NIGHT LEAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65B00383R000100270029-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: OPEN

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FALL*____HE_OFFERED TO DISCUSS THIS IN CLOSED SESSION.
EARTH ABOUT WHICH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TOLD NOTHING.
GEORGE L. SIMPSON JR., AN ASSISTANT SPACE AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR,
ALSO SAID INFORMATION KNOWN TO THIS GOVERNMENT ABOUT SOVIET FAILURES,
ORDINARILY IS SECRET.
. HE CONCEDED THAT IT IS THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE UNDER THE EXISTING
REPORTING SYSTEM FOR A LAUNCH OR FAILURE ACTUALLY ANNOUNCED BY
RUSSIA TO BE WITHHELD FROM PUBLICATION IN THIS GOVERNMENT'S
WEEKLY "SATELLITE SITUATION REPORT."
TESTIFYING AT AN OPEN SESSION OF A HOUSE INFORMATION
SUBCOMMITTEE, SIMPSON DECLINED TO SAY WHETHER HE HAS INFORMATION OF
.ABORTIVE RUSSIAN SPACE EFFORTS OTHER THAN SIX WHICH WERE PUBLICLY
REPORTED BY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE AGENCY (NASA) LAST
WASHINGTON, MAY 23 (UPI)--A SPACE AGENCY OFFICIAL CONCEDED TODAY
THERE COULD BE "A WHOLE FLOCK" OF RUSSTtN SATELLITES ORBITING THE
UPI A 123N NIGHT LEAD INFORMATION
BY FRANK ELEAZER
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
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??.IES SIR*" SIMPSON CONCEDED. ----___~
AS FOR RUSSIAN FAILURES, SIMPSON SAID HE IS NOT SURE EVEN HE
GETS ALL THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE, BUT THAT HE IS
CONFIDENT OTHER NASA OFFICIALS MORE DIRECTLY CONCERNED.. ARE AS,
FULLY INFORMED AS ANYBODY IN GOVERNMENT.
HE REPRODUCED ON A SCREEN FOR SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS A.PAGE OF THE
MOST RECENT REPORTS IT SHOWED A NUMBER OF RUSSIAN OBJECTS IN SPACE.
. REP. PORTER HARDY JR., D-VA., ASKED WHETHER THIS MEANT THAT THAT
WAS ALL THE RUSSIAN SPACE OBJECTS THERE WERE. SIMPSON SAID IT MEANT
THAT THIS WAS ALL THERE WERE THAT HAD BEEN REPORTED TO NASA BY.THE.
DEFENSE, DEPARTMENT ON A NON-SECRET BASIS.
?'S0 THERE_MAY . BE A WH_ OLE F.LO.C..K_.OF OTHER . SOVIET.__LAUNCHE.S_..IN THAT
SAME=I'' EN' T T=
U ABOUT3" HARDY DEMANDED.
CHARACTERISTICS, BROADCAST FREQUENCIES, AND OTHER INFORMATION.
REPORT THAT IS SUPPOSED TO LIST ALL OBJECTS IN SPACE, ALONG WITH THEIR'
S IMPSON' S TESTIMONY BROUGHT HIM UNDER SHARP ATTACK BY SUB-
COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THEY QUESTIONED WHETHER TAXPAYERS COULD BE
EXPECTED TO PUT UP BILLIONS OF DOLLARS YEARLY FOR SPACE WORK
WITHOUT KNOWING HOW THIS COUNTRY STANDS IN THE FIELD IN RELATION TO
RUSSIA.
AMONG HIS OTHER DUTIES& SIMPSON PUBLISHES A WEEKLY NON-SECRET
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