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• 2hs imglorioue failure of the S 62 flight ever the soplat Vales has sated

as a sort of spur to the Peetegos in Its south former, more effective seams

of espionage against the M.S.& and the other Socialist countries. law the

Tentegme is patio' its again hopes as the so-called spy-insthe-sky satellites.

L. Mesas, Washington correspondent of tbsjalkaggakagama. wrote that "now

that Russia has proved it cam hue& American spy games cut of the sky, the

United States will meth development of alum, method for peeping behind the

Iron Curtain via satellites to spase:./

Attention is aoscentrated mini, on the Samos spy satellite. Its development has bees wearied top motional priority by the O.S. Administration. Such

priority is sejoyed osly by the loogr-range missile programmes, their/mon

project for sending& men into outer space, and the peuarful Saturn missile,

also lotomioi for soaro flights. The O.S. %cerement bac; allotted ever MO

million for the Samos project: in the 1960/61 fiscal yew.

The main contractor in dove/vie' spy satellites is Lockheed Aircraft, the

selfsame corporation ubish menufactures the V62 spy gene..

The Samos system Is , .scheduled tq become operative in 1962. The plan is

to put a Dumber of these spy satellites into a polar- orbit to keep the territory

of the 0.2.8.14 and the other Socialist countries under constant servelllaoce.

The first experimental launchiPg is doe at the end of this-year. Samos is to

be orbited by an Atlas*Agesa rocket from the missile rang is the Pacific, at

Nall Strept Jogged, W 10, 1960
Galiforeia. The satellite will pass ever both poles

1411 suable it to fly ever a essalierable part of the temitery,

Owlet Vales and the ether Socialist countries.

_fig to associated Press corn speadest bates, Samos !mollies Is

orbit, will be able to beep amiss ebeervatica each square mile of the

Zarties surface of tramads to Alserteas sprained stations data about the location

of Swift missile sites and soy unusual catemstration of troops or material.

Specialists of the Beadle Aviation Co. concerned sminarily with military

technology stress that, if Saws travels at or altitude of about 300 miles, it

be possible with the available lenses and 22 oquig•out to mho pbotognapho

equivalent to shat can be seem fuss an altitude of 100 fast. Teak photograph

made at that altitude, is the opinion of the specialists will sever an areaof several ware rase. Co suck pictures it will be possible to find and

identify ail easmanicatioes, airfields, naval installatioes, etc. Mesh longer

areas, the specialists think, could be photographed from a satellite flying at

an altitude of fres 2,000 to 3,000 adles. Pak is that case the photographs

would not be of much value to !intelligence agencies.

aboveamentiosed L. Sneer :sported that "the siniature moon will tarty

TV.liks equipment, to stare at Soviet territory as it orSits annadrednof miles

overhead. Its fuocties viii be to spot stadia lanaching pads, airfields, indeer•

trial. plants and any massive bellemp of Comenelat military apd.pment. Its

photographic intelligence will be relayed back to the ignited States for

isspection."2

Pbs PM York Times, is its issue of Sly 16 said is a lull= in the

Skya that "the Samos, ulna perfested„ viii be a veritable
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It would make such efforts as U-2 information-gathering Tights over the Soviet

Union wholly obsolete." The paper notes that "unlike thi U -2 'which can be shot

down, the Samos will be practically invulnerable against an enemy's effort."

According to the paper it would be invulnerable because 4f the impossibility

of determining its position when it passes over the "surmad" territory.

In confirmation of its view, the paper refers to thi following circmastances.

"In the first place, the launching of such a satellite weed not be made public,

so that its very existence would not be known. Secondly, the taking of pictures

is a silent operation, undetectable from the ground. Thirdly, the sending down

of its information electronically will mot take place unAl commanded to do no

when it is over United States territory, so that its sigsals could not be interfered with." The New York Times arrives at the oonclusi•n that "one ouch 'eyeis-the-sky' could thus do the job of hundreds of manned =J-2's in complete safety."

We see the B.S. press advertise the advantajea of ummic espionage. But

the cold war drummers are engaging in wishful thinking. The realities are not

encouraging in the least. Long efforts on the part of SA army of scientists and

epecialista in artificial satellites and rocketry have •* yet yielded the results expected by the cold war strategists fro' the Pentagon. V.S. specialists

and even the publications which blow up American performace in this sphere admit

that the U.S.A. elatedly legs behind the Soviet Union in the conquest of space.

Another convinoisg.ccafirmacien of this was the launching asd predetermined landing of the awed Soviet space ship obis:km*14W 4.6 tows.

The enormous Soviet saocesees in the eomoseet of space rattle the more aggressive V.S. eirelee. That is why V.S. yeepagsada, a tattle& servitor of Wall

Street simmopolies, is stralales to peeve the alleged V.S. superiority La evade

xeseardb, in order to alias Amatio • s Ashes ailltaty palettes at apr omit. This
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alone seems to explain the candid cynicism of the U.S. =shine working on the

public, which does not blush to admit the real aims of ate imperialist artificial

satellite programme.

American military men are joining this propaganda a sign with inareeesia6

vigour. Obviously overestimating their possibilities of carrying out space

eepionage plans, Pentagon generals are discussing with serious mien the problem

of "processing" intelligence data about the defences of the Soviet Onion which

they hops to obtain with the help of Samos satellites.3

The Samos project is closely related to the developsent of the military

Midas satellites. The main purpose of the latter is to beep the Earth under

observation with the help of instruments sensitive to rays emitted by hot

gases formed during the launching of rockets. The idea is that as soon as Samos

satellites detect missile bases in Soviet territory, Hides will keep watch over

them and register the launching of missilee.

Wheal:lidos becomes operative, the Nall Street Jtmuel claim, "it is expasted to be sufficiently sophisticated to disclose the number of missiles being

launched, the approximate points from which they are fired, end their general

direction."

The New York Itexeld Tribes* stresses the tremendous military significance

of the Nides system and discusses the possibility of a closer watch over Soviet

rockets tests and the seining of more precise informatioe on how successful

the launchings are.4

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31t is planned that the Samos should in some cases transmit its television

signals to a ground station each time it makes a photogra*, while in other

cases it will accumulate a euther of photographs made over Soviet territory and

transmit them to the gxoand station whoa it flies over U.S. territory.

tsgistajgsgaiagma, he. 21, 1960.
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According to the American press, the hides system cluid not be put into

service before 1962. The sense calls for launching int, polar orbits from six

to eight Nide* satellites, which would transmit inforeetioa to stations located.

in different parts of the world. But so far experimental launchings have been

unsuccessful. The first trial made on February 26 fallei because of the explosion

of two auxiliary rockets. On Way 24, a Nide* was put in to orbit but the signalizetion system proved faulty and the main alma the trial, to test the rocket detection system, was not achieved.

Ralph Dental of the Associated Press, who is well p2oted on rocketry matters,

brazenly asserts that "with Samos to pick out launching sites' andMidas to flash

information about launchleg, the United States will have en effective sky-spy

team."

Closely related to the space espionage projects (Same and lades) is the

programme for employing Discoverer satellites for intelligence purposes. The

military Discoverer satellites are intended to calve the problem of bringing containers with photographic intelligence back to earth. Ey September 13, 1960,

15 satellites had been launched under this programme. Tie first was put into

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orbit but had no container; five launchings failed; save 

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astellitas were put

into orbit and, their containers evidently separated, but were not retrieved.

The containers of to others were retrieved.

2ba American press is trying to present the launchi.g of 2 Discoverers last

August as a definite step towards weaned space flight. Nit U.S. Navy spokes=

have dotted all the L i s: they said the main purpose of the Discoverer progremme

was to perfect the launching, orbiting and retrieving of sky-spy containers.

General Shriver, Chief of the C.S. Air Force Staff, Office of lesearCh and Improvements, said recently there was no direct connection . betveen DISCOVOCItr and the
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Govern.- nt's project Mercury for sending a can into space. The reel pur2ose of:

the Diecoverem, he added, has always been to promote the sky-epy projects.

It i3 hiahly indicative tNat American military leaders hsve eousht to

utilise for espionage even the civilian meteorological ectellite, Tiros, which was

designed for photographing the cloud cover of the globe. J. Vivacy, Washington

correspondent of the New York Tinen, reported on Nay 26, 1960, that no sooner

had it become known that a 11-2 plane had been shot down in the Soviet rob= tbm

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave the signal to the Tiros-1

satellite to take pictures when passing over the Soviet taion and the Chinese

People's Republic.

Thos, the O.S. military leaders expect to utilize artificial vatellites to

obtain intelligence data. The main purpose of space espionage is to incracno

the efficacy of a surprise atteck, making it possible to knock out enemy misoile

bases at the very start and thereby avoid a retaliatory blow. Claims by Pc:rites=

leaders and other0 S. officials tbct apace espionage is needed to prevent a ao•

called surprise attack by establishing the Location of Soviet missile bases are

absolutely untenable and are dosigrad to justify the lens discredited brinkmanship

policy condemned by world opinion.

 N. S. Rhruebchov has pointed out that "information about the location of

such bases can be of importance not for a country concerrad with its defence

requirements, hat solely for a state which contemplates raression and intends to

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strike the first blow and therefore wants to destroy the missile bases an as to

a retribution after attach."

It is clear that space espionage is designed to propos a preventive rocket

nuclear mer against the Soviet WA* sod the other Socialist coquetries. Dot the

alcolatioos of V.S. military use for a surprise attack to hit defame targets
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earlier discovered in the U.S.S.R. are based on sand. Tae Soviet Union has

everything necessary to paralyze U.S. military espionage both in the air and

in outer space. And Soviet rockets ensure &counterblow at the aggressor in

any case. This should not be forgotten by those who fool themselves with the

hope of delivering the first blow and escaping retribution.

The space espionage schemes harboured by U.S. ruling circles ere a coup

crate expression of their extensive plans for . the use of outer space to prepare

a devastating rocket nuclear war. 5 This, by the way, shows bow insincere are

the statement° of U.S. officials about American interest in the peaceful uses

of outer space.

In view of the plans to develop and lamchsatellit4a for military reconnaissance, American propagezda has in recent years been I nlay proving the "legality„

of space espionage. Uoreil{n Affairs, for example, has wittten that "consistent

with our appeal for 'open skies,' we might well remmmmoni that recounaissance

by an orbiting satellite be accepted in international len."6

Such statements became especially numerous after thl U.S.A. proclaimed

espionage to be its state policy.

It should be noted that American plans of space espionage directed against

the security of the U.S.S.R. and the other Socialist coui ►tries are incompatible

with the general/5p recognized principles and rules of ilm:ernational law, designed

to protect the security of states against encroachments from outside, including

outer space. In the past, considerations of state security ham ben of decisive

sSee article by lisj.-Gen. N. Nilstein "The U.S.A. Ir.ans Military Use of

Outer Space," ITSsuagma_atdsg, Moscow, MO. 5, 1959, pp. 44-41).

61:9Exim4flpal, October 1958, p. 105.
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importance in determining the sir space regime. Today tae same considerations

most underlie the regime of outer space..

As pointed out earlier in this journal, the best, mat effective means of

safeguarding the security of states from the direction ol outer space would be 

to conclude en agreementonthasievilitarisation and neeztralization of outer space.

Whereas demilitarization, of outer space above all implies a prohibition

within this space of any activity that pursues military purposes in peacetime,

Including espionage, neutralisation of outer space MOSUJ the exclusion of this

space from the sphere of hostilities in case of armed coAflict. 8 Tai this way

as agreement on the demilitarization and neutralisation of outer space mould be

an effective means of banning the use of this spas for military purposes. It

mould become apterequisite forth* use of this space solely for peaceful purposes in the interest of co-operation and mutual confidelce.

The Soviet Government's proposal of Mi=th 15, 1958, indicated a realistic

vvr of settling the problem of banning the use *foot= :mace for military

purposes. It mill be recalled that it favoured abroad international agreement

on outer space banning the use el comic space for milli: zry purposes provided

foreign military bases abroad were dismautled, and cosmil . lrunchings were made only

under a coordinated international programme.

Tice realistic nature of the Soviet proposal ensured it £avoi.rable public

comment in many countries. Yet, at the 13th V.U. Ganerzl Aosembly, the M.S.

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opposed the Soviet proposal and took a stand which, in sihstarce, called for the

separation of international co-operation in the use of sae for peaceful purotea,

7See on this pointInternatkepal Affairs, Memos', Vz. 11 and 146. 12, 1959.

'For a gemeral conception of demilitarisation and nlutralication in international lea sae L. Oppeeheim, International...1m London, 1955, Vol. 1, p. 243.
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from the problem of disarmament. This ignored the single truth that only a

cardinal solution of the disarmament problem could create favourable conditions

for international co-operation in the peaceful use of apace. The U.S.S.R.

proceeds from the fact that universal and total disarmament could create the

most favourable conditions for the peaceful use of the cosmos.

Demilitarization and neutralization of out*: space is one aspect of the

general problem of disarmament. Set the absence of agreement on disarmament

as a whole and also on demilitarization and neutralization of outer space cannot

serve in any way as justification for the American plans to utilise outer space

for military purposes.

The activities of states in outer apace mutt conforn to the aims and principles of the United Sations Charter. The demand of the U.S. Charter that

states should refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial

integrity or political independence of any state, most also extend to outer

space. la other words, each state has a right to use ouiar space at its own discretion, but without causing harm or damp to other states. This is also said

in a resolution on sovereignty over air space end the legal regime of the cosmos,

adopted by a Conference of the International Law Association in Auaust 1960.

The foregoing is sufficient ground for recognizing as unlawful, from the

standpoint of the existing rules of international law, the attempts of certain

U.S. circles to utilize outer space for military purposes. Consequently, the

efforts of U.S. military leaders to emelov artificiel ses-eliitet for the

collection of intelligence data are unlawful. More than het, in this case

it io possible to draw an analogy with the rules of air law which declare aerial

espionage unlawful and specifically prohibit the use of photographic equipment

for these purposes. We can refer, for example, to Article 36 of the Chicago

Convention of 1944 Which stipulates that "each contracting state may prohibit

or regulate the use of photographic apparatus in aircraft over its territory."

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From the viewpoint of the security of a state it makes absolutely no

difference from what altitude espionage over its territory is conducted. A

state will not feel any safer because military preparations against it are

carried on at *very high altitude. The main thing is that the otject of

espionage and the results are the same irrespective of the altitude. Bence there

is absolutely no ground for alleging that espionage at a high altitude, with the

aid of artificial Earth satellites, is quite lawful under the existing rules -

of international law. Any attest to use satellites for espionage is just as

unlawful as attempts to use aircraft for similar purposes.

In this connection we may quote the American jeerer' Missiles and Rackets, ----

which wrote in May 1960 that "the only real difference tetween the concept of

Samos and 0-2 was altitude. One flies 15 miles high me the other, 300."

The American lawyer Katzenbach expresses himself still more explicitly on

this point. According to him, whether the observation 'is higher or lover is

irrelevant to the objections sn observe* state would petit or the claims the

observer would make."9 Many other bourgeois writers have coma out against

space espionage. 10

Im their effort to justify space espionage U.S. ra5in8 circles seek to tole

advantage of the fact that the altitude limit to which Itate sovereignty extends

has not been settled in international law. 11 The Wall :treat Journe/, obviously

913ulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1958, p.

10See Excel, "El/meats crgateurs d'un droit astronatique" Rnvue gtarcle,

do l'Atr, 1953, No. 3/4, p. 240. Denier at Saporta. "Isc catalites artificial.

at La droit action." Uwe egarale de l'Air, 1955, No. 3, p. 303.

110a this point ass International Affgirs, &ewe. to. 11, 1959, pp. 88-96.
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expressing the view of official Washington circles, tries to prove that a spy

satellite does not engage in unlawful activity inasmuch 43 national frontiera

do not extend for hundreds of miles into outer space.12

One view widely currant in the Vnited States is that as long as the altittde

limit to which state sovereignty extends is not settled by way of a treaty, it

should depend on the ability of a country effectively to control the space over

its territory. r--- ... --

Sulzberger, well-kerma American journalist, tried to justify space espLonaeo

in this way. Be wrote that "the sole law applicable to air space romaine that of

ancient Rome: 'Be who owns the ground, owns everything to the heavens and to

the depths.' But this is enforceable only to the extent ::hat it can be policed."13

Sulzberger holds that as long as spy satellites are beyoud reach, their Launching

is perfectly legal and should not arouse objection.

Such assertions are designed to justify the claim to American control over

outer space made by U.S. military and political leaders. In line with these

claims, attempts are made to prove the legality of apace espionage over the

territory of the Soviet Union and the other Socialist cc:entries. At the same

time measures are discussed to prevent similar action over U.S. territory.

According to the Associated Press, methods of combatting satellites are

being intensively developed in the United States. This ileludes a study of the

possibility of developing as "Inspection satellite equip:mid with instruments

to ascertain what electronic and other equipment is carried by the suspected

satellite. There are plops to develop a satellite equiload with devices for

putting est of commission electronic sod photographic equipmmet imetailed es
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reconsaissence.satellites and also to develop an interceitor satellite, launched

from the ground or from a plane, for the destruction of qv satellites.

In an effort to mislead world opinion alarmed by tiu:Pentacon's space

eepionage plane, American propaganda is distorting the /Raid.= of the Soviet

Union on this question. The American press frequently a:leges that the Soviet

Union is oppoaed to aerial espionage, but does not object to apace espionage.

The ben York Times even tries to present the position of the U.S.S.S. as follous:

You can send satellites over our country all you please. They can carry cameras,

radios, food for a spaceman. But they must fly high up at an altitude where

we cannot bring them down. It is outrageous to overfly at 80,000 to 100,000

feet but not at 100 miles and more."

The Soviet stand on the use of outer space is well Inown. The Soviet sputniks

have only peaceful, scientific purposes. taothor convincing example of this

is the recent orbiting and return to earth of the second Soviet space ship. Thin

outstanding scientific feat opened another brilliant page in mrai • s conquest

of space. The vital scientific and technical problem of retur- iron space has

been solved.

The Soviet Onion is prepared to co-operate with any state in the peaceful

uses of outer space. But it vigorously objects to any attempts to militarize

it and the nee of space vehicles for the purposes of military espionage. Our

stand on the Auerican space espionage plans is daterminee by our attitude to

everything that runs counter to the interests of peace and helps prepare for

aggressive war.

In case of need the Soviet !Union sill be able to prctect its security against

any eacresabseute firm outer apace jest as successfully as it is dome with respect

to air space. As N. S. threshehey said, °If other espionage methods are used,

they sill also be paralysed andtelmO.Sed."
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Such action will be fully justified under the existing rules of international law and the United Nations Charter. The Soviet Cniou cannot remain

indifferent to acts of espionage directed egainst its security, irrespective

of whether air space or outer space is usedlor these purposes.

This le the official Soviet translation reproduced frost the English edition of

;11ternatlepel Affairs, No. 10, October 1960, pp. 53-57, published La Plesermv

by the Soviet Society for the Popularisation of Political and Scientific Knowledge.