SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANELS

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General CIA Records

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CIA-RDP71R00140A000100080040-4

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November 17, 2016

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July 27, 2000

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October 11, 1966

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Approved For Release 2e00/08/26 SEcRP"71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 11 October 1966 SUBJECT: Scientific Advisory Panels 25X1A 1. The Strategic Weapons Intelligence Panel under is charged with reviewing our evidence and evaluations of both offensive and defensive capabilities primarily in the USSR, but also in China. Their classical concern has been the ICBM and bomber strength problem. More recently, they have broadened into the ABM and sub- marine threat arena. The membership of this Panel is selected by the DCL There are now three military members-- one from each service, four industrialists, a nuclear weapon design man, and three academic people. 2. The Space Intelligence Panel focuses almost exclusively on Soviet Space activities. It is a vigorous, inquiring group with no historical precedents or personality legacies. Its membership is all well qualified, and the Chairman, Dr. Ramo, is unusually effective. This group is self-propelled and serves as a useful sounding board for our space estimates and the difficult projection of the apparent Soviet program. 3. The Nuclear Intelligence Panel has its roots in the traditional Webster Panel which was charged (by Mr. Dulles) primarily with certifying the OSI estimates of production levels for fissionable materials. When we reorganized it one year ago, we brought in some of the weapons design experts from 25X1A the Bethe Panel, which had previously reported only to- on weapon test evaluations. With our enlarged group, we cover both production and weapons, for which the DCI is charged with key judgments. Of late they have concentrated equally on. the USSR and China. It is an orderly way to bring outside expertise Approved For Release 2000/08/2=RDP71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/26 c P71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 **W -awr to bear on the nuclear problem and represents an important insurance of our own judgments, which tend to dominate the Community for lack of a qualified nuclear group elsewhere than OSI. 4. These panels meet at least twice a year; usually in Washington, but occasionally on the West Coast. They consider themselves as advisors to the DCI and meet with him each time they gather in Washington. This provides a good opportunity for the Director and the Agency to promote cordial relations with an influential cross section of the technical community, over and above the value they have for us all as independent insurance and professional stimulation. 25X1A t%rC Approved For Release 2000/08/19 XLRDP71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 Approved For Releas1000/08/26: L071 8001400100080040-4 Strategic Weapons Intelligence Panel Members 25X1 A Chairman, Appointment expires Vice President and General Manager November 1967 Hughes Aircraft Company Dr. Carl Haussmann Appointment expires Lawrence Radiation Laboratory November 1968 University of California Dr. Ruben F. Mettler, President Appointment expires Thompson, Ramo, Wooldridge Systems Group November 1966 Dr. George Kistiakowsky Appointment expires Harvard University November 1966 Mr. Clarence Johnson Appointment expires Vice President, Advanced Projects Division November 1967 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Dr. Wolfgang Panofsky Appointment expires Stanford University November 1968 Lt. General Waymond Davis Appointment expires Vice Commander, AFSC November 1967 Andrews Air Force Base Rear Admiral Levering Smith Appointment expires Director, Special Projects November 1966 Department of the Navy Lt. General Austin W. Betts Office of Research and Development, Army Dr. Charles Draper Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Werner Kirchner Aerojet General Corporation Appointment expires November 1968 Appointment expires November 1967 Appointment expires November 1968 ri-q)L.. Approved For Release 2000/08/28 r&WADP71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 Approved For Relea9W2000/08/26: C1 lPV1 R00140 00100080040-4 Nuclear Intelligence Panel Members Chairman, Mr. Louis H. Roddis, Jr. President, Pennsylvania Electric Company Lt. Gen. H. C. Donnelly Defense Atomic Support Agency Mr. William Webster President, New England Electric System Dr. Willard F. Libby Professor of Geophysics and Chemistry University of California at Los Angeles Dr. Roger E. Batzel Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad General Motors Corporation )r. William E. Ogle Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Mr. Harold B. Finger Manager, Space and Nuclear Propulsion Office Atomic Energy Commission Mr. Hood Worthington E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company :Dr. Hans A. Bethe Cornell University Mr. Paul R. Vanstrum Union Carbide Corporation Technical Division Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1969 Appointment expires December 1968 'Appointment expires December 1967 Appointment expires December 1968 Appointment expires December 1968 Dr. Eugene Eyster Appointment expires Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory December 1968 Approved For Release 2000/08/26 : Cl$k1 R001 40A0001 00080040-4 N Approved For Relea9e'2000/08/26 : CIA 1 R0014t001 00080040-4 Space Intelligence Panel Members Chairman, Dr. Simon Ramo Bunker-Ramo Corporation Professor H. Guyford Stever President Carnegie Institute of Technology :fir. Joseph F. Shea Program Manager Apollo Spacecraft Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA Dr. Raymond Lewis Bisplinghoff Special Assistant to Mr. Webb Dr. William H. Pickering Director Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dr. Werner Kirchner Aerojet General Corp. Brig. Gen. Harry Evans Vice Director, MOL Program Dr. Benjamin P. Blasingame General Motors A. C. Electronics Division General Motors Corp. Dr. Allen F. Donovan Senior Vice President/Technical Aerospace Corporation Mr. Harold B. Finger Manager, Space Nuclear Propulsion Office Atomic Energy Commission Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1968 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1967 Appointment expires September 1968 Appointment expires September 1969 Appointment expires September 1968 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/26 : CIA-RDP71 R001 40A0001 00080040-4

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