DOD REPORT SAYS SOVIETS SEEK SPACE DOMINANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B00478R000800210004-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 19, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DOD reriiiesays Soviets
-By Waiter Andrews
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Soviet Union aims to acquire
military superiority in outer space
in order to deny its use to other
nations and at the same time pro-
vide support for Soviet combat
units on earth, the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency (DIA) warned yes-
terday.
The charge was Contained in a'
36-page DIA analysis of Soviet
mili-
tary space doctrine, 'released
yes-
terday by the Pentagon in the WAke,
of an interyieyaolsoviet
ident KonstAxiticherfienko
pub-
lished WedneS4AtThe:report was.
completed in AuguSe'''.
e
? Although such reports for inter-
nal government use are not usually
made public, a Pentagon
spokesman denied there is any con-
nection - between the interview and
the public release of the DIA
report. He said the report has been
undergoing Pentagon security
clearance-, since its completion
August 1.
' Mt. Chernenko was quoted in the
interview as saying that improved
S.-Soviet relations might be pas-
Sblejf, the United States showed
:intefeStinAgreement on one of four.-
eSSentiat:,qUestionS; one of , them -
behikitherbetpilitariiAtion 9f out ?
,
? = er
space.
estcrn ,analyses of the Soviet -
ance
bipliiMats in Moscow SaY Cher-:".
nenko'? comments on arms control
were probably aimed at influenc-
ing the U.S. presidential debate
and election. Page 6A.
space program provide convincing
evidence of Moscow's intention to
acquire military superiority in
outer space," the Pentagon intelli-
gence -report says. Further:-,it'saf.S.
,?evidence shows - ILIAC:the?',,SOViet-A
- intend toacquirea suPerioiitii,Sk.
-ficient'bOth to deny the use &tithe,
space to. otherS states an4st9;;Asstir*
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SPACE would be illogical to expect the trine is correct . . . I it] will allow the
Kremlin to strive for anything less Soviets to begin to place in orbit in
in outer space, especially consider- the early 1990s, systems capable of
From page IA ing the military significance of this effectively attacking ... ground,
Soviet offensive and defensive corn- environment," the DIA said. sea and air targets from space." *
bat operations on land, at sea, in air, . The ability to provide support In 1967, the United States andthe
and in outer space." from space for combat operations Soviet Union signed What-is called
The intelligence agency report on earth "requires freedom to oper- the Outer:Space Treaty, which pro-
says the Soviet Union has a ate in, if not outright dominance of, hibits the placing of nuclear or any
dynamic, expanding and "prodi- outer space," the report says. other weapons.of "mass.
. .gions" 'military space program. It comments that Soviet military destruction". in orbit around the.
? Civilian scientific and economic doctrine fully recognizes the need earth; on the moon or any, other
aspects of the Soviet space prog- to disrupt, if not destroy, enemy celestial body, or anywhere else in
ram are entirely subordinate to the command-and-control and commu- outer space.
military functions, DIA says. nications systems on earth. . It also limits the use of the moon
"This determination is neces- "Outer space is becoming more and other celestial bodies in space
sary because Soviet propaganda and more vital, if not essential, to to peaceful purposes.
would have the world believe that military forces in this respect, and
the Soviet space program is therefore the Soviet leadership can The DIA report notes that prior
entirely peaceful in nature, dedi- be expected to pursue" superiority to the 1967 treaty, Soviet propa-
cated only to scientific and eco- in space, the intelligence agency ganda recognized the need for a
nomic pursuits," the defense says. Military - "space-based capability.
intelligence study -concludes: -:-: . - It mentions another Pentagon Following,: the treaty, mention of ,
this aspect? was gradually,-, ;
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