POSSIBLE UPCOMING SOVIET SPACE EXPLOITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00826A001800010077-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: April 22, 1967
• Content Type: IM

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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJEer : too ~i1~]_e Upcoming Soviet, Space l:xpl o i. t;
],. There are c'.1-car indications that the Soviet
manned space flight program will get moving soon,
aCtcr two years of no manned operations. In fact,
preparations are under way right now for a launch
(or launches) tomorrow which may he the opening Shot.
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16. Outlook. We do not believe that Soviet prepara-
tions have yep reached the stage which will allow them
to mount a complex, multiple-launch mission such as a
manned orbiting space station or a manned circumlunar
flight. What is more likely is that the events in the
next few days will involve precursors to these sophisti-
cated missions--perhaps flights into deep space and back
with clogs; perhaps more modest missions involving man.
The latter could include a rendezvous and docking opera-
tion between two manned spacecraft, or between a manned
capsule and a large propulsion module for boosting the
capsule into 13 igher ' orbit .
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