Mr. FORD. Is this the same memo given to a member of our staff dated February 10, 1961?

General DUFF. That is correct.

Mr. FORD. As far as I am concerned, this memo can be put in the record at this point.

General DUFF. Yes.

(The information to be supplied follows:)

The Army News Features, December 28, 1960, was designed to tell a picture story of the cooperative development of the NIKE-ZEUS by the Army-industry team. Boldfaced type at top and bottom of the sheet emphasized the development phase and that the weapon is a prototype. Each caption reiterates the development phase by the use of the words: "mockup view," "actual R. & D. warhead," "simulated flight environment," "testing division," "test firing," "industry team developing NIKE-ZEUS," "development team," "is confident," "will be able," "the prototype rises," "spokesmen forecast," and "will meet." The Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, is quoted saying, “* * * with components actually in the prototype hardware stage," further emphasizing the R. & D. stage of the antimissile missile. The particular weapon in the upper right of the attached ANF in question is ready to be fired at White Sands Proving Grounds. This material was developed for use as a picture story. Use of individual pictures out of the general context was not intended.

Army News Features is prepared in the Troop Information Support Unit and reviewed by the Office Chief of Information. All photos used in Army News Features have been previously cleared for public release by Office Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs).

The Army News Features is an important element of the troop information program. Principal users are the approximately 400 authorized Army newspapers. Civilian publications are sent Army News Features only on a request basis. The publication of Army News Features is not considered a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1913.

Mr. FORD. I appreciate precisely what was said here, that no evil purpose was intended, and if you take the whole thing here, they are covered, but when one weekly newspaper sees this, they pick out a very attractive picture and they do not state that this is a NIKEZEUS prototype.

Mr. FLOOD. My guess is somebody resigned from the Air Force and joined the the Army News.

Mr. MINSHALL. Going a step further, we had a group of Army ordnance people who met out in Cleveland some months ago. They partially blocked one of the main streets in downtown Cleveland with a model of a NIKE-ZEUS. Traffic had to be detoured around it for days. But the average citizen in the city of Cleveland thought this the real thing, ready to shoot and go.

Mr. FORD. I would like to know, as I indicated at the outset, how much is spent on this organization for the fiscal year 1960, 1961, and what you are forecasting for 1962.

General DUFF. Yes.

(The information requested appears on p. 184.)

DISTRIBUTION OF ARMY NEWS FEATURES

Mr. FORD. In this memo which was prepared, this statement is included:

The Army News Features is an important element of the troop information program. Principal users are the approximately 400 authorized Army newspapers.

I do not know how many weekly newspapers there are in the United States, but I suspect the figure runs into several thousand, and if that is true, and if this [indicating] was sent to every one of those, I doubt the veracity of the statement that I read from this memo.

To send

this out to that many weekly newspapers is a major operation, a much bigger operation than sending a comparable sheet to 400 authorized Army newspapers.

General Durr. I will see if we have any information available as to the exact distribution that was made of this.

(The matter referred to follows:)

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ARMY NEWS FEATURES

Distribution of the Army News Features within the Army consists of 1,830, of which 400 are to authorized Army newspapers and the balance to information officers of major commands, units of the Reserve components, recruiting offices, professors of military science, troop information officers, Army schools, Army radio and TV stations, Pentagon staff agencies, and Army bulletin boards on posts. This distribution is made weekly.

External distribution of the Army News Features is confined to those addressees that have indicated a desire for the service. Among these addressees are 834 of the 8,979 weekly newspapers in the United States and 561 of the more than 1,800 daily newspapers. External distribution is made every other week. Distribution to daily and weekly newspapers, based upon requests for the service, comprises approximately 26 percent of the total yearly distribution.

The earlier statement that "principal users are the approximately 400 authorized Army newspapers" was intended to mean that these newspapers make heavier, more consistent use of the material than do other categories of recipients.

Mr. FORD. I just think in the Army's zeal, which I do not deny is an honest conviction, they have gone overboard in this kind of propaganda. I think it is unfair to the public. The public comes to the wrong conclusion. I think it is just bad policy.

General DUFF. Yes.

USE OF NIKE-ZEUS PROTOTYPE

Mr. MINSHALL. Will you also put in the record how much use has been made of that prototype, that mockup weapon they had out at Cleveland?

General DUFF. Yes.

(The information referred to follows:)

PUBLIC SHOWINGS MADE BY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (ORDNANCE) OF FULLSCALE MOCKUP OF NIKE-ZEUS MISSILE

October 19-20, 1960, Cleveland, Ohio.

October 25-26, Philadelphia, Pa.

October 28 to November 1, New York City, N.Y.

November 11, Birmingham, Ala.

November 18, Pittsburgh, Pa.

December 7, Burlington, N.C.

December 9, Greensboro, N.C.

December 10-11, Winston-Salem, N.C.

January 20, 1961, inaugural parade, Washington, D.C.

At all of these public showings a news release was handed out pointing out that the NIKE-ZEUS

operational.

was in advance stages of development and not

Mr. FORD. I have here a citation of law that I would like to have inserted in the record.

(The information referred to follows:)

LOBBYING WITH APPROPRIATED MONEYS: 18 U.S.C. 1913

No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropriation; but this shall not prevent officers or employees of the United States or of its departments or agencies from communicating to Members of Congress on the request of any Member or to Congress, through the proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of the public business.

Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, violates or attempts to violate this section, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both; and after notice and hearing by the superior officer vested with the power of removing him, shall be removed from office or employment (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 792).

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL OF RETIRED OFFICERS

Mr. MAHON. What is the basis for the international travel of retired officers?

This report for the month of October 1960, indicates that 75 retired officers, accompanied by 48 dependents, traveled to various places on MATS during the month of October of last year. Who pays for trips such as an officer and family of three took from the Philippines to Okinawa, or the trips of officers and their families from Frankfurt to the United States?

General DUFF. Sir, transportation furnished to retired officer personnel, and their dependents, is referred to as a fringe benefit, and it is of long standing and has been authorized by the Congress. Such travel on the Military Sea Transport Service, and the MATS Service, is only on a "space available" basis. Because of the restrictions on travel, "space available" basis is becoming almost extinct at the present time, that is space available after accommodations have been met and that otherwise would be unused. I refer to a transporting vehicle, whether it be a ship or aircraft, that would have this much unused space otherwise, and it involves no additional out-of-pocket cost to the Government. Space available transportation may be compared to post exchange privileges, commissary and medical privileges afforded to Army retired personnel. While this does not provide the Army with tangible money benefits—

Mr. MAHON. You can expand on that for the record if you like. The point is, retired officers and their dependents travel free if the space is available?

General DUFF. If the space is available, so it does not require any out-of-pocket expense as far as the Government is concerned.

Mr. FLOOD. Suppose I had a boy due back on emergency leave, death or illness in the family. Does he have any chance of being bumped by some retired officer, seven children, and grandmother?

General DUFF. He has not, sir.

Mr. LAIRD. It has happened.

Mr. FLOOD. It will happen from now until the end of time, but I want to brush them up a bit.

General DUFF. If, for example, that space had been tentatively provided, or scheduled for a retired person and such an emergency situation did arise, the opposite would be true. He would bump the person who was occupying the space available basis.

Mr. FLOOD. You can give me cases where that is true because I know, I have experienced some cases where it has been true, but I can imagine in certain command areas in the Pacific I know, keeping in mind certain officers in the last 5 or 6 years who were there, at port of embarkation and terminals, I can imagine what would happen to a two-stripe air transportation officer-they will bump a bird colonel to send some yardbird back to me.

"SPACE AVAILABLE" TRANSPORTATION

Mr. MAHON. It would be interesting to know if it is not possible for retired officers to get their accommodations for this sort of travel by prearrangement?

The point is, How often does space become available?

Are plans made in order to make the space available for this type of personnel?

Mr. FLOOD. And with particular reference also if the run is still on, from New York to Casablanca to Naples, to Tripoli to Istanbul, Ismir and back. I would like to see some available records if that line is still open on that cruise.

General DUFF. We will determine what information is available on this.

(The information is as follows:)

SPACE AVAILABLE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION

Space becomes available on MATS and MSTS craft as follows:

MSTS.-Limited numbers of space available accommodations occur on almost every ship. It varies from 2 to 20 or more cabins and is completely unpredictable because of factors peculiar to this type of travel.

Army members and their dependents are port called for travel on MSTS approximately 30 days prior to their scheduled departure. This is considered the minimum time in which it is possible for the traveler to make all preparations incident to a permanent change of residence. Some of these personnel fail to report as directed because of illness, difficulty in obtaining transportation to the port due to storm or strike, or any of a number of valid reasons. If a cancellation occurs, and the port is advised in sufficient time, the space is filled with other space required passengers. If not, there is no recourse except to sail partially empty, or to permit active duty and retired military personnel and accompanying dependents to utilize that space.

During certain times of the year, the capacity of the vessels on the route may exceed the requirements for the area served. Unused space is then apportioned to the services for space available travel.

MATS.-Space is generated on MATS by failure of some passengers to report on time. However there are other considerations peculiar to air transportation which usually cause surplus space. One condition is when an imbalance of requirements exist, e.g., more passengers inbound than outbound or vice versa. Sometimes it is possible to get a one way charter flight, at other times a plane must be positioned for the imbalance of traffic and may fly to the pickup point either without any passengers or only partially loaded.

Space is also created because freight is often moved on aircraft which are convertible to a passenger configuration. Freight movement is generally greater

outbound from CONUS. The aircraft on the inbound trip may be used for passengers, if there is no cargo to be returned.

Space is not deliberately created to provide space-available transportation for either active duty or retired personnel. Retired members because of the time element have greater flexibility for acceptance of last minute MSTS spaceavailable accommodations. Many retired personnel travel to the ports and stand by at the gangway so that they may travel if a scheduled passenger fails to arrive. Personnel on active duty, due to limited leave time, endeavor to travel by air and they as well as retired personnel must take their chances, standing by at aerial ports for space on MATS.

SPACE-AVAILABLE TRAVEL, MEDITERRANEAN AREA

One MSTS sailing per month from New York serves the Mediterranean area. Prior to January 1, 1961, the itinerary was New York, Rota, Barcelona, Leghorn, Naples, Tripoli, Piraeus, Istanbul, Izmir, Naples, Leghorn, Barcelona, Rota, New York. The lesser requirement to and from ports in the eastern Mediterranean normally resulted in open space between calls at Leghorn.

A survey of Army sponsored space-available traffic for period July 1, 1960 to December 31, 1960, indicates a monthly average of five passengers outbound from New York to the Mediterranean and eight inbound passengers to New York. Intra-area traffic averaged 95 passengers monthly traveling between various destinations within the Mediterranean area. The latter number consisted mostly of personnel stationed in Europe and in the Mediterranean area. On January 1, 1961, the schedule was modified to terminate the voyage at Naples. This was done because of reduced surface requirements to and from the eastern Mediterranean which would not justify continuation of the multipledestination sailings. The present itinerary is New York, Rota, Barcelona, Leghorn, Naples, Rota, New York.

TRAVEL OF FOREIGN MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mr. MAHON. Was the Army reimbursed for the cost of transporting by commercial aircraft in October, for example, nearly 1,000 foreign military personnel to various places? I believe it was nearly 1,000 in October of last year who traveled via the Army.

General DUFF. I am not completely familiar with that circumstance, but I would assume this is a case of personnel who are being brought to the United States for schooling, or for training and for whom the transportation is provided by the military assistance program appropriation.

Mr. MAHON. I would like to be very sure of the facts in that situation. Will you please check that?

The report shows as an example, and I have checked the report carefully, that a 1st lieutenant of a foreign army was flown from Washington to Detroit to Moline to St. Louis to Memphis to Birmingham to Huntsville to Memphis to Dallas to El Paso and to New York.

Just how is this type of travel financed?

General DuFF. What this particular circumstance was and the purpose of this trip we will attempt to determine exactly and put it in the record.

(The information to be supplied follows:)

Generally all foreign military personnel visiting at the specific invitation of the United States are guests of this country. Such travel costs are normally charged to the military assistance program.

Specifically the first lieutenant whose travel was referred to by Mr. Mahon was here on a military assistance program orientation-observer training visit, ordnance, of 23 days' duration. His travel was financed from the military assistance appropriation, on a nonreimbursable basis.

67438-61-pt. 2- -13