Rep. Mica Says Blueprints Could Have Been Photographed : Breach Involving Shultz’s Moscow Van Is Feared

As Secretary of State George P. Shultz prepared to meet in a trailer with top U.S. officials in Moscow to avoid the bugged U.S. Embassy, a congressman charged Sunday that blueprints for the high-security vehicle were displayed on the embassy wall for days in advance of the visit.

Rep. Daniel A. Mica (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on international operations, described on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley” what he and Rep. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Me.), ranking Republican member of the subcommittee, discovered during a surprise visit to the chancery last week.

“The blueprints for the van being constructed for Secretary Shultz were still taped to the wall--the actual architectural drawings,” Mica said.

‘Really Perplexed’

“Somebody could easily photograph them,” Snowe said. “We were really perplexed and surprised that they were on the wall.”

Both Mica and Snowe, who was interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” opposed the visit by Shultz after the disclosure of Soviet penetration of the U.S. Embassy through built-in bugs and Soviet employees of the KGB who seduced U.S. Marine guards.

They also pledged their determination to fix individual blame for the security fiasco, not only for sloppy administration inside the building but for such bloopers as permitting Soviet contractors to prefabricate elements of a new embassy building away from the site, a process that enabled Soviet builders to incorporate bugging devices in the structure.

Hartman Admits Failure

Meanwhile, former Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman, appearing on the Brinkley show, admitted failure in two areas during his four years in Moscow. “We clearly failed in the case of the Marines,” he said of the guards who have confessed to admitting Soviet women to restricted areas of the embassy. “I think I failed in terms of a lack of imagination as to whether, you know, from the point of view of whether a Marine would get into difficulties, or whether he would actually go to the extreme of committing treason.”

He also admitted failure to stop off-site prefabrication of parts of the new embassy building. Hartman concurred with Mica and Snowe that the embassy building now under construction in Moscow may have to be demolished and rebuilt with greater care to eliminate security breaches, a possibility also recognized by President Reagan in a comment last week on the problem.

“If we had to make the decision today, we’d have to tear it down,” Mica said.

Clashes With Lamb

Mica clashed with Robert E. Lamb, assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, who also appeared on the ABC show. Lamb said documents that a Marine guard told Mica had been left lying on a desk in the embassy for three nights were received from a British company and were not classified. Mica said if that was so, the Marine was not told by responsible embassy officials.

“How about the safe that was open with combinations to all the other safes laying there?” the congressman demanded.

Lamb replied that he did not want to “get into each one of these charges” and added that he had found “flaws in the information that was given to the congressman.” Instead of discussing specifics, Lamb urged an examination of the “climate of security” at the embassy.

“If it is not what it should have been, it better be improved,” the assistant secretary said.

Chance for Arms Agreement

Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas, although one of 70 senators who voted their disapproval of Shultz’s trip because of the security situation, declared on Sunday that it may represent President Reagan’s last chance to obtain an arms agreement with the Soviets. Interviewed on CBS, Dole said:

“Time is running out. We need a long time to ratify any agreement in the U.S. Senate. And even if they agreed in principle, it would take four to six to eight months months to work out all the details. So it’s a big, big meeting they’re having in Moscow.”

But White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater disputed Dole’s analysis.

“There is plenty of time for negotiations . . . this isn’t a last-ditch opportunity,” Fitzwater told a Times reporter in Santa Barbara. “We’ve been at it some time. We’ll be pursuing arms control. We shouldn’t try to attribute success to any one or two meetings.”