Sem Field Maneger, EFO 4. =2= He advised thet he preferred to operate (dispatch) the boat pool by meens of a panel (7.5 and 7.3) es proposed in his éreft of the Operations Order rather than to operete as wes done during the last operetion. He inficated thet this wes necessitated by the establishment of 7.5. Although his reasoning wes not completely clear to me, neither Dr. Graves nor I objected when he requested that we try out the panel. He as- sured us that he would follow this very closely during the initiation of the operetion end that, if there was any indica~ tion of failure of the panel to function, he would make inmediate changes as might be indiceted, He iniicated that such changes might be plecing the boet pool under the control of 7055 703, or under one of his staff people. de With regard to the disnatching of the helicopters, he advised that this would be in accordance with the draft of the Operations Order rather than the proposal as suggested by both 7.1 end 7.5 in our comments, We were advised by Col. Earl Kiesling thet the same group of people, some Navy and sore Air Force, would actually be responsible for this dispatchin; regardless of whether the Command responsibility rested with Fed or Tehe Inasuack as Col, Kiesling and Acniral Bruton both felt thet this procedure was entirely practical and that there would be no ciscontimity in the operations at the time the Commend wee switched to Ged) from Te2 neither Dr. Graves nor I . 5 Y YY objected. CA (creme The General asked that air lift requirements during the month of Jamisry be reviewed cerefully by the Task Groups with a view towarddslaying or advencing the dates of transport on @s many people as possible. Chrictmas complicates this situation. 7. The General explained that because of security reasons he felt very strongly that he was going to have to insist that the Signal Corps provide and operate the only commmications systen between the two atolls. This system would be monitored by a censor who would be in a position to disconnect the com munication et any time. Dr. Gravee expressed grave doubt as to the edvisability of depending upon a single system for the commmications and strongly recommended thet we proceed with our contemplated