Military Clamps
Secrecy on
Skv Shield Test
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, lff>—Screaming
through skies cleared of all com
mercial planes, jet interceptors
thundered destruction threats
against bombers for six hours
early Saturday in the biggest test
ever made of North American air
I defenses.
| Then with dawn the warplanes
; of the United States and Canada
■ began settling back at their bases,
! finished with their demonstration
i of might and a giant test of ef
I fectiveness.
1 There was no immediate evalu
| ation of the results of the test,
Exercise Sky Shield.
! A brief communique issued by
i Gen. Laurence Kuter, chief of
j the North American Air Defense
Command, merely said that the
six hour operation had been car
ried out and completed at 4 a.m.
During the six-hour interlude,
all U.S. and Canadian commercial
aviation was grounded while jet
bombers and fighters roamed the
air, picket ships at sea tracked
with radar and missile launching
crews went through the motions
1 of sending their weapons aloft.
I The communique said the en
| tire NORAD command “was ex
ercised under realistic conditions
and lasting benefits would re
sult.” That was the only official
comment on this huge training
j operation..
The arena for sky shield was
: vast — about 22 million square
1 miles, reaching from near the
| North Pole deep down into the
I United States and out to sea for
hundreds of miles over the At
lantic and Pacific.
The military, imposing as much
secrecy as it could on an opera
tion involving hundreds of war
planes, clamped top security on
"Exercise Sky Shield.”
This was in sharp contrast to
the normal inclination of the Air
Force to show the public as much
as it can about its capabilities. It
aroused speculation about the un
j derlying reasons.
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