JUGGLING OF MISSILE DATA IS CHARGED BY SYMINGTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450079-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: January 20, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK.-'
Juggling ot'Mtsszte vata 1 i
Is Charged by?Syni i i 'ton
By JACIL s+ :
WASHINGTON, Ian. 27-- tator &uwt SyWngton
cha-icd-today the Adminiatratdon manltPU!I*tbd intelligence
information about the military forces Of t t Union to
? .permit balanciri the' t. lllMs.'
. The Missouri Demoftto
tential Presidentiii-l.c}
. ! issued a 2,000-wor4,etatetara'
at a news conferencemd re'
pe:tted it, in h
.The intelligence booh. b0ye
been juggled so the let
baJoLnoed
" bt
hooks may. be
1 ! 0 100
said. "This is t
tion; which i maim Wtt* all
gravity."
The senator insisted that the 1
me missile -gap was greatei. 1
three-to-one in favor of the Rus-
suns and was still growing. He
referred especially to intetbont-
tinent.al ballistic missile{ but
included other types of miss.
l,xretary'of Defense Thy
s. Cates 'Jr., 4n the other kunA.
? emphasized that the U were based on the aeQufiW-1
of better InformILUCS
Soviet ICBM program.
with United States Plans indi-
cated a "moderate' Soviet lead
19;32.
Trip Is Put Off 5c.-.retary Gates made his
statem _nt in a speech Prepared
for delivery at a Repub1iean.din-
nor at Portland, Ore. The speech-
=?i!l t,c be read for him because
the defense chief was prevehted
from making the cross-ooutstry
trip when engine trouble des
lased his commercial alrlfie ! Cites is" Meeting
cite e8
Secretary (fates' speech dis ? and Sent"- of s $ ion ago as the summer closed that the United States W1
phOMee- tOr'
. second Atlas ICBM base would` mer Secretery of D~GO N,,
be comsat-ready In .April. IL Mcd+?O-.
Pentagon official confirm ;1 director at the dntial 1,,-
that the Secretary referred to.
Francis E. Warren Air Force ;develoOet t fK per`'
B%se at Cheyenne, Wyo.
80=tor recalled how his
The Atlas unit at Cheyenne rated.
xill be in addition to the small threat to reveal the "P~~
issile
site at Vandenberg Air Force Soviet-United States es? last
situation in p.roints$ . -
year. prompted tM
closure of the estimated three-
to-one to-one missile PP behtd
Russisn??
..
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Passages t and Uatea etatetts were in
direct conflict 88 to the facts
of the missile gap. Senator
Symington said:
'The facts an that a veryt
substantial missile p does;
exist and the ~
tpia gap to. Inc Fesae seen when
one . used, tbe_ Ibrba'Uer Soviet
their capability.
The truth is that It we oom-
pare the Xe&dy-to-launch mis-
siles attributed to the Soviets
;
on the intelligence basis,
with t.te' o~tcial readiness pro-
gram BMS for ratio for co~td
IC
erable length of - time will be.
more than three to one.
"This is, Just a comparison
;tti*ir I'QB>t[ Rtreftg "ON does
sat include ow IR We vim-a-
Y vie their htINlIM of that aste-
goy-a though if it Aid. the
Soviet advantage would be irven
F9 cis . eoespaelion.. than to the
teak In 190 )p'erio'd
-Secretary (sates said:
"If we compare the estimated
Soviet ICBM and sea-launched
pco lkms rvith~lsns for
~ .. fT~lf weir.,.
{ -_-- - - - IG'a alt Polaris- miastlaa,i
The Senator riled Seeeeta* know OW the Soviets mGats recent Congrteataotal tM- oy at tirllN a moderate 1J.
timony on intelllgsnoe eatlmltt~e erfaal sapedority during the
that iMPbAs" Mrrllat thrr" years. This differ.
,lieve he (ft Noviet On" peak during
will do, not Mhat helMp~ miss 1Nli pio41~~ our. estimates
of doing" `" indlaNte tUL betorM and after
agums are closer
li "Throto this s'pr ss. tht
peop4 the bmNled", w-s era
bv. r that It. Is neet 7
Mike 11
for =G. to Milo fetlfotts
ahargo. diud But. became of tee
rif ~the seaudty
o! the olted dtatta, ?~ tM
than
A PeOPM wv' misfile deterrent gap has ben
the
Mht to kn , try' be sharply reduced and poisiWy
d. eliminated," the Senator said.
when a reporter In fact, he went on, the Ad-
However,asked whether in view of the ministration has not provldedt able detail." ?
of the aootteation he for the acceleration of ICBM The conclusion, he reported
gravity,
1thought thlt F'ree3dfrst etieen- 'production. The funds for! was that "even a surprise at-
hower ought. to be (m >>b.I:ICBMs In the new budget are! tack by all the missiles the-
sonator 8ym r'ePUn~ offer an "add-OR" Prcg~ i Soviets could muster would not
uld be d himself I i ! .,,f
Nor would
heto be dream into SAY _denunc*
Qte_ rvr the
asttihe beA.
t~Defense Secretary said.
that the question of whether
this "numerical calculation
oomprived a "deterrent gap"
had been "studied in consider-.
not to speed existing produc- j to destroy enough of our
reLanlaLOry for va ,
their leaders to make a rational
deciykm to attack."
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