tion. This addition together with the fiscal year 1958 MCA authorized barracks and family housing programed in the fiscal year 1960 surplus commodity funding program will provide for the long-range strength of this station. Enlisted men are now housed at two main locations (4-mile separation) in 68,391 square feet at location 12, and 57,469 square feet at Chitose I. These facilities are all quonsets built in 1951 and are past their point of diminishing utility as barracks. When new facilities are available, the quonsets at Chitose I will be turned over to the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces; those at location 12 will be used primarily for storage for the duration of their useful life. If this project is not approved, quonset facilities must continue to be utilized. The last item at location 12 is a frequency converter plant for $255,000. This is required to accomplish an increased operational mission demanding high quality performance of operational equipment, 60cycle power with minimum voltage and frequency variations. At present, 50-cycle commercial (Japanese) power is being used supplemented by 50-cycle emergency power (three 100-kilowatt generators in the operations building). If this project is not accomplished, the numerous operational difficulties that are directly attributed to existing electrical power will continue; thereby preventing maximum operational efficiency. USASA LOCATION 13 The next location for the Army Security Agency is location 13, page 379. Again there is an electrical power requirement for frequency converter and an operations building addition at a total estimated cost of $327,000. The first of these is an addition to the operations building similar to that one requested at location 12. The estimated cost is $72,000. The second project is a frequency converter plant identical to the one requested at location 12 and the same cost, $255,000. The basis of requirement is the same as those requested for location 12. This is in an area where the construction is done by the United Kingdom. Senator STENNIS. All right. USASA LOCATION 23 General SEEMAN. The next item is location 23 on page 382, two enlisted men's barracks, without mess, at an estimated cost of $561,000. Senator STENNIS. This is classified now? General SEEMAN. The location is classified. Senator STENNIS. Put it on your list for executive session, please. Next item. USASA LOCATION 90 General SEEMAN. The next item is location 90. It is in Japan, a transmitter facility at an estimated cost of $84,000. Senator STENNIS. All right. USASA LOCATION 177 General SEEMAN. The next one is a location for the agency in Korea. This is more or less an entire integrated facility to be moved to a new location, and involving these six items all the way from barracks and BOQ's, mess, motor repair shops, utilities, and operations building, at a total estimated cost of $1,264,000. Senator STENNIS. Are you going to take care of 420 extra men at a cost of $400,000; is that correct? General SEEMAN. That is correct. The present operational location of this particular unit is in the wrong place, exposed, and it requires adjustment in the logistics area to a better location. Furthermore, the existing buildings are pretty much worn out and dilapidated and uneconomical to repair anyway. Senator STENNIS. Well, I saw there in the Korean Army the ultimate in austerity. I want to give Senator Case one illustration. The Army goes out in its spare hours and makes the tiles and the blocks on the ground and builds the barracks themselves, and the dollar cost is very, very small. Actually they make up this tile, what we would call concrete blocks, everything right on the spot. I was very much impressed, and they work with great enthusiasm. I have some pictures I want to show you. Senator CASE. Was that U.S. personnel or Koreans? Senator STENNIS. No, that is Koreans all the way through. We furnish them with military assistance. General SEEMAN. There is no contracting industry in Korea as we know it. They have some contractors there, but it is a combination of labor service, contractors, self-help and materials and use of all resources. Senator STENNIS. You see, this is the Army unit in the company, they build the barracks for themselves. All right, next item. USASA LOCATION 321 General SEEMAN. The next location is 321 on page 395, sir, headquarters building at one of the locations in Korea at an estimated cost of $31,000. USASA LOCATION 321-A General SEEMAN. The next location, on page 397, consists of three enlisted men's barracks. They are now billeted in Quonset and Jamesway Huts, which is a temporary expedient, and this estimate of $100,000 would put them in better accommodations. USASA LOCATION 321-B General SEEMAN. The next location is on page 399, also is for two 40-man barracks. Senator STENNIS. All right. General SEEMAN. That completes the Army Security Agency. 54781-60- -15 SIGNAL OVERSEAS STATIONS The next one is the Signal Overseas items, and here is where there has been a major change, as we outlined in the letter to Senator Russell on the 30th. We cut out all of our requests for station 17, and I am talking from page 401 now, sir. We cut out all of our request for stations 17, 19, and 20, and modified downward our request on station 14. Senator STENNIS. All right. What amount do you have on that now? General SEEMAN. The total in our authorization requests for all of these Signal Overseas installations is $2,476,000 Senator STENNIS. From $3,282 million to what now? General SEEMAN. $806,000. General Cook. A reduction of $2,476,000. General SEEMAN. A reduction of $2.4 million; the net requirements for station 14 now are $490,000. Senator STENNIS. That is what the book shows? General SEEMAN. That is right, sir. We have inserted new pages in the book. sir. Senator STENNIS. You left out 17, 19, 20. What about 23? General SEEMAN. No. Location 23 is another part of the world, Senator STENNIS. All right. Senator CASE. Seventeen, are you asking for 17? General SEEMAN. No new authorization, Senator Case, for 17. Senator CASE. To what extent will this 17 be used by Japanese personnel? General Cook. None, sir; 17, none. Senator CASE. You mean you are not asking for 17? Senator CASE. But do Japanese personnel use 17? General Cook. No, sir. Senator CASE. Mr. Chairman, I have a growing feeling that where these facilities are provided overseas in Japan, in Germany, and in other countries where their local economy is booming, that they should provide the funds for the facilities which their troops use, and also for those which we use which will eventually be turned over to them. If we are building utilities at any place or barracks, and we will eventually be turning them over for the convenience and use of the overseas of the indigenous personnel, I think the capital costs should be supplied by those countries. General SEEMAN. Mr. Chairman, I would respectfully request that we take this up in executive session because this is a tie-in for the security services as well as the command network in the Japanese area. This is solely for our own intelligence and command network and we, perhaps, should go into it in some detail. Senator STENNIS. If we can go through this, maybe we can have an executive session on it briefly. Next item. STARCOM COMMUNICATION RELAY STATION, General SEEMAN. The next station is location 23 on page 425 where there is a headquarters, an administrative building, and a power supply at their receiver site of two items for a total estimated cost of $316,000. Senator STENNIS. That was what page now? General SEEMAN. Page 425. Senator STENNIS. Do you want this carried as a classified item? General SEEMAN. No, sir. They are in this unclassified book. If we require any more detail we would go into it. Senator STENNIS. Well, it is marked "classified" All right. Next item? sir. up here. General SEEMAN. That completes the Signal Corps Overseas items, SECTION 102 General SEEMAN. The next one is surface-to-air missile facilities on page 430, and a communications structure. I might make a general statement with regard to the surface-to-air missile activity. There are no new deployment of missiles or weapons here. All of the facilities are for implementing or improving the present deployment, and we are requesting a total authorization of $46,216,000. As you know, due to the state of the art of radar and the continued service of the weapon you realize improvements. The battle between the offense and defense is going on continually with regard to discrimination of your radars, and this is the largest single item in this area. There are 17 project sheets supporting the surface-to-air missile program authorization, Mr. Chairman, but only four of these can be discussed in open session. With your permission, I will address myself to these unclassified projects at this time and cover the remainder when the committee goes into executive session. The first of these projects is for construction of a post exchange and snack bar in the Chicago-Gary defense area at an estimated cost of $168,000. This project is required to provide facilities for operation of exchange retail activities, a snack bar and soda fountain, service outlets and administrative space for exchange activities to accommodate approximately 550 Army and Air Force personnel and their dependents at NORAD Control Center-Site C-80; in addition, approximately 700 men and their dependents, at seven additional outlying NIKE sites, will use these facilities. This facility is considered essential as one of the "fringe" benefits furnished service personnel in lieu of pay consistent with civilian industry. The second project is for construction of a ready building at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S. Dak., for a cost of $39,000. The existing building has become unusable and a source of danger to life and property, due to extremely unsuitable soil conditions has deteriorated to such a point that it has been condemned by post engineer and a temporary structure provided. The proposed ready building will be located on approximately the same site as the old, immediately adja cent to the control equipment and within the control area for a NIKE HERCULES battery. Because the siting of the battery is critical with respect of the defended area and the remainder of the installation is in place and operating, no excess or partially utilized facility is appropriate for the proposed ready building. If this item is not provided the operational ability of the unit will be greatly hampered in that the control area operating personnel will have to be housed in the administrative area which is one-fourth to 1 mile apart and transported by bus during the time on alert. This is a heavy snow area and winter operations would be hampered considerably. This is a HERCULES site and such will not be abandoned. Impossible to travel between control and launches area during adverse (drifted snow) weather conditions. The distance between barracks and ready buildings is 3.5 miles. Criteria is 5 minutes walking time from barracks to place of duty. The third project is for provision of latrine facilities in the Washington-Baltimore Defense Area at an estimated cost of $71,000. Necessary for the health and safety of enlisted men. Due to the location of the present latrines, in a separate building, personnel now have to walk several dozen yards from the barracks to the latrine in all kinds of weather. This situation can be detrimental to the health of those individuals who have just taken showers and must go out into inclement weather to return to the barracks. Since the mean winter temperature in this area is approximately 37° Fahrenheit, any trip to the latrine during winter months is likely to expose personnel to severe cold. Senator STENNIS. Well, General, you take $168,000 now for the Chicago-Gary Defense Area, I have not been out there in that area for a long time, but 20 years ago it was a solid city, as I remember. Who wants to spend $168,000 for an exchange sales store and snack bar there? General SEEMAN. This is an area out in the country. It is 20 miles away from where they have their command headquarters, and it is just a small exchange sales store and snack bar where the men on duty and off duty will be able to come in. They have no large Army post, and the nearest community is several miles away, and some of them are on duty 24 hours a day. They are on shifts all the time. Senator CASE. How many men will it serve? Lieutenant Colonel LEE. There are about 550 men and several men at scattered NIKE sites. Senator CASE. Yes. Senator STENNIS. This was the NIKE-HERCULES; that is the one you mentioned this morning. These facilities are out where, for this $13 million? Lieutenant Colonel LEE. These are all existing sites. These are improvements to existing sites. Senator STENNIS. I see, additions. Yes; that is NIKE-HERCULES. General SEEMAN. The chairman has reference to page 437. General SEEMAN. They are at page 437 but it is a blank page. It says details are in the classified book. It says page 10 in the clas |