PEIPING MAY ORBIT SATELLITE BY 1962

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700570006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 11, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

PIP1M6 MAY ORB
SATELLITE BY 1962
lniniligenc Data $pte
Nirrt!asing inidicalio l$ Q .:
ardod as one of the world
`r::_h11liv?g_ .'been detiultd
. e ioe'On'ttie iita
Wb'h
, .t i i tl \ W. F11" Y a It-ed he had beets a member OI
FLnIL
t t t on inl ISt its
s
laip.'raCkett ~Ct>~'8.ifi.~.t'!e
en let ~ Union - te~t~t `~";' Y
:ntettig(flre estimate has
s....? ru enri,l',sasi2,` the concern
n .1H.V rcderilLl$ts and offtCial$
vl,:st the United States, in Its
pT -oeeupatiun with the space
t 4inion, is overlooking Red
I and oth~e~r nations.
-fleet on 'NVorld Feared
& rong shone scient:is1sand
al s there Is a fe{;r that If
('ulna aJnouid succeed in
:s+< hing a :ratellitc, thlt.,pRy-
.y~icai impact ` Orgy 'I~j-re??
world opinion tonide be
=,a-;tatirg as the" Soviet
rc?rn,?nt in.. launching the
:1t1h 9at=?It:te more than
.
rn thfi propaganiia ex t? tarn for
rr..ion as innR?~sa L alas
o prOVtdli,?g for cnope?r;itiY^? axr cayabt1tt .r, r.,, t e.,
` _t. I ., _ The win Is aces to e
ence'and tie riology. Ivv;restige beneflta 'tJtat .would
, there have been i tlavr to SO China if it lid
nnr them ie re;"orts that the.So,?Iee !:t sateUlte.For brtdii
air
:gam c%ltod wlt>i; barfatic nI - ? ,
t ope tp
sn eartltete~s? ?t
C4i t ~.. } # Rad.
#f,,.. sc In effof' t `a4Mt laf
t t'sw ed United ?: jef tit dtr
,Ching is~ or, the slots beingg aitlared by .the sat! a
In
or technolc.tical sasletance in'1t fell Into before 1957
its space prt grain. ii:ik tag the technOlcgtCatt'
? Lorne setOasts feet than lrilrty of the Soviet; on. i.
nvittioitt ge';a assistance an Three Pterettnasttca
rocket 1:%-1 chin Camtnirni
China could not mount a space- ;.e;a4a $CtentI$t$ feel drat
rime tixr,' ration spit become
't and f
Out, t w*
vgw,
eiptaistrdtts tliiat >!ro :
Intoro yet es differ little from
the ce ?de 'Ices used in
Development and production
o~ . iCarlit't. rocket engines {
n 'to! a satelllte inter
ig tec'htiological
,' Red China set, out `
o ?# several 'l e-ra ago ;
she could. IictlseOptition of some
lead* rocket actenitlAs, be In a
poLrdtjon, without iu,y outsider ".
alp, to launch a sa ' tits in lie
itamsdiate yeafa ahead.;
Approver! I-or Keieas ZUU44,+1 1 .1, (Si yRDI- 1
1,,;;i.-al power of the
;he technological
r t:ir r irrrilaiation ,K ins ex- I
rtt:ttve apart pro-
rl i?-I China is. seen ink,;
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