Word: ec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books were officially closed on the Pueblo incident last week, other U.S. spy ships and planes continued to gather intelligence around the world. Still, like Pueblo and the EC-121 surveillance aircraft that was shot down last month off North Korea, they remain highly vulnerable...
...Navy has eight or nine operating AGERS (meaning Auxiliary General Electronics Research ships) similar to Pueblo, but it is unlikely that any are now cruising the hostile waters off North Korea. While these vessels are considered inferior to the EC-121s for electronic surveillance-the planes can pick up high-angle radar beams more easily than the ships-the AGERS are more versatile. They monitor radio broadcasts, collect water samples needed to develop sonar penetration methods, track Soviet submarines, and observe and photograph surface shipping...
Overhead, the big, slow EC-121s still fly the Sea of Japan, listening in on Communist electronic transmissions. Though the four-engine prop planes are now protected by U.S. jets based in South Korea, the North Koreans could shoot down another EC-121 any time they wished. The spy flights come within 4½ minutes' flying time of North Korean air bases, which could scramble more than enough MIGS to down the F-4 and F106 jets that are used to escort the spy planes. Protecting the AGERS seems equally futile. Despite contingency plans designed to rescue...
...ploy that has worn a bit thin. Richard Nixon's decision to show American military might last week was an appropriate reaction in the face of severe North Korean provocation. But he may have overdone it somewhat. In response to North Korea's destruction of a U.S. EC-121 spy plane over international waters, the President gave sailing orders to Task Force 71, a 40-ship armada assigned the task of protecting future reconnaissance flights near North Korea...
...Real Targets. Strong, prospering and politically stable under the government of President Chung Hee Park, South Koreans nonetheless worry about national morale. North Korea's downing of the U.S. EC-121 electronic intelligence plane two weeks ago set off cries for quick retaliation. Kim Chai Soon, spokesman for the ruling Democratic Republican Party, says that "the U.S. should have at least bombed the North Korean air base from which the MIGs took off to attack the plane...