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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200280008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 10, 1967
• Content Type: TRANS

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PROGRAM The American Security
Council Report
STATION WMAL Radio
DATE January 10, 1967 6:35 PM CITY Washington, DC
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SENATOR THOMAS DODD: 'LT.he Department of Defense has in
recent weeks made public two items of Intelligence which, taken.
together, have the gravest implications for our national secur-,
ity, and, indeed, for our ability to survive as'a nation.
"First of all, it was revealed that the Soviets are much
further along in. the construction of an anti-missile defense
system than previous official estimates had indicated.
"It Is reported that anti-missile defenses are various
stages of construction around some 20 Soviet cities, and that
the Soviets are growing in debt of such defenses across the major
approach routes, which American missiles will have to take.
"It is estimated that this system will be operational within
the year.
"Second, the Pentagon's new intelligence estimates indicate
that the Soviets have been building and installing interco.n.ti.nen.tal
ballistic '.missiles, most of them in concrete silos, at a much
faster rate than had been. considered posst.bl.e a year, or two ago*
"It is now estimated that the Soviets have from 400 to 500
ICBM's against approximately 1,000 for the United 'States, and
that theylre moving rapidly toward parity in numbers.
I'This becomes all the more serious., because it Is generally
conceded that the average Soviet ICBM carries a much more powerful.
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nuclear warhead than do today's American missiles.
'The American missile force has been. looked upon as a deter-
rent to the possibility of a thermonuclear attack by the Soviet
Union.
"Because such an attack would inevitably destroy a large
percentage of our missiles before they could get off the ground,
it has been considered essential to the United States to maintain
a very substantial numerical lead in intercontinental missiles,
so that the.Kremlin would know that even if they hit us with a
sneak attack, we would still have enough missiles left to inflict
devastating damage on the Soviet Union.
"But now we are in the danger of losing this numerical ad-
vantage.
"-No one, not even the Russians, can know for certain just
how effective their anti-missile defense system will, be against
-a saturation attack by American missiles equipped with decoys and
other penetration aids. .
"It has been estimated that an anti-missile defense system,
comparable in. magnitude to the one now being installed in the
Soviet Union, would cost the United States 30 billion. dollars,
or more.
"And I simply cannot conceive of the Soviet leaders spending
this kind of money on. erecting a defense system, if they did not
have substantial. evidence that this system would effectively cope
with an American nuclear counterattack, or at least limit the
damage done by It.,"
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