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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01594A000100030029-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 8, 2005
• Content Type: REPORT

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA, H~iNGARY, MONGOLIA, POLAND, ROMANIA, AND THE USSR..
-HAS NOT INCREASED BEYOND THE ORIGINAL EIGHT ?-BULGARIA, CUBA,,
SPACE IN AUGUST 1968, T}(E NUM~3ER Off' SIGNATORIES 70 THE. PROPOSAL
1. SINCE THE USSR FIF~5T AIRED ITS INTERSPUTNIK PROPOSAL
AT T}}E UN CONFERENCE ON EXPLORATION AND PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER
AT THAT TIME, THE USSR EXTENI3ED INVITATION TO MEMBERSHIP IN
INTERSPUTNIK TO ALL NATTONS RUT HAS NOT YET PUSHED VERY HARD
FOR NEW CUSTOMERS. ~ ,
1967 IN AN ATTEMPT TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR AND FORMALIZE THE
CSOME"PUBLICIZED AND OTHERS UNANNOUNCED) HAVE BEEN HELD SINCE
2. AT LEAST FIVE INTERSPUTNIK WORKING GROUP CONFERENCES
INTERSPUTNIK ORGANIZATION.. T}dE MOST RECENT OF THESE
WORKING GROUP MEETINGS WAS HELD IN }3UCHAREST FROM 16-20
FEBRUARY 1971 CSOURCE: BUCHAREST DOMESTIC BROADCAST
SERVICE, 20 FEBRUARY 1871).- AMONG THE ATTENDEES WAS
PROFESSOR ALEXANDRU SPATARU, ROMANIA'S DIRECTOR OF THE
STATE COMMITTEE FOR SPACE ACTIVITIES WHO STATED THAT "SOME
CBUT~ NOT MUCH) PROGRESS WAS MADE TO DRAW UP AN AGREEMENT"
AND ALSO THAT "INTERSPUTNIK IS STILL ONLY AN IDEA AND NO
HARDWARE EXISTS, .NOT EVEN ON THE DRAWING BOARD." CSOURCEs
INGOMING STATE AIRGRAM, A ?83, BUCHAREST, 2 APRIL 1971,
SECRET). THE REPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE TO DATA SUPPORTS
SPATARU'S STATEMENTS, ALTHOUGH OUR ABILITY TO DETECT'WHAT
IS ON THE DRAWINCa BOARD IS LIMITED.
3. CURRENTLY, INTERSPUTNIK'S ONLY CONCRETE CLAIM TO
INTERNATIONAL STATUS IS THE FACT THAT THE USSR HAS BUILT AN
ORBITA CTVMRECEIVE ONLY) STATION FOR MONGOLIA AT ULAN BATOR.
SERVICE ~I.E., CAPABLE OF HANDLING MULTICHANNEL COMMU~iI1ATIONS
FORMALIZED A PROMISE MADE IN 19 65 TO PROVIDE CUBA WITH A FULL
FOR OTHER INTERSPUTNIK SIGNATORIES, SOVIET EFFORTS THUS FAR
HAVE BEEN CONFINED TO PROMISES. IN JANUARY- 1970, THE USSR
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AS WELL AS TV) GROUND STATION. CSOURCEs HAVANA DOMESTIC
i3ROADCAST SERVICE, 9 JANUAR'j 197U) ? IN MARCH 1970, AN AGREEMENT
WAS SIGNED UNDER WHICH THE SOVIET UNION IS C0~1i~ITTED TO PROVIDE
CZECHOSLOVAKIA WITH AN ORBITA STATION CSOURCEs 8BC BASED ON
PRAGUE CTK PRESS RELEASE 15 MARCH 1970). IN A FURTHER
AGREEMENT, ANNOUNCED IN JULY 1970, THE USSR PROMISED TO BUILD.:
A FULL SERVICE GROUND STATION IN BULGARIA FOR USE WITH THE
INTERSPUTNIK SYSTEM CSQURCE TASS PRESS RELEASE, S .IDLY i97O).
THUS FAR THERE.i5 NO EVIDENCE ,THAT ACTUAL GONSTRU.CTION HASH
BEEN STARTED ON GROUND STATIONS IN?CUBA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
OR BULGARIA?
4. IT IS LIKELY THAT THE USSR NOW, VIEWS INTERSPUTNIK
MORE AS A REGIONAL SYSTEM 'THAN A5 A COMPETITOR WISH INTELSAT'
FOR WORLDWIDE COVERAGE. `ALTHOUGH INTERSPUTNIK IS STILL ONLY
A PAPER ORGANIZATION', ITS EXISTENCE PROBABLY RESTRAINS THE
COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ALLIED, WITH THE USSSR FROM, SEE KING MEMBERSHIP:
IN INTELSAT WHILE AT THE-SAME TIME PROVIDING THE U55R WITH A
DIPLOr1ATIC BARGAINING COUNTER IN ANY DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS THAT
h1AY I~VOLVI~ Wl'1'lt IN~'G:LSA'1' ?
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