ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR DCI BRIEFING OF NSC ON EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: 1953-1957
• Keywords: SPUTNIK SATELLITE
• Keywords: ICBM MISSILE
• Keywords: SPUTNIK
• Collection: Intelligence Warning of the 1957 Launch of Sputnik
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006687257
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 22, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2017
• Case Number: SC-2017-00012
• Publication Date: May 3, 1956

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1. August 1955: Ramigg.Wda Nestf ths Fonseca
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4. Annarr 1
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Ctazuoil of Trade Unions dated 2 Jatwar; 1956
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March 1956: Soviet Radio Broadcast on interplanetary Travel
Rite CODSE ion of a
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