No. of Tapes

Receivinq
Tape

Transmitt~

Tape

Receiving
~

(u

600

AGC-7

AV-L

AV-5

(2)

600

AV-4

AGC-7

AV-5

(3)

&x)

AV-5

AGC-7

AV-4

(4)

AGC-7

Los Alamos

(5)

Los Alamos

MC-7

(6)

m

AV-4

Los Alamos

(7)

400

Los Alamos

Al?++

(8)

400

AV-5

Los AbllOS

(9)

400

Los Alamos

AV-5

d

Wstems (1) through (3) were to be used for both three-way conference and
classifiedmessages between the ships. Systems (4) through (9) provided coding facilities for Atomic lhergy Commissionmessages between the
ships and Los fbmos.

The number of tapes were based on an estimate of

the amount of traffic plus a large safety margin. Half of the tapes
in each system were ordered to arrive by 15 February 1948, the remaining half to be delivered by 1 March 1948.
On 20 November 1947 a request was submitted to the Atomic Mergy
Commission for a leased teletype lib

frombs

Alamos to the Presidio

of San Francisco,major relay station in the Amy

Command and Adminis-

trative Net (ACAN). This circuit was required to provide a continuous
traffic to and from the forward area and to bypass the
points noxmall.yinvolved in passing messages into the Amy
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