CAP: WE DON'T KNOW SIZE OF RED ARSENAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720067-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: March 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720067-6
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CAP: WE DON'T
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RED ARSENAL
Defense Dept. drawing shows a Soviet SS20 mi"ll?. attached. to the rear. end of train.
~ nuclear arseaaL ~ .,
arms control negotia-
tions in Geneva..
In a letter to Sea
James McClure (A-
Idaho), Weinberger ad-
mitted that the Soviet
missile inventory may
be much greater than
initally believed.
The letter said there fa_. During the debate.', bsrger's-:'range c[? un- : ? The Soviets already
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NEW YORK POST
22 March 1985
over the MX missile last, certainty" could be 2
109 have deployed 100 mo-
week, several senators ICBM warheads 100. bile 88-25 missiles. An
1 were given secret Intel-: _ more - than ? the entire additional 50 10-war-
ligence briefings about- U.S.-nuclear warhead in--. head 88-24 missiles will
the improvements in the' ventory
ed on trains
be de
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This comes at a time. Soviet ICBM strategic The "rag" in the eati- ..
of heightened concern in systems. mates a ears to have . ' ? The. Soviets have a
the Defense Dept. and In those briefingg~ stemmed r m "reload capability" in
intelligence agencies senators were shown information e t ne by their SS-17 and SS-28
over the Kremlin's taken fy- the 'N revealing thal: missile force, -. despite
development of new,
n ? he Soviet Union is strict SALT II prohibl-
Defense Intelli tions
mobile MX-type mis-
deploying 14 high-mega- tions, giving the Soviets
siles and the upgrading
warhead ton warheads on their the ability to fire liter-
that the Soviet
of existing missile sys-
count could be 8500 - MX-type SS-18 missiles ally hundreds of extra
tems.
rather than 10 - as inia- warheads at the U.S.
Some defense experts Pentaron plans to quote tally believed - which Wsaid that
now believe that the next month t the nublic means there are 1232 the Soviets Weinberger g now have at
Soviet Union has an its report on Soviet extra nuclear warheads
overwhelming 4-1 ad- military power. that can be fired at the percent more ICBM
vantage over the U.S. in Defense experts say U.S. from 308 SS-18 mb- missile-launchers than
nuclear warheads. this means that Wein- site launchers. the U.S.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720067-6