DEFENSE AIDES FACE QUIZ ON SOVIET ICBMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00357R000100260027-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: December 30, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/08/20 : CIA-RDP61-00357R000100260027-4
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Face Quiz on
Soviet ICBMs
By the Associated Press
Members of two Senate com-
mittees said today Pentagon
officials will be asked about re-
ports that Russia will have 300
intercontinental ballistic mis-
siles within 18 months.
A report to that effect, with-
out any verification, was made
public here at a week-end
meeting of the American As-
sociation for the Advancement
of Science. It said half the 300
I ICBMs would work, with a
:range and accuracy that could
destroy the United States Stra-
tegic Air Command's retaliatory
power.
There was no comment from
military officials.
Second-Hand Report
Roger Hilsman, deputy re-
search director of the Library
of Congress legislative refer-
ence service, said he got the
report second hand from a
meeting of a minority group of
the Council of Foreign Rela-
tions in New York early this
month.
But members of the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign
? Relations Committees said the
estimate calls for an early
statement by the Defense De-
partment to the two groups.
t Senator Mansfield of Mon-
tana, assistant Democratic
'leader, said closed-door sessions
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ready has authorized admin-
istration officials to go before
the Forein Relations Com-
mittee early next month to
answer ? questions on foreign
policy and such related mat-
ters as this country's defensive
strength in the cold war.
in separate interviews Sen-
ators Sparkman. Democrat of
Alabama: Bush. Republican of
Connecticut, and Cooper, Re-
publican of Kentucky, all said
Congress will need some early
? comment from the Defense
Department on what the known
facts are.
Senator Mansfield said the
estimate, if it is found accu-
rate or even nearly so. "ought
to w-ipe away any compla-
cency" stemming from this
country's feat in sending the
talking Atlas ballistic missile
into cubit. .
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/08/20: CIA-RDP61-00357R000100260027-4