CONTENTS Lt. Comdr. Frank A. Wadsworth, U.S. Navy, officer in charge, Instruc- tor Training and Leadership School, U.S. Naval Training Center, Robert Eugene Beerstecher, Chief Civilian Adviser to the Director of Warning and Threat Assessments, Office of the Assistant Chief of Maj. Edward Comer, Chief, Military, United States and World Affairs Department, U.S. Army Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y. Rear Adm. Vernon L. Lowrance, Director of Naval Intelligence, U.S. Chaplain (Lt. Col.) John A. Carlin, Chief, U.S. Air Force Chaplain Writers Board, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala___. Lt. James E. Turner, Jr., 109th Ordnance Battalion, Aberdeen Brig. Gen. Henry C. Newton, Director, Military Assistance Institute__ Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Carroll, U.S. Air Force, Director of the Defense Maj. John Stephen Bailey, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Eurasian Division, U.S.S.R. Branch, Department of Agan, Maj. Gen. Arthur, Jr., U.S. Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans), Headquarters, Air Defense Command_ Bailey, Maj. John Stephen, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for In- telligence, Eurasian Division, U.S.S.R. Branch, Department of the Beerstecher, Robert Eugene, Chief, Civilian Adviser to the Director of 1989 Burns, Lt. Col. Lee H., Chief, Security Division, U.S. Military Academy, 2211 Carlin, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) John A., Chief, U.S. Air Force Chaplain Writers 2167 Carroll, Lt. Gen. Joseph F., U.S. Air Force, Director of the Defense In- Comer, Maj. Edward, Chief, Military, United States and World Affairs Department, U.S. Army Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.. Cunha, Capt. George M., U.S. Navy, Staff Officer, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs Page 2269 2493 Gentner, Rear Adm. William E., Jr., Chairman, Navy and Marine Corps 2118 Newton, Brig. Gen. Henry C., Director, Military Assistance Institute____ Sanger, Capt. Kenneth J., U.S. Navy, Director, Recruiting Division, Stevenson, Maj. Howard G., U.S. Army, Office, Chief of Information, 2052 Wadsworth, Lt. Comdr. Frank A., U.S. Navy, officer in charge, Instructor 1944 MILITARY COLD WAR EDUCATION AND SPEECH REVIEW POLICIES MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1962 U.S. SENATE, SPECIAL PREPAREDNESS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.C. The Special Preparedness Subcommittee met, pursuant to recess, at 10 a.m., in room 224, Old Senate Office Building. Present: Senators Stennis (chairman), Thurmond, Bartlett, and Saltonstall. Also present: Powell Pierpoint, General Counsel, Department of the Army. Special subcommittee staff: James T. Kendall, chief counsel. Senator STENNIS (presiding). Let the subcommittee please come to order. Our first witness this morning will be Commander Wadsworth, who is officer in charge, Instructor Training and Leadership School, at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Commander, we are glad to have you here, sir. In keeping with the custom of the subcommittee, will you stand and be sworn, please? Do you solemnly swear that your testimony before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Commander WADSWORTH. I do, sir. Senator STENNIS. Have a seat, Commander. I understand you do have a statement. WADSWORTH BIOGRAPHY The reporter will put the biographical sketch of Commander Wadsworth in the record at this point. (The biographical sketch referred to is as follows:) BIOGRAPHY OF LT. COMDR. FRANK A. WADSWORTH, U.S. NAVY Lt. Comdr. Wadsworth was born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1922. He received his elementary and secondary education in Rochester public schools. At the age of 17, in 1939, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve and in June 1940, entered the U.S. Naval Academy. In June 1943, Wadsworth was commissioned ensign in the Regular Navy. His first assignment was to duty on board the destroyer, U.S.S. Madison, operating in the Mediterranean. Wadsworth was assistant gunnery officer and fire control officer during his tour on board the Madison. The Madison returned to the United States in January 1945, and Wadsworth, having volunteered for submarine duty, was ordered to submarine school at New London, Conn. He completed his instruction in August 1945, and was ordered to the U.S.S. Remora, a submarine being completed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, N.H. In January 1946, the Remora was commissioned. Wadsworth served on board until May 1948. He was diving officer for all but the first 6 months of his tour, and at various times served as engineering officer, first lieutenant, gunnery and torpedo officer, and communications officer. In May 1948, Wadsworth was ordered to the Navy Intelligence School at Anacostia, D.C. He completed this instruction in July 1949, and then attended the Navy Language School, where he studied French and qualified as a Navy interpreter and translator. In April 1950, Wadsworth was ordered to London, England, as an assistant naval attaché, where he served until March 1952. Following duty in London, Wadsworth was ordered as executive officer to the U.S.S. Dace, a submarine then operating out of New London, Conn. In December 1953, he took command for a very brief period preceding decommissioning of the Dace at Portsmouth, N.H. Upon decommissioning, Wadsworth was ordered to the Staff, Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, as intelligence officer. After serving 11 months in this billet, Wadsworth was assigned as personnel officer, Submarine Base, New London, where he served for the next year and a half. In June 1956, he was sent to the Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Va. After completing a course of instruction, he reported in November 1956, to Commander, Mine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, for duty as commander, Mine Squadron 11. In September 1958, Wadsworth received orders to the Military Assistance Institute, Arlington, Va., and following a month of instruction, reported to Navy Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group, South Vietnam. He served there for a normal tour of 13 months, as Adviser to Commander, Sea Forces, Vietnamese Navy. From Saigon, Wadsworth was ordered to the Service School Command, U.S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill., as officer in charge, Instructor Training and Leadership School. He is so serving at the present time. Wadsworth is entitled to wear the following ribbons and insignia: American Defense Medal, American Theater Medal, European Theater Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Korean Victory Medal, Submarine Qualification Insignia, and Command Insignia. He is qualified for command in submarines. Wadsworth has, in addition to his bachelor of science degree from the Naval Academy, a master of arts degree from Roosevelt University, acquired at night school while serving in his present billet. He is married to the former Betty Rogers, who is from Groton, Conn., and they have three children. Wadsworth will retire from the Navy in June 1963, and currently plans to enter the teaching profession. WADSWORTH STATEMENT Senator STENNIS. You may proceed, sir, with your statement. TESTIMONY OF LT. COMDR. FRANK A. WADSWORTH, U.S. NAVY, OFFICER IN CHARGE, INSTRUCTOR TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP SCHOOL, U.S. NAVAL TRAINING CENTER, GREAT LAKES, ILL. Commander WADSWORTH. Senator Stennis, members of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, the purpose of this statement is to highlight briefly my background and experience which relate to matters in question. My first introduction to the subject of communism came as a student at the Navy Intelligence School, Anacostia, D.C., 14 years ago. Upon completion of this course and a course at the Navy Language School, I served for 2 years as an assistant naval attaché in London, England. This duty brought me into social contact with Soviet naval officers attached to the Russian Embassy. Two years after this assignment, in 1954, I became the intelligence officer to Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. In this capacity, I dealt with the operational aspects of intelligence, which included information on foreign naval forces. For the most part, such information was, and is, classified. In any event, my present knowledge in this area is out of date. Approximately 21⁄2 years after this tour, in October 1958, I attended the Military Advisory Institute, Arlington Heights, Va. This is a school under the purview of the Department of Defense, with the mission to train officers of all branches of the armed services for duty with military assistance advisory groups overseas. Following this instruction, I served for 13 months in the Navy Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group, South Vietnam. Communist guerrilla activity was significant during this period, but I witnessed none of it firsthand. The Canadian, Indian, and Polish members of the International Control Commission, who were in Vietnam to insure observance of the terms of the Geneva Convention, resided near the bachelor officers quarters where I was billeted. I came to recognize these persons on sight and observed the differences in their respective attitudes and behavior toward Americans. In December 1959, I left Saigon to take up my present assignment as officer in charge, Instructor Training and Leadership School, Great Lakes. Upon arrival, I sat through many units of the courses to familiarize myself with my staff and with the subject matter being taught. Included in these were units of instruction on the threat of communism and American heritage and government. At this same time, I enrolled in graduate work at Roosevelt University. My associations there with public school teachers who were taking the same instruction led me to be concerned at the apathy and the negative attitude which some of them displayed in respect to teaching the Communist threat in public secondary schools. This situation motivated me to relate the subject of communism to my written and oral school assignments wherever appropriate, in hope of influencing a change in their point of view. As a consequence, I pursued the subject more intensely than before and became personally involved with it to a degree that I had not done previously. Briefly, my activity in this area during the past 2 years has consisted of the following measures: (a) Considerable reading and writing on the subject of communism. (b) Surveillance and support of an anticommunism seminar, short of actual participation. This seminar grew spontaneously without initiation on my part, and was conducted by three enlisted members of the leadership school staff on their own time and with command consent. (c) Appraisal of the Navy's cold war effort through the medium of leadership discussions, which resulted in forwarding some suggestions originated by my staff and myself to the Navy's Cold War Advisory Panel. (d) Assistance rendered to the chairman of the social studies department of a local high school, in establishing a unit of instruction on communism for high school students. This did not involve any classroom participation on my part. |