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Ranselpead3 The greatest activity wa~gt displayed at K(llpustin Yar where the unexplained SS-3 progmiddotram and a somewhat intensified SS-4 troop-training program were underltway

Plesetsk continued to be the scene of most ICBM troop-training firings The troops fired three SS- 7s from that range head for the third month in a row One SS-9 and one SS-7 were launched poundron1c Tyuratarn both for troop training the SS-7 launch the first in 4 5 months may s~gnal the start of summer SS-7 firings from this rangehead which were noted in 1965 and 1966

Tyuratam overshadowe d Ples~tsk in spacmiddote firhigs Tyuratam launched four spacecraft a 52-deg ree recce satellite an oPbital bombardment system an apparent research satellite with a highly eccenbic orbit and a Molniya communications-relay satellite) Plesetsk two (one recce satellite one satelshylite of undetermined purpose

The pattern oi recce satellite launches this year suggests that Plesetsk will launch all those having inclinations of 65 degrees or higher Tyuratam will launch those with lower inclinations (NORAD)

--SEGREfNO FOREIGN D~SSEMINATION-- Releasable to US UK amp Canada

bull 2 SS-9 l CBMs Fired to Mid-Pacific l mpact Area

The Soviets have launched two mis siles 1 p robpbly SS- 9s to the reshycently announced impact area in the Pacific Both mis$iles w ere aUJlChed f1middotom Tyuratam -- the first at about 0313Z 31 May the middotsecond at about 0246 Z 6 June Both middotmissiles we11t to the designated target area 7100 n m -flom the rangehead The second hit about 2800 yards frommiddot the USS McMorriss one opound two US ships in the a r ea

These tests probably involve the lighter 10 000-pound) of two SS-9 re-entry vehicles T his variant was fireq to a rang e o 7 QOO n n1 in August and September 1964 and JanUltgt+ry 19-65 and to a range of 7 100 n m during the months of November and DecernbEr in both 1965 and 1966 The heavier (12 soo~pound) reentry vehicle has been tested to shorter ranges in the Pacific

Specific test objectives of the current i irings a -re notknovm Troop training is probably one purpose of these firings_ (CIA (SECRET

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Cosmos 162 is Sovi-ets 1 lothmiddot Reece Satellite This Year

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intelligence

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Gosmol3 162 which the Soviets launched froirt Tyuratam at about lO~OZ 1 June into an orbit with an inclinatoion opound 51 8 degrees is the 1Oth military r e connai ssance satellite launched by the USSR this year Six have been launched from Plesetsk foU from Tyu~atam

Carrying a high-r~solution camera system Cqsmos 162 probably has the mission of uldating targets for the Strategic Rocket TrQops and Long Rang Aviation middot (NORAD) middot (SECItEf NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION -- Releasable te5 US UK amp Canada)

Komarov Still Alive and Well Just Prior to Communlcatioo_s Blackout Biotelemetry Shows _

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which were laUncmiddothed earlier in the ~------~--~~~~~--~--~------~ year and are believed to have been unmanned roto es o( the ma11ned Soyq 1 P1middotevious manned flighh were monitored by a The

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Claims th at 12 Soviet Cosm)nauts Have Died are Based on UnreUabfe Sources

J E ps tein a research associate at Stanpoundord Unive rsity and certain It a lian and Wes t Ge r m an sources perioqiea lly claim that US authorities know that 11 Soviet co-smonauts were lost in spamiddotc eflight middot mishaps before tle recent dcatrt oi V Komarov

far from supporting these claims available intelligence indicates that the claims a re based on unreliable sources and that ilOne of tbe pe r -sons nam~d we r e c a-ndidates fov rna nned spacecrapoundt crews although see r-al may have particilated in t e chnical dev e lopment of m _ateriel f or the Soviet spaceflight p r og r ambull

Of the 7 individmiddotuals named by Epstein none were cosmomiddotnauts M oreshyover tl1-e spelling (transliteration) of the Russian na1nes given by Epste in suggestil that his 1 information~~has come from European (probab~y Gemiddotrman) sources bull rathe-r than from US -intelligence Epstih name s Piotr Dolgow (Dolgov ) Sereflty Shiborin Wassilievitch Zowodovsky (Vassilyev ich Zavodovsky) Alexei (Alexey) Belolltonev Iwan (Ivan) Kaschettr Kaschiyur ) Ale~is Gratzev GratsevL and Jenady MichalloiV (O ennadiy Mikhailo-v)

bull D olgov a high-altitude parachirtistt w as killed duri ng a 196Z jump

Izvestia r e ported in 1963 that Zavodovskiy~ formerly a tester of syst~rps a nd equipment for high-altitude flights had b e come a chauffeur in Moscow There is no information that a man named Shiboxin was ever connected with aviation or spaceflight Belokone v 1 Kaschiyur Gi-atsev and Mikhailov appaxently were technidans involved in testing equipment and suits u~ed for high-altitude aviaticm aJld spacefligllt

Three alleged 11 Russian Cosmonauts men1middotorialize-d by commemoratiive Soviet stamps itt 1964 (P Fedoseyenkomiddot L Usynskin and A Vasenko) are long-de a d pionee r high-altitude balloonists of 30 years ago

Reports in 1 96 1 that test pilot V Ilyushin son ltd the famous Soviet aircx-apoundt designe r wlt~ s badly hurt in a manne d spacecraJt acoident were d is shyp r oved by interviews ~nd published photographs which dem onstrated that he had sll-ffered severe leg injuries in an auto accident

There is _n~ informaton which supports the Penkovskiy 1middotepoxt that a number of un s uccesstul attempts to put a man in orbit before Gagarin1 s flight middote ~ded in deaths or poundail11res middot

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Ranselpead3 The greatest activity wa~gt displayed at K(llpustin Yar where the unexplained SS-3 progmiddotram and a somewhat intensified SS-4 troop-training program were underltway

Plesetsk continued to be the scene of most ICBM troop-training firings The troops fired three SS- 7s from that range head for the third month in a row One SS-9 and one SS-7 were launched poundron1c Tyuratarn both for troop training the SS-7 launch the first in 4 5 months may s~gnal the start of summer SS-7 firings from this rangehead which were noted in 1965 and 1966

Tyuratam overshadowe d Ples~tsk in spacmiddote firhigs Tyuratam launched four spacecraft a 52-deg ree recce satellite an oPbital bombardment system an apparent research satellite with a highly eccenbic orbit and a Molniya communications-relay satellite) Plesetsk two (one recce satellite one satelshylite of undetermined purpose

The pattern oi recce satellite launches this year suggests that Plesetsk will launch all those having inclinations of 65 degrees or higher Tyuratam will launch those with lower inclinations (NORAD)

--SEGREfNO FOREIGN D~SSEMINATION-- Releasable to US UK amp Canada

bull 2 SS-9 l CBMs Fired to Mid-Pacific l mpact Area

The Soviets have launched two mis siles 1 p robpbly SS- 9s to the reshycently announced impact area in the Pacific Both mis$iles w ere aUJlChed f1middotom Tyuratam -- the first at about 0313Z 31 May the middotsecond at about 0246 Z 6 June Both middotmissiles we11t to the designated target area 7100 n m -flom the rangehead The second hit about 2800 yards frommiddot the USS McMorriss one opound two US ships in the a r ea

These tests probably involve the lighter 10 000-pound) of two SS-9 re-entry vehicles T his variant was fireq to a rang e o 7 QOO n n1 in August and September 1964 and JanUltgt+ry 19-65 and to a range of 7 100 n m during the months of November and DecernbEr in both 1965 and 1966 The heavier (12 soo~pound) reentry vehicle has been tested to shorter ranges in the Pacific

Specific test objectives of the current i irings a -re notknovm Troop training is probably one purpose of these firings_ (CIA (SECRET

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5 oeero6 WIR 2367 9 Jun 1967

i bull

SECRET

Cosmos 162 is Sovi-ets 1 lothmiddot Reece Satellite This Year

significant

intelligence

on spece

developments

middotand trends

Gosmol3 162 which the Soviets launched froirt Tyuratam at about lO~OZ 1 June into an orbit with an inclinatoion opound 51 8 degrees is the 1Oth military r e connai ssance satellite launched by the USSR this year Six have been launched from Plesetsk foU from Tyu~atam

Carrying a high-r~solution camera system Cqsmos 162 probably has the mission of uldating targets for the Strategic Rocket TrQops and Long Rang Aviation middot (NORAD) middot (SECItEf NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION -- Releasable te5 US UK amp Canada)

Komarov Still Alive and Well Just Prior to Communlcatioo_s Blackout Biotelemetry Shows _

middotmiddot The hear~ and respirlt~tory rates of the late Cosmonaut Komar6v wermiddote weli within potrna limits ~urmg the one -day $pace fligbt ol Soyuz 1 and during the critci~~1 118 mi~utes between retr ofire and the conununications blackout incident to re-~ntry-middot into the dense layers of th-e atmosphere middot

Death appears to have occurr ed sometime between the time eritered the earth1 s atmos he rEi and the irn act

which were laUncmiddothed earlier in the ~------~--~~~~~--~--~------~ year and are believed to have been unmanned roto es o( the ma11ned Soyq 1 P1middotevious manned flighh were monitored by a The

~----------------------------------------~~------------~ than one cosmonaut but was supercommutated in this ~ase to provide twice the scanning rate thereby allowing fo~ more complete definit~on of the EKG and seismocardiogram wave forms qr lornaroY (CIA) (GECREt )

-6shy

WIR 2367 9 J1in i 967 SpoundCRET

bull eeore=t

Claims th at 12 Soviet Cosm)nauts Have Died are Based on UnreUabfe Sources

J E ps tein a research associate at Stanpoundord Unive rsity and certain It a lian and Wes t Ge r m an sources perioqiea lly claim that US authorities know that 11 Soviet co-smonauts were lost in spamiddotc eflight middot mishaps before tle recent dcatrt oi V Komarov

far from supporting these claims available intelligence indicates that the claims a re based on unreliable sources and that ilOne of tbe pe r -sons nam~d we r e c a-ndidates fov rna nned spacecrapoundt crews although see r-al may have particilated in t e chnical dev e lopment of m _ateriel f or the Soviet spaceflight p r og r ambull

Of the 7 individmiddotuals named by Epstein none were cosmomiddotnauts M oreshyover tl1-e spelling (transliteration) of the Russian na1nes given by Epste in suggestil that his 1 information~~has come from European (probab~y Gemiddotrman) sources bull rathe-r than from US -intelligence Epstih name s Piotr Dolgow (Dolgov ) Sereflty Shiborin Wassilievitch Zowodovsky (Vassilyev ich Zavodovsky) Alexei (Alexey) Belolltonev Iwan (Ivan) Kaschettr Kaschiyur ) Ale~is Gratzev GratsevL and Jenady MichalloiV (O ennadiy Mikhailo-v)

bull D olgov a high-altitude parachirtistt w as killed duri ng a 196Z jump

Izvestia r e ported in 1963 that Zavodovskiy~ formerly a tester of syst~rps a nd equipment for high-altitude flights had b e come a chauffeur in Moscow There is no information that a man named Shiboxin was ever connected with aviation or spaceflight Belokone v 1 Kaschiyur Gi-atsev and Mikhailov appaxently were technidans involved in testing equipment and suits u~ed for high-altitude aviaticm aJld spacefligllt

Three alleged 11 Russian Cosmonauts men1middotorialize-d by commemoratiive Soviet stamps itt 1964 (P Fedoseyenkomiddot L Usynskin and A Vasenko) are long-de a d pionee r high-altitude balloonists of 30 years ago

Reports in 1 96 1 that test pilot V Ilyushin son ltd the famous Soviet aircx-apoundt designe r wlt~ s badly hurt in a manne d spacecraJt acoident were d is shyp r oved by interviews ~nd published photographs which dem onstrated that he had sll-ffered severe leg injuries in an auto accident

There is _n~ informaton which supports the Penkovskiy 1middotepoxt that a number of un s uccesstul attempts to put a man in orbit before Gagarin1 s flight middote ~ded in deaths or poundail11res middot

ltalian xepo1middotts published in the US press not only cannot be substanti shyated but contain data tha t contxadict wellmiddotsmiddotub1Jtantiated information CIA NORAD) (SECRET)

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SECRET

Cosmos 162 is Sovi-ets 1 lothmiddot Reece Satellite This Year

significant

intelligence

on spece

developments

middotand trends

Gosmol3 162 which the Soviets launched froirt Tyuratam at about lO~OZ 1 June into an orbit with an inclinatoion opound 51 8 degrees is the 1Oth military r e connai ssance satellite launched by the USSR this year Six have been launched from Plesetsk foU from Tyu~atam

Carrying a high-r~solution camera system Cqsmos 162 probably has the mission of uldating targets for the Strategic Rocket TrQops and Long Rang Aviation middot (NORAD) middot (SECItEf NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION -- Releasable te5 US UK amp Canada)

Komarov Still Alive and Well Just Prior to Communlcatioo_s Blackout Biotelemetry Shows _

middotmiddot The hear~ and respirlt~tory rates of the late Cosmonaut Komar6v wermiddote weli within potrna limits ~urmg the one -day $pace fligbt ol Soyuz 1 and during the critci~~1 118 mi~utes between retr ofire and the conununications blackout incident to re-~ntry-middot into the dense layers of th-e atmosphere middot

Death appears to have occurr ed sometime between the time eritered the earth1 s atmos he rEi and the irn act

which were laUncmiddothed earlier in the ~------~--~~~~~--~--~------~ year and are believed to have been unmanned roto es o( the ma11ned Soyq 1 P1middotevious manned flighh were monitored by a The

~----------------------------------------~~------------~ than one cosmonaut but was supercommutated in this ~ase to provide twice the scanning rate thereby allowing fo~ more complete definit~on of the EKG and seismocardiogram wave forms qr lornaroY (CIA) (GECREt )

-6shy

WIR 2367 9 J1in i 967 SpoundCRET

bull eeore=t

Claims th at 12 Soviet Cosm)nauts Have Died are Based on UnreUabfe Sources

J E ps tein a research associate at Stanpoundord Unive rsity and certain It a lian and Wes t Ge r m an sources perioqiea lly claim that US authorities know that 11 Soviet co-smonauts were lost in spamiddotc eflight middot mishaps before tle recent dcatrt oi V Komarov

far from supporting these claims available intelligence indicates that the claims a re based on unreliable sources and that ilOne of tbe pe r -sons nam~d we r e c a-ndidates fov rna nned spacecrapoundt crews although see r-al may have particilated in t e chnical dev e lopment of m _ateriel f or the Soviet spaceflight p r og r ambull

Of the 7 individmiddotuals named by Epstein none were cosmomiddotnauts M oreshyover tl1-e spelling (transliteration) of the Russian na1nes given by Epste in suggestil that his 1 information~~has come from European (probab~y Gemiddotrman) sources bull rathe-r than from US -intelligence Epstih name s Piotr Dolgow (Dolgov ) Sereflty Shiborin Wassilievitch Zowodovsky (Vassilyev ich Zavodovsky) Alexei (Alexey) Belolltonev Iwan (Ivan) Kaschettr Kaschiyur ) Ale~is Gratzev GratsevL and Jenady MichalloiV (O ennadiy Mikhailo-v)

bull D olgov a high-altitude parachirtistt w as killed duri ng a 196Z jump

Izvestia r e ported in 1963 that Zavodovskiy~ formerly a tester of syst~rps a nd equipment for high-altitude flights had b e come a chauffeur in Moscow There is no information that a man named Shiboxin was ever connected with aviation or spaceflight Belokone v 1 Kaschiyur Gi-atsev and Mikhailov appaxently were technidans involved in testing equipment and suits u~ed for high-altitude aviaticm aJld spacefligllt

Three alleged 11 Russian Cosmonauts men1middotorialize-d by commemoratiive Soviet stamps itt 1964 (P Fedoseyenkomiddot L Usynskin and A Vasenko) are long-de a d pionee r high-altitude balloonists of 30 years ago

Reports in 1 96 1 that test pilot V Ilyushin son ltd the famous Soviet aircx-apoundt designe r wlt~ s badly hurt in a manne d spacecraJt acoident were d is shyp r oved by interviews ~nd published photographs which dem onstrated that he had sll-ffered severe leg injuries in an auto accident

There is _n~ informaton which supports the Penkovskiy 1middotepoxt that a number of un s uccesstul attempts to put a man in orbit before Gagarin1 s flight middote ~ded in deaths or poundail11res middot

ltalian xepo1middotts published in the US press not only cannot be substanti shyated but contain data tha t contxadict wellmiddotsmiddotub1Jtantiated information CIA NORAD) (SECRET)

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bull eeore=t

Claims th at 12 Soviet Cosm)nauts Have Died are Based on UnreUabfe Sources

J E ps tein a research associate at Stanpoundord Unive rsity and certain It a lian and Wes t Ge r m an sources perioqiea lly claim that US authorities know that 11 Soviet co-smonauts were lost in spamiddotc eflight middot mishaps before tle recent dcatrt oi V Komarov

far from supporting these claims available intelligence indicates that the claims a re based on unreliable sources and that ilOne of tbe pe r -sons nam~d we r e c a-ndidates fov rna nned spacecrapoundt crews although see r-al may have particilated in t e chnical dev e lopment of m _ateriel f or the Soviet spaceflight p r og r ambull

Of the 7 individmiddotuals named by Epstein none were cosmomiddotnauts M oreshyover tl1-e spelling (transliteration) of the Russian na1nes given by Epste in suggestil that his 1 information~~has come from European (probab~y Gemiddotrman) sources bull rathe-r than from US -intelligence Epstih name s Piotr Dolgow (Dolgov ) Sereflty Shiborin Wassilievitch Zowodovsky (Vassilyev ich Zavodovsky) Alexei (Alexey) Belolltonev Iwan (Ivan) Kaschettr Kaschiyur ) Ale~is Gratzev GratsevL and Jenady MichalloiV (O ennadiy Mikhailo-v)

bull D olgov a high-altitude parachirtistt w as killed duri ng a 196Z jump

Izvestia r e ported in 1963 that Zavodovskiy~ formerly a tester of syst~rps a nd equipment for high-altitude flights had b e come a chauffeur in Moscow There is no information that a man named Shiboxin was ever connected with aviation or spaceflight Belokone v 1 Kaschiyur Gi-atsev and Mikhailov appaxently were technidans involved in testing equipment and suits u~ed for high-altitude aviaticm aJld spacefligllt

Three alleged 11 Russian Cosmonauts men1middotorialize-d by commemoratiive Soviet stamps itt 1964 (P Fedoseyenkomiddot L Usynskin and A Vasenko) are long-de a d pionee r high-altitude balloonists of 30 years ago

Reports in 1 96 1 that test pilot V Ilyushin son ltd the famous Soviet aircx-apoundt designe r wlt~ s badly hurt in a manne d spacecraJt acoident were d is shyp r oved by interviews ~nd published photographs which dem onstrated that he had sll-ffered severe leg injuries in an auto accident

There is _n~ informaton which supports the Penkovskiy 1middotepoxt that a number of un s uccesstul attempts to put a man in orbit before Gagarin1 s flight middote ~ded in deaths or poundail11res middot

ltalian xepo1middotts published in the US press not only cannot be substanti shyated but contain data tha t contxadict wellmiddotsmiddotub1Jtantiated information CIA NORAD) (SECRET)

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middot Cosmas ltO 3 which the soviets launched frohJ Kapustin Ya r bullltUt about 05 03 z 5 J ne is pt- obably a scientiiic resea r ch vehicle aa clailned by the Soviets~ there is no evidence to the ccgtntraTy Orbital paramet-ers as reported by NORAD Space Defense C e nter are~ middot

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48 4 degrees 93 5 minutes 641 klTl ( 345 n rn ) 260 kngt (140 tl m)

Cosn10s 163 is the 4th satellite launched trlis year from Kapustin Yar Normally about middotseven spac-ecraft are launcbeltl from this site ~ach year (NORAD) (SEC JET)

Main SQviet Space Launcher Configuration Aoout as Estimated Except for Number of Thrust Chambers

The tonfiguration pf Hi e SS-6 IC BM booster-s ustainer which with various upp~l st~ges has orbited the most important Sovlet sp-acecr~-t oi th e past decade is essentially that which has long been emiddots tirrlttemiddotd by the W est A p hotograph qf this -unit with a LunUc upper stage a~rd Vo$tok space caps ule adele-(l_is shown on pagcent 19 as it appea red in tne Pa xis Ajr middotmiddot ShltYw whe re it was p11blicly dltis playecl for the first time Aso s-ee pag~s middot

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Z2 and 23) The main surprise of the showing of the SS-6 is the hlmber middotof thrust

chambers The West had estim a tgted one for each of the four boosters and one middot for tbe sustainer whereas eac~ of these live pImiddotopu~~io~ units has four main thrus~ cba-lTbe rs or a t otal of 20 ins tead opound 5 Each chambe rlt 1 then is much smaller than origi nally estimated and produces one four th the thrust esti~ated It is likety t11erepoundore that the Soviets were not able to prodtlce lar~~shychambere ltil missilespace propulsiomiddotn units as eprly as th~ West had e sti~~-ed

In general t~e larger the thrust chamber and nozzlel the higher t he state of technology require d On the~middotother hand the u se of smaller (mo1middote nlmerdusi thrust c~be rs makes the relatively higli reliClbility oi lhe SS- 6 all the m o re

r emarkable middotmiddot no~mally t he greater the nqrllber of chambers the greatel the chance of faihir~ But ve r y few of the rnocl eS t number of Soviet spaee-proshyP-llsion failures can be attributed to failure of ss-6 bo~sters or middotSUStainers

Thf su stainer has four vernier engines as exp e cted but each boostet has only t wo these are located tO the 0uter side of each booster furnishing corrective thrust to the whole pr opulS-ion ass en1bly as a u nit

The sustainei cons jsts of two sections The lowe r section a 50-footmiddotshylong cylinder of contant diarrlete r probaPly houses the fuel tanks in additi0n to folr thrust chambers the top middotsemiddotction which probably -houses the oxidizer ~ ls algtout 35 feet long and tape-red o n eaah end

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A truss-type interstage join s the SS-6 sustainer to the Lunik upper stage and Vostok capsmiddotule Similalmiddot interstaging ba~ been noted previously on two rockets pataded in Moscow-- the three-stage SAVAGE solid-propellant ICBM and tblteuro threestage liquid propel1ant SCRAG~ which was claimed to be an orbital bornbardment weapQn

Expansipn rations of the booster ang sustainemiddotr engines appear to be identical as predicted

Red Star newS paper of the Soviet Detense Ministry said that the vehi-cle displayed in Paris is J8 meters middot(r24 8-) 1ong and has an ovet-all diameter at the base of 10 rneters The Vostok rocket-caider it said was created in 195 6 The one shown in Paris will be displayed later in Moscow at the E~pos~tion of Achievemerats of the National Econ-omy

The first spacecraft known to be orbited by the SS-6 was Sputnik 3 which was launched on 15 May 1958 The SS- 6 is notbe1ieved to have rltltached IOC as an ICBM Jtntil 1960 after a re-ent_ry vehiCle had been developed and tested (FTD Soviet pre s s NORAD) (SECtET)

bull Weather Satellite Program Dubbed Meteor middotby SoviBts

rhe poviets have given the nickname Me ttor 1 to the operation which involves- Gomiddots n1oaes 144 and 156 rneteo-rological satellites which a-re in near shypolar orbHs p~ rpendicular to eacb other

The Soviet announcement stressed the scientific vahal oi the Meteor middot ope ration which affords nearly world-wide coverage The system also has strategic and tactical military value _

TV and infrared video from both satelli tes is still reaching the US over the hot h ne established for US- USSR ex~hange of weather information obtained from satellites Howeve r the Soviets appalently hav-e t1ot yet solved the data-processing problem for they have not b ee n able to transmit opera tiona_l data 10 Wasmiddot hing~ton within the sLx-honrs r e quired by the bilateral agreeshy

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