>From: Jim Klotz

Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 7:06 PM
To: Hubert Miller
Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] When an off-course U-2 spy plane out of Alaska nearly triggered war

Hello Hue.

We’ve spoken a few times before.

You might be interested in this:

https://www.governmentattic.org/12docs/FBI-USAF-AlaskastayBehindAgentProgram_1947-1954.pdf

published on the FOIA documents website governmentattic.org.

Cheers,

>-Jim Klotz

This is a strange and interesting doc. Goes down to the level of small native villages and personages in them and their evaluated

loyalty.

The requirements for radio equipment i don’t think were ever fulfilled. It was probably much easier just to generate lots of paper

evaluating potential loyalties and loyalty risks and so on.

The doc gives requirements for two types of radios. One, for ‘principals’ in the ranks, had to have a “minimum 1000 miles range”

and be powered by resuppliable dry cell batts. At the time there just ain’t no radio that would do this. Even leftover spy rigs

from WWII didn’t meet that range spec. The definition also maybe shows some ignorance of radio technology because the

transmitter to develop any practical power could not be dry cell powered. The GRC-9 which came in near the latter part of the

1947 – 1954 time span only went to 12 MHz, which rules out a lot of DX frequency. RS-6 ? GRC-109 ?

The smaller rig for ‘agents and subagents’ was to be something like the ‘Gibson Girl’ radio and needed a 200 mile minimum range.

The lifeboat radio CRT-3 did have a HF frequency besides the 500 kHz, but was only about 2 watts output and did not have a

receiver, so forget that radio.

I noticed also a misspelling. “Leika” instead of the correct “Leica”. Sloppy.

So was it the RS-6, does that seem the likeliest candidate, altho i’m guessing this mission was never really provisioned with radios ?

BTW, anyone have any comment on the RS-6A, which worked up to 22 MHz. Why, when, how many ?

-Hue Miller