CIA FORETOLD SPUTNIK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200430039-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: November 1, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

NOV I 1957
KANSAS CITY--(Mo.)
STAR Approved For Release 2001/08/20 : CIA-RDP75-000
Circ.: e. 344,070
S. 361,620 CPYRGHT
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Date:N / 1 1957
ch L AB Cstant Dirac or Lsf burs Bi ore
14,
Spee
ition to the first satellite
suae in .P'
As for i?ussia'S earliei-
aimed successful firing of aal
ntercontinental ballistic mis-
the U. S. intelligence of
e
,
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Cial said IA cannotsprove.
on" Was Fired Is Released by
We Advisory Gi6jj]p.
t o n , ov:
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ent ,Eisenhower s_c. M
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~._h cqm itfee made public`
parts of a mTh give eT Pit
by Herbert Scoville, jr., assist-`
nt dIrecfor of the Central in-
telligence age` ic~I Oto"ber" 4.
several hours "befote ilToscow
tinottttCN the "Iaunc FF,of,
,Sputnik.
r Dr. 'Sco Ile was qu cd
.
?ayllit"
'herVhps been -libiicit
, about the iussian oarti 'Sabi
lite. They won't at nl~lanC!
anythin until they hive 1i i,
there. It fvouleln t surprise il
if such an anz4dnt m
at any:tiiM fiftt'hc1ir"
pared irit are"cap afiti
e,
that the, ovi'are capable n
great adcomteishments 'hot]
in peacet1.me an-d wartime. 11
le` e na C -drive 0
their entire Sc evtif1 program
hether they fired the ir;issile
y to: fire such a test vehicle
f they want." he added "This
id they are putting forth tre-
endows efforts."
Moving Ahead last.
cat a vane inerIt` "generally,;
tion but that the Russians are;
s.P.. egg
bounds Ike iic:
-In-the electronics field;
they have a t emend us prct
g-am for satisfying ilitai
regfi remen!S, Th^y 1have 1111good x'adar system."
"Rumor -has it that the Rua-
Fi te_,1n!.:arctic is so superior;
stltat - -17S. expedition has
-ased it on occasion to send,
Jn the at, mic ene> y Inro-i
gram mzcdcar tests arc 'being,
two atomic test series simul-'
taneously at great distances
apart, which means they have.
enough people and equipment
to handle two tests at once.'
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