MISSILE GAP IS LAID TO SHIFTS IN INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700440016-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 26, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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The "missile gaprastpa wry, the estimate was
bouncing back into this alit, said 8n4tor.ttitl
tadas+ on a Senator's statement Then Senator SYni ;
genes Agency.
A Cabinet member agreed, in
effect. and said those'. who
talked of such a gap in 1964
did so In good faith.
In the 1964 presidential cam-
paign. Democrats charged the
$senhower administration had
permitted Soviet Russia to open
. a .,wide gap, hi nuclear missile
4tl ength.
. I*st yeah.%fter President
kennedy took,-office. the "mis-
tile' tap". sently vanished
and this brought Republican
counter charges .that Demo-
crats deliberately misrepresent=
ed 'facts` ane, eteated the
"missile gala" out of vbo$e
A'published'yolume of hear-
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iced; 0ommittee Included testt-
iii tly Secretary of Defense
MoNama$. lie was explaining
why he'pow le+lrea the United
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