REPORT OF AD HOC PANEL ON STATUS OF THE SOVIET ICBM PROGRAM (HYLAND PANEL)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000600110042-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: August 28, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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28 August 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Chief, Development Projects Division
ATTENTION : Chairman, Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
Report of Ad Hoc Panel on Status of the Soviet ICBM
Program (Hyland Panel)
Memorandum for DCI, dated 25 August 1959, from
L.A. Hyland, subject "Annex to the Report of DCI
Ad Hoc Panel on Status of the Soviet ICBM Program"
(TCS 5742-59)
1. Recently there has been a meeting of the so-called Hyland
Panel, officialy known as the Ad Hoc Panel on Status of the Soviet ICBM Program.
This is a senior technical group of men from outside the Government that meets
from time to time to advise the Guided Missile Intelligence Community and the
United States Intelligence Board. On 26 August the Panel, at the conclusion of
its three-day deliberationsImet with the USIB and presented its conclusions.
These were given in a report which was so written as not to require TALENT
classification and in the attached document which is a TALENT Annex to the
report.
2. I am passing this to you so that appropriate use may be made
of it both in the selection of CHALICE targets by the ARC and in CHALICE
operational planning. Since the report was made available to all members of
USIB, I assume that ARC members have or can obtain access to the attachment
thereof through their own offices. It may be that Mr. Reber should ascertain
from the Secretary of USIB whether any formal action was ever taken on the
recommendations. Even in the absence of such action the views of this important
group should, in my opinion, receive considerable weight in the Community.
3. As to the substance of the recommendations, the first (para-
graph 4.a, of the attachment) will merely add fuel to a fire that has been burning
brightly for four years. The second (paragraph 4.1). of the attachment) is, I
think, worthy of consideration at this time. 50X1
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With respect to the third require-
ment (paragraph 4.c, of the attachment) my conscience is clear and no action
is needed that is not already in progress.
Attachment:
Cy 26 of Reference
Distribution:
1-Mr. Reber w/att via A/C/DPD
2-AC/DPD w/o att
3-Dir. Ops w/o att via AC/DPD
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RICHARD M. BISSELL,
Deputy Director
(Plans)
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EP3Rc't
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