SUMMARY OF THE WORLD SITUATION AT THE END OF 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01048A000100020001-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 2, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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AT THE
Us have demonatrated, their
military machine awing
to their aabi. to
the en losiv+e
t Of
.bly the superiors of their
nuclear teats ela
of their sub i
yield
it air force the Soviets have
In the field of gmided ale
litr that they are
and production of weapons with ranges of about 700
that they are a mar or two ahead in
d intercontinental (550o mile) 1
n installed
aro
building program continues at forced
inc
year to their fleet more than 70 long-range
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States. The USSR also appe
hat the Soviets hi
Taken as a
to. inflict massive
ehich will give
and l
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evidenced by
try. If present
a much hider proportion of it
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inactivating any signif
itary program appears
goals
be adapting its forces and its train
if in the next decade,, but it is
;uip nt and construct:
lion now measures four-fifths as Iar,
ould wel
vs gear Plan; a extra ly sabitio
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greater emphasis to the
fe yea".
c e ne.
a of surprise
us, its over-all
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,, but these problem are raither
of solution as to be 11W y to
its conduct of foreign policy
able that t,
assidi
the Soviets have been
generally tkwo
veloping in that of try
few years their schools and lleges ha
:t rates up to double
not only by actual at
h as the huge 37#000 ton particle accelerator, &
vor3d, to be completed next
February a
lold
In for
ility
decisions on a
but
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ob ja tiv.s. Separate items of
ro the essential
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Objectives
to or
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t a propitious ent,
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even if, as the intelligence Commity
regards guwrasl ear an a f
objectives, the t
d by the
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lm are- substanUal concessions or
an the increasing
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of its abili
of scientific and technical and economic resources are
r+ `cti on is the but and Is bound
absorb the
its of mrW
slightly O le
and other indu trig
ret for future PVwn
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of theSi
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her donor Coloaho powers that
6.ttsd world are r" ti
to the umdet-develVed
Ott of orientation
c. There is no question but that given is
f in
been pulled back s ligh
t year in many significant
; others are subtle
ld, Som, of these are 6
that abut war would be a f1m] disaster for tez
will topaq
soh staunch people an
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or
dubious
but
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prob.
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of w3 tr totSU
of SOVI*t straog#.h
not be taken in t a, re at* an a bi
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of ph
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by the bulk of =RWdAd
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