The 22 September 1979 Event

Director of Central Intelligence, 1979. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 3.

A December 1979 intelligence assessment, requested by the NSC, which assumes the event was a nuclear detonation and examines an accident, a covert Soviet test, and above all three possibilities: a secret test by South Africa, by Israel, or by both together.

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The intelligence community's assessment of possible testers.

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Another state, such as a covert Soviet test.

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Israel, possibly with South African help or territory.

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South Africa alone.

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The DCI assessment noted the DIA's suggestion that the Soviet Union might have had reasons for a covert test.

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The 1979 Vela incident

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If it was a test, who conducted it?

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Cite it

Director of Central Intelligence (1979). The 22 September 1979 Event. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 3. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112557167

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. “The 22 September 1979 Event.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 3 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112557167.