CIA BLAMED FOR 'LAG' IN ATOMIC RACE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700440018-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 20, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

MIAMI HERALD Feb. 20, 1962 i
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other Kremlin leaders can-
not be trusted on this score.
The senator cited the de-
cl:ne of the U.S, position from
the peak of 1946-immediate-
ly after World War II-to
where it is today. He said this
should be ample warning of
what we face should we allow
the Russians to out-maneuver
us any further.
CIA Series Contin,uea ............. Page 14A
By JOHN" Mc IOTT
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U.S. Sen. i. in ;Vfiami nrlay that
the usstari nuclear threat is 14 than most Ameri-
cans realize.
He blamed failures S. Central Intelligence
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Agency_f nr mLi" of the e ,carn wit.
the Dade County. Bar Assoela-
'tion at the Columbus Motel,
the Missouri Democrat s a %d
by the Soviets in.1953 into an
informal w o r l d agreement
?'AB as rhsult, they Brood r11
31/2-year advantage on us," he,
declared. "If they get another
31,z-year. edge, our position
maybe hopeless."
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nedy, may have a, far-reach-
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et Iruslfson dr ss c~elir without noes
Symington a for mer tight to
cratic nominee for Presidint
in 1956, advocated a nuclear
test ban, "I felt it was a mis
iakd iitid Mid go," This was
followed, he pointed out, by
the Eisenhower Administration
d ,war i. a Vie: ftU5
~2"fa year 2
that. they were going 13=w
duct tests in the atmosphere.
They made 40.
" o body could have
launched such tests without
long preparation," Symington
'pointed out in bolstering his
point that CIA. h1f fic to
ivc>:,dlpg ?,'tale ,.xhe, United
Sf a oo Mill with its own
e
nts.
experim
He said the Soviets h a v e
gone "far ahead" of the Unit-
ed States in many phases of,
rocket development and add-
ed that even if U.S. Astronaut
John Glenn is successful in his
three orbits of the earth, "we
Still will be far behind the
Russians and their 17 orbits."
He estimated that it would
be "?at least three years" be-
fore the United States can
ope to orbit a man 17 times
a: ound the globe.
I Symington said the mi.si1 ' e-
]aurching Polaris Subma-
rine is this nation's best nu-
clear weapon. And he
said that had the , United
States failed to develop t h e
hydrogen bomb, "I'in afraid
... our position today would
be helpless and hopeless."
tary of the Air 1~'orce and a
top`authority r'n-'defense mat- sni he is "appalled" at
tern, said it .imperative that some of the proposals put for
3 I ward advocating agreements
this country move ahead at -
full speed with its own nucl-ar with the Russians which would
testing in the atmo.sr;here. ban nuclear testing.
And he stressed that the
public be kept informed about
the nation's true status in the
military alignment against the
Soviet Union. Theme of his a d -
l i e said we should h a v e
learned fro -3 past experience
that Uikita Khrushchev and,
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