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Mr. Bauer. Then would the Coast Survey cooperate and take an 

 area that was of interest to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a first priority? 



Mr. Wakelin. I cannot answer that for the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. It would be our suggestion that this be considered very 

 seriously in their survey plans, Mr. Bauer. 



Mr. Bauer. Did you give any consideration to last year's survey 

 between Kodiak, Alaska, and Honolulu as a national defense problem? 



Mr. Wakelin. Yes. 



Mr. Bauer. Now, the next thing I would like to ask you is, you 

 will concur that we have no national program other than a year-to-year 

 basis. Is that right? 



Mr. Wakelin. That is correct. We have a national plan which we 

 have developed, but this must, I think, be filled in by details to be 

 supplied to us this year by the various agencies in the ICO. 



We have two long-range plans which are going to guide us in this 

 regard, Mr. Bauer. 



We have the NASCO report, 1960-70, "Oceanography." We also 

 have our own analysis, agency by agency, of the recommendations 

 of the NASCO report. I think it is out of context to say we have 

 no national plan. We have no fully developed plan in detail for the 

 next 10 fiscal years, covering all of the agencies with their own pro- 

 grams ground in. 



Mr. Bauer. And no guidelines such as this ICES plan? 



Mr. Wakelin. I think you will find that as far as the science of the 

 seas is concerned, the National Academy's report outlines fairly well 

 the program to which the ICES has made reference here, and the 

 ICES program is a specific program. 



Mr. Bauer. Do you coordinate all of the efforts? 



Mr. Wakelin. Not all of them; no. 



Mr. Bauer. Which ones do you coordinate? 



Mr. Wakelin. Well, the ICO does not coordinate in detail at 

 present the Indian Ocean operation. 



Mr. Bauer. Why not? 



Mr. Wakelin. This is the responsibility of the National Science 

 Foundation. 



Mr. Bauer. Is there a piece of paper in existence that would estab- 

 lish that responsibility? 



Mr. Wakelin. There is a letter from Dr. Kistiakowsky to Dr. 

 Waterman establishing the Federal Government's interest in this 

 expedition. 



Mr. Bauer. It is rather amazing, because on requesting the Na- 

 tional Science Foundation to come up with a piece of paper that made 

 the Indian Ocean expedition one of our national ventures, the only 

 thing that the National Science Foundation was able to find was a press 

 release of President Eisenhower dated June 13, 1960, and at this time, 

 Mr. Chairman, I would like permission to submit that. 



Mr. Dingell. Without objection, so ordered. 



(The press release referred to follows:) 



