TEST RAY GUN AT NEVADA SITE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP33-02415A000200350069-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 69
• Content Type: NSPR

ipprovlar Release 200'109/07 : CIA-RDP33
Test Ray Gun
CPYaGHTAt Nevada Site
ANT.IMISSI LE
Work on a mysterious anti- a hether there is aavUdig worth'
nursile light ray gas. which while in it." Rep. Testae said
hi' beet goteg an alaee last the anti - missile system was
DecehtbST. Is espeeted to be the sun 03 a mirror is set flit
accelerated to the neat few to a teal."
months as a result of a COS- Teague reported that the pro-
gressloaal laysstlgatlea. it wsa test was vetoed by Dr. Jack P.
revealed beve Mends,. The pro- (Ruins, a deputy to Charyk.
ject. sae deveisped by the Air An Air Force official, while l
force. Is belag conducted at agreeing that the project was)
N'alerlows, an the nsrtbern sc,ancelled. said funds for a ten
edge of the AEC Test Site. ??,al study of anti ? missile war-
The Air Faroe. according to,larr had been substantially in-
testimony before the COngresain-
nil committee. had dropped ac-
tive work on the projeet. However.
from reports from the Test Bite
Indicate t?at all work has not
t,..., tsaltM and Edeerton, Ger?
rd closed - dear testlmaay talc- 1 inste Y 1tO0,ooo.000 for Protect
to last February. Chairman Defender, consisting of a large
Overton Brooks It-La.) told a number of missile dcft;nse studies.
reporter the gas would use tight Charyk slid the Air Force con-
rays to explode incoming enemy sidered the ray gun proposal
missiles. 'premature. until we had pinned
Joseph V, Charyk, as.Ialandown. in a better fashion. some
lwase ;pate committee publish- begins July t .- carries approx-!
cite. fit dotng? _ .__ _ ...~__. s...~
the testimony that one govern
-ment,committee of civilian aci-
anttatp recommended going ahead
:Vclth'ahe pie ect. But he said a
`g6cond gMy arited an overall
?study of the "uncertainties" in
missile defense.
The prroyeot was proposed by
the Varo company of Dallas. Tex.
Rep. Olin Teague !D-Text. a com-
mittee member. said the A;r
Force dropped plans for a V -
400.000 ray gun factlity at Yuca
flats, and an additional
000 for research during the clv-
rent fiscal Year.
Charyk told the committee the
lithe ~eCsecond advisory committee
recommended an overall study or
also a committee inetnber} said
Congress had approved the money
for the radiation defense system
,,but that somewhere" along the
line someone, or s "few perhotuc:
have just said "Let'ai Aot. Let's
watt awhile.
Quigley described M project as
a gamble. a calculated risk."
But he insisted this was "one' of
those areas where maybe ' we
"
ought to take a gamble.
The Air Force. is a release to
the Review ? Journal, admitted
that work still was progressing
on the petfortttanet of variou4
radar studies at Watertown itncv
December. 1430. ylrut described the
Press International he teat the
proposed ray gun should be
eur?t.Mr Investigated "to see
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