IMMEDIATE PLANS FOR AQUATONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62B00844R000200060013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 18, 1956
• Content Type: MF

 Approved For Release 2000/08/26 : CIA-RDP62B0Q844R000200060013-3
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25X1 A With respect to the construction now in progress at-
I beelievee the Air Force should be advised that there is little
prospect we will ever wish to operate from that bare 90 they may reach a
prompt dsctsice a as to the complsti*n, `Odific&ti9n, or suspension Of work
at ft
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y wi
l probably carry most of it through to completion, there would
advised at this time of the changed outlook. - - - - -~ ---w s+a.a
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would like to emphasize for the record the basis of that decision. The
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to penetrates the USSR from the s.etth without detection. We have already
flown missions over the Crimea and have been tracked more accurately
there than in Central Russia. It is no exaggeration to say that the only
prospect of being able to penotrato witbout tracking is for flights over the
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viewed in this light, the deployment of a unit to that location can be justifto
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mind in a few weeks time. I suppose this can be justified on the ground that
we have already spent some to little purpose
and we may as well spend a bit more on the off c' c, that things will 'change
for the m"-&w"
RICHARD M. BISSELL, JR.
Project Director
RMB;gjg (18 Jul 56)
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