SUNDER STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION :WASHINGTON 25, D.C, eae, Commander 78 Joint Task Foroe SEVEN 7s ~ ‘ 2th and Consatitution*‘avenueN. W. Washington 25, D. C... : Dear Sirs: The foriowinginteration is furnished"as.abasis:‘upon!sh mnie the Joint Task Force’ may”‘prepare a reply to the letters from=" a Corporais 1954, respectively. and dated July 2, 1954 and June 24,:ees f. Items in subparagraphs’a, b;. ande of. paragreph 3 of. the letters are considered unclassified information... Item, 30a ERE ae Classified as Confidential, Restricted Data and may be discussed” “ay only with properly cleared personnel. Item 3f 1s at present: being = ». treated as Confidential information by the Surgeon General, U.S... Army who has custody of the clinical records of the personnel in i» question, The Atomic Energy Commission has no objection to down-. — .: grading item 3f to unclassified if competent authority desires %0 0 so. . In, connection’ with!tem: 3c, the Atomic Energy. Comniseicn:. ie believes that much information concerning the actions taken by: Ta 7.4 to evacuate personnel from Eniwetok is unclassified. However, it is undoubtedly true that certain details with which the Com- mission is not familiar may be of a classified nature. It is Lelleved that with respeot to this operational aspeot of the problem, the. Task Force is in a much better position than the Vommission to evaluate matters of classification. The Commigsior: would, of course, be pleased to assist in any manner that we may on this point, 1 athe oa ate ‘ any<reply which 4s. directed.te: oat viaae It 1ssuxcestedtth “f‘orwarded through the. Commanding ‘General of the Signal Corps urginsering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth” 1 aN under whose command the 9471 TSU is understood to operate. As. a means of protecting Corporals and from inadvert- ently divulging classified information to tneir uncleared civilian Enclosure I. PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED