SOVIET WEATHER CONTROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001100020012-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 24, 1959
• Content Type: BRIEF

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24 February 1959
I. Since 1946 Soviet scientists have been doing basic research in all
aspects of cloud physics and weather control though to date they have
not launched a satellite to collect data on weather control problems.
A. In 1958 the USSR began using cloud seeding techniques to open
airfields closed by certain types of winter time fogs.
B. Soviet scientific literature reveals that during the past ten
years 200 scientists at 23 institutes and universities have con-
ducted research studies related to weather control--a relatively
large effort. Much of this research was done in cloud physics.
1. In th cloud physics research Soviet and Western scientists
have been following parallel courses during the last ten years
2. It should be noted, however, that there are significant gaps
in Soviet scientific literature especially in the area of
weather control experiments. Soviets may classify this
information.
II. USSR realizes that the solution of weather control requires knowledge
of large scale weather processes.
A. They have active programs in such related fields as polar
geophysics, large scale atmospheric circulation and oceanography.
1. Soviet oceanographers also are concerned with climate and
weather modification and have been conducting studies of the
thermal and dynamic effects of the oceans on the atmosphere.
2. Influence of the North Atlantic Ocean on climate and weather
conditions was one of the principle problems in the Soviet
oceanography program for the International Geophysical Year.
3. To date, however, there are no significant Soviet advances
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