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The Task Force Headquarters will

Colonel T.E, Barbour, USA as J-1.

perform planning and command functions with respect to the four
operational Task Groups, which ave the Scientific Task Group,

the

the Navy Task Group and the Air Force Task Group.

Army Task Group,

9, The Scientific Task Group, headed by Dr, Graves, will
include personnel from all the military services who are engaged
in the various experimental programs,

It will perform,

and Dr.

Graves will supervise, both Armed Forces and AEC experiments.
The Army Task Group will be generally responsible for base
services,

phySical security at the proving ground,

etc.

The Navy

Task Group will be generally responsible for surface and undersurface security,

local and logistic

sea transport and will

participate in aerial reconnaissance.
responsible for the drone operations,
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The Air Task Group will be
air transport,

local (500

aspects of Long Range Detection and inter-island air

transport.

Local weatner service and control of air operations

will also be a basic responsibility.

The Long Range Detection

Program will be accomplished under standard Air Force organization and command,

except for the local control mentioned above in

close liaison with the Task Force,

The Commander,

JTF-3,

in

addition to being responsible for the over-all test operation,
Will assume responsibility for both test and Proving Ground security from the time of departure of the Task Force for the
forward area until

its return.

Allocation of Costs
10,

The-proposed allocation of costs is based on mutual

fiscal Support,

inasmuch as the aperation will be of considerable

benefit to the Armed Services, both from an experimental and a
training standpoint,

Generally,

the Armed Forces and the AEC wiil

each pay for their own experiments,

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