PROGRESS REPORT ON ORR PARTICIPATION IN SYMMETRIC ANALYSIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000400070004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 20, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release
20 July 1956
N ORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the Director
for Planning and Coordination
THROUGH: Deputy Director/Intelligence
SUBJECT: Progress Report on ORR Participation in
Symmetric Analysis
R 'ERSNCB : Memorandum from SA/PC/DCI to AD/RR, dated
28 June 1956
1, The referenced memorandum requested this Office to report
actions taken up to 30 June 1956, and subsequent to our report of
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,,,og, BR C has continued to distribute its commodity and sector
analyses of the Sino-Soviet Bloc economies to the Air Force for
incorporation in whatever models AFOIN or its contractors develop,
2, NSC 5605, approved 24. May 1956, established procedures
for providing integrated evaluations of the net capabilities of the
USSR in the event of general war? More specifically, it states
that while a general estimate should be made of the over-all effects
of the U.S. attacks against the USSR, it is not expected or antici-
pated that detailed analyses will be undertaken, This directive
supersedes NSC 5511 as guidance for these evaluations and apparently
cancels the need for the kind of detailed data which would be pro-
vided by symmetric analysis.
X The broad effectiveness of present nuclear weapons systems
has appeared to make obsolete the construction of elaborate and
detailed analyses of potentially hostile economies for purposes of
post-attack damage assessment. Sufficiently accurate answers can
be supplied far more easily by less elaborate means.
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For these reasons, Dff proposes to take no further action.
OTTO E. G
Assistant Dirbfitor
Research and Reports
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