SOVIET POWER DATA JUGGLED TO BALANCE BUDGET SYMINGTON SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450080-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: July 27, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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I should not be impeached, Sym- ington asserted, "the Adminis-
ington said that such action was tration has given the people the
inconceivable, impression that Iha missile
He was, he dclared, posingdeterrent gap has been sharply
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SYMINGTON SAYS
made in a democracy, he said. lieve it is Important for the
Public an Inaccurate in _,-_....n., ..._effort _ .to. - ___.....d~e_.t._he_ .
such a fashion as to imply by a downgra statements, Atr Secre:arv l'n:_-
Picture of National they were in existence. He Russian missiles as to quality- ley C. Sharp and General 76orr.:?-
pointed out that 'a Polaris mis- the recent impressive Soviet mis- 1 D. White,' Air Force Chief
rile never has been fired In Bile test in the Pacific notwith-
Defease NCCelit Sen- Staff, claimed "truly retn,,rkabi.
operational configuration. standing. progress" in Unit
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ator Charges. The Polaris, Titan and Minute- Wants Atlas Step-up. sits programs and spoke of pr,,._
I man still are in the development As to what should be done, ising weapons ahead.
stage, he declared: As for the Symington said that the produc- General White said his se:
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he noted that there are only up. The capacity is available and progress toward an air-launch'
By BRIG. GEN. THOMAS R. three Atlas missiles on launch- is not being used, he said: He ballastic missile called the Si?
PHILLIPS, U.S.A. (Ref,) ing pads at 'a missile training i noted that the recent increase, Bolt. when that missile is col
Military Analyst of the but In southern California. in the Atlas program of four, biped with nuclear-powered ai
Post-Dispatch. Briefing. by CIA. squadrons (36 operational mis-, craft, he said, the United Sr-
'c-WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-Sear ~Sytnington said that he had silos and four spares (was an will have "the most mob.,
ator Stuart Symington (Dem,), ? been briefed on Soviet missile add-on that would not be in ef- striking power ever arhfei'ed.-
,, capability by the t,entraF lntelli- fect until present production is fie did not disclose public
Missouri, today charged this completed, It is -not, be said, as
administration, with using Intel-'.Based goal would
on all the facts available e many have asattmbd, an acceler- achieved..
ligence ? information In such a to me, however." he said, "I at.ion of production. Sharp claimed phenomenal
manner that the American peo- considered that the director had The United States Is three to curacy for the Atlas, the o:ttti
ple have been given an Inaccu- f underrated the Soviet missile de- five years behind the Soviet United States intercontinr n,a'
rats, picture of what is necessary I velopment." Union in space, Symington de- ballistic missile rated as cnm!)a.
for oar national defense." , In August IOU. be requested ? Glared. He pointed out 'that ready. Her said the Atlas's ac'
Jntelligence books have been an appointment witli the Presl- Saturn, the only big booster we curacy would be improved,
have in development that that Soviet will White challenged
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juggled so the budget books may dent "in order to' resent to him enable us to match lases wc
be balanced," he asserted In a my apprebenalon about the moon n shots, that only a few Atlases wc:r
i statement read in the Senate. .~ planned misatle gap."
i The mhad its budget re ready, and that only ac,e person
)quest reduced front $128,000,000 and civilian contractor person
Senator told reporters The White House later wrote'to $70,000,000 In 1959 and from; nil have fired them. I-fe d-
this morning that the gap be- to him, he continued, and asked $250,000,000 to $140,000,000 in I scribed missiles emplaced at
tween United States missile pro- him tp present his analysis to ,1960. 1 Vandenberg Air Force Base i
d,lction and that of the Soviet the Secretary of Defense and to Symington, who Is a Demo- California as operational rocket
Union was more than three to I Allen W. Dulles, CIA director. cratic possibility for nomination which he said "could ~-
one, in spite of the new figures. Follow up conferences were 1for President, said he realized
And the new figures, he assert- ~ held, he said, but the estimates , launched by rews.. an
'fully that my atateme~tts on ; qualified Air Force orce c crews"
ed, have been downgraded as presented by Duties were not this vital matter may be labeled Both Sharp and White cos-
much as 50 per cent. changed. ' ias politically motivated by those ceded Russian Missile 'arid other
On this h.tsis, the" "missile He said that he believed thatiwho prefer to conceal the facts, weapons advances represent a
gap" is mg a than six to one McElroy's estimate. of s three- "I choose to face that risk," he threat- "Increasingly press;n:-.
rather than the three-tonne fig- to-one gap . Sreatly'Understated added. "It is an insignificant I diversified . . . and ominous,'
tire given list year by former the case, but hoped that ad-. risk indeed compared with the White termed. it.
Secretary of Defense Neil H. ? mission of such a pp would unwarranted risk which this After the briefing, Russet,
McElroy. )gad to acceleration of our own policy of ' misinformation has agreed that Strategic Air Con
Secretary of Defense Thomas missile program. Instead, It re. brought down upon our country," maned bombers now form "the
S. dates Jr., tuid the House sub- I suited- In "further downgrading - , greatest striking force on earth
committee on defense a ro ria- of. the 'Soviet missile cture," By the AUO4ua.a Priem
PP P 1PI But he said he tiled not been com-'
(ions Jan. 1:t Jaat "the Russiat:a he said. . ? ? Chairman Richard B. Russell vinced by Administration lead- .
ma?.' enjoy ,rr times a moderate Symington, in regard to this.(Dem.), Georgia, of the Senate+ era that there was no missi't
- numerical s1Meriority during the use of capabilities or intentions (Armed Services Committee told + SAP
jtcat three jetu-s." In Intelligence estimates, quoted reporters yesterday, I think -'Russia has the I.C.B.M. in
S 'mingtu.~ pointed out that testimony by McElroy before the we are woefully behind In the production," Russell said. "The.
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I think it would be very danger--,- had .questioned. Air Force offs-
barely entedeve from the ce
nai exist, ha used United States ous if we did-not proceed on this 'dais in private. In their publia
L(, 1. s, i .B.M.s and Polaris basis-(Soviet capability) search and development stage.
Ine.siles, by had not Inchtded think it should be underst.
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thew twat it kked,'the Senator these r.llmhere In being at the ? -
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missiles and ubrasrine-launched we should assume that they-
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