NEW DATA UPRADE RED ICBMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450068-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 68
• Content Type: NSPR

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2 Senate UnEtts~ ,?
?~ By John G. Norris
at?.u atvoiu+ ?
AI~w Amerfcatl l n t e:1 I i-
gt~nce dgta now ct^t?dits~ Sa
;tors would itot aav lar.t night !tint ruture the .'m,::clie gap'
wt
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=.?,,hat the estimated margin ot~~margin previously acknowi-q
ICBM, but declared .that the;
t,ew Dutle
A
till did
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re s
Hof
i~ c?1'edlt 1t With ~e[ng as accurate
;lea the At3at3.
11 Tha ..1.1 4............. .~._. .~_
edged.," raid Symington.
~:Seriste Lemocratic Leader
~.Yridoq , D.' -.$-hnaon (Tex.), ~,
who la'elhatrmaet ut both com? t .
'~Ir~ver accuracy Cstlnlattd for""j??w~n, ~waan w~a c>rc[yaiuugl
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av
o
ay relaforces;
the Sovlrt mtasile might be ,
offset by more powerful war- my eOttYlctlon that We have
heads that bigger Soviet rock? got to ~ tur~t and taster.";
e4 make possible. "It la eatlTal~ l'hat! t0 me
Qatar alaofdaclared that new'. that, riJfafidlesat b? ?Low t?da~~
Inte111genCe - ~eatimates eon. farts al"ii ittta~ratod," her,said,t,-
cludeQ the 8ovlet Union
woukt have dale a "moderate"
lead osier the United $tataa
ill ICBMs dtuing the early
1tid0a sttther than the 3.1
super?ibrity that Pentagon
chiefs had d
d
On
vlgorottriy e -tniArtle program `
that will glue ooitrtm'~a4m an'
egormoua 8t?'Udtlg lyower In l
fhr foreseeable future ...
Arguments `i+Jot Discussed
Tone of the Democrats!
vrouid go Into s'ha,t Johnaoni '
called the "arguments wboui~
technicalities" ? concerning ,the
rise.., of "Intentions" venual
"capablllties"' in evaluating'
cc e
passible
viPt miftsIlea with. hatain ~ gat year? C
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greater accuracy t~1tn tv~s t Artcr say-tong queattoning,
eStA'rtl3ted 1A COIiJJjlt'BSS~Qpgl ~?f Dulles, Democratic Sena?
tors also challcng~l thr vaildl? i
t t' 1
es 1lIlony on y a weak ago. ~ ty of thta picture given by
Central Intelllgenc:e Direr- Pentagon leaders. There v,?as
' for Allen Dulles gave ~ this no comment from the $epq
newly upgraded ea6imrte of Ucan Senators preatnt,? al-
h
13avlet ICBM capability be-
forr a closed aeask>tt of the
combined S e n a to Space
-and Yrepuedneaa Committeca
yesterday. .
t
ough Senate Republicaas~future Soviet misNlr produc-~
header Everett'~`M. Dtrksen lion.
(111.) chided the Democrats list M'hen Sytningtdn was aak~d~
a Senate speech for their a4, !f Dulira' testimony had con-
tir^ka on the defense proSraM.. firmed hla~charge that ilre Ad-~
`Roily Qolor' Itrronved jrotratiDn had "Juggled" in?)
hen. Henry M. Jackson R "some of rite rus.y colpr of
(D-Wash.) told netv~tnest ofjGates' testimony last Wetak
fitter altered eatltnata. He~haa been ?romoved by ?}~j~p
.would not uy what v}aa In=?, t'resentation of Dulles today,''
- volvsd, other than tl1aL DW1e~Jackaon said. "Nothing to the
. _ _? _ _ ~ br.(efing warranted taking t11e
her! disrloaed some -rnaw Intel-"r~~ that I think Gates to fait.
.. -- .. - tI15n 11i?.??
` flcctlon cn I'rtaident Eisen- __An nhvuul.e refrreri:, ,. ?
hcnver '''that trend captain of r r ~'r.5idrnt Ilar:} ti
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