DEPLOYMENT OF PROJECT OILSTONE/AQUATONE TO THE FAR EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62B00844R000200010014-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: December 12, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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ORAND CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITZLI STATES AIR 0 C
XCT : Deployment of Project OILSTONE/AQUA TONE
to the Far East
1. Under date of 3 November I addressed a m.msr*ndum to
the above subject to which you replied on 29 November. On 5 Dec.= -
discussed this matter further in your office. Tha purpose of this
nets is to advise you of the present status of this matter.
A. In year memoraoduan and is the course of o
you explalaed that it would be difficult for the Air Force to rovLde base
facilities for the third AQIJAYONE detachment at both
because the simultansess presence of elle unit and BLACK KNIGEIT would
overcrowd the facilities of the theater an4 because you dorm it unwise
(for reasons I fatty understand) to mix the personnel of these two organize
liens at the same base. You also suggested that, in view of the presence
of BLACK KNIGHT in the Far East, we might wish to consider the retention
of the third AC:MALTOSE detachment the present and its sub.
seireent deployment to
3. I accepted your judgment about snd sgres4 that ci
BLACK KNIGHT is already In place her. the ACMAT
should be based eteewhere. It was further agreed bttw..n us that, if this
unit is to be deployed to the Far East, Atsugt Naval Air Station might be
localise provided a hangar could he made available there, since
a minimum of new coustrucdoo would be necessary and since billets and
other facilities are already available to this Agency without the displace-
ment of any military personnel. Accordingly, I advised you that sr* would
approach the Chief of Naval Operations to investigate this possibility.
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4. This has since
facilities at Atsugi. Admiral aurk. tni?rm.4 us that,
te deploy an ACRIATCelE unit to the Far East, the Na
make a treitable hangar available on rather short **lice.
that he would disease this matter with you and possibly
Joliet Chiefs of Staff. This 1 understand he has done.
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S. We have carefully ceasidered the p.saibllity of deployingthe
third ACWATOtit detachment to
as an alternative to its deployment to the
I. We are led to the couclusion, however, that there is little
prospect of media/ it fez this purpose. Both potitical and security
consideratioas indicate that nothing more than a brief and limited staging
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targets more readily accessible from than frown other Imes'
could be cmrered in a small number of missions. Since we can deploy
up to twelve aircraft to Eur M ch I9S7 and our plane call for the
temporary lase of eel we are satisfied that the require-
ment can be met without drawing on the resources of the detachment now
in readiness for depliryment.
6. In summary, the
We remain convinced
AQUATONE detachment to
We understand the nieces
be made available at Atsugi.
as follows:
ability of deploying the third
tip
Our request for such faciUtles is bole,. A
are awaiting the outcome of his c
hers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I used not review the reasons for my belief that this unit should
as soma as possilole where it can he used to the best advantage to
need that exists or may arise.
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