DEPLOYMENT OF AQUATONE TO FAR EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62B00844R000200020036-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 28, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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28 November 1956
SUBJECT
sployment of AQUATONE' to Far East
I. On 14 November you sent a memorandum and covering note
to Genereel Twining requesting Air Force support in the provision of facilities
for AQUATO N Detachment C in Japan. We have now received (28 Novem=ber)
General Twining's reply to your letter. In effect it states that the Air force
abte to support both AQU TONE and BLACK NIGHT in the Far Last
hold Detachment C in reserve to use as an augment-
* whenever a wherever the world situation dictates.
Japan unless on further consideration the State Department expressed
The President after sews discussion a#rood that this unit should be
2. On IS November we had our =toting with the President in the
a Of which you explained our intention of deploying a ,i etach eent to
objection to such a location. He made clear by at least two remarks that he
was aware that our aircraft possessed a greater capability that the f-571)'s
*"liable to BLACK HT and that if any choice had to be made ACUATONE
should receive a priority. I would interpret this conversation not as a firm
a to deploy to the .tar East but as a permission to do so and I
President was left with the impression that the deployment would
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AQUATONF from the date a firm favorable decision is made. By our
enforced Indecision earlier in the autumn and by Air Force opposition for
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to the above differences in'photograph.ic ca .btt ties,
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