THE AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL REPORT

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CIA-RDP70B00338R000300090112-2
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December 19, 2016
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January 9, 2006
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112
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January 10, 1967
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Approved For-Release ?2A06/01/30- GIA-RDP7OB00 38R9O0300090112-2 RADIO TV R1=.PORTS, INC. 3333 CONNECTICUT AVE., N.W., WASHINGTON, 0. C. 80008, WOOd6EY 8-6300 PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF PROGRAM The American Security STATION WMAL Radio Council Report DATE January 10, 1.967. 6135 PM CITY Washington.* DC AQw FULL TEXT I- l-- -+-^.. SENATOR THOMAS DODD: "The Department of Defense has in recent weeks-made public two items of Intelligence which, taken together, have the gravest implications for our national recur-. ity, and, indeed, for our ability to survive asa nation. "First of all, it was revealed that the Soviets are much further along in. the construction of an anti-missile defense system than previous official estimates had indicated. "It is reported that anti-mis defenses are various stages of construction around some 20 Soviet cities, and that the Soviets are growing in debt of h defenses across the maj.or? approach routes, which American missiles will have to take. "It is estimated that this system will be operational. within the year. "Second, the Pentagongs new intelligence estimates indicate that the Soviets have been building and installing interco.n.ti.nen.tal ballistic 'missiles, most of them in concrete silos, at a much faster rate than had-been considered possi.bl.e a year, or two ago, It is now estimated that the Soviets have from 400 to 500 ICB.M's against approximately 1,000 for the Uqlted,States, and that they're moving rapidly toward parity in n.umbers. "This becomes all the more serious, because i,t is generally conceded. that the average Soviet ICBM carries a much more powerful. N Approved For Release 2006/01/30 :"',0J 0DP70B00338R000300090112-2 :..-Approve elease. 2006/ J.30 C4A-RDRT0B00338R .nuclear warhead than do today's American missiles. 'The American. missile force has been looked upon as a deter- rent to the possibility of a thermonuclear attack by the Soviet Union. "Because such an attack would inevitably destroy a large percentage of our missiles before they could get off the ground, it has been considered essential. to the United States to maintain a very substantial numerical lead in intercontinental missiles, s.o. that the.Kremlin would know that even if they hit us with a sneak attack, we would still have enough missiles left to inflict devastating damage on the Soviet Union. "But now we are in the danger of losing this numerical ad- vantage. "No one, not even the Russians, can, know for certain just how effective their anti-missile defense system will be against a saturation attack by American missiles equipped with decoys and other penetration aids. "It has been estimated that an: anti.-.missile defense system., comparable in magnitude to the one now being installed in the Soviet Union, would cost the United States 30 billion. dollars, or more. "And I simply cannot conceive of the Soviet leaders spending this kind of money on. erecting a defense system, if they did not have substantial. evidence that this system would effectively cope with an American nuclear counterattack; or at least limit the damage done by it." Approved For Release 2006/01/30 : CIA-RDP70B00338R000300090112-2