MONTHLY REPORT, AUGUST 1959

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 3, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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3 September 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Industrial Division
FROM: Chief, Guided Missile Branch
SUBJECT: Monthly Report, August 1959
1. Support to Other Agencies and Components:
a. At the request of the Special Assistant to the DD/I (Plan-
ning), the branch prepared a special study related to an
important aspect of Soviet ICBM deployment. The study,
which required a sizeable allocation of branch effort
during the month, was concurred in by other DD/I offices
and became the basis for an agreed position in the commu-
nity on this aspect of the ICBM problem.
b. Chief, I/GM briefed the DCI's ad hoc Special Consultant's
Panel ("Hyland Panel") on current evidence of Soviet ICBM
production and deployment. The briefing was prepared by
I/GM and coordinated with AFIC. This Panel was convened
to provide an independent assessment of:the status of the
Soviet ICBM program in conjunction with national estimates
now being drafted. A major conclusion of the Panel was
that the continued absence of direct evidence on ICBM pro-
duction and deployment was alarming, and intensification
of collection efforts on these aspects of the program
should be vigorously pursued with all available collection
means.
c. Branch support to ONE on NIE 11-8-59, Soviet Capabilities
for Strategic Attack through Mid-1964 (Project No. 30. 3),
continued throughout the month. The GMAIC, in accordance
with recommendations of the Hyland Panel, has now revised
its estimates of probable Soviet ICBM warhead weights, and
ICBM accuracy. This will require a new set of calculations
and findings by ORR as to probable Soviet requirements for
ICBMs. Chief, D/I has responded nobly to this challenge
and has taken the field to personally direct the effort in
this regard.
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d. Support to GMAIC in connection with NIE 11-5-59, Soviet
Capabilities in Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles Project
No. 30.2203)., included su'hmission of a contribution, co-
ordinated with Air Force, on the evidence of production of
the various Soviet missile systems considered in the
estimate. The initial contribution was also supplemented
by additional material at the request of Chairman, GMAIC.
25X1 D1a e. Meetings were held- to discuss and coordinate that
Agency's reply to a to outstanding requirement initiated
25X1 D1a by I/GM. Despitelwview that it has placed a maximum
effort on the requirement, it appears that an additional
3-6 months will be required before a formal reply will be
ready.
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Discussions were held between members of I/GM and S/TR and
is an intelligence project contracted by ATIC.
The discussions concerned Soviet rail transport capabili-
ties, rail mobility for ICBM systems, and the logistic and
operational problems related thereto.
A special collection guide on Soviet surface-to-air missile
systems was prepared at the request of DD/P and OO/C. The
guide is intended to project known information on a surface-
to air facility in East Germany into the context of SAM
deployment in the USSR. This is one of three guided
missile collection guides which are now in St/PB for pub-
lication. The increasing number of requests for collection
guidance material on guided missile production and deploy-
ment, has prompted a review of the categories of reports
now included in the ORR publication series, and has-resul-
ted in the recommendation to establish a new series
entitled "ORR Collection Guides". The new series will
provide a means of publishing in "hard cover" the priority
collection requirements of all components of ORR.
2. Status of Projects:
25X1A2g a. Project-(Project No. 37.249-) continued without
serious problems. The number of new sources is decreasing
with the approach of fall, but the number of reports
received is increasing. A highlight was the sighting of
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a possible ICBM training area in the vicinity of Dzhusaly.
This is being checked and further efforts are being made
to verify the sighting, including a special
An evaluation of the iprogram is
scheduled by 00/C for late September. It is expected that
complete statistics and evaluation will be available
shortly thereafter.
b. A number of branch projects are nearing final draft stage
and, barring major new unanticipated requests for support,
should result in a relatively heavy flow of projects from
the branch during the next several months.
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Other:
a. Work on the data sample for MINICARD processing continued
through the month of August. The data has been photographed
on individual cards and a series of sample runs have been
programmed. Repeated breakdowns of the processing equip-
ment, however, has delayed the processing. It is hoped that
the first sample runs will be available in the first week
of September.
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