Officer in Charge of the Movement Rerort Center at Pearl Harbor execute the "SANDSTONE" security agreement and then work through hin.
All vessels operating out of Pearl Harbor disappeared from the Movement Report system at that port.
Those coming fram the West Coast
came into Pearl Harbor on a regular restricted movement report and
then disappeared from the Movement Report system by the device of
clearing Fearl Harbor for "local operations,” and thus did not require the broadcast of the movement to other movement report centers
and commands.
5.
Recommendations.
The following recomendations for operations of a neture
similar to “SANDSTONE” are made:
a.
That plans for the operation be based on a target date
which will permit orderly preparation and planning for the operation;
b.
That, during the planning stage, the Task Force Commander's
Headquarters and the Headquarters of all important. Task Group Commanders
be in one location to permit frequent conferences;
ce
That, as early as practicable in the operation, security
be reduced to a leval approximating that governing "SANDSTONE" since
late December 1947,
Section VII