an agreement on withdrawal of Soviet forces.
The agreement called for the withdrawal by July October 3. The German Democratic Republic
1991 of all 73,500 Soviet troops, along with more ceased to exist, as Germany was unified.
than 1,200 tanks, 2,500 armored combat vehicles,
1,200 pieces of artillery, and 80 aircraft. October 3. President Bush requested that the U.S.
and Soviet negotiators move from Vienna to New
March 9. Hungary and the Soviet Union signed an York to facilitate completion of the negotiations in
agreement on withdrawal of Soviet forces. The time for the 19-21 November CSCE Paris Summit.
Soviet Union agreed that by the end of June 1991, it
would withdraw all its forces, consisting of 50,000 October-November. U.S. Secretary of State Baker
troops, 860 tanks, 1,500 armored combat vehicles, and Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze resolved
and other equipment from Hungary. most major outstanding CFE issues. CFE negotia-
tors in Vienna resolved most of the remaining
May 5. The first Two plus Four (foreign ministers smaller, technical disputes. Major disagreements
of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Ger- over verification were resolved, and the "sufficiency
man Democratic Republic plus France, the United rule" was established.
Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union)
Meeting on German Unification was held in Bonn. October 13. Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze
sent a letter to Secretary of State Baker listing the
May 29. President Bush signed National Security CFE Treaty-limited equipment that the USSR had
Directive 41, which made the Secretary of Defense relocated to east of the Urals.
responsible for CFE compliance and directed the
On-Site Inspection Agency to prepare for CFE November 3. Warsaw Pact countries signed an
Treaty implementation. It also directed OSIA to agreement in Budapest that divided Warsaw Pact
prepare for inspection duties under the Chemical allocations of forces by country as allowed under
Weapons Convention, the Strategic Arms Reduction the CFE Treaty.
Treaty, the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, and the
Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty. November 14. Poland and Germany signed an
agreement confirming the existing Polish-German
June 26. The Hungarian National Assembly voted border.
to begin negotiations to withdraw from the Warsaw
Treaty Organization. November 17. CSBM Vienna Document 1990 was
completed and signed by the 34 members of the
July 6. NATO announced the London Declaration CSCE. (German unification had lowered the
on a Transformed North Atlantic Alliance, which number of CSCE states by one, as the German
called for decreased size of NATO forces as the Democratic Republic ceased to exist.) The Vienna
Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Eastern Document 1990 expanded on the CSBM provisions
Europe, among other measures to draw down from of the 1986 Stockholm Document.
the confrontational attitudes of the Cold War.
November 18. The Soviet Union submitted official
July 16. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl treaty data. Data submitted were significantly out
and Soviet President Gorbachev agreed to a com- of line with data submitted two years earlier-as
plete Soviet withdrawal from Germany by 1994 the Soviets' number of objects of verification was
and a ceiling of 370,000 active German military reduced from 1,500 to 1,000.
personnel.
November 19. At the Paris Summit, the CFE Treaty
September 11. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard was signed by leaders of 22 states.
Shevardnadze and U.S. Secretary of State James
Baker formally agreed to rescind their earlier November 21. The Charter of Paris for a New
agreement to limit their own personnel in the Europe was adopted by all 34 members of the
region, and to resolve the personnel issue during CSCE. The charter's goal was to recognize the end
CFE lA negotiations. of the Cold War and to reflect a new spirit of
cooperation.
September 12. In Moscow, the Two plus Four
countries signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement November 26. CFE 1A negotiations formally
with Respect to Germany. The World War II "Big commenced in Vienna.
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November 29. The first meeting of the Joint Con- August 19. An abortive military coup d'etat was
sultative Group (JCG) convened in Vienna. launched in the Soviet Union. After the coup, the
Soviet government continued, but very weakly,
December 6. The United States dispatched a team while nationalism grew rapidly in the Soviet
of experts to Moscow in an effort to resolve dis- republics.
crepancies in Soviet treaty data.
October 18. At the second Extraordinary Confer-
1991 February 4-14. The first U.S. CFE course was ence of the JCG, held in Vienna, the Soviet Union
conducted at the Defense Intelligence College in issued a political declaration stating its intention to
Washington, D.C. rapidly withdraw weapons based in the Baltics.
The JCG no longer considered Baltic states to be
February 14. The Soviet Union submitted updated within the CFE area of application.
treaty data. The Soviets interpreted equipment
transferred to coastal defense, naval infantry, December 8. Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus created
Strategic Rocket Forces, and civil defense units as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
being not countable as treaty-limited equipment. Within a week, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan also joined the CIS.
February 15. The United States and other NATO
nations suspended treaty ratification because of the December 25. The Soviet Union dissolved into 15
Soviet Union's unilateral reinterpretation of the independent states, 8 of which had former Soviet
treaty. forces stationed in their territories and fell within
the CFE Treaty's area of application.
March 31. The Warsaw Treaty Organization's
military organs and structures were dissolved. December 26. The United States ratified the CFE
Treaty.
May 14. The U.S. On-Site Inspection Agency
conducted its first CFE mock inspection, working 1992 January 10. The North Atlantic Cooperation
with France's verification agency, L'Unite Fran<,:aise Council (NACC)-which consisted of the 16 NATO
de Verification. OSIA's Team Gessert inspected the nations and the 15 newly independent states of the
French 3rd Fighter Wing at Nancy-Ochey Airfield former Soviet Union, along with Hungary, Roma-
and, the next day, the French 3rd Tank Battalion. nia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia-as-
sembled a High Level Working Group in Brussels.
June 1. Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Of the member states, only Kazakstan did not
Bessmertnykh and U.S. Secretary of State Baker met attend. The meeting agreed that CFE Treaty obliga-
in Lisbon to discuss the final details of the CFE tions assumed by the former USSR should be fully
Treaty statement concerning Soviet naval infantry accepted by all newly created CIS states within the
and coastal defense units. ATTU.

June 14. The Soviet government presented to other January 13. The Joint Consultative Group met to
signatory states a "legally binding" statement on discuss how to incorporate CIS republics into the
how it would comply with the terms of the CFE CFE Treaty.
Treaty, covering issues such as reassignment of
treaty-limited equipment (TLE) to coastal defense, January 30-31. CSCE foreign ministers in Prague
naval infantry and Strategic Rocket Forces, and admitted several new CIS states: Armenia,
elimination of TLE east of the Urals. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
June 14. The Secretary of Defense assigned the U.S.
Commander in Chief Europe (USCINCEUR) as the February 10-14. The On-Site Inspection Agency
executive agent for CFE, with responsibility for U.S. conducted its first CFE mock inspections inside the
CFE compliance in Europe. territory of the Eastern Group of States. The first
inspection was held at Siverskiy Air Base and the
June 18. The Joint Consultative Group held its first second at Pushkin, both in Russia's Leningrad
Extraordinary Conference at the Hague. During the Military District.
session, the Soviet statements on coastal defense
and naval infantry and on reductions east of the February 21. The High Level Working Group
Urals were read and accepted as treaty documents. meeting in Brussels agreed on methods for bringing
the CFE Treaty into force.
July 1. The Warsaw Treaty Organization was
dissolved. March 4. CSCE participants adopted the Vienna
Document 1992. The agreement subsumed and
July 9. President Bush submitted the CFE Treaty to added to the Vienna Document 1990 and provided
the U.S. Senate for ratification. for expanded membership in the CSCE process and
greater exchange of information in numerous areas
 AI'I'I\.()I,\ G: CHRO!\:OIOC) 34Y

of CSBM. With the admission of most of the July 17. The CFE Treaty provisionally entered into
former Soviet states, the CSCE included 48 member force, limiting five major categories of weapons,
nations. with 29 signatory states. When the remaining
countries deposited their instruments of ratification
March 24. The CSCE nations signed the Vienna in October, it was agreed to make full entry into
Document 1992. force retroactive to July 17.

April 3. The High Level Working Group of the July 17. The CFE baseline period began. Canada
North Atlantic Cooperation Council met to discuss conducted the first NATO inspection in the former
division of the former Soviet Union's TLE among Soviet Union.
independent CIS states.
July 18-20. OSIA's Team White, led by Lt. Colonel
May 8. The High Level Working Group met again Elmer G. "Guy" White, conducted the first U.S.
to discuss division of the former Soviet Union's CFE baseline inspection at Buy, Russia.
TLE.
July 20. The first U.S. liaison officer (LNO) activity
May 15. The CIS states met at Tashkent, occurred in England during baseline.
Uzbekistan, and agreed on division of former Soviet
forces among CIS states. August 6-8. OSIA conducted the first U.S. reduc-
tion inspection at the Capital Repair Plant at
June 5. The JCG held its third Extraordinary Woensdorf, Germany. Russian forces still in the
Conference in Oslo, Norway. Twenty-nine coun- former East Germany reduced the equipment.
tries signed the Final Document of the Extraordi-
nary Conference of the States Parties to the CFE August 13-15. In the first Eastern Group of States
Treaty. The document removed all obstacles to inspection, a Russian team inspected a Canadian
ratification of the treaty and modified language of site in Germany, followed by a sequential inspection
the treaty to include all CIS states which were in the of U.S. stationed forces at Geibelstadt, Germany, for
ATTU, legalizing the entry of the new states into the the first U.S. CFE escort mission.
treaty and their acceptance of the obligations of the
USSR. August 14. The first post-baseline information on
national equipment holdings was exchanged.
July 1. Ukraine ratified the CFE Treaty.
September 4. U.S. inspection teams were denied
July 5. The United States completed its 44th and access to Russian declared sites. A four-month
last CFE mock inspection mission before entry into dispute ensued.
force of the treaty. During these 44 missions, OSIA
inspected 100 separate sites. About half-27 September 22. Fifty-four member states of the
missions and 50 inspections-involved cooperative CSCE follow-on conference created the Forum for
mock inspections with NATO partners. Six mis- Security Cooperation (FSC) mandate for new
sions involved participation with Eastern bloc security negotiations. CFE was replaced as the
nations: Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, primary tool for conventional arms control confi-
Bulgaria, and Romania. The remainder took place dence and security building measures. Unlike the
at U.S. sites in Europe, giving the host site personnel CFE Treaty, all states would participate individually
as well as OSIA teams training in the CFE inspec- and not as alliances or military blocs.
tion process.
October 12. Armenia deposited its CFE instru-
July 8. Russia ratified the CFE Treaty. ments of ratification in The Hague, leaving only
two nations to ratify before the treaty could fully
July 10. By the time of the Helsinki CSCE Summit, enter into force.
three nations-Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakstan-
had not yet ratified the CFE Treaty. At the fourth October 3-9. Following a German inspection of
JCG Extraordinary Conference, held concurrently Naro-Fominsk, Russia, in late September, two U.S.
with the CSCE Summit, the CFE Treaty nations teams and one French team conducted inspections
agreed on provisional entry into force of the treaty, in rapid succession at Naro-Fominsk to test Russian
which would allow implementation to begin while assurances that site diagrams would be corrected
they waited for the remaining three countries to and that inspectors would have full access at de-
ratify the treaty. clared objects of verification (OOVs).

July 10. CFE 1A was signed by 29 states during the October 30. The final two CFE ratification instru-
Helsinki CSCE summit. The agreement limited ments, those of Belarus and Kazakstan, were depos-
personnel to specific national thresholds and put ited at The Hague.
into place an extensive information exchange
regime.
 November 9. The Joint Consultative Group formal- November 13. The CFE Treaty's second reduction
ized the CFE Treaty's entry into force with 29 year ended. All but two nations had met their 60
states, and made entry into force retroactive to the percent reduction goals.
July 17 date of provisional entry into force.
December 4. At the CSCE Summit in Budapest, the
November 14. The CFE baseline period ended. 52 nations of the CSCE signed the Vienna Docu-
During baseline the United States hosted nine ment 1994, which replaced the Vienna Document
inspection teams that inspected 23 U.S. declared 1992 and expanded on its confidence and security
sites, and conducted 33 missions into former WTO building measures. At the same time, the Confer-
nations, inspecting 44 Eastern bloc sites. In addi- ence on Security and Cooperation in Europe
tion to the baseline inspections, the United States changed its name to the Organization for Security
also conducted five reduction inspections. and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

November 15. With the baseline period ended, the 1995 January 10. The United States agreed that Russian
CFE treaty moved into a three-year reduction forces in Chechnya did not constitute a CFE Treaty
period. violation, since flank limits did not come into effect
until the end of the reduction period in November.
1993 January. NATO's Verification Coordinating Com- After that, they would still not be a violation, since
mittee (VCC) invited the participation of former the treaty allowed temporary deployments.
Warsaw Pact guest inspectors on its teams. Hosting
guest inspectors from NATO nations had been a February 23. President Alexander Lukashenka
common practice since the beginning of baseline, announced that Belarus would suspend all CFE
but this marked the first time NATO had invited reduction activities because of the cost, which he
inspectors from former Eastern bloc nations onto called "economically unjust," since Belarus did not
their teams. produce the weapons left behind when the Soviet
Union dissolved but still had responsibility for
April 28. The United States hosted the first guest destroying them. Belarus did state, however, that
inspector from a former Warsaw Pact nation on one reductions could begin again if financing was made
of its CFE inspection teams when a Czech inspector available.
participated in a U.S inspection in Tazar, Hungary.
May 10. At a Clinton/Yeltsin summit meeting in
September. Russia's President Boris Yeltsin sent a Moscow, the United States told Russia that it would
letter to the United States, Germany, France, and not support modification to the CFE Treaty until
the United Kingdom asking that they recognize the the review conference in May 1996.
flanks as a serious problem.
September 12. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and
November 17. The first CFE reduction year ended. Kazakstan announced that they would not be able
All signatories met their 25 percent reduction to meet their reduction liabilities by the end of the
liabilities for the first year, with the exceptions of reduction period. Ukraine said it could meet its
Armenia and Azerbaijan. commitments with the exception of TLE assigned to
the Black Sea Fleet, which it could not reduce until
1994 March 21. Russia asked the JCG to consider the equipment in the fleet was divided between
modifying the CFE Treaty to increase the amount of Ukraine and Russia. The other three nations
TLE that could be taken out of storage and the blamed economic difficulties.
length of time it could be out of storage.
October 15. Belarus resumed its reduction of
March 23. Belarus threatened to cease its CFE treaty-limited equipment, but stated it would not be
reductions because of high costs, unless it received able to meet its remaining reduction liability by the
assistance from other nations. end of the reduction period in November.

March 31. The United States gave $10 million to November 17. The CFE reduction period ended.
be divided between Belarus and Ukraine to help The treaty nations issued a joint statement identify-
finance their CFE reductions. ing the countries that were not in compliance with
their treaty obligations: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
May 15. A U.S. guest inspector took part for the Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Despite some coun-
first time in an inspection conducted by a former tries' failing to fully meet their reduction liabilities,
Warsaw Pact nation. Major Mark Lieber, USMC, the amount of equipment reduced by the CFE
served on a Bulgarian inspection in Romania. Treaty constituted the largest negotiated arms
reduction in history, with over 50,000 pieces of
September 19. For the first time, a U.S. CFE inspec- equipment destroyed. This equipment included
tion team included a Russian guest inspector. 19,200 battle tanks, 18,600 armed combat vehicles,
OSIA's Lt. Col. Fred E. Busing led this team on a 9,800 pieces of artillery, 2,200 combat aircraft, and
declared site inspection in Oradea, Romania. 370 attack helicopters.
 AI'I'I:'\IlIX G: CHRO'iOI ()C;) 15 I

November 17. The residual level validation period 1996 March 16. The residual level validation period
(RLVP) began. This 120-day "second baseline" ended. During the 120-day RLVP, NATO nations
confirmed the accuracy of national reductions, conducted 246 inspections of Eastern bloc nations.
recategorizations, and relocations of equipment Of these, the United States led 38 inspections and
declared after the reduction period. provided guest inspectors to 56 teams led by other
nations. The Eastern bloc nations inspected NATO
November 25. Russia and Ukraine reached an nations 183 times, with U.S. sites in Europe receiv-
agreement on division of the Black Sea Fleet. ing 11 inspections.
Ukraine would receive 150 naval installations of the
fleet in the agreement. April 26. Belarus did not complete its reductions in
time for the deadline proposed in its November
November 28. The Joint Consultative Group gave 1995 plan.
Belarus an extension until April 26, 1996, to com-
plete its reductions of treaty-limited equipment. May 15-31. The 30 treaty nations held the CFE
The United States and Germany agreed to assist Review Conference in Vienna. The Final Document
Belarus in its reduction effort. of the conference included compromises on the
flank issue, east of the Urals reductions, and other
December 31. Russia failed to meet its deadline for Issues.
reducing TLE it had moved east of the Urals prior
to treaty signature. Russia cited economic difficul-
ties and requested that the JCG extend the deadline
until 1998.
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INTERVIEWS
Bumala, Mark A. Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-Main Air
Base, Germany, July 13, 1993.
Chesney, William N., Jr. Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Plans NCO, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan.
Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
DiMaria, Joseph. Brigadier General, Centro Italiano de Verifica de Armi (CIVA). Interviewed by Joseph P.
Harahan. Washington, D.C., October 19, 1993.
Drach, Joseph J. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, December 17, 1993.
Evans, Mary Margaret. Deputy Director, Conventional Arms Control and Compliance, Office of the Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Washington, D.C., December 8, 1993, and
February 21, 1996.
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Fiser, Thomas C. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
Foerster, Schuyler. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Representative to the CFE Delegation. Interviewed by Joseph P.
Harahan. Washington, D.C., May 19, 1994.
Gallagher, Edward G. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-Main Air
Base, Germany, December 13, 1993.
Gessert, David P. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan.
Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
Hansen, Lynn. Ambassador, United States CFE Treaty Negotiator. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Ramstein
Air Base, Germany, December 14, 1993.
Honcharenko, N. T. General-Major, Chief, Armed Forces Verification Center of Ukraine. Interviewed by Joseph
P. Harahan. August 1, 1995.
Janssen, Fred, and Henri Van der Auera. Lieutenant Colonels, L'Unite BeIge de Verification. Interviewed by
Joseph P. Harahan. Brussels, Belgium, January 27, 1994.
Karcz, Jan. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-Main
Air Base, Germany, December 13, 1993.
Karstens, Gary E., and Kenneth D. Periman, Sergeants First Class, U.S. Army, OSIA linguists. Interviewed by
Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, December 17, 1993.
Keitel, Roland, and Bernd Mecke. Lieutenant Colonels, Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr.
Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 31, 1994.
Kelley, Lawrence G. Colonel, USMC, Chief of Operations Division, European Operations Command, OSIA.
Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Washington D.C., May 18, 1994.
Loquai, Dr. Heinz. Brigadier General, Director, Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr. Interviewed
by Joseph P. Harahan. Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 31, 1994.
Lukes, Michael R. Chief Warrant Officer 4, U.S. Army, Deputy Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P.
Harahan. Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
Malinowski, Stanislaw. Colonel, Chief Inspector, Polish Verification Center. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan.
Warsaw, Poland, February 3, 1994.
Medvedev, V. I. General-Lieutenant (Ret.), former Director, Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Ministry of
Defense, Russia. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Magna, Utah, August 30, 1994.
Melomedov, M.Y. Colonel; Deputy Chief; Colonel M. M. Volochko, Chief, International Treaties Division; Lt.
Colonel I. G. Gerus, Group Leader, CFE Treaty Reduction; and Major G. E. Brusnikov, linguist, National
Agency for Control and Inspections (NAKI), Belarus. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Minsk, Belarus,
February 4, 1994.
Nikulin, Y. I. General-Major, Director, National Agency for Control and Inspections (NAKI), Belarus.
Interviewed by John C. Kuhn. August 1, 1995.
Oatman, Keith A. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Team Chief, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-
Main Air Base, Germany, July 13, 1993.
O'Shea, Richard J. Major, USAF, Liaison Officer, European Operations Command, OSIA. Interviewed by Joseph
P. Harahan. Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 12, 1993.
Partridge, George A. Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Weapons Specialist, European Operations Command, OSIA.
Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, July 13, 1993.
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Rozec, Franc;:ois. Colonel, Commandant, L'Unite Franc;:aise de Verification. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan.
Creil, France, February 1, 1994.
Smith, William R. Colonel, u.S. Air Force, Commander, European Operations Command, OSIA. Interviewed by
Joseph P. Harahan. July 12, 1993.
Steinberg, Joern. Colonel, CFE Treaty Inspection Team Chief, Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der
Bundeswehr. Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Geilenkirchen, Germany, January 31, 1994.
Tsygankov, S. F. General-Major, Deputy Director, Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Ministry of Defense, Russia.
Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. Moscow, Russia, February 8, 1994.
Wierema, C.N.M. Commander, Director, Arms Control Branch, Ministry of Defense, the Netherlands.
Interviewed by Joseph P. Harahan. The Hague, Netherlands, January 28, 1994.

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Bush, George., President of the United States. Organizing to Manage On-Site Inspections Under the CFE Treaty.
National Security Directive. February 11, 1992.
Bush, George. President of the United States. Organizing to Manage On-Site Inspections for Arms Control.
National Security Directive 41. May 29, 1990.
Bush, George. President of the United States. State of the Union Address. January 31, 1990. Published in the
Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 1990. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1991.
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the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, January 14, 1993.
Bush, George. President of the United States. The President's Report to Congress on Soviet Noncompliance with
Arms Control Agreements. February 23, 1990.
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Memorandum for the Secretaries of the Military Departments. June 14, 1991.
Crawford, Dorn. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): A Review and Update of Key Treaty Elements.
Washington D.C.: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, January 1995.
Guillory, Kenneth D. Colonel, U.S. Army. Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Where to Next? Unpublished
report. May 1994.
Hansen, Lynn M. Adaptation and Innovation: CFE and CFE1A, From Signature to Entry Into Force.
Unpublished report. December, 1993.
On-Site Inspection Agency. Public Affairs Office. "Biography of Colonel Frederick E. Grosick, USAF,
Commander European Operations." News Release, December 1993.
On-Site Inspection Agency. Public Affairs Office. "Biography of Colonel Lawrence G. Kelley, USMC, Deputy
Commander and Chief of Operations, European Operations Command." News Release, December 1993.
Nichol, Jim. Analyst in Foreign Affairs, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. "Conventional
Forces in Europe Treaty: Russian Attitudes and Implications for U.S. Interests." Washington, D.C.:
Congressional Research Service, September 15, 1995.
Parker, Robert W. Major General, U.S. Air Force, Director, OSIA. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Arms
Control, International Security and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of
Representatives. May 12, 1992.
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Parker, Robert W. Major General, U.S. Air Force, Director OSIA, Statement Before the House of
Representatives, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Arms Control and International Security and Science.
March 21, 1991.
Powell, Colin L. General, u.s. Army, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. "CFE Treaty Executive Agent."
Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense. April 3, 1991.
Treaty Between the Twenty-Two Sovereign Nations on the Reduction of Their Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe. Washington, D.C.: On-Site Inspection Agency, November 19, 1990.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Report to the Congress on the Activities of the On-Site
Inspection Agency of the Department of Defense. April 1992. 102d Congress. Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1992.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Executive Report 101-31: Threshold Test Ban and
Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaties. 101st Congress, 2d session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1990.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Treaty Document 102-8: Message from the President of
the United States Transmitting the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). 102d
Congress, 1st session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Treaty Document 103-21: Message from the President
of the United States Transmitting the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. 103d Congress, 1st session. Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1993.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Congressional Record. 18038, November 25, 1991.
United States European Command. "Memorandum of Understanding Between USEUCOM, USLANTCOM,
and OSIA for Mutual Liaison and Support Operations in Implementation of the CFE Treaty." 1991.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Dispatch Supplement: Vienna Document 1990. Vol. 2,
Supplement 2. Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department, May 1991.
Willford, David M. "A Brief History of the On-Site Inspection Agency," OSIA Reference Report No.1.
Washington, D.C.: On-Site Inspection Agency, 1996.

FOREIGN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Document on Entry into Force of the Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Vienna: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
November 13, 1992.
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Provisional Application of the Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990. Vienna: Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe, July 10, 1992.
Federal Republic of Germany. Declaration by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the
Personnel Strength of the German Armed Forces. Annex to CFE Treaty. November 19, 1990.
Nedimoglu, Necil. Head of the NATO Verification and Implementation Coordination Section. "NATO's Role in
Verification and Compliance Monitoring for the CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document," speech presented
to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Verification in All Its Aspects, New York, July
19, 1994.
 GLOSSARY
ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACIU Arms Control Implementation Unit
ACV armored combat vehicle
AIFV armored infantry fighting vehicle
AMC Air Mobility Command
APC armored personnel carrier
ATTU Atlantic to the Urals
BDU battle dress uniform
CAEST conventional armaments and equipment subject to the treaty
CBMs confidence-building measures
CFE Treaty Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CIVA Centro Italiano de Verifica de Armi
CSBMs confidence and security building measures
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
DLI Defense Language Institute
000 Department of Defense
DPSS designated permanent storage sites
ElF entry into force
EO European Operations
EU European Union
EUCOM European Command
FAO foreign area officer
FSC Forum for Security Cooperation
GDR German Democratic Republic
GMT Greenwich mean time
GSFG Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
HLTF High Level Task Force
INF Treaty Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite
ISS Inspection Support Staff
JACIG Joint Arms Control Implementation Group
JCG Joint Consultative Group
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
LNO liaison officer
MAC Military Airlift Command
MBFR Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
MD Military District
mm millimeter
NACC North Atlantic Cooperation Council
NAKI National Agency for Control and Inspections
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCO noncommissioned officer
NRRC Nuclear Risk Reduction Center
NSC National Security Council
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NSD41 National Security Directive 41

NTM national technical means
NTT Nuclear Testing Treaties
OOV object of verification
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSIA On-Site Inspection Agency
PACAF Pacific Air Forces
PNET Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
POC point of contact
POE point of entry
POET Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional Armaments and Equipment
RAF Royal Air Force
RLVP residual level validation period
SAC Strategic Air Command
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SRF Strategic Rocket Forces
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
TAMC Theater Army Materiel Command
TLE treaty-limited equipment
TTBT Threshold Test Ban Treaty
UFV L'Unite Franc;:aise de Verification
USA U.S. Army
USAF U.S. Air Force
USAFA U.S. Air Force Academy
USAFE U.S. Air Forces in Europe
USAREUR U.S. Army Europe
USARI U.S. Army Russian Institute
USCINCEUR U.S. Commander in Chief, Europe
USEUCOM U.S. European Command
USLANTCOM U.S. Atlantic Command
USMC U.S. Marine Corps
USMLM U.S. Military Liaison Mission
USN U.S. Navy
USNAVEUR U.S. Navy Europe
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UVB L'Unite BeIge de Verification
VCC Verification Coordinating Committee
VICS Verification and Implementation Coordination Section
WTO Warsaw Treaty Organization
ZVBW Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr
 INDEX
A readiness for entry into force, 151-152
Akhromeyev, Marshall, 10 Bessmertnykh, Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander A., 80,
Allison, Maj. Charles R., USA, 190 81,82
Ambulances, 187, 192,219-220 "Big Hog" database, 121, 188-189
Amen, TSgt. Joseph A., USAF, 113, 114-115 Bilyeu, Maj. John M., USA, 190
Angus, TSgt. Paul R., USAF, 101 Black Sea Fleet, 243-245
Annex on the Format for the Exchange of Information, 28- Boyd, Sgt. Danny K., USAF, 178
30 Bradley, Staff Sergeant Thomas J., USAF, 121
Armenia Bremner, Group Capt. D.A.G., 147
compliance difficulties, 242 Brock, Lt. Col. Thomas S., USA, 49, 65
reduction liability, 204, 226 Bush, President George, 8, 12, 13, 45, 46-47, 53-54
Armored ambulances versus M-l13 APCs, 187, 192,219- arms control initiatives, 80-81
220 letter to Gorbachev, 81
Arms Control Policy Coordinating Committee, 157-158 remarks to Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Azerbaijan Europe, 14-15
compliance difficulties, 242, 243 "Report to Congress on Noncompliance with Arms
concerns over Russia's future security intentions, 251 Control Agreements," 183
reduction liability, 204, 226 signing of CFE Treaty, 74
submission of CFE Treaty to Senate for ratification, 83
B Busing, Lt. Col. Fred E., USAF, 213, 219
Baker, Secretary of State James A., III, 11, 17, 77, 79, 80, Buy, Russia
81,82 first U.S. inspection site, 157-165
Barneby, Lt. Col. Stephen A., USA, 190
Baseline inspections C
armored ambulances versus M-113 APCs, 187, 192, CAEST. See Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional
219-220 Armaments and Equipment Subject to the Treaty
assignment of states to be inspected, 157 Canada
"backdoor" communications, 171-172 Russian baseline inspections of U.S. and Canadian forces
challenge inspections, 184 stationed in Germany, 165-170
declared site access and, 176-183 Carraway, Lt. Col. Thomas, USA, 231
description of activity, 30-31 Carter, Capt. David R., USAF, 107, 114
first U.S. escort mission, 165-170 Certification inspections, 36
first U.S. inspection, 157-165 Cetin, Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet, 249
first U.S. liaison mission, 170 Challenge inspections, 32-35, 170, 174, 184,215-217
inventory procedure, 164 Charter of Paris, 13
multinational teams, 185 "Cheese slicer" or "cookie cutter" compactor, 238
NATO schedule for, 156 Chemical Weapons Convention, 3, 45, 123
number conducted by United States, 174, 194 Chesney, MSgt. William N., Jr., 172
number to be conducted by NATO states, 51-52 Christman, Brig. Gen. Daniel W., USA, 78
operational issues, 192-194 CIS. See Commonwealth of Independent States
projected number of, 51-53 Clinton, President William, 249-250
U.S. active and passive quotas, 156-157 Commonwealth of Independent States. See also Russia;
U.S. baseline escort operations, 185-187 specific countries by name
U.S. baseline reduction inspections, 190-192 creation of, 85, 227, 234-235
U.S. liaison operations, 188-190 as state parties for the CFE Treaty, 85-90, 134-135,
U.S. operations, 174-176 150,202-204,235
U.S. portion of NATO inspections, 52-53 Communications
Belarus "backdoor" system for, 127-128, 171-172
cost of TLE reductions, 238, 239-241 late announcements of inspections, 193
declared site inspections, 183, 192,215-216,217 U.S. liaison teams, 188
National Agency for Control and Inspection, 141-142 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
reduction liability, 226, 258 admission of CIS as members, 87
Belgium communications system, 158
L'Unite Beige de verification, 58,138-139 confidence-building measures, 4, 6
Conflict Resolution Center, 14
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as deadline for agreement on military personnel role and mission definition, 46-48
limitations, 17 scope, 18-21
Election Monitoring Office, 14 sensitive or classified programs, 38-40, 176
Helsinki Summit, 90, 91, 151, 155,229 signing, 1,3, 13-15
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, 4-6 stationing states, 37-40
November 1990 meeting, 13-14 sufficiency rule, 20-21
Secretariat establishment, 14 Support Fund, 240
September 1983 CSCE Mandate, 6 text and declarations, 15-18
Confidence-building measures, 4, 6 treaty periods, 30-31
Containers Treaty Review Conference, 246
definition of, 117 two-meter access rule, 38, 175
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty. See also On- verification agencies, 135-150
site inspections Cooperative Partners plan, 214-215, 218
American inspection teams, 65-67 CSCE. See Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Annex on the Format for the Exchange of Information, Europe
28-30 Czech Republic
areas of application, 21-25 declared site inspection, 216
baseline inspections, 30-31, 51-53, 155-194
cadre model for verification agencies, 58-60 D
combat aircraft definition, 16-18 Data exchange
conclusions drawn three years after ratification, 225- bilateral diplomacy to resolve questions over, 78-82
228 collapse of Soviet Union and, 80
continuing commitment of states to, 225-226 as part of CFE Treaty, 28-30
data exchange, 28-30, 51-52, 74-83 Soviet Union-U.S. final agreement on, 82-83
declared site access and, 31-32, 33-34,176-183,192, Soviet Union's first official data exchange, 51-52
215-217,235-237 Soviet Union's underrepresentation of treaty holdings,
description, 1 75-78
early negotiations, 4-13 updated treaty data from Soviet Union, 78-79
entry into force, 66-68, 91,151-152,155,229,234 U.S. direct appeal to Soviet Union, 81-82
evaluation of, 257-262 Databases
Final Document, 89-90,246,251,256 "Big Hog," 121,188-189
final ratification, 90-91 VERITY, 215, 227, 254, 260-261
First Review Conference, 250, 254-257, 258 Davies, Maj. Gen. Joseph T., USA, 194
flank limits, 246-251 Declared site inspections, 31-32, 33-34,176-183,192,
host states, 37-40 215-217,234, 235-237. See also specific inspection
implementation problems, 234-235 sites by name
INF Treaty as precedent, 11 Deconfliction schedule, 61-62, 157, 174
Inspector/Escort Course, 99-100 Defense Language Institute
Joint Consultative Group, 15, 36, 78, 83, 84, 89, 133, Intermediate Russian Course, 106
155,180,201,226,227,256 deGaulle, President Charles, 6
"letter of the law" versus "spirit of the law" Desert Shield
enforcement, 193-194,220 U.S. troops deployed from Europe for, 54, 258
liaison officer requirement, 36-40 U.S. victory, 80
Mandate for Negotiation on Conventional Armed Destruction and Non-Production of Chemical Weapons, 46
Forces in Europe, 7 Detch, John L., Jr., 163
national verification agencies, 56-60 DiFormato, MSgt. Richard D., USA, 101
nations implementing, 2 DiMaria, Maj. Gen. (formerly Brig. Gen.) Joseph, 59
objectives, 228 Drach, Lt. Col. Joseph]., Jr., USA, 106, 178
obligations and rights, 133-134
on-site inspections, 31-36 E
political and military changes in Europe and, 2-3, 53- Eastern states. See also specific countries by name
55,227,251-254,261-262 East-on-East inspections, 214-215, 218
Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional Armaments Eastern inspectors on NATO nation inspection teams,
and Equipment, 19-20,29,30,34, 102, 176,254- 217-218,227
255 reduction inspections, 213-215
Protocol on Inspection, 33-34, 66, 166 reduction liability, 200-204
Protocol on Notification and Exchange of Information, residual level validation period inspections, 228, 231,
28-30 233
Protocol on Reduction, 26, 206-207 residual levels after reductions, 221-222
provisional acceptance, 90-91, 155 Elliston, Staff Sergeant Kent 0., USA, 166, 169-170
ratification delay, 67-68 Entry into force, 66-68, 151-152
reductions, 25-28, 199 Escort missions
residual level validation period, 228-231, 233, 234 first U.S. mission, 165-170
 responsibilities, 46, 186-187 Great Britain
standby rotation for, 185-186 challenge inspections, 170
two-meter rule and, 175 inspection team training, 147
Estonia Joint Arms Control Implementation Group, 58, 138,
rebellion against Soviet Union, 83-85 172
European Operations Command, 53, 55, 62-63, 65, 66 Green, Robert G., 158
Eastern Europe mock inspections, 110-120 Griffiths, RAF Wing Commander, 170
expansion, 97-106 Grinevsky, Soviet Ambassador Oleg, 10, 11, 13, 77, 82
liaison officer role, 97, 121-124 Grosick, Col. Frederick E., USAF, 49
Memorandum of Understanding, 47-48 appointment as OSIA Commander, 62
mock inspections, 106-128 background, 63
U.S. reductions management, 205-206 operational concepts for inspections, 98-99
Gryshchenko, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister
Konstyantyn, 142,255
F Guillory, Col. Kenneth D., USA, 229-231, 232-234
Favia, Sergeant First Class (formerly Staff Sergeant) Gulf War. See Desert Shield
Thomas A., USA, 100
First Review Conference, 250, 254-257, 258 H
Fiser, Lt. Col. (formerly Maj.) Thomas c., USA, 173, 183, Hansen, American Ambassador Lynn M., 12, 13, 75, 80,
186-187,211,215,216-217,218 88,90,176,236
Foerster, Col. Schuyler (Sky), USAF, 110, 178 declared site issue, 180
Fox, TSgt. Ronald S., USAF, 121, 172 on U.S. negotiations, 11
France Hare, Staff Sergeant Walter E., 163
inspection team training, 147 Hartmann, German Ambassador Rudiger, 255
L'Unite Fran"aise de Verification, 57-58, 108, 137-138 Helsinki Final Act, 4, 14-15
readiness for entry into force, 152 Helsinki Process, 56. See also Conference on Security and
French, Alan J., 106, 179 Cooperation in Europe
Helsinki Summit, 90, 91, 151, 155,229
G Higgins, Cdr. Edward J., USN, 49-50
Gallagher, Lt. Col. Edward G., II, USA, 114, 118, 119 Holum, Ambassador John, 250
reduction inspections, 211-213 Honcharenko, Gen.-Maj. N.T., 142-144
Galvin, Gen. John R., USA, 47,61 Huet, Brig. Gen. Jean-Paul, 57-58
Georgia Hughes, Maj. Griffith S., USA, 111-112
compliance difficulties, 242, 243 Hungary
concerns over Russia's future security intentions, 251 multinational team inspection, 218
reduction liability, 226 reduction inspection of Szabadszallas, 212-213
Germany. See also Unification of Germany verification agency, 135
inspection team training, 148-149
mock inspections and, 110-118 I
readiness for entry into force, 151 Ifft, Dr. Edward M., 143
Russian baseline inspections of U.S. and Canadian forces INF Treaty. See Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
stationed in Germany, 165-170 Ingram, Sergeant First Class Curtis E., USA, 101, 163
TLE reduced, 259-260 Inspection teams. See also Baseline inspections; On-site
transfer of TLE to other NATO states, 204 inspections
Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr, 57, European and Russian teams, 135-146
110-111,114,135-137,172 generalizations about, 144-145
Gerus, Lt. CoI.I.G., 141 training patterns, 146-151. See also Mock inspections
Gessert, Lt. Col. David P., USAF, 97, 104-105, 108-109, United States teams, 65-67
181-182,216 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 3,45,49, 134,
Giebelstadt Army Air Field, Germany 140, 144
baseline inspection, 167, 169-170 as CFE Treaty precedent, 11
Giles, Col. Roy, 58, 138 communications system, 127
Giscard d'Estaing, President Valery, 6 on-site inspections, 56, 134, 140
Gorbachev, President (formerly General Secretary) Mikhail Italy
S., 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 80, 81,246 Centro Italian de Verifica de Armi, 59
remarks to Conference on Security and Cooperation in Leghorn Army Depot inspection, 220
Europe, 15 reduction process at Buccino, 209
Soviet military withdrawal declaration, 9, 12 transfer of TLE to other NATO states, 204
Govan, Brig. Gen. Gregory G., 250, 255
Grachev, Russian Defense Minister Pavel, 244, 248 J
Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany Janssen, Lt. Col. Fred, 138, 151-152
baseline inspection, 169, 170 Joint Arms Control Implementation Group, 58, 138
Graham, Thomas, Jr., 250, 255 Joint Chiefs of Staff
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liaison mission guidance, 121-122 Mandate for Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in
treaty implementation executive agent designation, 47 Europe, 7
Jubilee, Lt. Col. James, USAF, 217 Medvedev, Gen.-Lt. Vladimir I., 112, 117, 140
Melat, Kip, 163
K Melomedov, Col. M. Y., 141
Kanter, Arnold, 80 Merkle, Capt. Ellen, USAF, 170
Karcz, Lt. Col. Jan S., USA, 110, 178, 179, 187, 192,219- Miget, French Ambassador Bernard, 255
220 Mitterrand, President Fran<;:ois, 8, 13, 15
Kelley, Col. Lawrence G., USMC, 65, 67,122,124,169, Mock inspections
171-172,190,231 container definition, 117
appointment as OSIA Chief of Operations, 62 in Eastern Europe, 11 0-120
background, 63 initial inspections, 106-11 0
inspection team makeup, 65, 66 as key concept in training, 146
interview, 64 number of, 120
Leghorn Army Depot, Italy, inspection, 220 photography issue, 116-117
mock inspections, 107, 109, 146-147 site diagram issue, 119, 120
Naro-Fominsk baseline inspection, 182-183 tri-national, 111-120
operational concepts for inspections, 98-99 Moenchengladbach, Germany
qualified inspection team redefinition, 51 baseline inspection, 187
readiness for entry into force, 152 Moiseyev, Gen. Mikhail A., 77, 78, 81
TLE external markings record, 112 Moldova
tri-national inspections and, 111-114, 115, 118 concerns over Russia's future security intentions, 251
weapons specialist recruitment, 101 Morris, Lt. Col. (formerly Maj.) Dee Dodson, USA, 166,
Kharchenko, Russian Gen. Dmitri, 246, 249 167,169-170
Kinkel, German Defense Minister Klaus, 241 Multinational teams
Kohl, Chancellor Helmut, 8, 13 baseline inspections, 185
remarks to Conference on Security and Cooperation in reductions inspections, 217-220, 252-253
Europe, 15 Murray, Lt. Col. Kirk E., USA, 217
Koptelov, Lt. Col. Oleg Borisovich, 186,187
Kravchuk, Ukrainian President Leonid, 88,244 N
Kuenning, Brig. Gen. Thomas E., Jr., USAF, 233 NACC. See North Atlantic Cooperation Council
Kulebyakin, Russian Ambassador Vyacheslav, 248, 250, NAKI. See National Agency for Control and Inspection
255 Naro-Fominsk, Russia
baseline inspection, 181-183
L National Agency for Control and Inspection, 141-142
Lacina, Lt. Col. Oldrich, 218 National Security Directive 41, 45
Lahr, Germany National verification agencies, 56-60
baseline inspection, 166-167 NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Lajoie, Brig. Gen. Roland, USA, 46, 62, 63, 65 NATO nations. See also specific countries by name
Latvia flank limits, 248-249, 250
rebellion against Soviet Union, 83-85 reduction liability, 200
Lefevers, Lt. Col. William L., USAF, 231 residual level validation period inspections, 228, 231
Lewis, Wilbur, Jr., 126-127 residual levels after reductions, 221-222
Liaison missions VERITY access, 254
first U.S. mission, 170 Nedimoglu, Necil, 253
United States operations, 188-190 Nelson, Lt. Col. Paul H., USA, 49, 65
Liaison officers, 36-40 Nelson, Sgt. Joseph S., USA, 100
role, 97, 121-124, 188-190 The Netherlands
Lieber, Maj. Marc c., USMC, 213, 218 Arms Control Branch, 59, 139
Linguist training, 106 transfer of TLE to other NATO states, 204
Lithuania North Atlantic Cooperation Council, 85, 87, 88
rebellion against Soviet Union, 83-85 North Atlantic Treaty Organization. See also NATO
Loquai, Brig. Gen. Doctor Heinz, 57, 149, 151,253 nations; specific countries by name
Lukashenko, Belarus President Aleksander R., 240, 241 allocation of inspection quotas within each group of
Lukes, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael R., USA, 104, 108 states, 52-53
L'Unite BeIge de Verification, 58, 138-139 dualism in, 8
L'Unite Fran<;:aise de Verification, 57-58,108,137-138 Equipment Transfer Plan, 204-205
guest inspectors, 185
M Harmonization Plan, 47
Majoor, Netherlands Ambassador Frank, 250, 255 High Level Task Force, 6-7, 17, 61
Malinowski, Col. Stanislaw, 139-140, 152,207,239 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions negotiations,
Mamedov, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi, 250- 4-6
251 projected baseline inspections, 51-53
 three-day time block for inspections, 193-194 Parsons, Bill, 99
total OOVs reduced, 61 Partridge, MSgt. (formerly Sergeant First Class) George A.,
total TLE items reduced, 61 USA,100
training course for inspectors, 100 Patsiorin, Col. Lev Vladimirovich, 166, 167
Verification Coordinating Committee, 52-53, 60-62, Pavlenko, Col. V., 179-180
156-157, 190-192 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, 46
Norway Pedersen, Lt. Ole T., 182
flank limits, 249 Periman, Sergeant First Class Kenneth D., USA, 164
Novyy, Russia Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense William S., 240, 250
baseline inspection, 178-180 Persian Gulf War. See Desert Shield
Nowak, Maj. Henry J., USA, 111, 112 Pestana, Maj. Steven E., USAF, 125
NRRCs. See Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers Pesterfield, Lt. Col. John D., USAF, 191-192
Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers, 56, 127, 134, 158,203 Petrovskiy, Vladimir, 86
Nuclear Testing Treaties, 45 Photography
Nunn-Lugar funds for TLE reductions, 239-240 mock inspections and, 116-117
PNET. See Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
o Poland
Oatman, Lt. Col. (formerly Maj.) Keith A., USA, 114, 169, cost of TLE reductions, 239
184,215-216 readiness for entry into force, 152
Objects of verification. See also Treaty-limited equipment reduction inspection of Dabrowa Gornicza, 211-212
as basis for calculating number of inspections, 12, 13 reduction of TLE, 207, 208, 210
inspection and, 34-36 verification agency, 135, 139-140
reduction and, 29-30 Powell, Gen. Colin L., USA, 47, 79
Soviet agreement for challenge inspections of, 82-83 Protocol on Existing Types of Conventional Armaments
Soviet Union transfer of, 75, 77 and Equipment Subject to the Treaty, 19-20,29,30,
total NATO items reduced, 61 34,102,176,254-255
Office of the Secretary of Defense, 47 Protocol on Inspection, 33-34, 66, 166
Oleynik, Gen.-Lt. Ivan, 237 Protocol on Notification and Exchange of Information, 28-
On-Site Inspection Agency. See also Baseline inspections; 30
European Operations Command; Inspection teams Protocol on Reduction, 26, 206-207
establishment, 3, 56 Pushkin, Russia
expansion of mission, 45, 46 mock inspection, 118, 119, 177
Memorandum of Understanding, 47-48
new leadership for, 62-65 R
sizing the CFE Treaty mission, 48-53 Ratification delay
On-site inspections. See also Baseline inspections; Baltic states crisis, 83-85
Inspection teams; Verification agencies Commonwealth of Independent States crisis, 85-90
certification inspections, 36 data exchange crisis, 74-83
challenge inspections, 32-35,170,174,184,215-217 parallel developments, 67-68
communications issues, 127-128 provisional implementation decision, 90-91
declared site inspection, 31-32, 33-34, 176-183, 192, ratification process, 74
215-217,234,235-237 Reagan, President Ronald W., 3, 45
equipment recognition training, 100-105 Rebholz, Maj. Jon, Jr., USMC, 231
escort operations, 185-187 Reduction methods, 26-28, 206-207, 237-241
escort responsibilities, 46 Reduction process, 207, 210-213
initial training, 99-100 Reductions, 35-36
linguist training, 106 calendar reporting periods, 210
mock inspections, 106-128 CFE Treaty objectives, 199, 226
multinational teams, 185,217-220,226,252-253 "cheese slicer" or "cookie cutter" compactor, 238
number conducted, 226 comparison by group of states, 257
operational concepts for, 98-99, 146 costs of, 237-241
reduction inspections, 35-36 declared site and challenge inspections, 215-217
site diagrams issue, 162, 167, 177-183, 187 destruction commitments east of the Ural Mountains,
transportation issues, 125-127 245-246
OOVs. See Objects of verification East-on-East inspections, 214-215, 218
Open Skies Treaty, 3, 136 Eastern inspections, 213-215
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 256 equipment display, 211
O'Shea, Maj. Richard J., USAF, 114, 121, 122, 123, 189 first reduction year, 25-26
Oslo Extraordinary Conference, 90, 202 multinational teams, 217-220
national holdings by alliance, 200
p official notification of, 210-211
Parker, Maj. Gen. Robert W., USAF, 48, 114, 115, 118, reduction liabilities, 200-206, 226
123, 161, 163, 194 reduction methods, 26-28, 206-207, 237-241
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reduction process, 207, 210-213 first official treaty data exchange, 51-52
residual levels, 221-222 flank limits, 247-248
right of refusal to reduction inspections, 211 military withdrawals, 9, 12,53
U.S. baseline reduction inspections, 190-192 naval infantry forces, 67, 77, 79-80, 81, 82-83, 89-90,
"Report to Congress on Noncompliance with Arms 201,203,217,245
Control Agreements," 183 Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, 56, 127, 134,203
Reppert, Col. John c., USA, 61, 65 number of military personnel deployed in Europe, 37
Residual level validation period, 228-231, 233-234 reclassification of TLE, 65
Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany reduction pledges, 201-202, 245-246
as gateway for U.S. inspection teams, 48-49, 62 Strategic Rocket Forces, 77, 81, 82-83,201,245
training site for inspectors, 100 Tashkent accords on allocation of TLE, 88-90
Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Germany TLE discrepancies, 75, 78, 81, 82-83
baseline inspection, 187 transfer of TLE to areas east of the Ural Mountains, 52,
RLVP. See Residual level validation period 53,67,75,77,201,245
Romania verification agency, 134
inspection of Cazarma Centru Oradea, 219 Spangdahlem Air Base
Rozec, Col. Franc;:ois, 58, 137-138, 147-148, 152 mock inspection, 115-118
Russia Sparks, POl David E., USN, 170
baseline inspections of U.S. and Canadian forces START. See Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
stationed in Germany, 165-170 Steinberg, Col. (GS) Joern, 136
Black Sea Fleet, 243-245 Stockholm Agreement of 1986, 3
Chechnya issue, 249-250 Stockholm Document, 6, 14,56-57,140
compliance difficulties, 243-245, 258 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 3, 45, 49, 62, 123
declared site access interpretation, 176-183, 192,235-
237 T
flank limits, 247-248 Tait, Maj. Ronald M., USAF, 216
inspection team training, 149-150 Tashkent Agreement, 88-90,202,204,239,242,244
mock inspections and, 118-120 Team Fiser, 215, 216-217, 218
readiness for entry into force, 152 Team Gessert, 181-182, 185
reduction liability, 226 Team Jubilee, 217
TLE reduced, 259 Team Tait, 217
verification agency, 134, 140-141 Team Weller, 167, 169-170
Russian/GermanlU.S. mock inspections, 111-120 Team White, 157-165
Tesori, Col. Brenno, 185
S Thatcher, British Prime Minister Margaret H., 8, 13
Saint, Gen. Crosbie E., USA, 48, 54-55 Threshold Test Ban Treaty, 3, 46, 49, 62
Schroder, Senior Master Sergeant Clifford A., USAF, 101 TLE. See Treaty-limited equipment
Schwan, Lt. Col. P., 111, 112, 113 Towne, TSgt. James L., USAF, 101
Schweinfurt, Germany Transportation for inspection teams, 125-127
baseline inspection, 167, 169 Treaty Between the Twenty-Two Sovereign Nations on the
Sensitive or classified programs, 38-40, 176 Reduction of Their Conventional Armed Forces in
Shevardnadze, Foreign Minister Eduard, 10, 17, 77, 78, 79 Europe, 3
Shevtsov, Russian Gen. Leontin, 249 Treaty-limited equipment. See also Objects of verification;
Shustov, Valery, 87 Reductions
Shuya, Russia accounting for among the successor states, 241-245
baseline inspection, 177 as basis for calculating number of inspections, 12
Sierra, Staff Sergeant Gilbert, Jr., USA, 101 cascading of, 204-206
Site diagrams comparison of national holding, 259
mock inspections and, 119, 120 costs of reductions, 237-241
on-site inspections and, 162, 167, 177-183, 187 external markings record, 112
Siverskiy Air Base inspection and, 34-35, 190-192
mock inspection, 118 recognition training, 99, 100-105
Slepnev, Col. S.N., 140 reduction methods, 26-28, 206-207
Sloss, David, 99 Soviet discrepancies in number of, 75, 78, 81, 82-83,
Slovak Republic 201-204
reduction inspection of Trencin, 213, 214 Soviet movement of, 52, 53, 67, 75, 77
Smith, Col. William R., USAF, 143, 191, 192 Tashkent accords on allocation of, 88-90,202,204,
Snedeker, Lt. Col. Donald c., USA, 114, 115, 116 239,242,244
Soviet Union. See also Commonwealth of Independent total decrease after reductions, 222
States; Russia total NATO items reduced, 61
coastal defense forces, 77, 79-80, 82-83, 89-90, 201, transfer to allied nations, 47,204-206
203,217,245 types, 18-19
collapse of, 68, 84-85, 91, 134, 150,202,227,228, Tri-national inspections, 111-120
234,261
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Tsepkalo, Belarus Deputy Foreign Minister Valeriy, 241 cadre model of agencies, 58-59, 60, 134, 139, 144
Tsygankov, Gen.-Maj. Sergey Fedorovich, 140-141, 150, ratification delay and, 67-68
152, 182 separate agencies, 56-58, 59-60, 134, 144
TTBT. See Threshold Test Ban Treaty Verification Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 142-
Turkey 144
flank limits, 249-250 Verification Coordinating Committee
Two-meter access rule, 38, 175 allocation of inspection quotas within groups of NATO
states, 52-53,156-157
u baseline reduction inspections, 190-192
Ukraine Cooperative Partners plan, 214-215, 218, 252-253
Black Sea Fleet, 243-245 deconfliction schedule, 61-62, 157, 174
compliance difficulties, 243-245, 258 description, 60
concerns over Russia's future security intentions, 251 purpose, 61
cost of TLE reductions, 237-238 selection of specific OOV for inspection, 157
declared site understanding, 183, 192 seminars, 227-228, 253
flank limits, 247-248 VERITY database, 215, 227, 254, 260-261
reduction liability, 226 Vienna Documents, 3, 14,52,58,127,136,137
Verification Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vitse, Georges M., 182
142-144 von Moltke, Gebhardt, 61
Unification of Germany, 8-9, 51, 259-260, 261
United Kingdom. See Great Britain W
United States Ward, Staff Sergeant Cecil L., USA, 101
baseline escort operations, 185-187 Warsaw Pact. See Warsaw Treaty Organization
baseline operations, 174-176 Warsaw Treaty Organization. See also Eastern states;
baseline reduction inspections, 190-192 specific countries by name
cascading of equipment, 204-206 collapse of, 8, 228, 254
combat readiness concerns, 55 dominant role of Soviet Union, 145
Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, 240 dualism in, 8
declared site access interpretation, 176-183,235-237 flank limits, 246
declared site inspections during the first reduction year, Hungary's withdrawal from, 9
219-220 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions negotiations, 4-
first baseline inspection, 157-165 6
first escort mission, 165-170 signing of CFE Treaty, 74
first liaison mission, 170 Weller, Maj. George P., USAF, 167, 169-170
inspection teams, 65-67. See also On-Site Inspection White, Lt. Col. Elmer G. (Guy), USA, 111, 157-165, 177,
Agency 187
liaison operations, 188-190 Wierema, Navy Cdr. CN.M., 59, 139
military withdrawals from Western Europe, 54, 258, Wintersteen, Capt. Jeremy, 161-162, 163, 164
261 Woolsey, Ambassador R. James, 11, 78, 80, 82, 88
Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, 127, 158 WTO. See Warsaw Treaty Organization
number of baseline inspections conducted by, 174, 194 Wuensdorf, Germany
number of military personnel deployed in Europe, 37 baseline reduction inspection, 191-192
reduction liability, 204-206
residual level validation period inspections, 231, 233 y
Russian baseline inspections of U.S. and Canadian forces Yazov, Defense Minister Marshall Dmitriy, 78
stationed in Germany, 165-170 Yefstaviyev, Gennadiy, 11, 12, 13, 176
strict adherence to CFE Treaty provisions, 193-194,220 Yeltsin, President Boris, 80, 88,240-241,244,248,249-
TLE reduced, 259 250
Urban, Lt. Col. Klaus, 166, 167
Urechye, Russia Z
challenge inspection, 184 Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr, 57,
U.S. Army Russian Institute, 106 110-111,114,135-137,172
U.S. Atlantic Command ZVBW. See Zentrum fur Verifikationsaufgaben der
Memorandum of Understanding, 47-48 Bundeswehr
U.S. Embassy
Arms Control Implementation Unit, 161
USSR. See Soviet Union

V
Vakar, Gen.-Maj. Viktor K., 141,239
Verbruggen, Leo, 61
Verification agencies. See also Inspection teams; specific
countries and agencies by name
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