LETTER TO HONORABLE MAURICE H. STANS FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 7, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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Zonorabi. Maurice R. Stan*
Directory Surean of the gadget
Washington 26, D. C.
Meer Nr. Stan.:
25X1
This letter and the attached table are in response to
your request to as on 26 August for information relating
to the reductions in Soviet Military maapower.
f n,
AUG 1
The Soviet plan to reduce military manpover by
1,200,000 men (announced by Whrushohev on 14 January 1940)
appears not to have been obanged by the heightening of
tensions since May 1940. We believe that, barring a
domestic or international crisis of serious proportions,
the announced program will substantially be carried out.
While es are fairly confident that an overall re-
duction on the order of 1,200,000 men will be carried out,
wig Are far less certain of how this reduction eill be
llocated among various elements of the armed forces.
The attached table contains our present estimate of this
ocation, but it must be considered as more than usually
tative.
We do not believe that the manpower outs indicate a
corresponding diminution in Soviet military strength or
capabilities, or in the total effort and remources which
the Soviets will devote to military purposes. Mather,
they reflect the accelerated adaptation of the Soviet
armed forces to new military technologies, principally
these relating to nuclear 'weapons and missiles, and to
the strategic and taotioal situation which new weapons
have produced.
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iiinistry of Defense
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* table of atiated Personnel Strengths of Soviet Armed Forces.
of personnel strengths of the various elements of the Soviet
mid-1962 is an oproximation beset on projected order of
of the tentative nature of these force projections, the
hs are more an indicator of trends and orders of maeni-
practise detailed distribution of military menpover.
sent a substantial but unknovn nueber of civilians work
-
military establisbment. There is evidence that some
funetions previous1 parte:medley military personnel have in the course
of reductions In recent years come increasiegly to be filled by civilian
employees, particularly in construction and other logistical activity.
We believe that this trend vill be intensified during current reductions
in active military personnel.
k/ Military scientific research and development in the USSR is largely con-
ducted by civilian agencies, in particuler the Academy of Sciences, the
State Committees for Defense Technology, Aviation Technelogy, Scientific
Technical netters, Radio4lectraalos, and Shipbuilding, and by the Minis-
try of Medium Macbine Building (unclear weapons). The webers of active
duty military personnel estimated here are those primarily subordinate to
the Ministry of Defame and at missile test ranges, in electronics, nu-
clear development, and aviation teebnology. Other military personnel in
R&D and allied functions are counted in other categories.
sed on his estimates of projected order of bottle, the Assistant Chief
Staff, Intelligence, USAF, believes that personnel strength
Range Aviation in mid-1962 Should be 65,000, and for these misei
forces should be 70,000.
The Assistant Chief of Naval Operatione (Intelligence), Department of the
Navy believes the estimate that such radical reductions are to take place
in the naval air forces is doubtful, Ho believes that the figure for
Novel Aviation personnel projected for 1962 Should be on the order of
65,000.
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