MONTHLY REPORT, JUNE 1959

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: July 1, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. 64 660611r,
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OfficeS . Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Industrial Division
FROM : Chief, Guided Missile Branch
Monthly Report, June 1959
1959
1. Support to Other Agencies and C orients:
a. With the assistance of Ch/E and Acting Chief, D/I, a
limited distribution paper (8-473) was prepared for
the DD/I analyzing the implications of certain recent
remarks made by Khrushchev concerning the Soviet guided
missile program.
b. A paper prepared in OSI stating the CIA position on the
organization and control of the Soviet guided missile
program was substantially revised (S-I74) and forwarded
to the DCI jointly by AD/RR and AD/SI for transmittal
to the Senate Armed Services Committee in reply to a
request from the Committee.
25X1A9a will comprise the I/am
-- -- replaced s the ORR representative on the
DD/P Guided Missile Task Force.
d. (I/GM and
25X1 A8a departed in mid-June for 25X1 A6a
respectively, to provide direct support and guidance to
the intelligence exploitation programs concerned with
25X1A9a in I/GM prior to their departure. In addition,
(I/GM) spent several days at another
a enc re ring material of direct assistance to
25X1A9a and in identifying and25X1 A6a
25X1A2g
has been designated as the senior /1rX,AA
e. I/GM support to EE Division, DD/P during the month
included preparation of a detailed statement on guided
missile intelligence collection targets throughout
Poland; a series of conferences with an EE case officer
regarding 25X1 C10b
and preparation special evaluation othe series
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of bi-weekly reports from initiated
largely at the request of I GM, on missile deployment
in the European Satellites.
f. A series of regular weekly meetings was started in June
between Chief, GMD/OSI, Chief, I/GM and senior members
of both organizations to exchange views and improve
coordination on the growing number of major substantive
problems affecting the research of both offices. Among
the topics discussed at the first two such meetings
were means of improving the guided missile collection
effort; the broad outlines of the CIA contributions to
NIE 11-8-59 and 11-5-59, as well as the relationship
between the two estimates; and exploration of a common
ORR/OSI approach on implementing the practice of CIA
and ATIC analysts exchanging views in accordance with
recent CIA-ATIC agreements.
g. Members of I/GM met with Major Likens of ACSI and
interested OCI observers to review in detail the basis
for the I/GM critique of the ACSI paper on Soviet missile
deployment in East Germany published by the Special
USIB Committee on the Berlin Situation. Although
Major Likens was not prepared to alter his interpreta-
tions of the evidence considered by ACSI in preparing
the original paper, it was demonstrated to him that
additional evidence was available which cast doubt on
some of these interpretations.
h. Chief, I/GM participated in a meeting chaired by the
DD/I to discuss coordination of the intelligence
community's requirements for the Vice President's forth-
coming visit to the USSR.
25X1X7 i. Chief, I /GM represented ORR at a meeting between
and representatives
of the Board of National Estimates and OSI, at which
25X1 Aga outlined his current views on the Soviet ICBM ;/
program. These views will be circulated for further
comment in written form in the near future, and will
be available to the office for detailed examination.
2. Status of Projects:
a. By virtue of several hundred hours of overtime during
the past few weeks, the detailed analytical and computa-
tional work required for thecbterrent vs. strike force
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analysis in the I/GM contribution to NIE 11-8-59
(Project No. 30.2603) has now been completed.
Preparation of the final draft of the contribution is
currently underway. Coordination with J-2 Intelli-
gence Directorate/JCS was successfully concluded with
the receipt by I/GM of JCS targeting data requested
through AD/NE. Informal coordination meetings were
also held with ONI and ACSI/Army, and the basic
methodology for the estimate was discussed with
personnel of the
25X1 Asa 1
A representative or Has also
been a regular visitor during most of the basic
research and compilation of material for the project.
b. Final revisions are now being made in Project No.
37.3, "Collection of Planning Data on Soviet Guided
Missile Program".. and Project No. 30.2 457, ff-A Target
Study of the Istra Surface-to-Air Guided Missile
Su ort Facility", following review by Acting Chief,
D/ I.
c. Recommendations with respect to a number of other
pending I/GM projects have been made in the past two
days in discussions with SA, D/I.
25X1A5a1
a. Chief, I/GM, will participate in a meeting on 9 July
between the DD/I and General Samford, Director, NSA
at which it is hoped that the latter will outline
the measures to be taken by NSA to improve substan-
tially its capability to provide data of key importance
to the I/GM research effort.
b. The staff study proposing reorganization and augmenta-
tion of I/GM has now been revised to take into account
25X1A2g Project and is ready for submission to Ch/E
and AD/RR for final approval.
25X1A9a
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