Carlucci to See Top-Security Soviet Air and Naval Bases

The Soviet Union will show Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci top-security air force and naval bases during an unprecedented three-day visit this week, Moscow officials said Sunday.

According to the officials, Carlucci will be taken to the Kubinka airfield west of the capital and to the Crimean port of Sevastopol--barred to foreigners for decades--which is the headquarters of the Black Sea fleet.

Soviet sources said Defense Minister Gen. Dmitri T. Yazov, Carlucci’s host, would aim to match the wide-ranging program provided for the Soviet chief of staff, Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev, when he visited the United States last month.

“It was probably no easier for our military to break out of old ideas and agree to this sort of exchange than it was for the Americans,” one Soviet official said. “But now it has started, they see its importance.”

Carlucci, who is due to arrive from Helsinki today, will be the first defense secretary to visit the Soviet Union in his own right, although he was part of the team brought by President Reagan to the Moscow summit in late May.

Biography Published

On Sunday, the Defense Ministry newspaper Red Star prepared for his visit with a front-page photograph and a brief biography, including the fact that from 1978-81 he was a deputy director of the CIA.

In another report on the visit, the Tass news agency said Moscow attached major importance to military contacts with the United States. President Andrei A. Gromyko would have a meeting with Carlucci, the agency added.

His trip is part of a process of growing contacts between military and defense officials of the superpowers begun since his predecessor, Caspar W. Weinberger, who resisted earlier invitations from Moscow, stepped down last November.

Officials on both sides say they see the exchanges as primarily aimed at building mutual trust and understanding.

Agreed to Regular Exchanges

Carlucci and Yazov met for the first time in Bern, Switzerland, in March. They agreed on regular exchanges after two days of talks.

“We do not expect agreements of substance to emerge from the Moscow meeting,” a senior American diplomat said. “But the mere fact that the visit is taking place at all is a special event in itself.”

In Moscow, Carlucci is to lay a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier under the Kremlin Wall today and, after formal talks with the 64-year-old Yazov, will make a speech to officers at the General Staff Academy in Moscow.

On Tuesday, he will visit Kubinka airfield, 50 miles west of Moscow, and also the headquarters of the elite army Taman Division closer to the capital, which has been occasionally shown to visitors in the past.

Cruise in Sensitive Waters

On Wednesday, Carlucci will fly to Simferopol in the Crimea and then board a ship in Yalta for a cruise around the coast to Sevastopol through some of the Soviet Union’s most sensitive coastal waters.

On Thursday, he will visit naval vessels in the harbor, regarded as the best in the Black Sea and founded as headquarters of czarist Russia’s southern fleet in the late 18th Century, before flying on to Ankara, Turkey.

Moscow diplomats say that, since 1945, no foreigners from non-Communist countries are known to have been allowed to visit Sevastopol, almost destroyed during a year-long siege by German armies at the start of World War II.