U.S. Subs Spying „electronic intelligence opera- tions which are also conducted e In Soviet Waters -16, spy satellite and aircraft. r The subs are equipped to By Laurence Stern gather a wide variety of elec- vkklq Washinrtnn Poet Staff writer 'frOnic, communications and it The United States maintains were ended in,an atmosphere radar intelligence. 0 a fleet of electronic eavesdrop- of high internbtional rancor One of their chief missions r with the shooting down of Is to monitor Soviet nuclear ping submarines operating Central Intelligence Agency submarine activities, a function close to the Soviet coastline to pilot Francis Crary Powers. which figures importantly in e monitor Russian submarine Sources familiar with the the strategic arms limitation activity and secret military submarine eavesdropping op- negotiations between the United communications. erations say that the mon- States and the Soviet Union. a These submarines, described itoring has been conducted The operations are word'. as "underwater U-2s," roam within the Soviet Union's slated by the .911-Coramjjay of thin ng to m e 11- three-mile territorial limit. the National Security Council, rs ace Pentagon officials, while nei- which presides over all gence sources with access to ther confirming nor denying documents describing the spy- — convert — intelli- the surveillance activities, as- ▪gence activities of the United ing operations. sert — in the words of one States. The Pentagon declines to spokesman—that "we don't go One of the reasons cited by comment on the underwater mucking around in other peo- 4 Pentagon officials in declining intelligence gathering pro- ple's territorial waters . , All to discuss the submarine gram on grounds that public the things we do are mindful eavesdropping—in addition to discussion of the activity of other people's airspace and the claim of sensitivity—was would be "detrimental to what territorial waters." current litigation over a book we're doing." Other knowl- Soviet vessels also conduct manuscript by two former in- edgeable sources contend that eavesdropping operations in telligence officials. The book, the Russians have been aware U.S. continental waters al- "The Cult of Intelligence,” by of the U.S submarine surveil• though chiefly by means of Victor Marchetti and John lance for years, as they were surface trawlers. Russian subs Marks, reportedly describes of the U-2 flights over the So- are not believed to have the .;U.S. electronic surveillance viet Union in the late 1950s. See SUBMARINES, AR, Coi. 1 techniques which were cen. The U-2 flights over Russia apred by the CIA under court Order. ,...."Lawyers on our side sus- pect that things in the book dent, whether military intelli- are beginning to pop up in the gence and diplomatic interests hands of other people," said a SUBMARINES, From AI :Were being sufficiently coordl- Pentagon spokesman. Mar- „noted in the spying opera. 'Cbetti, a former CIA analyst , Immensely sophisticated elec. and Marks, a former State De. ,,tronic capability of the 'U.S. ' etdons. 'partment intelligence officer. ,underwater snooping craft. to the capture of the are challenging 225 deletions The highly secret U.S. sub- ,',Ryeblo an American subma- made in the manuscript on se. rine on an intelligence mis. durity grounds. 'Marine surveillance program, •-The Marchetti-Marks manu- which has been alluded to in the Ronquil, narrowly script, to be published by "cat fere d public references,; poided eapVre by Soviet na- 'Knopf, hea been classified .11.1.1 assumed major strategic val forces. The sub caught fire "top secret-sensitive" by the near the Soviet coast and was government, according to at- ' Importance since the capture torneys in the case. 'O'f the electronic spy ship surrounded by Soviet destroy. "We do some things with Pueblo off the coast of North 'era which attempted to force submarines," said one Defense, JKorea five years ago this it to the surface. The sub official. "Any speculation ,eluded the Russian destroyer about what we do is some- Month. The Pueblo was cap- -thing our people think would 'lured 13 miles off the North gauntlet and escaped to be detrimental to what we're Korean coast. safety. doing. It is not an area we'd like to see opened up." : One of the principal lessons In another case, according r.of the Pueblo incident was the to intellitence sources, a U.S. vulnerability of surface intent- ...surveillance submarine col- -.Med with a Soviet sub near 4 1gence ships to capture, espe- , °lolly in the vicinity of hostile 'the Russian coast but also coastlines. Questions were avoided capture. ..also raised in the ensuing de- The underwater eavesdrop- - bate, particularly in a Senate ping program, code named Foreign Relations Committee Tane, is probably the .,staff study on the Pueblo inci- Atost hush-hush of all U.S.