SATELLITE BREAKUPS RED CONTROLLED

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP75-00149R000600240011-1

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RIPPUB

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Document Creation Date:

November 11, 2016

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October 30, 1998

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Publication Date:

November 18, 1966

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NSPR

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Sanit&WNWroved ..A lien-Scott Report ,Satellite Breakups } Red Controlled ` It ROBERT S. ALLEN ,.OPYRGH Iyand PAUL SCOTT There is n o n g ace nta !about the recent break-up of Rus Salon satellites over the U.S. t Their shattering into a num planned and controlled S(Yvie military-space experiment. 1picked up radio signals Iron Mites. While intelligence autlioritie .!are still piecing together info! cicar - space breakthrough. The. development of MIRV ','multi-warhead independent re ments, according to this only i sis. In non - technical terms, th Russians apparently have sue Rceeded in separating in flight a a pre-determined time and loco tion a "cluster, of satellites.' i each capable of carrying a. nu clear warhead. 11.1,1 ,,. would en the t ,,launch a satellite set to react a certain, point over the U.S land then direct nuclear bomb , at targets across the countr j; from New York to California. fact that fragments of the two in New Yark-City, Philadelphia, (Houston. f These dire Russian 'e>peri 1 ments are only part: of the Reds' satellite testing over` the U.S. ~,tltat Is' being intently followed. The North American Defense Command and other space-track- ing exercises have intercepted two-way radio transmissions. vie lit large Soviet communications r satellite now orbiting over the These . messages are ' llsoeei to'b transmitted by "1l' illegals". Soviet agents -. bper? as their onlskiris s a result en by Colone the Russian it apprehends We we of sed that a s the satellite mising by strategic I in Ilse past ssile IICSM) lembers of tion of these F curve of th 'If this report ers, D-S.C., , "then Russt n't even Ident has or Relea