CONTRIBUTION ON SA-5 MISSILE FOR NIE 11-4-60

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00961A001100050005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 28, 1960
• Content Type: MF

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28 September 19
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Guided Missile and Astronautics
Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT : Contribution on SA-5 Missile for NIE 11-4+-60
As requested in your memorandum of 26 August 1960, the following
proposed rewording of paragraph 45 of NIE 11-l-60, Annex A, is submitted
for consideration at the GMAIC Meeting scheduled for 6 and 7 October:
1.5. We believe that the USSR has an active and high priority
program in the field of warning and defense against ballistic missiles,
though it does not have now a defense capability against ballistic
missiles of any type. The program probably includes the development of
many components including detection radars, possible space surveillance
systems, tracking radars, guidance systems for an antiballistic missile
and its warhead or other kill mechanisms, communications systems, and
data processing equipment as well as the missile itself. The Soviets
are probably now conducting tests on some of the component parts of an
antiballistic missile. We believe that their initial flight tests of
antiballistic missiles will probably be against medium or shorter range
ballistic missiles, to be followed as soon as practicable by flight
tests against an ICBM. Considering such evidence as we have on their
effort together with general Soviet capabilities in related technical
fields, we continue to estimate that in the 1963-1966 period the USSR
could have an antiballistic missile missile system with;, undetermined
effectiveness for use against ICBMs. We believe the Soviets could
have an Anl -THBM-j ssile system operational during the early portion
of the 1963-1966 ime they so desired. The USSR is probably
also a un onventional techniques for active defense against
ballistic missile . We cannot predict the nature or success of such
studies."
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