Telenews Daily, The - Symington At B-36 Probe

Telenews Daily, The - Symington At B-36 Probe 02:41:48 Secretary of Air Force Symington seated next to AF General at table takes glasses out. SOF: “To me the most disturbing feature of these attacks against the Air Force & the rest of the military establishment is what they have done & are doing to imperial the security of the United States. It was bad enough to given a possible aggressor technical & operating details of our newest & latest equipment. In my opinion it is far worse to have opened up to him in such detail the military doctrines of how this country would be defended. We have now given the military leaders of any aggressor nation a further advantage in developing their strategic plan by telling them so much about our own. I say further, because in this atomic age, the aggressor always has the great advantage of initiative. Your original investigations, as well as the current hearings, started primarily as a result of attacks against the B-36, an Air Force weapon, built to do one of the jobs which were assigned to the Air Force by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These attacks started many years ago, and are still continuing, but they have been dwarfed by the larger issues raised in this room within the last few weeks. It is now obvious that the fundamental question at issue is control of the military by civilians and therefore the preservation of Constitutional government. First thermonuclear weapon delivery vehicle; bomber; Defense Department; Economics; Inter-Service Rivalry; Democracy; Cold War; Military Spending; Atomic Bomb; SAC;