FOIA
SATELLITE BREAKUPS RED CONTROLLED
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00149R000600240011-1
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date:
October 30, 1998
Sequence Number:
11
Case Number:
Publication Date:
November 18, 1966
Content Type:
NSPR
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Body:
Sanit&WNWroved
..A lien-Scott Report
,Satellite Breakups
} Red Controlled
` It ROBERT S. ALLEN
,.OPYRGH Iyand PAUL SCOTT
There is n o n g ace nta
!about the recent break-up of Rus
Salon satellites over the U.S.
t Their shattering into a num
planned and controlled S(Yvie
military-space experiment.
1picked up radio signals Iron
Mites.
While intelligence autlioritie
.!are still piecing together info!
cicar - space breakthrough.
The. development of MIRV
','multi-warhead independent re
ments, according to this only
i sis.
In non - technical terms, th
Russians apparently have sue
Rceeded in separating in flight a
a pre-determined time and loco
tion a "cluster, of satellites.'
i each capable of carrying a. nu
clear warhead.
11.1,1 ,,. would en the t
,,launch a satellite set to react
a certain, point over the U.S
land then direct nuclear bomb
, at targets across the countr
j; from New York to California.
fact that fragments of the two
in New Yark-City, Philadelphia,
(Houston.
f These dire Russian 'e>peri
1 ments are only part: of the Reds'
satellite testing over` the U.S.
~,tltat Is' being intently followed.
The North American Defense
Command and other space-track-
ing exercises have intercepted
two-way radio transmissions. vie
lit large Soviet communications
r satellite now orbiting over the
These . messages are '
llsoeei to'b transmitted by "1l'
illegals". Soviet agents -. bper?
as their
onlskiris
s a result
en by Colone
the Russian
it apprehends
We we of
sed that a s
the satellite
mising by
strategic I
in Ilse past
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lembers of
tion of these
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'If this report
ers, D-S.C.,
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