U.S. 7TH FLEET PUT ON ALERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190084-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: June 18, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190084-6
AN 8 1960
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US, 7TH FLEET
PUT ON.ALERT
Far East Action Is Called
? Normal Precaution
Quantico, Va., June 17 'IRPrTlic
7th Fleet in the Far East iS"lin?a
"normal Precautionary alert," he
Defense Department .said today.
? ?As spokesmarCSaid that this*
parently, limited alert was due to
the presence of 'President Eisen':
bower in ?the area:and "the! gen-
. - ?
eral tempo of the 1.imes- in :ilk
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Pacific and particularly in - the been announc .ed." '
.Formosan area ." . _,,Ile W-a,s asked if any neW action
? . ?
.The 7thFleet,_ 'which has its had rbeen _taken' to,,Vengthen the
forward base's inf Japan and in forces of the' Chinese NatiOnalists
[the Philippines, no includes three in their?primat'.position on ? For-.
carrier's, the spokeSman -said after inosa' and on the offaliore island
eonferring with .Adm. Arleigh of Quemoy../,_ ,,, . : . 2., '
Burke, Chief of , NavalrOperations.
Fire Damages Sargo
Te' fleet usually has two Or three ? .
The' '., -..
There had 'been 'no sPecial ilk-
:carriers ? on Station in Iliewestern celeratibri," ,the spokesinan "said?
Pacific., ..4t i , .? .. - ??? blit the Naticinalist forces already
'I Burke and virtually-a11 others
i "
of the top ? civilian and military had been .provided with modern
weapons and equipment in tivan-
high command are at this ?Marine
Corps ? base . for .their annual con- titY" under ,ternis.of the Military
ference. , ? ....- ? assistance program: _
I The spokesinan - was' aiked - Actually/ the size of the oper-
whether any move had been made atifig fleet''in the Pacific' is re-
"or is cqntemplated to strengthen duced by at least one iriiportant
, United States military forces in unit. ,The ' nuclear ,' Submarine
the Far East to meet the posSibil- Sargo was damdged ;by* fire at
'ty of ,ttouble from Red China. ? Pearl Harbor earlier' this week.'
The answer w.as that 'none has The Navy does not plan to 'send
a replacement while the Sargo
undergoes repairs.' ? :
The atomic ? submarine Sea
Dragon, now In the Atlantic Fleet
-and based at New Londbn?: Conn.,
is scheduled to join Ithe Pacific
Fleet about. August 1,- to Work
out of Pearl Harbor.
Sub-marines ;out of Pearl' Har-
bor, including' the nuclear sub-
marine Swordfish, go .on: patrol
in the 7th Fleetarea of the West-
ern pacific. The Sea Dragon's
assignment.; to the 'Pacific Was
made- several weeks _before th
fire aboard the Sargo.
The 'nuclear submarines, espe-
cially valuatileagainst other' sub-
marines, (are ininortant erpo-
nents in the Pacific, Fleet. Esti-
mates are tnai as: many .as .100
Communist submaiines may be
imes,-.1,ccificirl in Part - sanitized CODV Approved for Release
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deployed in the Pacific.
In thefirst business session ..to
day' the . more than ? 160 officials
from the pentagon and overseas
commands iteard secret summar-
ies on, militart r diplomatic, and
technical deVelnpments, at home
and around the'world.
A tpp-ranking
gence A eriewfficialp.Geri. C: P.
Ca e ,:gave theiconferees a. cthi-
densecaLi.ol,ft w-h an is ? or-
gigati,2NL444?,oLtrends--;and
possibilitiethemicpmmuinst
"
aymond- A. Hai-e,' Deputy,. Un-
der Secretary of State, presented
the country!s foreign policy:7a
topic presumably embracing sonie
of The complications that have
arisen in the. wake of the summit,
failure, the U-2 incident and the"
turmoil in Jaoin--
S.
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