SATELLITE

MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE FIRST SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE

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con-ference, vas asked by source when the Soviets would launch their satellites.
he replied, ": cannot tell you because I do not kr ' . Be Lade the sage reply

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SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE AND ROCKET DEVELOPMENTS

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e:iiCE AGENCY
TELETYPED INFORMATION REPORT
Thu cos Wins information *Hooting this Notional Woos* of tit* United Stows within tilts austaning of tho &Omar. Lows, Tido
U.S.C. Ss= 723 end 74, lb.txtnemission Zsprolotitma of which SS, sury monnot to an unouthodood person Is psohibited by law.
STATE, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, JCS, SECDEP, FBI
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CLASSIFICATION
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SOVIET DELEGATES' REACTION TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF EARTH SATELLITE LAUNCHING

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launched an earth satellite ens ob-.nixd by Walter Suilivam of the New Zoe
TLes rroa the radio. This ljfarmn*.lor rwa then passed to Dr. Lloyd Berkner
2. When the saaoaareaest was made Loth Poloskor w`d Dadenkav laughed and jumped up

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1. ANNOUNCEMENT OF EARTH SATELLITE LAUNCHING AT SOVIET EMBASSY RECEPTION ON 4

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SOVIET ROCKET PROGRAM AND EARTH SATELLITE

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PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
.O of 1.1G(~~ ~I NO. Of IK?l.
CO 3Oit 57, A. A. Htagouravov aff're a per discussing the lifetime of the
satellite. Be wished to leave the Impression that the set of eoodittms
he postulated vere purely hypothetical and had no relrtiooship to the
Ressian program. (Obviously, if the imssians bad made all of these
calculations, they were going to use them.) These calculations were based

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LAUNCHIING OF SPUTNIK I

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OBSERVATION OF SPUTNIK I

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Ct:NTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(da file in the CIA Library is a eeD ' of a letter written
by OW Xaqul of the htistaa l t.o olo seal Department an
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COMMENT OF A SOVIET SCIENTIST ON THE SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE

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SOVIET ROCKETRY AND EARTH SATELLITE

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;:Las questioned on the antennae used in the satellite.9 BlnBosrar is e of the
tL-e question by saying that he did not know such technical detais
Lstellite. He also stated that the USSR considers this satellite merely
a/ experiment in the over-all developaent_of,the Soviet satellite proBrss.
transmitters
YL,I that it eras simplein construction sad dcfinite3J had`onlT
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