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strength. We are cutting off, as best we can, at that point. What 

 happened thereafter involves directly command responsibility. 

 Charges have already been preferred against some of the officers of 

 the Air Force. They will be disposed of in another forum. We are 

 staying out of it as that is for the determination of another court. 

 However, I do think that the background of the facts we develop here 

 will help justice be done there, substantially help it, and not hinder it 

 in any way. 



Now, those of you who will testify, please stand. 



Do you, and each of you, solemnly swear that your testimony in 

 this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 

 truth, so help you God ? 



Mr. Bauer. I do. 



Mr. DeLong. I do. 



Mr. Kendall. Mr. Chairman, Mr. DeLong and INIr. Bauer are both 

 here by virtue of subpenas of this committee. Their counsel have 

 requested that they be permitted in advance of the testimony to make 

 a very brief statement for the record, and I would like to recommend 

 that they be given that privilege. 



Senator Stennis. All right. We recognize you as counsel for Mr. 

 DeTx)ng. 



Mr. Ingoldsby. For the DeLong Corp., Mr. Chairman. 



Senator Stennis. You will have to be sworn, too, if you are going 

 to make a statement. That is our invariable rule. Do you solemnly 

 swear that your testimony before this committee will be the truth, 

 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? 



Mr. Ingoldsby. I do. 



Senator Stennis. xlll right. 



TESTIMONY OF L. B. DelONG, PRESIDENT; GEOEGE BAUER, VICE 

 PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF CONSTRUCTION; JOHN L. INGOLDSBY, 

 COUNSEL; BERT B. RAND, ASSOCIATE COUNSEL, DeLOiJG CORP. 



Mr. Ingoldsby. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee and 

 committee counsel, IMr. DeLong and Mr. Bauer are officers of DeLong 

 Corp. and are here pursuant to subpena. A subpena was also issued 

 to Mr. George E. Suderow, chief engineer of DeLong Corp. It is with 

 great regret that we must inform the committee that Mr. Suderow 

 died of cancer last Saturday, April 29. By subpena Mr. DeLong 

 and Mr. Bauer have been required to produce certain material from 

 their files. Although this requirement v^'as made on only a few days 

 notice, these gentlemen have complied to the best of their ability. If 

 any additional documentation specified by the subpena is found, it 

 will be delivered to this committee. 



DeLong Corp. is an engineering and construction company special- 

 izing in design and construction of marine platforms, docks, and 

 similar structures. This company lias pioneered the design and erec- 

 tion of marine platforms for use throughout the world and has engi- 

 neered, constructed and operated offshore drilling platforms in re- 

 mote parts of the world as well as in the Gulf of Mexico. The name, 

 DeLong Corp., has become closely identified with the generic name 

 of Texas towers. 



The DeLong Corp. erected Texas tower No. 2 which now stands in 

 the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket. This was the first radar warning 



