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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a Scientific Intelligence Study, TCS No. 4425/65. The Scientific Intelligence Committee prepared it with other intelligence community committees and approved it on 3 June 1965. It assesses Communist China's capabilities in science and technology through 1970, with particular attention to military and industrial programs. The study concludes that China will lag far behind advanced nations. The exceptions are a few priority areas such as nuclear weapons, missiles and air defense. It contains no discussion of UFOs.
“National Academy of Sciences”6 pages
Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 TCS 4425/as _1cu=-seeks-T (b)(3) (b)(1) The missile cou1E1“be an adaptation ot e Soviet SS-3 or Soviet SS-4. The payloads and ranges for those systems are: SS-3 . . . . . . . . . . 2,800'_'.'300 lbs . . . . . . . . . 603 nm SS-4 . . . . . . . . . . 3,200i500 lbs . . . . . . . . . 1,020 nm However, because of the length of the test range, the collaterally reported MRBM range of the Chi- nese missile, Chinese military requirements in the Far East, and the size of the Chinese launch pad at SCTMTC, we believe that the Chinese missile being developed is probably an adaptation of the SS-4. (b)(1) 260. 2. Surface-to-Surface Missile Systems (Tac- tical, Land-Based)—Chin‘a is believed to have received some Soviet 150-mile range missile systems prior to mid-1960. Vehicular mounted missiles possibly were fired to compatible ranges at SCTMTC during the first half of 1960. (b)(1) (b)(1) (b)(1) 261. 3. Surface-to-Surface Missile Systems (Na- val)—The submarine detected on 7 November 1964 at Dairen is similar in outward appearance to the Soviet G-class submarines capable of launch- ing the SS-N-4 missile when surfaced. Initial con- struction more than likely began about mid-1962 in the Dairen shipyard, and the vessel probably was (b)(1) \/ /\ 00 \/ so (b l l < b \/ /\ 00 \/ for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.