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MEMORANDUM FOR TBE DIRECTOR:
This memorandum is for the record.
Mark Childs in his conference with you today brought up three subjects:
(1) A friend of the President's, he said, who is also a friend of yours but
who is not in CIA, gave lir. Childs details of the Air Force's use of balloons
which successfully mapped the Soviet Union. (2) At the time Bulganin was
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scale of support by the CIA to the earth satellite program.
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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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WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
29 January 1955
ER 675268
The Honorable
The Secretary of Defense
Department of Defense
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I have been following with great interest the progress in the
development of the earth satellite vehicle plans. I'should like to
state the concern of this Agency with both the first launching of
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