Dole to Submit Bill Requiring Death Penalty for Spying

Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, urging Congress to move swiftly in response to Soviet espionage, said today he will offer a bill requiring the death penalty for spying and temporarily suspending plans for new embassies in other communist countries.

Dole said the bill also would keep the Soviet Union out of its new embassy in Washington unless the United States gets “satisfaction on our legitimate and serious concerns” over Soviet spying at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and the construction of a new Soviet Embassy in Washington.

“If the Soviets go on playing this dangerous game, well, two can play,” Dole said. “The Soviets are building an embassy here, just as we are in Moscow. What happens to our embassy there happens to theirs here.”

Dole said if the Soviets “want any kind of productive relations . . . then they’re going to have to play by some basic rules.”