ing designing, operating and maintain/ the weapons complex at Barber's Point in conjunction with the Air Force. That, incidentally, caused a bit of trouble which would be fun to discuss with Hollingsworth. We arranged for marine guards with the weapons assembly facility; unfortunately, Marines take their job seriously whereas the civilians seem to be somewhat lackadaisical. We had a number of incidents in which the marines, perhaps by having improper orders, made sufficiently threatening gestures to the civilian personnel that the weapons teams threatened to quit and come home rather than operate under such conditions. he u él: vette tt took a [paramennt) of administrative effort on the part of the Task Force to straigten out that small difficulty. | should interject at this point that Lee Holingsworth of Sandia had accepted the Task Force offer tendered by the scientific deputy to be in charge of all weapon assembly and handling for the Task Force. He did an outstanding job. The sampler aircraft, however, which had been planned to operate out of Hawaii now had 10% Christmas Island. To This was an appreciable benefit in most ways because they would be much closer to the clouds to do a better sampling job. However, some difficulties were experienced, the logistics at that distance —fba. (onk~ were somewhat of a problem, TPedeneered| down pad had to be provided| but the British were rather sensitive about the disposal of radioactive water after the planes were washed down and a sample return system had to be provided. That latter was done by KCI35 tankers lightly loaded, no passengers) taking off from Christmas Island and flying direct to the West Coast of U.S. The fireball procurement systems which had already been under preparation for the ship operation were taken as soon as possible to Christmas. LGN @ That part of the operation was under egg auspices, fireball cameras were mounted on tracking gear for the tracking information was furnished on the Sandia /7