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Porter Goss: My view is based on the reports I have. We have three facts. One is that the administration has in fact relaxed controls…

On the recordJune 19, 1997
My view is based on the reports I have. We have three facts. One is that the administration has in fact relaxed controls twice. Where they have relaxed those controls in the case of the Russians, they have given the Russians a capability 10 times greater than anything they ever had before with regard to nuclear weapons. That is what concerns me. Secondly, I am very concerned that the Chinese academy of sciences, which is involved in nuclear weapons and missile research, has access to these computers also. That is a fact. That bothers me. Reports, there are reports we have that things are a little out of control in terms of areas of proliferation. This is not a good place to have things out of control. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is probably the single biggest categorical threat to our Nation that I can think of.
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Porter Goss
Florida

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Addressing concerns about nuclear proliferation and national security during a House Intelligence Committee discussion.

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