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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200140006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 29, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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29 October 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Kirkpatrick
*DOE REVIEW
COMPLETED*
1. Dr. Jerry Johnson, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Atomic Affairs and now serving on the Roddis Panel,
came in to see me to express deep concern over the imminence of
a substantial Chinese nuclear capability and a delivery capability.
Johnson was a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Panel
that issued a report on Chinese nuclear capability, which CIA and,
for that matter, the Intelligence Community disagrees with.
2. Johnson also said that he felt the Chinese had a rather
immediate thousand mile range missile capability built around the
SS-4 which could deliver a 3, 000 lb. nuclear warhead.
3. Additionally, he said the Chinese Communists had
demonstrated they could now build a 3, 000 lb. nuclear warhead.
4. I would like all of these matters explored. I think the
Air Force report, which Johnson was a party to, overstates the
ChiCom situation. I also feel there is no evidence to support his
position that a missile delivery capability is imminent. I told
Johnson rather emphatically that I thought he had been been "taken
in" by some Pentagon parochial views, and because of his stature
in the Government and with the Livermore Laboratories he should
take a very careful look at this.
5. Will you please discuss this with Smith, Wheelon, OSI
and others and be prepared to talk with me on it later in the day
or Friday morning.
JOHN A. McCONE
Director
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