LETTER TO HONORABLE LEWIS L. STRAUSS FROM HERBERT B. LOPEZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700140009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
MILITARY LIAISON COMMITTEE
P. O. BOx 1814
WASHINGTON 25. Q. C.
This Department of the Navy has an urgent requirement for
public disclosure of its atomic depth charge capability.
The Department of Defense has determined that the inclosed
proposed release does not contain Restricted Data. However, the ,
release does contain information by which the depth charge may be
related to the WIGWAM TEST. The Joint ANC-DOD Classification
Guide states that no public releases or statements are to be made
without the specific approval of the ARC and the DOD.
Further, the release contains information regarding nuclear
weapons not previously made public officially thereby coming under
the purview of NSC Action 1360 which requires advance check with
the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, who will coordinate such
releases with the Director of Central Intelligence and the Operations
Coordinating Board.
It is requested that the Atomic Energy Commission concur in
the iacloseed release and accomplish the necessary coordination with
the Director of Central Intelligence and the Operation. Coordinating
Board.
Sincerely yours,
Herbert B. Loper.
C hai rman
1 Inclosure
Proposed Release on
Atomic Depth Charge
Honorable Lewis L. Strauss
Chairman
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
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The liavy Department announced today that the *`nt'--w'bmr"'k* weapon
"which will revolutionise anti-enbmarine warfare", as referred to in the
published testimony of secretary of the Navy Thomas before the Symington
Suboouamittee hearings last June, and mentioned by Secretary Thomas while
on the west Coast last week, is a weapons system which includes an atomic
depth charge. A device was exploded last Year off the coast of California
to test the principles of anch a .weapon.
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Director of Central InteUigence
Prt e&, Navy pnnounceme:nt of Atcanic
Depth charge
1. In accordance with the provisions of NOC Action 1360,
the Atomic Energy tiseion is requesting DCI concurrence
in a public enno mcement of the above device.
2. 0/81 ban no objection to this announcement.
25X1
Acting Assistant Director
Scientific Intelligence
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