i Decia'ssified in Part - Sanitiged Copy Approved for Reiease 2015 07 24 Tb Mia em Dag y 5 2 November 1967 23 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for R lea e 2015 07 24 I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 2 Soviet Radars SEARCH m m Launch Site Rad ars a ABM moscow -31 m 1 ml CM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 5 50X1 5OX1 50x1 50x1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 50x1 4 Panama 5 Soviet Union 6 Soviet Union Four of the eight parties in Presi- dent Robles' ramshackle coalition are most unhappy over his choice of a presin dential candidate for next May's elec tion They are threatening to form an alliance with opposition leader Arnulfo Arias a shift which could produce an Arias victory Robles may yet try to salvage the situation by settling on _another-candidate -All this infighting has forced the canal treaty issue into the background where it will probably stay during the final months of Robles' administration The Soviets continue to move for ward on the Moscow antiballistic missile defense system The second of the two large early warning and tracking radars in the northwest USSR apparently became operational last month see map These radars could detect and track intercontinental ballistic mis siles coming over the North Pole from the US and feed the data to the-Mos- cow complex The full system could be operational by 1971 although it would have but limited effectiveness against a sophisticated ballistic missile attack 50X1 50X1 Deoiassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Retease 2015 07 24