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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

19 September 1968

SUBJECT: SNIE 13-10-68: COMMUNIST CHINA'S ICBM AND SUBMARINE-LAUNCHED BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAMS

THE PROBLEMS

To assess China's intercontinentel ballistic missile and
 submarine-launched ballistic missile programs and to estimate
 the nature and size of these programs through 1975._1/

_1/ This SNIE supersedes relevant sections of SNIE 13-10-67,
 "Chinese Reactions to a Certain US Course of Action,"
 dated 3 August 1967, TOP SECRET, ALL SOURCE. It is an
 interim estimate prepared in response to a specific request.
 All aspects of China's strategic weapons program will be
 discussed in detail in NIE 13-8-68, "Communist China's
 Strategic Weapons Program," which is scheduled for publication
 in December.

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3.3(b)(1)
 6.2(c)
 GROUP 1
 Excluded from automatic
 downgrading and
 declassification
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