Declassi ed in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 075'14 The President s Daily Brief November 5 1976 2 I 25x1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release CIA-RDP79T00024A000300040005-1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Retease 2015f07l14 igp mgt rs 100 3o a C_ f I 80 Moscow 46 1249 I Dambamushiyg bf 63% 20min nw 6 55-18 Cemplal SS- 533 9ng - - 25x1 25x1 25x1 25x1 25x1 Deciassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release CIA-RDP79T00024A000300040005-1 in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Reiease 2016 07l14 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY USSR The MIRV equipped 53 18 ICBM may now be operational This ver sion of the 88 18 is the Soviet s largest MIRV missile and has been tested with as many as 20 re-entry ve hicles The Soviets appear to have com pieted the conversion of two more groups of 55-9 31105 for the 58-18 Each of these groups contains six silos at one iocation the Soviets iate last year apparentiy began stockpiling warheads used with MIRV systems No warhead canis- ters of any type have been ob served at the location of the other group The Soviets now have 48 opera- tional 53-18 launchers and are working on 86 more The conver- sion program probabiy be com pieted in 1980 giving them 308 operations 55-18 iaunchers Most of these launchers probabiy be equipped with the MIRV version of the The MIRV-equipped 85 18 has been tested with varying numbers of re entry vehicles On most of its eariy test fiights it carried eight re entry vehicies four iarge and four smaii Since mid 19 5 most of the missiles have carried 10 of the smaiier reuentry vehicies Both the eight and ten-reuentry ve- hicie types have been tested exten siveiy suggesting that both be fieided it continued FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 01314