PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRITAIN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 11

PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRITAIN

“High Flights By Rusians”

LONDON, March 13

High-flying Soviet aircraft are keeping secret photographic watch on Britain and the seas round it, according to the "Sunday Dispatch.” Using special ■ long-range infrared cameras, they do not need to approach British territorial waters, the newspaper says. The pictures covered the whole of Britain and extend out into the Atlantic. They were so clear that experts could not only pick out but count ships, and missile sites on the east coast.

The latest development was the use of crewless robot planes and controlled missiles, said the “Sunday Dispatch.’’ Both would get a much wider range because they flew higher. The missiles would parachute cameras and films to submarines.

The newspaper said British defence experts recently demonstrated the ease of the Soviet task with a photograph taken from a similar height of the western Mediterranean. , It showed the west coast of Italy, the south coast of France, the north coast of Africa and all the islands between. So clear was it that 262 ships at sea could easily be picked out.'

This aimless running about one may not unjustly call busy idleness.—Lucius Seneca.