CAN COMMUNISTS CONTROL WEATHER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102720002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 21, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000102720002-4
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Can Communists
.Control Weather
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
and PAUL SCOTT
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WA,SHINGTON. -7 Fromthe ;,,,,Whether
Communist' half of the world. we ."`" passed on to President
Johnson could not be immediate-1
'are beginning to hear strange.
iv ascertained by this column.1
sounds, remarkably ? like the '-
rtunbie of gun carriages moving However, the "Madrid report"
arrived in Washington early on
Into place before 'a great battle Tuesday, Oct; ? or nearly
or an epic-making event. a week before the President de- 1'
The first omen of trouble is an
.intelligence report from U.S. of-
patted on his Asian trip. Coincidentally, a few vs
da lat.
ficials in Moscow '? that Soviet CL. on Friday. Oct. 14 ? Dr.,:
'scientists may be nearing human
control of weather and Wailer C4r Roberts, ? the director ?4!
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these.' reports hod
thus de-
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? of Mr National Center, for At-1
;.velopment of the ultimate
. ? mospivir1c Research. forecast.
.iveapon."
... that man would be able to ii
t? The second warning . of an
> aehle.. c ma ior control over the
ominous and - or monumental..
a Polish WV.4110 Or .111 ' :I jS century. ? .1
.....,space event is from .
In .. little - noticed talk at a :
i?iscientist attending the 17th. An- 5j('(' symposium at Carleton .;
rnual International Astronautical
? Colleze. Nort.hfield, ? Minn., Dr
[Congress in . Math id.
Robe is
In a private meeting with U.S.i?,' retorted that the key to
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"intelligence authorities, this Po-1.,? t'u. ". ''''ll''''.4 wrn 'her was the coni .
Russians were ?planning a t :large enough to duplicate the
of a ziant computer
lish scientist warned that the;:,
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designed to "electrifY the worid";-% Al'Ile he piesentcd no? infor:;.i:Into the open. ? :
.Isle.ge to bring thisnew danger
"weather ,changing" experintent!..,4"it'hoisms of weather.
illation on Soviet advances in ,???, Under ' the senator's personal'
and affect the weather in Many. '-
t? building such a .computer. Dr.t....direction, the staff of his Senate
areas of the globe.Roberts reported that the U.S.!:?.Government Operations Subcom-.
... According to this brepori from !' riii, is..)t now have one and prob-.:.t.,mittee is now gathering inform-
Madrid," the Soviet Weather., ? abi' ,viaticlift until the mid-70s.ivtion from administration sotirces:
lest will take place in late ()ctn. ':
According to Dr. Roberts sci. ;,'on the military implications of.
tier or November and might he .? ei .
.t ?i? i:c.v believe that extreme- ? ...both U.S. and. Soviet weather'
included in the space spectacular !. ly ,iti.iti wives are the "triggers