ARMED FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700490014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 7, 1958
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

P CIA-RDP75-00149R00070
Approved For Release 2005/01/05 :
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?' ,submarines and other mysterious sounds
Ke,tr.3dtm,ral John Smith t.oacn,
week drew s unique assignments
unidentified submarines. By Navy obser-
vation. goblins currently spotted Qur'an
average of once a week off the Atlahtit
coast :,re nosy members of a Russian Sub-
marine fleet that numbers almost 900
boats, and is already ten timesThe aial-of
Germany's wolf pack at the =outbrdlt of
World War II. Very soon, new Soviet
boats will have missile capacity; C,efitttal
Intelligence Agency Chief Arlen Dallis-
es-timates that ten . missile-carrying _$dbs
could destroy r.6oo sq. nii. 'of tbe? IJ,S.
seaboari s industrial complex unless!titriti-
submarine defenses stop diem. Adtniral
Thach's job:. to renovate an antisub scflen.'
that has become' rusty with'inadequitte
equipment. antiquated tactics and too
much Navy attention to supercarrieltt:*
Lean, hard-eyed "Jimmy" 11i ht 'has
a Navy retiutatron as a brillwrttly'_effec,-
Fighting Squadtun Three whet bd Used=
of his own det king the ThiF:H Wea
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which brought dotal. 19 of ~6 dtta
Japanese 'Bi'tty" FMitfibers abbff'the
an kllerirrentalyltl.ut called Task,
Alpha, which u ddus the carrier,
Pur,-,, it ht db' .t 3a r rs, two honed
ea h rI ,I (fi '!l,~ new jobs in an efTilit to
Bad e,.~ ''ntrl fuhttier away and fasts "
M,wt 4I!,1t,' 3'hach and his trt )x'ith
n, R satyr 1.a.' week Skate. 0)
:rr , 1 att-uk r',bmarinc, crdYst4f~
Irurie .lit to PA-it under water in 7, 4*)
emy,?JF4h talk, to one another and stn, ck
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t eir. lips. Porpoises whistle. and simecous
~, whales, sound likc a fleet: q)oving.At.=,full
,steam. Shrimps chew on ('binge: at ,mAke
,overt. fPul up our magnetic detectom. They
.nibbto at old wrecks 'andget nuts.,-and
holis.;in .their.brAlies. Roadingthe-,wound
,,aud4he,clues in'that-itowle;is an. art." ,
? Airman Thach, confidently, e,gpoGts;,to
: i a Uke a chess game; each piece 1>si'dif-
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The shrimps chow qn things.
by using the submarine-which has &
"biggest et~rs- grid the ltitcraft=whic? as
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