JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000100190011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 12, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Friday - 12 June 1970
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6. Met with Mr. John Reddan, Counsel,
My Lai Special Investigation Subcommittee, Ho ~,G~ Armed Services
Committee. who told me that General Cushman's appearance had gone
quite well and had included some difficult areas of questioning.
7. Met with Charles Johnson, Staff
Director, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and reviewed
the current status 'of S. 782 with him. In brief, he feels it would be
well if we were to touch base with each of the Subcommittee members
before the Subcommittee meets on the bill. I thanked him for his advice.
8. Met with Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Hou P Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the
Vietnamese infiltration rate for June, Soviet intercept squadron defense
mission in Egypt, Cambodian political situation, and the Soyuz 9 mission.
Mr. Slatinshek gave me a copy of correspondence between the
Air Force and Representative Lucien Nedzi (D. , Mich.) concerning
press reports that Soviet long-range aircraft flying into Cuba are not
tracked. At least in one instance after these aircraft left the vicinity
of Iceland they were not located again until they were later photographed
on the ground in Cuba. He asked whether we could shed any additional
light on U. S. inability to track long-range Soviet aircraft headed in our
direction, which the Committee feels should be a matter of interest to
the Agency as the leader in the intelligence community.
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.Ir. Nedzi:
^Cently, a r,~mbe.:c of your staf' , Nr. Samuel H. Black,
rC.~,-es'.ed our comments on an article which appeared in the
News on May 3_3, 1970, regarding the flight of Russian
C,:: t from the Soviet Union to Cuba.
The incident referred to was off ;_cially reported to the
Washington press corps on April 30, by Mr. Jerry Friedheim,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of De ense (Public Af-
and 1 a ^c , omas H. Mooror,
of Naval Oporati_on s,- in a .si ~cch to the r.merican Ord--
nc.u-o As.sociation.. The inforita!::;_on was repeated to membo . s of
A oci.~ e'1 in Las Vegas,
Aviation/Space Writers ss - ti Nevada,
b'' L r. Daniel Z. Ilenkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Pub-
15c A~~airs).
?s the- article by Mr. Edwin G. Pip, staff writer for the
t. News, correctly infers, the Air Force has no capabil-
t :;'o, tracking aircraft out of rz ngc of our shore-based
We have no radar coverage of the Atlantic region in-
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can only t.r_ack flicght:s which enter the coastal Air
Identification Zone. `l.'}l^. I'.u 7 ]_~ n J oncj--rancjo naval
'"O;nnai sanco plane in question da.c'. no' penetrate this zone
C?'`_.. our avast Coast. Those :i.ntercept:ed near Iceland were not
c,-=--ying air-to-stir:-ace missiles , although some Soviet long-
~" .a e ;Manes have :his capabi._li_ty. Tn theory, such missiles
could be launched from outside our radar coverage . Further-
.ooril,, low-flyinq aircraft could, penetrate Well into our pres-
c::Ii: sear cJefoAi;;r_:~ befoxo boin ~' ;ico;c_-c'ci.
It is hoped' the above infcr~:r anon Will be helpful to you.
lf_we can be of any further c sni.n-'c ncn, please let us know.
'.C".hment
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LAS VEGAS = Four big__Russian bombers
last month, it was learned
.here.today.
And they did it without being disccvered:o._--
U.S. radar, although their flight prilz--would-
600 -iii1'es-from the U.S. East?.Cow, Vt ?f~j!.L
Actually, they were .intercepted near Ices
the flight they flew in secrecy and isolation, 1tt?
Aviation-Space Writers Association: meeting
Had the Russians wished, it would have
been a simple matter to, launch missiles at -
American cities-if they had flown as low as
100 to 500 feet above the Atlantic and fFtus.
escaped-detection by- coastal radar=
Air Force officials admit they lost trac- t
were sighted near Iceland until they were:'
There- were two -bombers in each of two-
flights. The filghts marked the first time since
the Cuban crisis that the. Communists have ?--
It is not known if the. bombers carried.:::
.nuclear weapons.-
Coast and several hundred miles inland was
open to attack with no measures taken to
protect them.. -
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5. F-102 interceptor tracks a Russian bomber like one- flown to..Cuba
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open to attucK with no- Measures taken to
protect them.
This is the sequence of events as described
here.
During the recent worldwide Russian mili-
tary maneuvers, two of the bombers were
spotted as they approached Iceland.
Two American F-102 jet interceptors were
sent aloft from Keflavik, Iceland, to identify
the planes. The identification was made, but
no shots fired because the bombers did not
penetrate the defense area surrounding Ice-
land.
The interceptor pilots flew so close to the
bombers that they were able to copy the
numbers on the tails of the planes.
When the interceptors left, the Russian
planes were flying south over-the Atlantic.
Pour days later two more of we Russian
Bears were intercepted near Iceland and
their tail numbers copied before they con-
tinued south
L . During the next few.. days. two flights of.'
the bombers again were intercepted near
Iceland, This time they were northbound,
heading toward Russia.
The planes' tail numbers correspond with those-copied by the interceptor pilots when"ihe`
In the meantime, Air Force rmcotmeissanca.. .
planes, which routinely photograph Cuba, re-
turned with photographs showing Russian
Bear bombers parked at the Cuban airport.
This is the first time this type 'of: Russian
`vvith the bombers.
The Russian Bear bomber has four turbo''.
prop engines. Its range is 8,000 miles.
Each plane can carry two 500-mile-range
air-to-surface nuclear missiles. Also the planes
are c.'a p a b I c of carrying 25,000 pounds of
bombs.
Defense officials said it is not-unusual for
the bombers to go from Russia to Iceland,;'.
They said that.froni the time the bombers
were identified near Iceland until photographs,
showed them in Cuba there was no contact
ently return to Russian bases.
However, last month was the first time the
Russians have made nonstop flights to Cuba.
The Russians are known to have 150 to 2007
Bear. 'bombers.. In odditian they have,several
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hundred medium-range bombers, some. super-
sonic and capable of in-flight refueling.
The bear can be used both as a bomber and
as an aerial tanker plane for the shorter-range
bombers.
U.S. defense officials have known of the
capabilities of these aircraft for several years.
They know there is nothing to prevent the
Communism from sending a number of these
planes to Cuban bases, where they c o a I d
threaten the Eastern and Gulf coasts of the
United States.
Radar in the Southern United States has
proved to be extremely weak. A Russian MIG
piloted by a Cuban defector recently flew from
Cuba and was not detected until it was over
Homestead Air Fbrce Base, near Miami, and
ready to land.
To further complicate the problem, U.S.
austerity moves in recent years have reduced
the n u in b e r of interceptor jets capable of
downing manned bombers when they are de-
tected by radar.
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