Executive Session*
a. Procedures for Custody and Transfer of Weapons
b. Personnel Appointment
c. MURA Project
AEC 787/26 - Special Observer
REDWING
Program for Operation
General Starbird reviewed with the Commissioners proposed
arrangements for the attendance of news media observers at a large
shot during Operation REDWING.
Mr. Strauss asked why AEC should
pay the cost of installing and removing communications equipment
from the ship which would carry newsmen to Operation REDWING,
M.r. Salisbury pointed out that this division of costs had been
established at the time of Operation CROSSROADS.
After further discussion, the Commission:
a. Approved the general plan for a News Media/FCDA
Observer Program for Operation REDWING, as outlined
in Appendix *‘A'’ to AEC 787/26;
b. Determined that the information listed in
paragraph 8 of AEC 787/26 may be published without
constituting an undue risk to the common defense and
security;
c. Authorized the establishment of a Joint Office of
Test Information for the News Media/FCDA Observer
Program, to be under the direction of the Commander
JTF-7 in the forward area;
*Separate minutes for this part of the meeting have been circulated
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