LAPORAN menakutkan nuklear Soviet kekal rahsia kerana bimbang keselamatan NEGARA . . .

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nUSANTARa - Pegawai kerajaan British telah menolak untuk melepaskan dokumen yang berhubungan dengan kejadian Able Archer1983, apabila satu latihan ketenteraan NATO datang dekat dengan memprovokasi perang nuklear dengan Kesatuan Soviet.

Ketua keselamatan menegaskan laporan mengenai krisis mesti kekal rahsia atas alasan keselamatan negara, kerana maklumat dalam dokumen itu masih relevan hari ini.

Pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat telah mengeluarkan beberapa dokumen mengenai kejadian itu yang menggambarkan bagaimana hubungan Amerika Syarikat -Soviet telah berbahaya merosot menjelang sehingga latihan ketenteraan kontroversi yang simulasi serangan nuklear.

Pertikaian itu datang sebagai NATO mengumumkan akan mengemas kini doktrin nuklear sebagai tindak balas kepada rancangan Rusia untuk membeli 40 peluru berpandu balistik antara benua baru.

Report on Soviet nuclear scare remains 

top secret over national security fears . . .

British government officials have refused to release documents relating to the 1983 Able Archer incident, when a NATO military exercise came close to provoking nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

Security chiefs insist a report on the crisis must remain secret on national security grounds, as information within the document is still relevant today.

US officials have released several documents concerning the incident which describe how US-Soviet relations had dangerously deteriorated in the run-up to the controversial military exercise which simulated a nuclear attack.

The dispute comes as NATO announced it would update its nuclear doctrine in response to Russian plans to buy 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Selepas berbulan-bulan perbincangan, Pejabat Kabinet disekat pelepasan dokumen bertajuk "Pengesanan Persediaan Soviet untuk Perangi NATO," memetik seksyen 23 Akta Kebebasan Maklumat, yang mengenakan pengecualian mutlak daripada pendedahan - tanpa pertahanan kepentingan awam - keselamatan dan bahan perisikan.

Dokumen itu telah diminta oleh Nate Jones, Arkib Keselamatan Negara Amerika Syarikat dilampirkan dengan University George Washington di Washington DC

Walaupun permintaan Jones 'yang disokong oleh bekas ketua Bahagian Soviet GCHQ, ia dinafikan oleh pegawai-pegawai Kabinet.

Jones kemudian mengemukakan rayuan kepada Pesuruhjaya Maklumat Christopher Graham, yang juga menolak permohonan itu atas alasan keselamatan negara.

After months of deliberation, the Cabinet Office blocked the release of a document titled “The Detection of Soviet Preparations for War Against NATO,” citing section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act, which imposes an absolute exemption from disclosure – with no public interest defense – of security and intelligence material.

The document was requested by Nate Jones, of the US National Security Archive attached to George Washington University in Washington D.C.

Despite Jones’ request being supported by the former head of GCHQ’s Soviet Division, it was denied by Cabinet officials.

Jones then appealed to Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, who also rejected the request on national security grounds.

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Graham yang diterima terdapat "kepentingan awam dalam memahami pengajaran daripada Able Archer 83, dan pendedahan yang berpotensi menambah beberapa nilai kepada apa yang sudah diketahui umum mengenai latihan itu."

Bagaimanapun, beliau berpendapat terdapat "minat awam yang kuat dalam menjaga keselamatan negara" dan kata laporan itu JIC adalah "masih relevan kepada keselamatan negara hari ini."

Menulis di blog Arkib Keselamatan Negara sebelum permintaan itu ditolak, Jones berkata dokumen itu adalah "laporan komprehensif pertama yang memberi amaran bahawa satu latihan pelepasan nuklear November 1983 dipanggil Able Archer 83 boleh dihantui Soviet ke dalam serangan nuklear awal terhadap Barat."

Keputusan Pejabat Kabinet untuk menyekat pembebasan dokumen yang berikut pengubahan status beberapa laporan Amerika Syarikat berkaitan dengan Able Archer 83.

Graham accepted there was “a public interest in understanding the lessons learned from Able Archer 83, and that disclosure could potentially add some value to what was already publicly known regarding the exercise.”

However, he argued there was a “strong public interest in safeguarding national security” and said the JIC report was “still relevant to national security today.”

Writing on the National Security Archive blog before his request was rejected, Jones said the document is “the first comprehensive report that warned that a November 1983 nuclear release exercise called Able Archer 83 could have spooked the Soviets into a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the West.”

The Cabinet Office’s decision to block the document’s release follows the declassification of several US reports relating to Able Archer 83.

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Satu dokumen melihat peranan Oleg Gordievsky, seorang pegawai KGB yang berpaling tadah ke Britain dan yang memberi amaran Washington tentang kesan berbahaya puntung berapi retorik Presiden Ronald Reagan pada Kremlin paranoid.

Satu lagi dokumen yang dikeluarkan baru-baru ini menerangkan bagaimana Able Archer 83 "mungkin secara tidak sengaja meletakkan hubungan kita dengan Kesatuan Soviet pada pencetus rambut" dan bahawa Presiden Reagan "diberikan penilaian sikap Soviet dan tindakan yang terkurang risiko kepada Amerika Syarikat."

Sesetengah ahli sejarah mendakwa Able Archer 83 kejadian itu adalah yang paling dekat DUNIA telah datang untuk perang nuklear sejak Cuba Missile Crisis of 1962.

Tentera Soviet disiapkan senjata nuklear mereka dan meletakkan unit udara di Jerman Timur dan Poland berjaga-jaga selepas latihan tentera yang diketuai ahli Politburo untuk mempercayai NATO telah bersedia untuk berperang.

One document looked at the role of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who defected to Britain and who warned Washington about the dangerous effect of President Ronald Reagan’s firebrand rhetoric on a paranoid Kremlin.

Another recently released document describes how Able Archer 83 “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger” and that President Reagan was “given assessments of Soviet attitudes and actions that understated the risks to the United States.”

Some historians claim the Able Archer 83 incident is the closest the world has come to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Soviet forces readied their nuclear weapons and placed air units in East Germany and Poland on alert after the military exercise led Politburo members to believe NATO was preparing for war.

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