ANALYSIS OF PHOTOGRAPHS PURPORTING TO SHOW SOVIET ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS
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CIA-RDP83-00423R001700740005-7
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 19, 1999
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5
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Publication Date:
January 14, 1955
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REPORT
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INFORMA ION
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la material contains information affecting the
itiptill Dehnse of the United States within the
mkiningiettpiae:33;age Laws, Title 18, U.S. C.
Secs. 7987atid74 ' trhyssmission or revelation
of whgli9;4ri iiiiania004,6 an unauthorized per-
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REPORT q,
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REPORT NO.
SUBJECT
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few days ago.
happened uince,
Dec 54) issue of the London
page they published a picture
or explanations ss to the
picture is the picture of
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compere both az there is
one after another Oiled
same air atomic explosion.
the question - 40ther
riddle in the following
some of their explosion
this weapon.
but published ce picture
415 Dec 54 _
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with pictures of the
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whicA I want to inform you
Communist paper
of an atomic eplosion,
origin of their picture.
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the series 'air atomic.
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no doubt that they are
Star' picture first, 'Daily
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Ma wanted only to give. a Ulas, not to *pieai their news
why 'Daily Worker' did not comment at all on this picture.
cannot boast about their bombs too much - *specially here because
it uvula affect their peace propaganda.
*Int on the other band they want to Aligai ask eigengz. Lspecially
now after Moscow conference or soviet orbit leaders against German
reZasamat. so they send these pictures to be published.
*Gtheruise it would be inconceivable bat the same exp1osion is pictured
in August in Moscow 'Red Star' and in December in the Crassprit t thiuy
in !Anion.
This is not a coincidence?but the result or the fact that they
released for publication the pictures of this given air explosionimade
in USSR - amd they foumd their way through the Soviet picture agency
to both these Communist papers.
2. In a anbeequent communication 56 Dec 547, stated that the pictures
var. 3
a.
Not over any Central Asiatic desert
b. Possibly over flat northern tundra t.rritor inland
a. Possibly over an island or coastal territory on the soviet arctic.
IMIttated furtherthat he leaned to the third possibility as the
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gn"file in CIA Library are two photographs, nne of which appeared
in the Red Army publication, Red Star, August 1954, the other appeared
in the London Daily Worker, December 1954
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