U.S. MILITARIST PLANS IN SPACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100100083-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: August 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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generation as eet~ witnessing the setting up a military space telescope and a space
rapid conquest of space and has grown station equipped with nuclear, rockets. He.
accustomed to take in is stride grand , 'described the tasks of the space telescope as
successes in the development of social. follows: The military significance of the cosmic
productive forces and scientific achievements of telescope is self-evident, but for strategic rea-
which future generations will speak with ,.,sons observation of the Earth will not be car-
respect, It is.no accident that the Soviet Union, vied out by a technician.... Everything will be
the world's first Socialist state, now leads, the photographed, and the pictures will. be processed
world in the conquest and the peaceful use of by aerial reconnaissance' experts. A special
space. The peoples have long since heard the camera, -incorporating 'the experience of aerial
bleeps of the sputniks and have'watched the photo reconnaissance,. is linked. up with the
flight of the Vostok spaceships on TV screens: telescope. 'During the station's two-hour Right
they have attended the emergence of the first around the earth, the 'camera will take ... at
man in outer space, and he was a 'Commu- least 100 pictures.' These pictures 'are to be
nist. transmitted' to earth with the aid of a picture
Peace-loving men on this planet are happy. 'transmitter.
to hear of other countries' achievements in space- " Von Braun was, working out the strategy of
research. for the benefit of mankind. The Soviet ? space espionage in a most businesslike fashion,
Government, on behalf of the peoples of the.. but he also gave thought to'the "possible appli-
U.S.S.R., has. repeatedly extended congratula cation" 'of his, planned space station. He
tions to the American people in that connection. wrote:
But all these sentiments -do not give us the It can be' turned into an effective' atomic
right to close our eyes to certain dangerous ten- ' bomber. Small winged missiles with atomic
dencies in the present period. The situation de- warheads may be directed from the station in
mands redoubled vigilance: there are feverish such a way as to hit targets while travelling at
preparations in the United States for a war In. supersonic speed. Radar installations will help
space. Some of the projects have long since been-' to direct atomic load to any point of the globe.
taken off the drawing boards. "There will be no place on earth, from pole
The time has come to sort out' the Penta to pole, immune to this space-' weapon which
gon's barbarous plans and to oppose their im- . is 'to be launched from. the station in outer
plementation. This calls for an examination of space. Consi ering that the. station will be
Washington's view of the space weapons system in flight ovei all the populated localities of
on which the men in the White House have been the' 'globe, it is clear that it offers the most;
conferring behind 'closed doors '(even. if they considerable tactical and strategic advantages
have clearly underestimated the actual arrange- which had ever existed in the -history of
ment'of forces in the world), wars.2 . ' ..
The author of this strategy has' never been a
THE SPACE BARBARITY OF HIMMLER'S CRONY -dreamer, with his feet off the ground. He is SS
Sturmbahnffihrer Wernher von Braun, a close
TWO booklets by Wernher von Brau'n, Ph. D., ? friend of Himmler; who -in 1944 did not hesitate. .
were published in the U.S.A.' In 1952. and '
1953. Let us note that this happened abo'ut'five
vears'.before the launching of the- first sputnik; ' Wernher von 'Braun, bte .Eroberung' des'Weltraurns.
Wernher Prankfurt/Maln;? 1958, S. 45.
yon Braun. developed the, theory, of , ? iota., S. 51.54. ? ? ... .
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