STAP REQUEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000700070001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 17, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Robert N. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: STAP Request
1. Action: None. This is in response to your memorandum of
9 December 1982 relating to the STAP's request for information. E
2. Background related to paragraph 1 of reference: We have begun
drafting a piece which will list the Soviet weapon systems being developed
and estimates of when we expect them to reach IOC. We will also list the
prime design bureaus and research organizations associated with these systems.
In addition, we will discuss the role of the several hundred other design
bureaus, research centers and the Academy of Sciences in military R&D. We
expect to complete the task in about two weeks.
3. In accordance with your instructions of last June to broaden our
knowledge of the Soviet military-industrial complex, we have made a major
resource commitment to expand our data base on Soviet military R&D and
production facilities and Soviet weapon systems. When completed, we expect
to have considerably more facilities identified than we have now.
4. Background related to paragraph 2 of reference: The large number of
Soviet petitions at the UN for positioning and orbit, discussed by STAP, refer
to radio frequency usage by satellites in geostationary orbit, and the posi-
tions in orbit to and from which these frequencies are broadcast. These
positions are by convention two degrees apart and may be occupied by more
than one satellite. The purpose of the UN regulating frequency usage by
satellites in geosynchronous orbit is to prevent interference between trans-
missions to and from different satellites. II
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5. The Soviets have not in the past deployed satellites in all of the
positions for which they have filed. The number of petitions, therefore, is
greater than the number of satellites that will actually be put into orbit.
There is concern, however, that in the future orbit crowding problems will
effect all uses of satellites in geostationary orbit. NORAD is recognized by
the UN as the international space object accounting expert and keeps track of
all oblects in orbit at geosynchronous altitudes and below.
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SUBJECT: STAP Request
Distribution:
Copy 1 - Addressee
2 - DDCI
3 - Ex. Dir.
4 - Ex. Reg.
5 - DDI
6 - DDI Reg.
7 - OSWR Chrono
8 - OSWR/ES/AG Chrono
9 - OSWR/ES/AGI
10 - DDNRO
11 - SOV
DDI /OSWWR/ES /AG/
(17 Dec 82)