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potential enemy crminal elements political extremist error goup acton "

Among the key facilities listed as warrag

special protection are military aircraf ght nesfuel storage areas antenna farms and communicationcentres All of these faclities are present at DepFreee Further "action items to be incorporatedinto security plans by base commanders included the

following "Reaction forces should have ak vestssteel helmets and properly sized gas masks readilyaccessible Shot guns with 00 Buckshot should beincluded in the weapons mix for the Security/GuardForce and the Reation Force.

M Aircaft Visits he military aircraft that visit Deep Freeze in one

cpacity or anoher are many and varied heyinclude Galaxys Starlifters Hercules Orions andBoeing 0s, th latter three in various congurations for specialied types of military missions Notincluded in this listing are he \ SF-owned Hercules

tat are own by Navy crews ables and 2 contain samplings of ight data for US military aircraftobtained over several years from airort ofces. herecent comprehensive data in able 2 are cost�nresearchers $40 per month as supplied by he CvlA via ion Division All of the aircraft shown are USAir Force C41 Starlifters that were on shuttle orchannel ights between Astralia and the UnitedStates None went to the ice ese regular ghtsaveragng about 18 movements per monh continueyear-round hey are said to carry cargoes forAntarctic support especially in he summer seasonbut they are primarly on military and embassybusiness he cargoes in transit through hristchurchare secret he aircraft themselves are soveregn USterritory immune from New Zealand inspection of any kind

n Australia the Starlifters go to Pine Gap NorthWest Cape and Nrrngar n serving these bases theMilitary Airlif Command (MAC planes are carrygsecret cargs to vital DOD and CA installations. heMAC is part of the Air Force and is not covered the long-standng Deep Freee Agreement whichcovers the Navy n testimony submitted by a government department to the NZ Parliamentary Select

Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control 84 we ind his revelation about MAC n practiceit is dicult to make a clear distinction betweenthose aircraf entering NZ under blanket clearance(a) Deep Freee support and those arriving underblanket clearne (b carriage of high priority cargoin support of United States installations he group(b) planes are in a wideopen category of NZ government approval that gives c pletel free andunquesoned acce for US mlta arcraf to NZterritory

he US military reats amost wth hurt feegs f anyone suggests a sinister signicance to ts neth

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conrm or deny policy regarding nuclear weapons Starlifters or Galaxys But the policy stands rm foraircraf and for warships Peae Reserher hasdocumentation of the loading specications for abewilering array of nuclear weapons in StarlifersGaa and Hercues ould the US av an

3conceivable reason to bring nuclear weapons to orthroug NZ territory? Yes t isn't difcult to makea reasonable case for the US wanting to deploynuclear depth charges in Australasia New Zeaand'smost important mission within the weste alliance ismaritime suveillance and anti-submarine warfare overa vast region of the South Pacic his role undoubtedly continues depite the ANZUS controversy

hese subjects av,been covered in detail in PeaeResearcher No 5 on the Radford-Collins Agreement and in the peent isue o ANZUS-MARSAR.Oher Types of Evidence

here is additional evidence for the military roleof the Deep Freeze base. Some of the topics listedbelow will be the subject of reports in future issuesof this journal

* he Naval Communications Section n therecent past this facility contained encryting gearand thus could be used for receiving and transmitting encoded classied military messagestotally unrelated to ntarctic research. DeepFreeze and embassy personnel refuse to answerquestions about this capability

• he Antarctic station at Siple his scaledresearch station features a 2l k long horiontalantenna with appropriate receiver and transmitterprovided by he Navy for operation in the VeyLow Frequency (V) range. Peae Researherstaff believe that the VLF facility run by the NSFas part of the Deep Free progam will be shownto have military applications which are in violationof the Antarctic reaty

* MX missle testing in the asman Sea Researchers

have addressed ve specic questions to theCommander of Deep Freeze conceing thepossibility that Christchurch facilities might beused in support of MX test-monitoring aircraft Wehave received no response.

* Aircraft accidents at Deep Freee On severaloccasions in recent years US military aircraft havebeen involved in emergencies at the airport heseevents have resulted in tight mlitary securityenforced by US personnel covering extensiveareas of the airport an including the terminalbuilding

• Military research projects Strictly militaryresearch including Proects PRESS and

MAGNE has been aided by he Deep Freezebase through he accommodation of specia aircraftand crews. Some of this research applies drectlyto nuclear missile guidance

182 ANZUS Memorandum on Logstic Support his aeement between he US and NZprovides for refit and maintenance' of USwarships and aircraf in NZ during periods of international tension.' Alhough this agreementmay technically be on hold because of the ANZUS

stalema te we can be sure that its provisions wouldbe used to the fullest if it were in the US interestduring a crisis Both Deep Freee and LytteltonHarbour could be involved according to formerDefence Minister homson Deep Freeze is wellequpedor airra maintenance and refuelling



4 Tabl.1

SUMMARY OF US MILIARY FLIGHS Jnury 1981 thrugh Mrch 1984 t ChristchurchInterntional Airpot (New Zeland)

Yer Flight in upport ofAntrctic NSF program )

number % of T)

1981 36 3 ( 15)

1982 9 5 (43)

1983 91 (43)

(Jan-May 50 (50)(June-Dec) 41 (37)

1984 Jn-March 47 (64)

TOTALS 269 (36)

Older dta forcomprion

1971 40 3)

(8)

Ftnotes

Other flight 21

number % f T)

207 (85)

126 (57)

121 (57)

50 (50)

71 (63)

27 (36)

481 (6)

460 (92)

Totl

243

221

212

1112

74

750

500

. Predomnantly C30 Hercues; C StarLfters also fl to Antarica and between the US and ChsthuchNF " US Nationa Sene Foundation

2 Pedomiant C4 Starftes othe araft wee Oon, C35 C5A Gaax

3 Fights'bound or the ie [t is no t knon the data or 982·984 (NSF suppot ae stt ights to the iceo moe neal ategories of Deep Feeze suppot

4 Avera of 43 ights per week oe perod o 73 weeks

oure: Aipot uthort Chsthurch Ct Coul)

Tabe 2United States military aircraft lights at Christchurch Airprt, February and March 1985. (Dat fromCivil Avitin Diviion,MOT)

Dte Aircraft D Origin! DeprtureType Number Detintion Arrivl Time

Februry

1 C141 M38032 Hnlulu 334 Dep

3 C141 M60198 Pgo Pago 1611 Arr5 C141 M50264 Pg Pago 1520 Arr5 C141 M60198 Richmond 1715Dep

6 C141 M 50264 Richmond 0857Dep10 C141 M60139 Pgo Pgo 1553 Arr

11 C141 M60139 Richmnd 0900Dep

14 C141 M70164 Richmnd 2022 Arr

15 C141 M70164 Honolulu 1259 Dep

17 C141 M60139 Pgo Pago 1327 Arr

18 C41 M60139 Richmnd 07Dep

21 C141 M50232 Richmnd 2010 Arr

22 C141 M50232 Pag Pg 1327Dep

24 C141 M60201 Pag Pago 1356 rr

25 C141 M60201 Sydney 0804 Dep

Mrch1 C141 M59399 Sydney 1818 Arr

2 C141 M59399 Pag Pago 1310Dep

3 C141 M60198 Pago Pago 1310 Ar

4 C141 M60198 Sydney 0805 Dep

8 C14 M60165 Pg g 136Dep



Continued frm page 3 US eent o NZ Teto eve e o

US nt o NZ w exst bece o tenvoveen o e r Deep Feeze Issesnge o non gts o NZ epoees t tebse o e to o NZ ocs to cono epotton o eg gct nd dg podcs v ct

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Mtr execes Deep Feeze te Ocobe1984 ANZ execse ced TRAD84 de seo Cstcc po nd Deep Feeze cteo ved peod Te ove t se w dened b Deep Feeze t s b ep conceded Te evdence ws descbed ne Novebe 1984 sse o Pc R (noJ •

Te NZ Goveent s ong esed o cknowedge te knd o evdence otned bove DeepFeeze contnes to opee s n potn cog n

MINISTRY OPENS UP (A LITTLE) ON

RAFOROLLINS AGREEMENTA es o n nvegton b e Ce Obdsn no te Mnst o Deence e oeee dets o e RdodCon Ageeen n1983 be descpton o e eng o egee;ent s been eesed o PACRARCHR

Te RdodCons Ageeent ws ognsgned b te Uned ttes nd Ast n 1951nd povded o n geed dvson o esponsbteso e sence nd tkng o e ovet Feetnd poon o te Pc ws sb-octed to New

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Unde te geeent New Zend s expeced tonn te necess depoents nd pts toec ts e nd to sece New Zends ke nd nv sppot ctes nd e ppocesgnst e conngenc o Uned es o ed se

PAC RARCHR n ts Nbe 5 sseeved ts ndn on te sgncnt geeent

oces ncded e tec Bss Ppes Astn, nd noton spped o PACRARCHR b te Astn Deptent o Deence Te New Zend Mnst o Deenceeese ons to wod o wod eteon o teAtn despton onveyed n Agu 84to AC ACH

5te U sse o Pcc bses Fo ose wo ce toconsde e evdenc Deep Feze s ce ndcton tt ANZU s ve nd we Wsp vsts toNZ pots e vsbe nd potnt oppones o oegn powe gwvng b e e on no p o te U ston o te otPcc Mnnng nconng bsen Csc s o gee potne nd sees to beno n te es ened b e wsp bncs

tteens n s tce e docened nncssed es povded nde e U eedoo Inoon Act e NZ Oc Inoton Act,nd n coesondence between Pc Rscst nd govenent os n e U nd NZCopete ons w be povded on eqest

Bob Led

Te Mnst o eence seen goes I ndestnd tt o ve eceve descpton o teRdod-Cons Ageent I be o ste tese

It contnes Te RdodCos Ageeenpovdes o e codnton o nv cono dpotecon o sppng n e Indn nd PccOcens Te ptes to e Ageeent e te nvtotes n A, New Zend, te Unedes o Aec nd e Unted Kngdo TAgeeen eqes onstton nd ge

ent po o n obned opeons Some new information.

In e ente two oe eeences to RdodCons ve sced In deence Mnstes Fk OFnns Beng Ppes %4 nde pg 2w des wt RNZN xecses be tgene edng xecses t stes Unde 1951Aed Ageeen New Zend s esponsbtonv onto o ppng NC n te ot WestPc ndng F Po to Fjs ndependence eneess epotng nd coodnton dng nn

nv Qto o ppng execses ws ndetken be Ro Nv Vonee Reseve, b s psede 1970 nd snce 1973 e UN ve sent epotng oces to n te pos dng execses

In o nss o e RdodCons Ageeent nIsse 5 o PAC RARCHR, New Zendse o esponsbt ws descbed s n e djcen to Asts e o 10 to 60W n ecenteng on Fj

Te 94 Beng Ppes wod ppe o end osePAC RARCHERs cs Pg 13o e Ppes nde te gene edng xecssstes One o te s poc ntvs tk b

Deence oowng te bcton o e DncReew ws to Nw Zend's esponsbsnde e 951 geent b estbsng NC postn v o te 984 exese d Ap Ato nvton two RFMF nv oces wokdcose w e NZN NC te togot tCo os x ontnued



6 The exercise referred to would almost certainly be ant Secreary for International �olicy states .Exercise Roll Call a frequentl repeated exercise tere is a fonal arrangement between the ANZUSwhich, accorng to New Zealand Ministr of Defence partners tha was concluded I recall back in 77pss rel• s is dsigned to test pans and proc�dures Under this arrangement what happens effect hatf or te ctrol nd protection of merchant shpg areas of the Pacifc and Indan Oceans have beenin t e vent of hostilities' E xercise Roll Call I designated as areas in which the Australian Unitedexercise nomenclature for Radfordollins . States or New Zealand forces respectively will haveThe second reference appears in an offcal primary responsibility for conducting maritieHansard Report of a meeting of the Australian Snate surveillance operations and information about foregnStandng Committee on Foreign Affairs nd Deene warship moveents within those areas is passed toin February 198 At the meeting whch was d- the partners�c �s�ng d �c:o�::at:o :,RsK. T =a �A:s :-_______________ �-_ Keith Burges

Secrecy on MARSARThe Obudsman's off ice has pheld the decision

of te defene secretar Denis McLean to withhold information on ANZUS MARSAR one of New Zeaand's most secret defence arrang ement wt ANZUS and possibly an indicator of f urther entanglements that e xist behind he scenes A 1982 B rief ng Document prepared for the go vernment

Select Committee on Disarmamen t and Arms Control

recently made a vailable to PEACE RESEARCHE pro vides a descptn of the ag eemet sg l/ _out as the only ag reement directly assocated wthe ANZUS def ence treat. The document dscbesANZUS MARSAR as a cobined Austr lian, New Zealand and United States operational arrang ment for co-operation in matime sureillance

Siifcantl the Document identis ANZU MARSAR as an agreement that is closely asso�ated with the ANZUS de ence treaty iself. It uque that it in volves only the NZS partners.Otheragreements analysed in the docment such as The

Technic Cooperation Prog ramme and the A Standarsation Cornating CommIttee volve most of the weste nations ANS MARSAR e scond ag reement mentioned in he document

DISQUITING OUTCOM OF OMBUDSMAN'S INVSTIGATING - BACKSMINISTRY OF DFNC ON lOCOUNTS1 eg Gvmmm S (GS

The Chief ObmudsmanMr Lester astle hasbacked up a Ministry of Defence refusal to answerPEACE RESARCHERs quetions about the

Government Communications Security Bureau whichruns the Tanoana Sigals Intelligence (SGINT)post PEAE RESEARCHER had asked for an update on the bureaus budget and stang levels.PEACE RESERCHER had argued that there was noletmate reason why the iformation should not bemad public becaus such fgures had been dclosedb the Govement in 190 (see PECERESARCHER 3

6 1980 the National Govement's Minister of

fence Mr Davd hopson told Parliament thebureau had 16 civilian staf one service offcer, aboutve aministative staff and an estimated annual costof about $00000 Th bureau is listed as having thefunctions of comunications ecurity technicalsecurity and communications research and analysis "a trm acknowedged now y the Mnistry to e

under the heading US/NZ Agreements beneathANZUS itself and above the Antarctic Treat This isan indication of its importance

Another documen t a report of an AustralianStandng Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defencereference: Defence co-operation) dated Feb 18says ANZUS MARSAR runs parallel with theRadfordCollins Agreement suggesting that the twoagreements appl roughly to the same geographicalones The high· ranking nature of the agreement 5 anindication of how important maritime sureillance isto New Zealands contribution to ANZUS

If New Zealand is to re-examine its defencepriorities fully this mst include a appraisal of ourpresent commitments under ANZUS. Agreementssuch as ANZUS MARSAR and RadfordCollins meanNZ mus patrol vast areas of ocean that extend as faras the equator Is this an appropriate use of ?urlimited resources Certainly the secrecy surroundng

ANZUS MARSAR and other agreements is preventing a full debate on the issue- Keth Brges

synonmous with signals intelligence The GCS is also responsible for the secret signals intelligencefacility at Tangmoana making it the counterpart osuch foreign intelligence agencies as AmericasNational Security Agency

PEACE RESEARCHER cannot understand how

information freely released about te bureau in 1980can demand such secrecy now.Not unless the bureauhas dramatically changed or epanded since that date

The Ministry of Defence had originally refusedPEACE RESEARCHERs request for informationciting Section 6 of the Ofcial nformation Act thatit would be likely to preudice the securit ordefence of New Zealand I a letter to PEACERESEARCHER the Chief Ombudsman Mr Castlehas said the information can be properly withheld onthose grounds Obviously I cannot discuss n detailthe grounds for my conclusion without disclosing theinformation you seek he told PEACE RESERCHER2 a KSA See Am

The Obmudsman has after more than a yearsinvstigation decided the signs intelligence aeement binding Ne ealand ustalia he Uni



States and other wester nations justifably caremain ecret. Mr Lester Castle ha told PEACRESEARCHER hat he is atified a deciio by theMiitry of Dfece either o com nor dey theexitence or nonxitece of the UKUSA Agreementwa a proper dicharge of its obligatios under theOcial Informatio Act PEACE RESEARCHERelieves that this is the rst time a govermet

departmet has resorted to Seco 10 of the OfcialIformation Act to prevent the release of iformatio.PEACE RESEARCHER is disquieted at the out

come of the Ombudman ivestgatio While otwishing to critisize harshly the decisios of an ofceset up i the rst place to esure that ofcial iformation wherever possible be made available to thepublic, PEACE RESEARCHER is cocerned that theMiitry of Defece particularly in the area of signalsitelligece i reeivig speal treatment

Meanwhile PEACE RSEARCHER has writte tothe Secretary of Defence drawing hi attentio toinformation releaed recently about the UKUSA

WHO IS ADMRAL

llOYD VASEY?

PEACE RESEARCHER keeps a eye o someitereing conecios and asks WHO IS ADMIRALLLOYD ASEY?

Compiled by a subcommittee of the NZNFZ

I November last year retired S Admiral LLoyd"oe aey accompaied by Professor HenryAlbiski of the Univerity of Pesylvaia paid a visitto N which was obiously intended to iuencewhat they called elite opiio They were travelligunder th auspices of a political research organisationcalled the Paciic Forum which i baed in HooluluHawaii ad which was established by Admiral Vaseyin 1975 Profesor Albiski was also named as amember of a ocalled ANZUS thinktank whichwas to be headed by CIA Deputy Director Ray Cline() Bad publicity seems to have cloed the lid o thisparticular thinktank for the meatime anyway but the Pacfc Forum i likely to opely ad actvelycotiue it efforts at haping NZ opiion

While in NZ Admiral aey vigorously promotedhe Soviet Threat (2). The ndigs of a report o NZby aey and Albink were described in The NZTme (3

Accordig to arcle publihed in The NatioaTime of Australia 4 Admral asey wa the Headof US Nava Itelligece i the acific durig the timeof he Whitlam Labour Govermet US Naval Itelligece wa the umbrella organisatio that cotaiedthe ifamou Tak Force 157 which evidetly

uccesfuly detabilised e Autraia LabourGovernment of Gou Whitlam leadig to its sackng 1975 The Petagon abolished Task Force 157 i1977 (5 but it is kow that American aval itelligence wor, eg moitoring the Soviet fhig eet istill carrie ut under dep coer_i Autralasia

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Agreement by his ow Miister Mr Frk O'Fyad by he Prime Miiter himelf ad akg him inthe liht of uh dicloure to recoidr hi 1983deciio to refue to releae iformatio

I a speech made to the Pres Asociatio iChristchurch i Januay 1985 Defece Miister MrFrak Olynn conrmed the exitece of thehitherto secret agreement - makig specic refereceto the 1947 commuications agreement lkig theUited States Britain Caada New Zeaad adAustralia

And in a article appearing i the April 1 th isueof the Listener Prime Minister David Lage refer tothe agreemen t a one of may defence and ecurityarragmets that eit outsde of the ANZUS Treaty

PEACE RESEARCHER is hopig that theMinistry of Defece will soon be catchig u withgovernmet spokespeople on defence ad will beackowledng more than ust the eitence of thesigifcat ageement

K . er th RugsThe clear implicatio of the claims cocering

asey is that he mut have had oversight for heoperatio agait Whitlam being reposible to theultimate controller of the special Tak Force HenryKissiger aso named as aother meber of Cliesthinktak (6).

asey imself ha commented i a letter datedFeb 15 1985 set to the NZ Times (copy ent to NZNFZC with accompanying letter datd Feb22,1985 on this claim as well as a umber of otherallegatio He dene stroy that he has ever

served in naval itelligece or any other intelligenceorgaiation asey claim he was retired fromthe US Nay througout that period nd was workgwith Pepperde Univerity He say hat he hadnever even heard of Tak Force 157 until ewspaperreports linked his ame with it

Admiral asey also claim hat he ever held anyposition wi th the Nugan Hand Bak the motimportat of the CIA frots i Austraia durng h _

time of the Whitlam Govermet During te coureof the Nugan Had iquiry may liks were foudbetwee individuals conected with the group andindividual conected in vey siicat ay wh

US intelligece organiatio peciclly the CIA andthe Ofce of Naval Itelligence (Tak Force 157 (An extraordiary network of leadig America activeand rered military and itelligece peronel waucovered Austraia iveigation have howeverbee frustrated by he falure of he CIA d oerAmerican aecie to respod to reuet for mordetailed iformatio

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force report o drug trackig which ivegted Nuga Had was more circumpect about ay:ery little i kow of thi m at hi tge or hirole if any i Nuga Had However he is referredto ot ifrequetly by variou people aited h

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