- LAT Operation Plan 3~589 superseded the preliminary plan on 30 April 1958, and presented a mich broader and definitive concept of the NEWS REEL operation, Making a reference to the preliminary plan, it said that initial planning had been based on the assumption that Task Group 7.4 would be responsible for many tasks which now were planned to be performed by a Johnston Island Base Command, reporting directly to Joint Task Force SEVziN, The operation plan listed requirements for airlift, certain test aircraft, search and rescue, air control, documentary ohotography, and weather reconnaissance, The airlift requirement of one flight or mre per week was to be met with the eight C-54 aircraft in the Eniwetok inventory, Test Air— craft for the two Johnston Island shots included two B-36's, one C-97, and one P2V, all operating from Hawaii bases, All these specified air craft were among those which had been returned to the Zone of Interior at various stages of the Eniwetok Test series, Search ana rescue responsibilities were still planned to be a Task Group 7.4 commitment, to be discharged through the use of two SA-16 aircraft based at Johnston Island and three others at Hickam. Air Control was to be exercised by four Task Group 7.4 controllers from the Air Operations Center aboard the USS Boxer. Precise position—- ing of aircraft, however, if made necessary for scientific purposes, would reguire an MSy or h-33 radar instailation similar to that used in che aniwetok vrroving Ground, AFWL/ HQ