TOO MUCH SALT II

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400380042-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: May 20, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/12 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000Lp03a.
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ARTICLE A;TFAI '',D
ON
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, May 19-The intel-
ligence services of the United States
Government report some interesting
new developments along the eastern
rim of Asia from the Sea of Japan to
the South China Sea off Vietnam.
According to these .reports,. the
Soviet Union'is7'now -making regular
long-distance-, reconnaissance- flights
in TU-95's ? from: Vladivostok ?in the
U.S.S.R. to the.big air base at Danang,
built by the United States in the north
of what used to be called South Viet-
nam. Among other things, these Soviet
planes keep watch on the movement of
the U.S. Seventh Fleet in that part of
the world, - ::.: - .. .
The Soviets are also now-using the
naval base at:Cam Ranh Bay in South
Vietnam, created at a cost ofbtindreds
of millions by the United States.-The
irony is obvious and still painful -- ?,
The Soviet naval forces are not sta-
tioned there for long but are coming in.
for a few days--and then leaving; Also,
and more interestingly; the .Russians
are building a large modern communb.
cations base at Cam' Ranh Bay, not
particularly to watch the U.S. Seventh
Fleet but particularly to listen in on
the internal communications of main-
.