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The trnited Watton• Secur1t7 Council has beto~e 1t the ott'lo&l ., .• ~ 

~om.plaint o~ the United States Oove'l9r\•ent 11et1na the attaoka ot ti 

· .ioT1et air~raft against American pl:n·~e 1. -o . ~;c ~ ';o·· The complaint, preeented ao ablJ by Hen~ Cabot Lodge Jr., oh1et ~· .&~ 

·United States delegate to the Un1ted Wationa, stemmed rrom the late1t · ~ ~~ 

tragio "incident" in the "cold !ar•. That va1 the 1hoottn.g davn bJ, tvo ~ ~: 

Soviet JUG jet tightens ot a 'Bav7 Lockheed Weptune patrol bomber over the -4 

Bea ot J'apan on . . Sept -· One United States na~l ot.rtcer vae lost in 

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. attaok. In a eenee, Mr Lodge'• log1oal and detailed prea,ntation sel'Y•4 

•• an o~itua17. requiem and Juatit1oat1on tor thi• ott1cer and tor tbe . . . 

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tort7 riv~ ot~er American a1rm.en on missions vho. have lost their lives 1u ~~ 

•even major "1no1dente" vith ftu111an aircraft since April, 1950. \ . • 1.a.:... 

··~ The nature or these m1sa1on1, flown around the periphery or the Il)n <~ 

Curtain, and their high importance to the security or the United States 

are not as fully understood, even to the men who fly them, as they should ,. 

be. 

The purpose of t~ese flights near the Iron Curtain 1e not provocation but security. Fo~ eight years, and particularly since ~be 

start of the Korean W~r in 1950, United States Air Force and naval planes 

have skirted the borders or the Soviet Union and in a rev ca1ea have 

crossed those frontiers. They have been seeking positive and negative 

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- ' -. " . ~ information of diverse character. 'Where the proximity or Soviet bases ' .. makes similar action feasible, notably in Europe, in Japan and Kores and 

it' 1n the Northeast Siber1an-Amer1cJltb area, Soviet reconnaissanae aircraft 

'!Et' y ~ .. ·~ have performed similar missions close to and over, our frontiers and those 

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'1'h1• mutual search tor 1nfo1"11Atlon about wb&t the other tellow 1• I 

L to1ns ia •Jlllptomatic or the 1ueaurtt1 ot the atom.to age and the avtal 

1 liilaltf that can be paid toda7 b7 an7 nation that 1• not alert to t'be 

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:._terrible d&ngera or a aurpr1ae atom1c attaok. 

m11111on1 .flown near the Iron Curtain have •DJ ... - .. ~ ..:-.. : '\.. .. ... ~.l'~ 

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One 1a photo~onna1aaance. aupplemented when po••ible by vi•ual ?" ..... ,_\ ........ , ........ r ......... r .. Peoonnaileanc~~ ·some years ago this wae a more important act1v1t7 than 

~~it la toda7. when most United States aircraft are 11m.1ted to approaches 

; . ;fo oloaer than twelve miles to &D.J' Soviet frontier or coaatltne. At 

~0,000 feet aerial camerae 1n a plane skirting the twelve-mile limit 

could, under good v1eib111ty condition, photograph areas vell behind the 

Curtain. 

Weather m1as1on.a are aleo flown. particularly 1n the Sea of Japan 

and Alaskan areas, not tar from the Iron Curtain. Weather in the north-

~-•e•t Pao1f1c uaually "makes up" in the vest and moves eastward, and 

ordinarily weather reports frbal Siberia are not noted tor either 

.regularity or completeness. 

Shipping and submarine patrols, the par1t1cular reepona1b111t7 

the Navy, are flown by patrol bombers like the P2V shot down over the 

Sea of Japan almost two weeks ago, Most or· these patrol planes are 

equipped with such special anti-submarine dectection devices aa radar, 

sonar buoys and "M.A.D." (magnetic airborne detectors}. 

- Electronic intelligence is the particular objective of specialized 

flights and also of most of the routine patrol and weather m~asions. 

are specially fitted with delicate apparatus that will recOrd 

pulse and approximate location of Soviet radar stations, and some, 

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Wel'n1ng stations to deotect un1dent11'1ed a1rc...:tt ·~ Sz-e~t diatanoes. ~ A ttiw specialized planes also ma1ata1n .patrols,_ ~uall7 vell ava7 ~ from the Soviet tront1ere but at great heights to determine the radlo- -· ~ 

~ aotivity in the atmosphere bf a1r-1ampling techniques. Suoh f'lighta. - -;~:: 

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All these fact-finding missions fly well clear of the Soviet .t"rontt.e:J- ·: 

'tml.eaa their crews make bad nav1g&t1onal errors. These occur occae1o'P&i'7 -~ 

but not often. 

A rev other American-as well aa Soviet-aircraft 

penetrate the other nations air frontiers. The m1ea1ona of .these planes 

•tght be termed an espionage one, as distinct from the routine and 

continuous recon~iasance flight over the high aeas or ovdr friendly 

territory. Age~ta could be dropped by a parachute and ~hotographa 

or electronic recordings made in the air apace above the other nation'• 

territory. 

It is this silent "war," this ceaseless search .for information that 

must be inevitably a part of the "cold war." We have no con!"1denoe in 

the intentions or the Soviet Government, yet we know that the Soviet 

Government has the capabilities of devastat1•a destruction against 

the United St~Les unless ve are alert. 

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