SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE DIGEST -- SOVIET UNION: SOVIETS CONCEAL LAUNCH POINT OF SATELLITES BY UNDERSTATING NUMBER OF SPUTNIK REVOLUTIONS AROUND EARTH

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: USSR
• Keywords: SOVIET UNION
• Keywords: SATELLITES
• Keywords: SPUTNIK
• Keywords: LAUNCH
• Keywords: EARTH
• Keywords: POINT
• Collection: Intelligence Warning of the 1957 Launch of Sputnik
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0000124244
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 22, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2017
• Case Number: F-1990-01132
• Publication Date: July 14, 1958

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE DIGEST
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
14 July 1958
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SOVIET UNION
2 Soviets Conce.1 Launch Point of Satellites by
Understating Number of-Sputnik Revolutions
Around Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
14 July 58
 Number of Earth
Revolutions
Time (Z)
Soviet Report
Actual
Sputnik 1
b October 1957
0900
22
23
Sputnik II
3 November 1957
1500
6
7
Sputnik III
15 May 1957
1700