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CO5665522 APPROVED FOR HR70-14 ,RELEASE DATE• 16-Jul-2011 NIE 1 1 5 6 6 March 1956 033018 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE NUMBER 11-56 (Supersedes NIE 11-7-55) SOVIET GROSS CAPABILITIES FOR ATTACK ON THE US AND KEY OVERSEAS INSTALLATIONS AND FORCES THROUGH MID -1959 Submitted by the DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Nary, the Air Force, The Joint Staff, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Concurred in by the INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE on 6 March 1956. Concurring were the Special Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army; the Director of Naval Intelligence; the Director of Intelligence, USAF; the Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff; the Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the IAC; and the Assistant Director, federal Bureau of Investigation...

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What was the Missile Gap?

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