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Chaired by New York Democrat Otis Pike, the subcommittee has been investigating the capture of U.S.S. Pueblo and the loss of an EC-121 reconnaissance plane, which was shot down by the North Koreans last April with the loss of 31 men. The committee concluded: "The inquiry reveals the existence of a vast and complex military structure capable of acquiring almost infinite amounts of information but with a demonstrated inability, in these two instances, to relay this information in a timely and comprehensible fashion to those charged with the responsibility for making decisions." Equally disturbing was the finding that...
...case of the EC-121, the difficulty was as much one of command as communications. Flying under the operational control of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ-1), the Navy plane was more on its own than it could have realized. According to the Pike report, VQ-1 "lost all effective operational control over the aircraft. Army, Air Force and Navy units monitoring the flight of the EC-121 appeared to assume operational control of the aircraft -and if they did not, no one had operational control." The monitoring units detected the aircraft threatening the EC...
...letter to Henry Rosovsky, chairman of the Ec Department, Ford wrote, "I would appreciate your requesting form Mr. MacEwan a statement explaining just what was his part in the April events, and in particular whether his action did or did not encourage and assist in the forceable occupation of University Hall and the willful disruption of the educational activity of the University. In view of the importance of the proposed appointment Mr. MacEwan has a professional obligation to disclose these facts which relate to his fitness to teach...
...same day, the Executives Committee of the Ec Dept. passed a resolution stating "The Committee has not revised its original estimate of Mr. MacEwan's and Mr. Gintis' professional merits and it has voted to let stand these recommendations...
Obviously, as long as the U.S. has its troops stationed in South Korea, the Pentagon regards the intelligence gathered by the EC-121s as worth the considerable risk. The same is true of the information collected by AGERS in other parts of the world. The provocations against them have been going on for a long time. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently disclosed that since 1949 U.S. reconnaissance ships and planes have been the targets of 41 attacks by the North Koreans...