problems with the British could be solved. During these considerations, one possible path occurred to the Americans, Christmas tsland is a contested island. the Americans y The British claim it but so do Che British claim coming about opparenply as a result of Cook's visit There y “the American claim coming about se to occupation of the island in World War I|. We could, therefore, in some manner using the island without satisfying the British demands. insist on However, this consideration was never taken very seriously. The time the Christmas Island survey came and sent in their recommendation, the diplomatic difficulties had been worked out between the British and the Americans with respect to the British restrictions on the use of the island and the decision was made to switch the scene of operations to Christmas Island and to do the shots by air drop. | want to mention this now so | don't forget it although it probably should be placed somewhere paclined tan else in the report. As part of the Christmas Island/ imag+nadions, “the Task Force at my suggestion arranged that there should be no restrictions on personal photography. The restrictiong on personal photography in previous onerous operations had been an wrens one upon those members of the organization who liked to have momentos of where they'd been and what they did, and in principle, except for actual pictures of a device, there was nothing that one Showkd obtain by ordinary photography that was classified. General Starboard agreed to that policy and it existed through about half the operation. At that time, however, two things happened: 1) someone had to abuse the privilege and sold a number of pictures of Christmas Island detonations to a Seattle newspaper that made headlines and since the government had been trying to keep the whole operation as low key as possible, it caused great pain in executive circles; 2) Admiral Muston and | paid a visit to Bresident 1S