CONTENTS Opening session, January 29, 1959-- Opening statement, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, chairman__ Hon. Neil H. McElroy, Secretary of Defense; accompanied by Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff____ Adm. Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, Gen. Thomas D. White, Chief of Staff, Air Force, and Gen. Randolph McC. Pate, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps---. Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, commander, Air Force Ballistic Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.. Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, resumed. Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander in chief, SAC. Opening session, January 30, 1959. Dr. T. Keith Glennan, Administrator, NASA; accompanied by Dr. W. H. Pickering, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Herbert York, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, William M. Holaday, Director of Guided Missiles and Chairman, Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, and Roy Johnson, Direc- tor, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Development Operations Page White, Gen. Thomas D., Chief of Staff, Air Force....... 54 York, Dr. Herbert, Director of Defense Research and Engineering-- MISSILE AND SPACE ACTIVITIES THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959 U.S. SENATE, PREPAREDNESS INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee (composed of Senators Johnson of Texas (chairman), Stennis, Symington, Bartlett, Bridges, Saltonstall, and Mrs. Smith) met, pursuant to call, at 10:08 a. m., in the caucus room, room 318, Senate Office Building, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Johnson of Texas, Stennis, Symington, Bartlett, Saltonstall, and Mrs. Smith. Also present and participating: Members of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences: Senators Anderson, Young of Ohio, Dodd, Cannon, Wiley, Martin, and Case of New Jersey. Also present: Senator Case of South Dakota, Senator Bush, and Senator Dirksen. Staff members, Preparedness Investigation Subcommittee: Edwin L. Weisl, special counsel; Cyrus R. Vance, associate counsel; Solis Horwitz, associate counsel, Daniel F. McGillicuddy, associate counsel; Stuart French, associate counsel; Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., assistant special counsel, and Dr. Edward Ć. Welsh, assistant to Senator Symington. Staff members, Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences: Kenneth E. BeLieu, staff director; Max Lehrer, assistant staff director; Everard H. Smith, Jr., counsel; Dr. Glen P. Wilson, chief clerk, and Mrs. Eilene Galloway, special consultant. Senator JOHNSON. The committee will come to order. This is a meeting of the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee. We have, because of the nature of the testimony, invited the members of the Space Committee to sit in with us. We are delighted also to have with us the distinguished minority leader, Mr. Dirksen. Mr. Secretary, members of the committee, we are here today to try to get an accounting-plain, unvarnished and unadorned-of what has happened to the Nation's preparedness program. A year ago, this committee completed a series of hearings into the American satellite and missile programs. The conclusions, reached unanimously by this group, were not reassuring. 1 |