Evening star., 1952-11-13
News BIockout on Eisenhower
Expected During Visit to Korea;
9th Army Has Detailed Plans
300 Writers to Cover
Trip, but Dispatches
Will Be Deluyed
BY the Assoeictsd Press

Will Be Delayed
by the Assoeicssd Press
SEOUL, Nov. 13.-The 9th
Army'S public information officer
today predicted a news blackout
during President elect Eisen-
hower'S viSit-and said:
IF a blackout is ordered, it's
really going to be one!"
1t. Col. r. P. RoSengren said
a final decision had not been
made. but it was probable the
world would get no news of Gen.
Eisenhower'S trip until after he
had left this war-torn nation.
Date of Gen. Eisenhower ar
rival is closely guarded secret.
Col. Rosengren is completing
these elaborate and detailed plans
to handle the 800 correspondents
he expects to cover the visit:
When Gen. Eisenhower arrives
In Korea, his plane will taxi to a
grandstand so feet long and 1S
feet deep. Correspondents will
be on the grandStand. Photog-
raphers will be nearest the door
Of the aircraft in order to get
photos of the President elect
stepping out.
After official greetings, Col.
Rcsengren will invite Gen. Eisen-
hover tc speak to the correspond
ents.
Reporters to Use Airlift.
Planes and helicopters will carry
at least Is reporters, photog-
raphers and radio men with the
general on his tour around Korea.
Each of the major American press
services will have reporter and
still photographer on this special
alrlift. Places also will be re-
served for movie or television men
Correspondents themselves will
choose the others to total 25. Pool
dispatch arrangements will be
made TO, correspondents and pho
tographers who do not get in the
alrlift
There will be no rules against
correspor dents being at places
where the President-elect will land
and probably there will be many
at each stop.
Col Rosegren is setting up big
pressroom for correspondents in
the compound of 9th Army head
quarters here.
Should there be no blackout
after Gen. Eisenhower lands safely
in Korea, Army censors. tele-
phones and teletype machines will
get the news to the world as
swiftly as possible.
May Be Held in Tokyo.
In case of a news blackout.
however, news copy will be held
by the Army to be released in a
veritable flood the moment the
security oan is lifted. News copy,
temporarily impounded, probably
will be flown to Tokyo by special
officers and held there.
Tokyo has much more extern
sive news distribution facilities
than Korea.
In case of a blackout. unde-
veloped photos of the Eisenhower
visit will be flown to Tokyo by
Army officers for processing by
individual agencies. but will he
held there until the security ban
is lifted
Col. Rosengren, a former attor-
ney at Buffalo. N. Y. and San
Francisco, is recognized expert
on intelligence and security.
In the Normandy invasion he
was chief of the SHAEF courier
service, helped handle the security
blackout for the momentous event.
and landed on the beach at Nor
mandy to supervise swift and
secret handling of news dispatches.
Will Nee Rhee Secretly.
When Gen. Eisenhower, then
NATO commander, visited the
United States in 1851, Col. RoSen-
gren was appointed to handle press
matters during his stop at New
York.
At Pusan, a government spokeS-
man said Gen. Eisenhower prob
ably will meet President Syngman
Rhee in top secrecy near Seoul.
The government has called off
for security reasons a big reception
for Gen. Eisenhower in Seoul. the
spokesman, Clarence Ryee, said.
Mr.. Ryee said the Korean gov
ernment will coordinate its Sc
curity precautions with the United
Nations command. This includes a
blackout of Korean newspapers if
the Eisenhower trip is kept secret.