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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300080009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 6, 1966
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 2006/01/30: CIA-RDP70BOO33
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by itstelliger&ee estimates in 965, i3t.at we h .d x.ove: than anticipated this
cteve'.opraet'it in oux plaritn.thg. This new intelligence e6t-i.Yi.' ate, therefore,
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hao no baUic impact. on our offetl.fiive stllatr.gic force requirements
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\1ai11 Continue to have a substa.ntia.l quantitative and qualitative superiority
over the Soviet Union in ICBM's at that time,
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