Meeting #1390, 17 July 58: rt ee This was John McCones! first meeting as AEC chairman, having been swornin by the President on 14 July. A lengthy discussion followed on the advisability of cancelling the Pinon shot including international observers. McCone had been at a meeting of the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB, including Representatives of the Department of State, CIA, and USIA, all of whom had been opposed to the AEC proposal to cancel the shot following the Presidents' announced invitation to foreign countries to send representatives, This was all tied to a shot that was to demonstrate the US's ability to develop a clean weapon. The responses from foreign nations to date were: accepting the invitation were Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and France; declining the invitation were the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; no replies ‘as yet from Japan, Mexico and Argentina. McCone had informed the OCB that he would bring up the question again with the AEC, and he noted that the OCB was disturbed to a certain degree because they felt that they hadn't gotten all of the real reasons for the desire to cancel from the AEC in the proposal, Discussion revealed that Ludeke, Commander of JTF7, had said that the task to prepare for such an observed shot would require an additional 2 to 3 weeks to carry out. Following discussion, the Commission changed their position and agreed that the shot should be held as originally planned and requested that the test be accelerated. &3