4 me STANDARDFORM NO, 64 - !Office Memorandum’. owxren statis GOVERNMENT i See . 4 oar ’ Roy. B. Snapp, Secretary | FROM : 408948 MM fer 4 [3Sy Morse Salisbury, Director eh Division of Information Service We _ SUBJECT: . ‘RELEASE OF nTyyt FILM (Spon: Tats aefare 5,ve sO Od: sestonAVAILABLE — ; Nearly all the essential information about the plan for release Of: the IVY film and the caveats against foreign exhibition,”and” “useof color stills are containedin the attached from the © oe Operations Coordinating Board which arrived just after I-‘talked | with-you Friday. I would propose to circulate copies of this to the Commissioners and General Manager with the following notefor my signature: . Attached is the guidance formulated by the Operations Coordinating Board for the handling of re~ following pertinent facts: P RON lease of the Operation IVY film adapted for civil defense promotion. The guidance does not state the [= falBese | o. , $ gay ae elwase oy RIBRSUES® | |5}2550°8S5 a g 5S Seouse vIsa fe ABE S3e 1. The tentative release date is set for April 7; this will be firmed up on Tuesday, March 16, _ after a meeting with Mr. Hagerty at the White House “to consider all angles of media service -- it may be necessary to set back the date‘in order to make sure _ that some long lead-time picture magazines are not . slighted. 7 : ° 2. os, Congressmen purchasing copies of the color are 42 Svein Ose a, film for showing in their areas, and State and local | JEM3” Te leg. lj; sl Srey OT AUTHE ta IST REVISW.DATE Se iF he é ! civil defense directors who receive on loan copies of . ‘the color film are to be required to agree to stipula- tdons that they will not: a. : ; Lend the film for color TV transmission; : ‘ b. Allow use of the film in making color c. Allow showing of the ‘film outside the. United States. , . yoy eed still pictures; : ay 3. Requests from Congressmen to purchase prints ©:, of the film will be routed through the AEC and honored only on assent of the AKC.