ROCKET TRIALS TO BE HELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200030076-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: April 19, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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DEC 1951 O1 ;O
COUNTRY USSR
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Rocket Trials to be Held
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 10. SECTIONS 7.2
AND 714. OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT SY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DISTR. 19 April 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1. Trials of new Soviet rockets for stratospheric flight will take place in
April 1154 at Tashkent. The trials will be directed by Prof. Alex Sternfeld
of Moscow, and a delegation of Czechoslovak experts will be present. Soviet military
authorities in charge of stratospheric flight for military purposes will be
presented at the conference of Soviet scientists, which will take place at
Tashkent at the same time.
2. The conference and the trials have officially been designated as secret,
and the results will be communicated only to the Presidium of the Soviet
Aeronautical Club "V. P. Chakalov".
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Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Assistant Director of the Office of Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
NAVY AIR FBI
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