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Commander MARTIN. Of the Soviet force as a whole.

Mr. NORRIS. Well, the P-3 is primarily an antisubmarine plane. Commander MARTIN. Yes, sir; but overhead photography, and so forth, of the surface ships is equally valuable.

Mr. NORRIS. All right.

I didn't know the P-3 was equipped for it.

Were there any helicopters used out of Key West, do you know? Commander MARTIN. I have no knowledge of that, sir.

Mr. NORRIS. In the statement there is a reference to the cruise missile of 400 nautical mile maximum range. But isn't the real danger from this that the cruise missile, unlike the ballistic missile, can come in on the deck?

Mr. RODENBURG. It can come in on the deck but at a much shorter range, because it is a turbojet air breathing missile and to get the 400 miles you have to go high. So if you want to come in on the deck, you can shorten that range considerably.

Mr. NORRIS. The only other thing I would request, Mr. Chairman, would be permission to insert in the record unclassified pictures of the Soviet Navy, to go with unclassified pictures of the Navy showing the various missile systems and the electronic systems that they have. And I would also like permission to insert in the record the map showing the track of the Soviet flotilla into the Gulf of Mexico.

Mr. BENNETT. Is that classified, into the Gulf of Mexico? Because
I never heard of it before. I wonder why we would classify it.
Mr. NORRIS. No, I am not referring to that map. I am referring
to the map in the Navy magazine.

Mr. BENNETT. How about something from Life? [Laughter.]
Mr. NORRIS. If I could find it, I would do it.

Mr. BENNETT. Well, of course when we do put it in our record it becomes sort of official. That is the difference. I mean there is a difference in what has already been exposed and what hasn't been exposed.

We will assume we can get the clearances. I think that whatever is not harmful to our country we ought to put into the record. So contingent upon getting the proper clearances, without objection, it will be included, all this material. I don't want it for the purpose of making publicity. I don't want to have anything that is dangerous to our country at all, but as far as I can tell, I can't see-I sometimes wonder why it is since the Russians know where they were, why it is bad for Americans to know where they were. Except for our devices, to discover them, and on that matter you said we accompanied them by ship. So we would be pretty dumb.

I guess the Russians know we are not dumb. That is one thing I would like to interrogate someone on, whether at the same time they were doing an obvious thing they were also doing the less obvious thing, and the less obvious thing is the thing I am interested in, because it is not likely that the Russians in time of war will let us accompany them by ship. So I want to know whether there was any knowledge of that type.

But I don't believe you are the person to answer that.
Commander MARTIN. I don't believe so.

Mr. BENNETT. Yes.

Without objection, that material will be included.
(The following material was received for the record:)

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