Dr. John C. Bugher, Director Division of Biology and Kedicine, jybr Washington July 29, 1953 Merril Eisenbud, Director Health and Safety Division, MY00 CONFERENCE WITH CINCPAC STAFF — PSARL HAREOR, JULY 21-25, 1953 SYMBOL: HSaKE On July 2h and 25 I visited CINGPAC Headquarters to discuss the design of the fallout monitoring program to be conducted hy the New York Operations Office in the Pacific during CASTLE, As in the case of IVI, I developed the details of the program with the cooperation of Commander C. R. Deller, Jr., who is on the staff of the Fleet Operations Officer, I also met with Admire] B. K. Fhilips, Chief of Staff, Captain Horatio Rivero, Fleet Operations Officer, , and Captain H. F. Shim, Air Operations Officer, . I took the opportunity afforded. by this visit to brief the above staff memLers on recent developments related to the fallout problem, including the recent experiences during sttat atus us oO of GABKIEL, U'SHUT-KNOTHOLE and the present BEST COPY AVAILABLE Eased on the informal concurrence of Captain livero and Comtander Deller our planning for the Pacific phase of CASTLE survey will proceed as follore: (idifications of the worldwide network will be dealt vith in a separete memorandun) GROUND KONTTO) ING Automatic contimous recording mnitors will be installed at Truk, Pone; 6, Kusaie, Lajuro, hongerik and Ujelang. Subject to the availability of equipment, installations may be mede at Palm and/or Yep. In all these places the equignent will continuovsly rnonitor pana radiation and will count and record the concentrction of airborne radioactive dust, It is contemplated that the installations will be made by an NYVO representative. In all places except Ujelenz (where the equipzent will be unattended and battery cperwtedd LIOV AC is presumod to be evailable and the equipnent ir to be assirned to Veather Station personnel who will report recorded data routinely to the XYOO representative at Task Force Headquarters, In addition to the above stations, it is known thet both NAL and AFOAT-1 operate continuous sonitoring equi;ment at a nusber of locations in the Pacific area. In order to avoid unnecessary duplication Department of Energy * Historian’s Office ARCHIVES -