impossible of attainment because of the widespread press speculation regarding AEC and Task Force activities.

Coupled with this

almost continuous speculation are the facts that mil censorship

is not imposed on Task Force personnel and, as the operational
period epproaches, the frequent, heavy movements of personnel to
the forward area are virtually impossible to conceal.
Planning also had to envisage the possibility of intentional
or unintentional security violations, either internal or external.
Inasmuch as the physical execution of the security mission in the
forward area fell to the task groups, particularly Task Groups 7.2,
7.3, and 7.5, planning was accomplished in conjunction with these
groups and with a view toward the best utilization of the facilities

and personnel of these groups which would be available in the for- |
ward area.

As past experience had reduced the matter almost to

one of routine, no significant problems arose in this connection.
In order to achieve the maximum of security within the Task

Force, a detailed program of personnel indoctrination was planned
from the beginning and implemented under the personal direction of

the CJTF.

A basic criterion adopted in the beginning was that the

individual assigned to the Task Force was the key to security.

Because he had received clearance, it could not be assumed that he
was no longer vulnerable as a potential source for the release, intentional or wmintentional, of valuable information either through

correspondence or by careless conversation,

With this criterion,

the prdblem became a matter of impressing upon each of some 10,000

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