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- [1989] (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Howard Stoertz, US Board of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1956-[1960], and US National Intelligence Officer for the USSR, CIA, 1976, relating to the Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and the reduction in production of strategic bombers, 1956-1958; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites, Oct and Nov 1957; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; US development of the General Dynamics Atlas ICBM, 1953-1958.
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