MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: January 11, 1968
• Content Type: MFR

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11 January 1968
Morning Meeting of 11 January 1968
DD/I
called attention to the Neil Sheehan article in today's New York Times
DD/I distributed a working paper prepared by OCI on elections
coming up in Latin America during the next year. The Director requested
that Walt Rostow and Arthur Hartman, secretary of the SIG, be included
among the recipients of the paper.
Godfrey referred to a cable from the Warsaw Embassy which
speculates on possible forthcoming developments in the Polish party
and government analogous to the recent changes in Prague.
D/ONE alerted that at today's USIB meeting Tom Hughes may
raise criticism received from the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs
concerning the recent NIE on Guyana. The Director suggested that
such comments be presented in writing.
Carver noted that CINCPAC is planning to hold an intelligence
conference on Vietnam from 19 to 24 February and outlined plans for
Agency participation.
Carver reported on a meeting with Defense representatives
yesterday to work out changes in the funding of the CIA portion of the
pacification program. The Director requested that the Executive
Director get in touch with the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comp-
troller) on the matter.
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Warner reported that Secretary McNamara has inquired whether
the Director will appear personally on 23 January to brief the Foreign
Relations Committee.
DD/S&T noted indications that Communist China is in the process
of constructing a large new gaseous diffusion plant about 125 miles
from Lanchou.
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Executive Director reported that BOB Director-designate Zwick
will be coming to CIA next Wednesday for a briefing.
The Director requested that DD/I analysts keep a close watch
on the results of negotiations between Ambassador Bowles and Sihanouk.
The Director requested that briefing materials on Latin America
to be used before Congress include appropriate material on the contribu-
tion that Latin American military are making to civic action and other
nonmilitary programs.
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 U. S.- Concerned Over Missile That Sank Elath
By NEIL SHEEHAN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 The
sinking of the Israeli destroyer
Elath last October by Soviet-
made ship-to-ship missiles set
off an examination of United
States Navy defenses against
such weapons, Navy sources
said today.
The study has found that no
acceleration of current defense
plans is necessary, the sources
said. But despite this they em-
phasized that the missiles are
a serious potential threat to
Navy destroyers and cruisers
that bombard the coast of
North Vietnam.
The sinking of the Elath off
the mouth of the Suez Canal
Oct. 21 has also focused at-
tention at senior levels within
the Navy and the Defense De-
partment on the importance of
defenses against antiship mis-
siles, the sources said.
Incident Aroused Concern
After StudOfficials Stress
Soviet Weapon Could Peril
Warships Off Vietnam
Dragon patrol along the North
Vietnamese coast were operat-
ing even prior to the Elath in-
cident on the assumption of a
potential threat from Styx mis-
siles, the sources said.
Some officers are convinced
that the Russians will even-
tually supply the North Viet-
namese with Styx missiles, pos-
sibly after the battleship New
Jersey is sent to Vietnam next
fall.
Navy Would Attack Them
The coast of North Vietnam
is kept under constant aerial
surveillance to detect signs that
any missile-launching installa-
tions are being constructed or
to locate any truck-drawn, mo-
bile launchers.
If such installations or
launchers are fould, the Navy
intends to attack them. Air
The Elath was struck by
three missiles that travel at a
speed slower than sound and
are called the Styx by the
Western allies. The missiles,
each of which carries a high-
explosive warhead weighing a
thousand pounds, were fired
from an Egyptian missile-
launching boat in Port Said
harbor. The boat is also made
in the Soviet Union.
The incident aroused con-
siderable concern in Washing-
ton over the danger to Ameri-
can warships off North Viet-
nam if the Soviet Union gave
such weapons to the North
Vietnamese. The Styx has a
range of 15 to 20 miles.
Although there is as yet no
evidence that North Vietnam
possesses the Styx, American
and Australian destroyers and
cruisers on the so-called Sea
are the second line of defen
against the Styx, the sources
said.
These are highly classified
techniques that officers are re-
luctant to discuss, but they in-
volve means to detect and con-
fuse the radar used to launch
the missile and then to deceive
the missile itself, after it has
electronic impulses from equip-
ment carried by the destroy-
rs and cruisers.
To fire the Styx, the launch-
ng crew must first locate the
arget ship on radar and then
et the missile's autopilot to
ide the weapon toward the
,essel. Once the Styx gets
lose to the target, a homing
levice within the missile de-
ects the ships and-brings the
nissile to its final destination.
All destroyers and cruisers
ping to Vietnam, are being
quipped- with such electronic
ountermeasure devices, the
ources said.
The ships, guns and antiair-
Sea Dragon patrol force tojcraft missiles are the third and
--The patrol force normallylthe sources said.
d
consists of three destroyers an
a cruiser. They attack North
Vietnamese supply craft and
bombard truck convoys, radar
sites and other targets along
the coastline.
Electronic countermeasures