The Search for USS Scorpion

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00972A000100240001-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 24, 1968
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Relea 9130097.&A0001 00240001-4
24 July 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence;
SUBJECT The Search for USS Scorpion
1. The US Naval Research Lab's vessel, the
Mizar, is searching an area 450 miles south of the
Azores where the Scorpion is believed to lie. This
site has been selected on the basis of two under
water explosions heard on 22 May.
2. The Mizar is equipped with a towed side-'
looking sonar, a magnetometer, and underwater
cameras. To date, a medium grained search has failed
to locate any submarine debris. An object photo-
graphed last week which appeared to be a hull section
has been identified as a large rock. Debris has been
sighted in the area, but none of it can be correlated
with the Scorpion.
3.. The Navy will decide about 1 August whether
to continue the search. A fine grain search of this
area would require additional equipment including;
navigational devices more precise than.the Transit
satellite.
BRUCE C. CLARKE, Jr.
Director
Strategic Research
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