SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE DIGEST

Created: 3/7/1960

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SECRET-

Scientific

Intelligence

Digest

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE

SOVIET UNION 1. Indications of CW Use in Missile Warheads:

Soviet effort on missile warheads containing CW toxic agents is Indicated by statements made by Major General M. M. Dubinin at9 Pugwaah Conference on Biological and Chemical Warfare.

his formal speech at the conference, Dubinin stated that

o IS ton payloadof toxic agents could be deliveredodern airplane to practically any area in any country and that thia quantity would have the effectedium sized atomic bomb.

These statementsoviet capability for use of CW in missile operations and tend to confirm previous national estimates granting the Soviets CW missile warheads.

M.M. Dubininoviet authority in the .field of chemical warfare. e hasember of the staff of the Military Academy of Chemical Defense, andas its Deputy Scientific

Director.

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