SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANELS

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General CIA Records

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CIA-RDP71R00140A000100080039-6

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December 9, 2016

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December 2, 2000

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October 11, 1966

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Approved For Releas2001/08/28 : C 1 00140A000'f080039-6 11 October 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Duckett SUBJECT: Scientific Advisory Panels 1. The Strategic Weapons Intelligence Panel under Pat Hyland is charged with reviewing our evidence and evaluations of both offensive and defensive capabilities primarily in the USSR, but also in China. Their classical concern has been the ICBM and bomber strength problem. More recently, they have broadened into the ABM and sub- marine threat arena. The membership of this Panel is selected by the DCI. There are now three military members-- one from each service, four industrialists, a nuclear weapon design man, and three academic people. 2. The Space Intelligence Panel focuses almost exclusively on Soviet Space activities. It is a vigorous, inquiring group with no historical precedents or personality legacies. Its membership is all well qualified, and the Chairman, Dr. Ramo, is unusually effective. This group is self-propelled and serves as a useful sounding board for our space estimates and the difficult projection of the apparent Soviet program. 3. The Nuclear Intelligence Panel has its roots in the traditional Webster Panel which was charged (by Mr. Dulles) primarily with certifying the OSI estimates of production levels for fissionable materials. When we reorganized it one year ago, we brought in some of the weapons design experts from the Bethe Panel, which had previously reported only to - on weapon test evaluations. With our enlarged group, we cover both production and weapons, for which the DCI is charged with key judgments. Of late they have concentrated equally on the USSR and China. It is an orderly way to bring outside expertise Approved For Release 20$TCIA-RDP71 R00140A000100080039-6 Approved For Relearn 2001/08/28 : CI Ej OO140A000't0080039-6 to bear on the nuclear problem and represents an important insurance of our own judgments, which tend to dominate the Community for lack of a qualified nuclear group elsewhere than OSI. 4. These panels meet at least twice a year; usually in Washington, but occasionally on the West Coast. They consider themselves as advisors to the DCI and meet with him each time they gather in Washington. This provides a good opportunity for the Director and the Agency to promote cordial relations with an influential cross section of the technical community, over and above the value they have for us all as independent insurance and professional stimulation. Approved For Release 2001/08/28 : M 1R00140A000100080039-6 Approved For Rel 2001/08/28: CIMMEIZ00140AO 0080039-6 Space Intelligence Panel Members Chairman, Dr. Simon Ramo Bunker-Ramo Corporation Professor H. Guyford Stever President Carnegie Institute of Technology Dr. Joseph F. Shea Program Manager Apollo Spacecraft Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA Dr. Raymond Lewis Bisplinghoff Special Assistant to Mr. Webb Dr. William H. Pickering Director Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dr. Werner Kirchner Aerojet General Corp. Brig. Gen. Harry Evans Vice Director, MOL Program Dr. Benjamin P. Blasingame General Motors A. C. Electronics Division General Motors Corp. Dr. Allen F. Donovan Senior Vice President/ Technical Aerospace Corporation Mr. Harold B. Finger Manager, Space Nuclear Propulsion Office Atomic Energy Commission SECRET Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1968 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1968 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1968 Approved For Release 2001/08/28 : CIA-RDP71R00140A000100080039-6 Approved For Relea 2001/08/28 : Cl 1jR00140A00 0080039-6 OR Nuclear Intelligence Panel Members Chairman, Mr. Louis H. Roddis, Jr. President, Pennsylvania Electric Company Lt. Gen. H. C. Donnelly Defense Atomic Support Agency Mr. William Webster President, New England Electric System Dr. Willard F. Libby Professor of Geophysics and Chemistry University of California at Los Angeles Dr. Roger E. Batzel Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad General Motors Corporation Dr. William E. Ogle Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Mr. Harold B. Finger Manager, Space and Nuclear Propulsion Office Atomic Energy Commission Mr. Hood Worthington E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company Dr. Hans A. Bethe Cornell University Mr. Paul R. Vanstrum Union Carbide Corporation Technical Division Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1968 Dr. Eugene Eyster Appointment expires Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory December 1968 Approved For Release 2001/08/28: CISE IR00140A000100080039-6 Approved For Rele a 2001/08/28: 011R00140A008*00080039-6 Strategic Weapons Intelligence Panel Members Chairman, Dr. Lawrence A. Hyland Vice President and General Manager Hughes Aircraft Company Dr. Carl Haussmann Lawrence Radiation Laboratory University of California Dr. Ruben F. Mettler, President Thompson, Ramo, Wooldridge Systems Group Dr. George Kistiakowsky Harvard University Mr. Clarence Johnson Vice President, Advanced Projects Division Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Dr. Wolfgang Panofsky Stanford University Lt. General Waymond Davis Vice Commander, AFSC Andrews Air Force Base Rear Admiral Levering Smith Director, Special Projects Department of the Navy Lt. General Austin W. Betts Office of Research and Development, Army Dr. Charles Draper Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Werner Kirchner Aerojet General Corporation Appointment expires November 1967 Appointment expires November 1968 Appointment expires November 1966 Appointment expires November 1966 Appointment expires November 1967 Appointment expires November 1968 Appointment expires November 1967 Appointment expires November 1966 Appointment expires November 1968 Appointment expires November 1967 Appointment expires November 1968 r~ Approved For Release 2001 /08/2F1~ bP71 R00140A000100080039-6

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