THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 JULY 1974

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006004754
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 3, 1974

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The President's Daily Brief
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exemption category 5B( 11.(2),(3)
daclassif.ied only on approval of
the1Director of Central Intelligence
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
July 3, 1974
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
space center
Plesetsk missile and
equipment that may be
related to development of a land-mobile ICBM. (Page 1)
The Soviets have begun to convert SS-9 silos at the
Uzhur and Kartaly complexes for their new large ICBM,
the SS-X-18. (Page 2)
The USSR continues to make steady progress building
the two Kiev-class aircraft carriers at Nikolayev,
on the Black Sea. (Page 3)
European Community officials are concerned that the
Community may be discriminated against if alloca-
tion of US uranium enrichment services becomes neces-
sary. (Page 4)
The price of gold dropped $6 to $137 an ounce yester-
day, its lowest level in five months. (Page 5)
Notes on France, Iran-USSR, and USSR-Algeria appear
on Page 6.
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of the Plesetsk missile
and space center equipment that
may be related to development of a land-mobile ICBM.
A new missile, the solid-propellant SS-X-16, has
been launched from Plesetsk four times in the past
month. Whether or not it has been tested from a
mobile launcher, however, cannot be determined from
the evidence so far available.
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five piecesof equipment
in a clearing a half mile west 25X1
of a soft launch site associated in the late 1960s
with the mobile $S-X-15. At least four of the pieces
of equipment were 45 to 50 feet long, and may be
trucks of a type associated in the past with short-
range- ballistic missiles.. We do not believe, how-
ever, that a vehicle for transporting and launching
a missile was present.
Two mobile vans used for troposcatter communi-
cations at Plesetsk. A mo-
bile strategic missile system would require a mobile
communications system capable of performing well in
a post-strike-nuclear environment. A troposcatter
system, in which the signal is deflected by the
troposphere over a distance of at least 75 miles,
would fulfill this. requirement.
At.another soft launch site which was used in
the past for the mobile SS-X-15,
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structure is about 160 feet long and has been in
place since the spring of 1972, when flight-testing
of the SS-X-16 ICBM began at Plesetsk.
Although it has not been possible to determine
a launch point for all 17 firings of the SS-X-16,
there is evidence to suggest that a number of them
have come from SS-13 silos. The SS-X-16, believed
to be a follow-on to the older SS-13 ICBM, is de-
ployed in 60 silos at the Yoshkar Ola ICBM complex.
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the Soviets have begun to convert SS-9 silos at the
Uzhur and Kartaly complexes for their new large ICBM,
the SS-X-18. At the Dombarovskiy complex, where
conversion of one group of SS-9 silos has been under
way for over a year, work has apparently begun on a
second group.
The Soviets started to build four new silos for
the SS-X-18 at each of five SS-9 complexes in late
1970. In early 1973, they began to convert the group
of six SS-9 silos near the four new silos at the
Dombarovskiy complex. When completed later this year,
the four new silos and the six converted ones at
Dombarovskiy will form a single group of ten SS-X-18
silos. Because the Strategic Arms Limitation Agree-
ment prohibits starting any new ICBM launchers, the
second group of SS-9 silos now apparently being con-
verted at Dombarovskiy probably will contain only
six silos.
The SS-9 silos now being converted at Kartaly
and Uzhur are also located with the four new SS-X-18
silos at each complex. Ten silos for the SS-X-18
could be completed at each of these complexes by
late 1975 or early 1976.
The SS-X-18 has been undergoing flight-testing
from Tyuratam since October 1972. Two versions of
the missile are being tested. Development of an
SS-X-18 with a single re-entry vehicle could be com-
pleted by late 1974 or early 1975. Unless the test
program for the MIRV version, which is equipped with
at least six re-entry vehicles, is accelerated, at
least another year of testing probably will be re-
quired before it becomes operational.
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The Soviets are continuing to make steady prog-
ress in building the two Kiev-class aircraft carriers
at Nikolayev, on the Black Sea0
a
surface-to-air missile launcher .has been installed
on the carrier that the Soviets began .building -first.
In addition, an electronics dome and_a fire-control
radar were seen on its superstructure for the first
time, Additional hull plating. has been added to the
second carrier. This ship is now about 600 feet
long; the first carrier Measures about 900 feet6
Kiev-class carriers will probably carry a mix
of 30 to 40 helicopters and vertical and short take-
off-and-landing aircraft. They will be armed with
surface-to-air missile launchers, antisubmarine
rocket launchers, and perhaps torpedoes. The first
carrier will probably be operational by .1976.
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EC-US-URANIUM
European Community officials are concerned
that the Community may be discriminated against
if allocation of US uranium enrichment services
becomes necessary. EC Commission Vice President
Soames is particularly worried about the political
significance of the US decision to supply enriched
uranium to Egypt and Israel when there were out-
standing requests from "long-standing satisfactory
customers" in the EC.
Some Community officials concede that EC cus-
tomers were tardy in submitting contract requests
to meet the deadline of June 30 for US services
on reactors going into operation from 1978 to 1982.
They nevertheless have implied that the US signed
the provisional contracts with Egypt and Israel when
it was refusing to sign contracts with EC customers.
The Commission, which is the statutory middle-
man in contracting for enrichment services for EC
members, is clearly worried about meeting future
Community energy needs and also presumably fears a
new debate over the reliability of the US as a sup-
plier.
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GOLD
The price of gold dropped $6 to $137 an ounce
yesterday, its lowest level in five months. Gold
dealers, who expected the present two-week-old trend
to stabilize at $140 an ounce, now appear resigned
to prices of $130 or less. They blame the decline
on reduced demand.
Soaring interest rates make holding gold very
expensive; interest rates for short-term Eurocurren-
cies exceeded 16 percent last month. Speculators
who borrowed to buy gold at previously attractive
prices are now selling the metal to avoid losses.
South Africa has kept its gold sales at an even
level this year. It could decide to slow its sales
and thus maintain some minimum gold prices, but such
action would be in the face of its rising needs for
foreign exchange.
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France:
Iran-USSR: Iran is threatening to double the
price of the natural gas it exports to the Soviet
Union Negotiations between the two have broken down;
the Iranians supply nearly 350 billion cubic feet of
gas to the USSR annually and are in a strong bargain-
ing position. In addition, Tehran has notified the
Soviets and West Germans that it will not take part
in discussions on exports of gas from Iran to the
USSR and from the USSR to West Germany. Trilateral
talks on ways to increase these exports were to begin
Monday.
USSR-Al?eria: The USSR has recently reinstated
arms deliveries to Algeria as part of an effort to
improve its position among Arab states./
//Soviet Defense Minister Grechko visited
Algiers in late May, but no new military agreement
was announced. The USSR is Algeria's main arms sup-
plier, however, and a $100-million military credit
extended by Moscow in early 1971 has not been drawn
on extensively.(
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