Top US senator and shutterbug died months after unwanted visit to Antarctica

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Fifty-five U-boats like this — of the newest design and outfitted with snorkels (making surfacing for air unnecessary during a 1945 trip through the North and South Atlantic) — neither surrendered in 1945 nor had they been destroyed in battle. Twenty-five of them are listed here. “Verbleib zur Zeit noch nicht geklärt” = “Current location unknown at this time.”

CIA memo of 30 December 1971 regarding visit by Senator Ellender:

Interesting the senator died not long after his visit to Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_J._Ellender

Excerpts:

A staunch segregationist, he signed the Southern Manifesto in 1956, voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and opposed anti-lynching legislation in 1938.^[5]^[6]^[7] Unlike many conservatives, he was not a “hawk” in foreign policy and opposed the Vietnam War.^{[8] [….]}

Ellender strongly opposed the federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s, which included the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to enforce blacks’ constitutional rights in voting. Many, particularly in the Deep South, had been disfranchised since 1900. In the aftermath of the Duck Hill lynchings, he also helped block a proposed anti-lynching bill which had previously been passed in the House, proclaiming, “We shall at all cost preserve the white supremacy of America.”^[7]