LETTER TO JOHN HOLMFIELD (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: January 15, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of legislative liaison
Washington, D. C. 20505
Telephone: [phone]
15 January 1985
TO: Committee on Science and Technology
House of Representatives
2321 Rayburn House Office Building
Wachingtnn. Tl(' 905.15
Attention: Mr. John Holmfeld
Science Policy Staff
Enclosed is a copy of a report you
requested the Central Intelligence Agency to
locate for you.
If I can be of further assistance, please
call me.
STAT
379M 1533 PRE PREVIOUS
EDITIONS.
Distribution:
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1. OLL Chrono w/o enc
LD/OLL~ (15 January_1985)
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COMMITTEE OF SOVIET SICENTISTS
FOR PEACE AGAINST NUCLEAR THREAT
STRATEGIC
AND INTERNATIONAL-POLITICAL CONSr-Qj)r.t%-6ES
OF CREATING A SF CE-EASED ANTIMISSILE SYSTEM
USING DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPCNS
Moscow
1981;
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This Report has been prepared by the Working Group
of the Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace, Against
Nuclear Threat consisting of the Heads of Groups: Deputy
Chairman of the Co*:?rittee of Soviet Scientists, Academi-
cian R.Z. Sa de eyev (Director of the -Institute of Space Re-
search of the USSR Academy of Sciences),. Deputy Chairman
of the Committee of Soviet Scientists A.A. Kokoshin,D.Sc.
(History), Deputy Director of the Institute of USA and
Canada Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences;
-experts: A.G. Arbatov,iiD.Sc. (History), Sector Chief
at the Institute of the World Economy and INte=national Re-
lations of the USSR Academy of Sciences; A.A.VasilYev,
Cand.Sc. (Technology), Department Chief at the Institute
of USA and Canada Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences;
V.I. Shevchenk, D.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics), Deputy
Director of the Institute of Space Research of the USSR
Academy of Sciences; O.F. Prilutsky, Cand.Sc. (Physics and
Mathematics), Department Head at the Institute of Space
Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences; V.G. Rodin, Chief
Project Designer of the same Institute;S.N.tRodionov,Cand.Sc.
(Physics and Mathematics), Senior Research Associate of the
Institute;and R.R.Nazirov Cand.Sc. (Technology) Senior Re-
search Associate of the Institute.
A mathematical model for studying the scientific and
technical aspects of the issue under review (Appendix I)
has been worked out by R.R.Nazirov.
In studying various problems linked with the subjects
of the Report the Working Group used the services of con-
sultants, Professor N.A.Lomov,Colonel-General,Rtd., and
Professor M.A.Milshtein, Lieutenant-General,.Rtd.
OC.Institute of ?Space Research, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1964
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TUESDAY, JANUARY Ip
S?vi cM i c
By =7H M"AM
Moscow, Jon. 7 ? A Soviet ccien
-tifc refit soya tllh t e spaco-baaed
I3 an Bald d rb the rat C bel-
= si, s off a Chain ?L on
coun-
i6ih~ utd ultimately maim
? -`ice obtain ca ftm
Ssomwo, anys much of the, Gc-
psat57 techaicallyy feasible, though Im-
mensely ctly. it says that the testing
EW tha denw Ibitla-
' ' i3 aimedB tiL
?of' sivo mimilc and thus mehing
nuclear w r cbno!a e. is a
titivate comarn oi0 the 'gas at
of State Gorge F. alts and ForCign.
Rte' AndrW A. Gromyho.
Add to Acct
_ I lta r rt, which W83 obtained in an
Q,RdA
Y-
r ut cal argument..
is unclear for whom the report was
.
od tally prc;ared, but the Engllsh-
smsnt of, copyright, appear aimed
sel , it says, the American plan "will
( .eniptive) strip and the_probabii-
statdlity would be diminished even
t o h rough parity m t be pre-
, Ip addition, it says; "the deployment
, ,
D USS
ave? Calls a, o
of up t
o 1t swmds' plot nets at an accuracy of 10 ttheir cW.'&
o aveman the 7 radu and foaaet t MbW
or
ench for the period nmmxy i
d cn,' the r a .,7{a s. _ .
L8 " '. tm o the metat!W
Shame W l MT ro at least Shuttle
120 mkdZW to po,G' cslsit. it is _ now t
teach a sWtem in capable of d
1S ea is 160 86=6 (With tha 2-
multaa Iatmc of ICBM and
two tip stations over the inch.
ilia am).
lbe Soviet scientists ,tend that
such a space-based defer
would not be invulnerable, and,
n u tt
PUM Taco.
It m v that-w pwpmed
titer could be put ma of aeon by small
ballustle merles,. oftdM space
lasm" or
? law d
t d APC9 wt , causbr5it
to ittt sts , the rayon
;? , ad that It is y thin vul-
u bility t at adds to the deatsbl g
nature of the 3An.
The report aay?s that ar to
c, ter the lace old
the tr c of the tc of
MUMZ6 *z sn difficult to t
pate in arm a-CT.- t&
E +' 64 '+*w~9 *0 ace, 'ah: 3," t1"2
ens ciffied at p, otrsa the eat
will lend to a oo Mme lug
Poteatial cnesaltie in the am
year,"\t.e svdot m gm c of u.
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j -more iii L-siS$mod= -
w p syst.ems,"
r i' {t
- 3
Y, would makei th strsto
tralance more per,. a..,~
int
_ naili:r~* , decisicxcr-j
15 report soya that versiarsis of the 1
d
system now being dis.
d app p intended for use against
ltd tars as well as,
space, could _";It h
o
e
poyed for a .. strike.
U&M b4ed P. macro v Sban, force.
days: Systr, the report
se 8'e have zTUM to L and the pro-
spective Unate ? Staten Sams as a
mem ns of insr
a i
MM.-Y. T' he Wing m-strike _
ass ins from pIlie
I
Reagan A
feat th
e
at th
new I
fens
- sd
ti from
ntxlear missiles forr I
are Pzrhsvs the greatest ever
mafl~
deception of onr time." ? .
The art, which i_s dated 1t 4, motes I
t=at the United States has declined to
"'' first to of n=ear weap .
':tent by a grvjp cai1.
itself the srmaittee of Soviet
tti
i%
lea
at
euce, ~inst the Na-
la t' arr~1 is titled "A Space.
l timissi e S tem With Jec~ed 'WeapOns Strategic,
LeSW aard f'o ldl licaati(m.?,
Tc .oa l AVeeft ll-- i
,Ti pwasl~bbyR id Z.
eyev, direr of the Spates Re-
search Institute of the Academy of Ste.
ea'r, a Andrei A. likes, depmy
dir'ector' of t Unite Slates lasa ttr.
'Dr. Sa9deyev, 52 years old, is a nu.
' physicist who has 1ded t
'
e institute since its fmnxting in
Dr. Kokeskin
39
com f
,
,
or
alga po with an engineer. 1
which he acq fired at
the
Ba Higher Technical School,
Using publfs Arrrerican in.for -
ti the report describes scientific and
teclinical detafij of the space-based do.
fense systeem, in which, it says, -laser
lam ice weanmw can hit
t
a
arget
- mods of kilometers away within
-ata* a humbrdth of a second in which
.latter can move fore just a few
dozen meters "
.
The American plan is said to "envi.
6M 18 combat stations placed at three
,poidr orbits with a hit ra.?e of apprmsi_
tely 5,00 0 kllomew-M."
,_.`~The Shams should be able to track I
~alttsart 1,M) targets within a stage burnt
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