/specialCollection/MissileGap/1961/1961-04-25.pdf

APPROVED
FOR
■RELEASEL
DATE:
16-Jul-2011
HR70-14
000278407
NIE 11-5-61
25 April 1961
0+6.--0:6■43.68"
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE -
NUMBER 1 1-5-6 1
(Supersedes NIE 11-5-59 and NIE 11-5-60)
SOVIET TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
IN GUIDED MISSILES AND
SPACE VEHICLES
CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
RELEASE AS SANITIZED
Submitted by the
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
The following intelligence organizations participated in the
preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency
and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of
State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, The Joint Staff, and
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Concurred in by the
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
on 25 April 1961. Concurring were The Director of Intelli-
gence and Research, Department of State; the Assistant Chief
of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army; the Assist-
ant Chief of Naval Operations (Intelligence), Department of
the Navy; the Assistant Chief of Stag, Intelligence, USAF;
the Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff; the Atomic Energy
Commission Representative to the USIB; the Assistant to
the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations; and the Director
of the National Security Agency. The Assistant Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, abstained, the subject being
outside of his jurisdiction.
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