CONCLUSIONS OF CONSULTANT PANEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000500050003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 12, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Project Director
SUBJECT: Conclusions of Consultant Panel
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1. In response to your request, I am re.mffnarizing below the
major conclusions reached by the Consultant Panel, convened on
7 Mhrch for the purpose of determining the intended use of the
installation near Mozhaysk. These conclusions were not reached
formally and were not agreed to unanimously but, rather, represent
the major areas of agreement reached by the panel in their discussion.
(The composition of the panel is sham on page 3.)
a- The panel concluded that it is possible that the site
might be a launching site for an IRBM. However, this concedes
that the Soviets were willing to freeze the design of their
operational bases and general missile configuration as much
as two years ago - a time which was well ahead of the IRBM
program as estimated in the intelligence community.
b. The panel concluded that it is very unlikely that
the site WS designed as an operational launching site for
an ICBM. The panel pointed out that the size of an ICBM
did not lend itself to easy handling imirlAleinterior of the
cone. The panel-wat-reibetant also to grant the Soviets were
far enough along with their ICBM program, as of the time of
the construction of this site, to freeze missile configuration
and base design.
c. Although the panel did not seriously consider it,
they did grant that, provided other similar sites were found
to ring bscow, there was some possibility that the site
could be used for surface-to-air missiles to be used against
U. S. bombers.
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f. The panel concluded that the site might be used for
prototype power reactors such as those announced in their
Sixth Five Year Plan. However, the "hardness" of the site
against attack could not be explained on the basis of use as
a site for prototype power reactors. Also, the facilities 50X1
appeared to lack the flexibility and space we 'would design
Into a developmental site.
2. Amore comprehensive report on the pane/ meeting is being
prepared and I will forward a copy of this report to you on its
completion.
HERBERT SCOVILLE, JR.'
Assistant Director
Scientific Intelligence
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Dr. Willard K. Davis
Prof. Clark B. Millikan
Dr. Mark M. Malls
Prof. Wm. H. Pickering
Dr. Simon Ramo
Dr. Reamer E. Schreiber
Prof. Horton G. Stever
Mr. Hood Worthington
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Director, Reaetor Development
Division, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
California Institute of Technology
Livermore Laboratory, Ubiversity of
California
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology
Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E. I. Duftint de Nemours & Company.
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