From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 09:48:59 PST
>US INTELLIGENCE ON SOVIET SPACE PROGRAMS
>
>Life will be discovered on Mars, the CIA predicted.
>Unfortunately, it will be communist!
>
>As late as 1989, the CIA estimated that it was "likely" that the
>soon-to-collapse Soviet Union would undertake a manned mission
>to Mars.
>
>"We believe the Soviets are planning for a manned Mars landing
>mission some time after the year 2000," the CIA analysis stated.
>
>See "Soviet Options for a Manned Mars Landing Mission," CIA
>Directorate of Intelligence, December 1989, released in
>"sanitized" form in 1999, here:
>
> http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/sovmars.pdf
>
>Numerous declassified intelligence documents on the Soviet space
>program, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, have been
>declassified and disclosed by the CIA. A selection of such
>documents (thanks to Jeff Brower and AT) may be found here:
>
> http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/index.html#sovsp
>
>Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Soviet space
>will want to get a copy of "The Moon Race End Game: A New
>Assessment of Soviet Crewed Lunar Aspirations, Part 1" by Peter
>Pesavento and Charles P. Vick, in the current issue of Quest
>Magazine (volume 11, no. 1, 2004).
>
>The authors take full advantage of the latest declassified
>documents and, by interviews with government officials, go
>beyond what is in the declassified record.
>
>The article is not available online, but information about Quest
>Magazine may be found here:
>
> http://www.spacebusiness.com/quest/
>
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