OSMERS SEES ANTI - MISSILE MISSILE AS KEY TO MAJOR WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600130009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 6, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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-?nn has an operational
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t'h at it the
r re~i spin-
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tan,.. Frank
nsmera, jr., New
iersev Stth Dis-
tnr, cnntrress-
nAn.
A. it member
[ the HnuAP
t F, space com- *eat'dosq
tiiitt*e, the Ber-
gen Republican is as clone to-thlt
c.??utry's military and a eralal'to0-r?
eras, problems as any legis
Capitol Hilt. Serving with
i h-c. two important growps,
()tiners haf heard them dlactta$ed
hr'h at open hie .rings slid' in
rlnced-door aesciona by our top
military and Defense Department
t?r{s as well as our leading 6d6
e?t,sts and rocket experts.
it.re is osmers' thinking on
the sul;ject.
~n nation will be foolish
e?oetgh to launch a ntsclear at-
'
.
lark unless it is reasonably--c+"-r
tin it cannot itself be wiped a
the face of the' earth by a re-
bomber, one tank ar np
-carrp,ng infantryman cou
the defense linen withotj
g undue a erm. But_ as
, ;,CCentral tttretn
hrough and teta"7 41
.'rlir risk is too grs #ti~ a sttt ej there ha!~bec t 1
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travels at a
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tt i
the CA Witty, to'o'ted 1P 5HO?Al? !'
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when it is launched. Butt crefty
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enemy. will likelg lauca numi .
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ed
he
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t mInililitte the dam of
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or three to live years.
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vet Y
enttists whir WE have Satyrn in the u
y ler our, now, Dr. Wernher von Fr- n
'isev were ti.Way told the committee the rill er
I dli
'to - xubstanttal ', ji#a?, day.-Rut there are certain sta
it must gnr Jhroukh, he explain r:.
r
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dv nd no Smount ? of additio '
covet r led to t
it;w s p, pratyl tend. c#naut down the resi?a rn
ctsiiar4 that. and development time appr -
t 2b'"r'i'y tha''tk} i?f tr phi..
iled plj-rtes and to o +, ~ -t mtrrbe he said, R,, a
in 8t x t its with a `mediprr- 1t'rrlst j. Msmiy hake. another rocket opu future jA 'fke- 't r
r"tbgt WHY devetn,QQ an thri.ttQine with` der. development lrarrd.
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a million palm' ust, out ml,- any they haven von Braun.
. :d r 'f' S harp experts reaioned, when G
111 Pl U among lose who ors* with a 2e0.006.pgand thrust `op ni rocket expert; was n d alt y Defame Secretary was capable to doing le eo match tope this country is ao far
1'homrts.Gates, Jr., when he 'says The Russians. Z le the Soviets in missile
we are' gettirni later infarma- its in reducing liii a~
tiop out of litusia ttte se days weight of their Wa&ar wire welopment. e ?a tr
r r create too "Maybe," he said, "we
concerning its?.misidltt 'th'engtls? beads. f ere ford ' ?ta. to,
wttu
has heard AI1tSi Dulles, our rocket engines
?of. gi%t1 g? miles or mot
?don't-,have to fire o -
that ' # to 'Wt' any- target n
,;.earth. t ;..,
"`a re met %tiii develop ,
wli t it UiAut sullicien,
the Soviet teak bt hitti r
Vivori& Atnal no matter h
carob to work it out. "Fear h
'~ . ~~;s'and development work on t
1 1pe vier ppaayload.
'' - t je whi', when the spat
4W began .. of wvere able t
hurl '~ce 'ter payload' farthr
r:n with grtater.,gcctkary that
we. That ill the rpann for the,
.r eltclu succes"e with
hittin
their moon-
Lk
s,
qt n
::l and their other project -
tM{i blilitarlly, our tnedium thr t t
aingines are p efficient - caul
.even ble~ re accurate-a.a their
A. Seeretiry Glass teatitked -
the. apsce'e oirftlttee re ern -
,y ';~J?r~+e hive tit; ICBM roosh