IKE MAY HIT OUT TODAY AT ROCKET-RACE 'LEAKS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450039-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: February 11, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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scribed on gooe, , autonty ty toda% as angered b}'
%I hat he tegrncts,as congressional ""I" of seetct ment w Lthe..estimatrer,pf:;Sociit> 1epspgress
tcstirppny on ibmparative U.5-Russian- tdissile Prepared by.,the NAI!16tisl I*11kenee Boatd, headed
strength. i` ' ,' '~ by Duilelk The Aft 'Ford credited Ible Russians
The clrier e4c'Qfie?c, back from ah inspection with a` &tetsAelv3s gage in _ that estimated. by
rc,scrdav of the Capc Canaveral, Fla., mink test the. t>ttpsd, the Tftnes.aaid'today. The pdblislhed
1 +sc, s~.rs bcliev4 pturied fo'express his concern estimate is-that-the Russiatu are likely to have .a
at Iii; news ronfrgreuce today. 3-1 Jead Over theAJS.?1w. tteiroutincutal blllis i?
'11,e Pie deity 'sLas expected to gicc a fine,-hand, c' a f +,~Y `
rclxort on his ib:ee-hour tour of Cage f`,sesaveetaT ` 2. The Senate preparedness snbcomniittce,,svlskli
~c>terdas-. lie als+ 'a} lilcel to defend against his l,-.s b=). holding !heariiogs on dckn,c, announced
defense policies. - nnoCmts have charged that At+sa- Tuesday that it would r1ecall Dulles to clear up "con-
;r'l i pulling d4agcrously far ahead in missa1kl. '- fcsion." - l'he sutmntnittee cited apparently con-
Eiscnhower was repotted to have voiced his flicting testimony that it received at a closed hear-
a+12cr and concern about the sarissile "leaks" at ing 'l'ucsdaY. from Gen. Nlthn' F. Twining: the
I uc.sdas mornin5's White iieruse atstetiaat tt th chairman tt'the-joint Chiefs elf,Staff. No date has
QA, congressional leaders. Senate Republican Levi- been set for hktttet' appearance at a closed herring.
cr l:scrett M. l irkscn (Ill.) told newsmen later 3. The New York Herald Tribune said today that
that the Presideast was "intense. but 'not mad" "with luck," the Minuteman, ,America's most ad-
11rrt this r,?as audcrstood to be a tcaucd-d"'a vcrtion c anccd intercontinental missile, could be combat-
;.t tic Presidcnf'a'Xcactioi rcadv by 1962. 'Ihel'nbune'said that the missile
16 - 'I 11C main target of Eiscnhosscc's anger w?as said Y-33 berm developed months ahead of schedule and
columnist Joseph A1sop's publication of secret r?,c utc! he flight-tested late 11th rear. According to
tctilirnonv, attributed to Central Intelligence Agency tI, c ?I ribane, the Air Force had advanced from early
t(:IA) Duectur Allch. W. Dulles before Senate 1''61 to late this year the test-firing of the Minute-
ce-;arc;>arcdness investigators. ,?.+u , first stage. The Tribune said it learned that
i' !cal c'? Contron crsv std tecl when San. econd stage, but nut the !hire}, might afco be
tr.c if `-. Inureton iC 14c.>. , a sere e critic :rt Lis n_ .: (\ this %e"ar.
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