Show r i Crew Release Ends Pueblo Debat Debate By REP LAURENCE J. J BURTON The release of the Pueblo crew a few Cew weeks ago ended a year-long year debate between the United States Slates and North Korea over the alleged intrusion intrusion in intrusion in- in into North Korean territorial waters by an American American American Amer Amer- ican spy SP ship ALTHOUGH the ship will probably never be returned to the United States others will take its place on the high seas to do the same job keep one step ahead of oC potential potential potential po po- po- po enemies by surveillance surveillance surveillance lance methods from Crom the ocean by land and in the air Here in Washington there are people working round the clock at the Pentagon Pentagon Pentagon Pen Pen- tagon circulating orders filing reports keeping our armed forces Corces at the ready In the Pentagons Pentagon's war room or as its it's officially known Jf Army Army- Operations Center I decisions are made concerning concerning concerning concern- concern ing world wide intelligence 1 missions WHERE ONCE England was the world power it is isnow J I now now the United States andt and 5 t Russia Russi We are are re kept up p to fo date pate on Russia's movements movements' and they on ours through va various ous spying methods planes ships satellites etc Even if Russia is not as candid about their spying devices as we weare f r are vo we k know krow ow quite a lot loti i about them vessels Russia's fishing seen off the California coast usually regularly have more electronic gear aboard than fishing nets AT ONE TIME there were 82 such fishing vessels off Kodiak Harbor Alaska and another 10 fishing vessels off Cape Cod near Boston Several Russian trawlers shadow American ships at sea sea- sometimes as in the Sea of Japan in 1961 they are so close they collide Its It's an unwritten unwritten unwritten un un- un- un written law between the two nations to live and let live in the spy something game-something the North Koreans didn't observe SINCE NATIONAL security is observed through secrecy the National Security Agency will not give specific details on how many spy ships-or ships intelligence vessels as official sources want to call them- them are doing their spying around th the globe glob One source estimated there are three ships similar to the Pueblo all equipped with milli million n worth of electronic gear The Navy has also converted conI converted con con- I fj five e larger Jarger ships into inJo spy vessels one of which us lIS the Liberty the ship that was strafed by Israeli fighter planes during the Middle East War two years ago THE UNITED STATES gains information by several other means of course Our fleet of powered nuclear-powered Polaris submarines now total over 40 carrying deadly nuclear missiles and each sub has an underwater listening device These devices can point pin-point activity from other submarines submarines submarines rines specifically aimed at seeking out the Russians Russian's 15 powered nuclear-powered subs The Poseidon submarine with particular stages being built in Utah plants is scheduled for 1970 and will have even more sophisticated listening devices and will be able to travel farther Carther than the Polaris THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency is still sending its U- U 2 and A ll planes abroad from Crom bases in Florida and Vietnam There was a slowdown slowdown slowdown slow slow- down in number of U 2 missions missions mis missions mis- mis following the Gary Powers incident in 1960 when Powers and his U 2 were shot down over the Soviet Union but today today today to to- day the U 2 and A ll A-ll 11 have in increased increased increased in- in creased their activity over the troubled areas of the world The Strategic Air Command operates its range long-range highflying highflying highflying high high- flying bombers to gather information information information in in- formation from where they are based all over the world There are other reconnaissance planes used by the U. U S S. S but most data is classified THE REAL spying done however is air air- today by with the use of satellites The American Samos and the Russians' Russians counterpart are whirling above the earth earths s gypping pictures with such d clarity rity that one military of- of said a newspaper could be read through the cameras camera's eye from orbit orbital l altitudes Ultra modern radar penetrates penetrates penetrates pene pene- cloud cover and forest vegetation to reveal hidden in in- in The satellites snap pictures of troop movements military installations cities- cities and this is hour 24 procedure Infrared sensors in satellites c can n. n un uncover V r hot objects such as as a missile launching or even an automobiles automobile's motor running THERE ARE more than classified satellites in the air penetrating the skies over Russia and anywhere else in inthe inthe inthe the world Officials report that the life of a spy satellite is 25 days and there is always another satellite on the launching launching launching launch launch- ing pad at Air Force Base California for immediate firing into space The cost of our spy program program program pro pro- gram is huge but in my opinion worth it We must know what our neighbors are doing in order to be beable beable beable able to deter any aggression which might come forth THE UNITED STATES and Russia haven't been able to work out a mutual disarmament disarmament disarm disarm- ament ament ment program program because of oC the problem of land inspection teams But once our satellites are highly sophisticated and were we're reaching that point rapidly-perhaps rapidly the satellites will be able to do the in inspecting inspecting inspecting in- in for Cor both nations Once this is accomplished our spy game will turn from a dagger cloak-and-dagger mission to toa toa toa a surveillance for peace |