'TEN MOST WANTED' ITEMS ON THE SOVIET GUIDED MISSILE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00961A000900050008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 6, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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Chairman, Guided Missile Intelligence Committee
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"Ten Most Wanted" Items on the Soviet Guided
Missile Program
W7ERENCE: CMIC Memo, subject: Missile Intelligence Requirement
dated 16 December 1958
1. This contribution is furnished in reply to referenced GMIC Memo.
2. The selection of the "ten most wanted" items of information out
of"` the scores of important pieces of currently unknown data is a problem
of such difficulty that it can only be done after limiting the field of
choice through assumption of specific boundaries. These boundaries are:
a. The data indicated shall be only in areas of greatest current
concern to the security of the United States (security here used in its
broad. sense and not just the security of the territorial US).
b. The data, if obtained, vill allow more valid estimates be made
which would immediately be usable to US top planners, either political
or military or will allow important direct leads and guidance to be
recognized, formulated and furnished the collectors, which might reasonably
improve our intelligence in significant manner.
3. On the above basis, the following ten items are submitted:
/a. What was (or will be) the ICBM IOC?
Vb. What is the rate of ICBM site activation?
/c. Are the ICBM sites rail mobile or fixed?
/d. What is the accuracy (CEP) of the ICBM?
/e. How many ICBM's are allocated to each site?
vf. Is the IRBM site rail mobile or fixed?
What is the rate of IRBM site activation?V
,,h. Do the Soviets have guided missile subEamrines?v'
/i. If so, for what type of missile? '//
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