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

Document Type: 
FOIA [1]
Keywords: 
USSR [2]
SOVIET UNION [3]
SATELLITES [4]
SPUTNIK [5]
LAUNCH [6]
EARTH [7]
POINT [8]
Collection: 
Intelligence Warning of the 1957 Launch of Sputnik [9]
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
Sequence Number: 
Case Number: 
F-1990-01132
Publication Date: 
July 14, 1958
File: 
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Body: 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE DIGEST CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 14 July 1958 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Bern 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
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[4] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/keyword/satellites
[5] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/keyword/sputnik
[6] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/keyword/launch
[7] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/keyword/earth
[8] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/keyword/point
[9] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/intelligence-warning-1957-launch-sputnik
[10] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000124244.pdf