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We would hold in each port a press conference in which we would tell 
the people what we were doing and why we were doing it and how 
this could perhaps contribute to their well-being. 
And this whole aspect was made possible primarily through the 
very close cooperation with and very hard work by the separate offices 
in each country of the U.S. Information Service which did really a 
spectacular job so far as we were concerned. 
But I think this was one aspect of this expedition that in the past 
ships really have not concentrated on very much—this letting the 
people in the areas where our ships are working know why we are 
there and what we are doing and take them along with us to work 
along with us so that the work we are doing does not just come back 
to the United States, but, in fact, filters out to the other countries and 
perhaps helps them in their fisheries problem and their meteorological 
problem and their basic scientific problems. 
I have, which I would like to leave with the committee, two copies 
of the brochure of which we had some 6,000 aboard which were handed 
out to everyone that came aboard, letting them know something of 
what the expedition is about. 
I would also like to leave for possible insertion in the record if I 
may, Mr. Chairman, copies of six letters that have come back to the 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, one, for example, from the American 
Ambassador to Ceylon; one from the Director of the Indian program 
in the Indian Ocean; one from the U.S. Information Service in Cal- 
cutta; one from the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of 
Science; one from the Scripps Institution; and one from a very young 
girl in the Philippines who visited the ship, a 13-year-old schoolgirl 
who wrote to say thanks. 
IT think these things give you some idea of the international aspects 
of an expedition like this and how it can be used to help burnish up 
the American scientific image in a part of the world that is currently 
in a lot of trouble. 
Also, I would appreciate having included in the record an article 
that appeared in the December 1963 issue of the Journal of the Ex- 
plorers Club. In it I tried to summarize briefly what the U.S. oceano- 
graphic program is all about and why it is of importance to the 
United States. I feel that this will make a contribution to the testi- 
mony which the committee is assembling. 
That is the end of my statement, sir. 
ae Preity. Fine, Doctor, the material will be made a part of the 
record. 
(The letters mentioned follow herewith and the article mentioned 
may be found in app. 10, p. 683.) 
THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
AMERICAN EMBASSY, 
Colombo, Ceylon, June 8, 1964. 
Hon. LUTHER H. HODGEs, 
Secretary of Commerce, 
Washington, D.C. 
DEAR MR. SECRETARY: AS you are aware, the USCGS ship Pioneer, under the 
command of Capt. E. B. Brown, visited Colombo from May 19 to 25, 1964, during 
its current voyage as a participating ship in the International Indian Ocean Expe- 
dition. Weat the Embassy were very favorably impressed by the ship, the ship’s 
officers, and the scientific staff aboard. In striking contrast to some adverse, 
unsubstantiated comment of the ship and its mission in the leftist press a few 
