WE CAN AFFORD TO SURVIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450077-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: January 28, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sen. Jack~oi, Soetcs `10 I ew ~-
Sen." Hence A. -Jackass,:
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will seek.lunda for 10 x0yr
Polaris Subtnarinep; this Ar_ W
year - seven m o r e . lban 6x
President Eisenhower's
defense budget recoam. , t/Coesdt~et s mos' - fit
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-Sen. Jackson; a member of a srt in now *eo$u s and;-
the Senate Armed Services . spans. p+gjects, . A s
Sion.
'SEEKS 'BLIRVIVAL'
Following siaidaivrttIciamw
by Sen. 8taust -mingtonu
( ., Mo.), the taMt, kept up}
the drumfire o; Det~nocratic'
attacks oft Die
Tense pO '
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k e . Saw
Syminiton, $an+"_ _n f1*b-
But unlike 86m.$ymington
and some other bbmocil tZ
Sen.. Jackson didn't -attack
the new irate fence estimates
of Russian missile strength.
Arguingg-~ that?"we can afford
to ~n lve;' Sen. Jackson said
he would seek -to step up the
Air Force Minuteman pro-
gram along with the Polaris.
project, because they consti. }
tute the two attempts to
achieve an "invulnerable" re?
taliatory force whieb could
not be knocked out by a eur.
pHse missile attack:
OTHER PROPOSALS
In addition, he wants fsnds
to:
/Provide better warning
of missile 'attack and further
'the Strategic Air Command.
I airborne alert of SAC bomb.
ers which he, estimated Mould
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