Organizational Scope The key development inthis respect was the establishment of the regional-field office organizational structure and the emergence of the Office of Security as essentially a staff organization providing over-all direction to the security program throughout SFO, 1950 Los Alamos remained the focal point of SFO security intereSts and activities. In mid- The security programs at other SFO offices, the Sandia and Kansas City Field Offices, and the then existing special projects, tended to lack effective and coordinated direction as compo- nent organizations of SFO. The SFO Office of Security had been established in April of 1950, with an assignment of functions SFO-wide in character and on a broad staff level, as distinguished from operational functions related principally to Los Alamos. The Los Alamos Security Branch, how- ever, remained at that time a component of the Office of Security, with the SFO Director of Security continuing to supervise the Branchdirectly, serving in the capacity of a Field Manager for that purpose. In 1951, the Office of Security's regional staff character was more effectively es- tablished when the Los Alamos Security Branch took its place in the new Los Alamos Field Office organizational structure, and the SFO regional office moved physically from Los Alamos to Albuquerque. Beginning in 1951, rapid expansion took place in SFO security activities in the field, with establishment of new security branches at the Rocky Flats, Pantex, Eniwetok, and Las Vegas installations. With the establishment of the Eniwetok and Las Vegas branches, the AEC-NME Test Security Branch, which as a component of the Office of Security had been responsible for operational functions in overseas tests, was abolished, thus further strengthening the regional field office structure. The necessity for providing coordinated security servicing for numerous facilities separated geographically from SFO field offices has required establishment of a Security Branch of the SFO Office of Security in Los Angeles, and assignment of two SFO Security representatives to New York City. The Los Angeles Security Branch was formally estab- lished in October 1950, to continue, on a larger scale, security servicing for various SFO field offices that had theretofore been performed by security personnel reporting adminis- tratively to the Chief of the Los Angeles Procurement Office, which office had been abol- ished a few months earlier. The New York Security Representative was appointed in early 1953, after an analysis of the nature and number of SFO security obligations in the east indicated that more effective servicing and a substantial reduction in travel—principally from Sandia, Los Alamos, and Kansas City—-could be provided by that means. Subsequent events have justified the appointment, although budget cuts have forced postponement of a planned addition of a security assistant there, which will be necessary for realizati oemy maximum effectiveness. ee . ig ‘Another branch of the Office of Security, the SFOO Headquarters Security Branch, was established in 1952 to handle operational matters pertaining to the SFOO headquarters in Albuquerque. The present SFO security organization was completed in early 1953 by the establishment of the security branch for the new Spoon River Field Office. —~ oss, 727