MEDARIS HOLADAY SCHRIEVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600340021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Content Type: NSPR

MEDARIS HOLADAY SCHRIEVER
Defense Department committee which has just postponed decision on whether
+, rio ahead with the Air Force's Thor missile or the Army's Jupiter. M,.j. Gen.
Hednris is of the Army's ballistic agency; Holaday is Special Assistant Defense
PYF~`Hry, Maj. Gen. Schriever heads the missile division of iho Ai Force.
i'a t -A or!d by intert?ontl.ieniai ballistic Other Side of the Picture.
Looking et the other side of the picture,
a?mannes." he declared, ?'heve al..ct
ite,vtn'e formidable weapons as they c,+tt
hr t: ,rd to shell coastal cities and even
,,i 'if . nr.^,ets with rocket waitrons carry -
tats atornrc and hydrogen ovr,r!,rads "
'11::u. is probably the explanation for the
t,cmendous Soviet submarine hoot vart-
uu- h estimated at from 450 to 6i.)0.
United States military officials do not
grant that Soviet rockets can make our
hascs untenable in easily .ais the Soviet
n,tlit;trv propagandists maintain..- An air
h = lrv definillon'and tact, is a pitrpoint
,,A:';.(I To ac;ttially hit the runway, and
ptead of bombers a preferred
system of delivery Is the im-
minent devplopmeis - s.f anti-
aircraft missiles wltk nuclear
warheads tha't many experks
eetlmate can make defense
against manned or unmanned
aircraft. almost 100 per cent
However, the Soviet military
forces, with the perfection of
lut.ermediate-range and inter-
-G :Rtund is tallatione might, be conticctiial missiles, as well as
~+ r , .?' d for a tittle 'until radioactivity will have v retaliation capacity of i the
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