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Ascertainsourcesof informationleakage,if any.
2.
Adjust classification grades when and if the state of
public information so indicated.
For the purposes of summary, press coverage may be divided
intc: Articles repeating or amplifying official releases; articles
speculating as to the time of the test and articlesdealingwith conjectures as to the nature of the experiments. The first group ded-
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with authorized information are of no moment here.
}!ewspaperdiscussion centering on the exact time of the tests
did not succeed in approximating the dates of the test.
The most reveal-
ing statements on this point appeared during the first week of Aprfi.
correspondent,
The New York Herald Tribune, through its ‘l!ashington
reported on 6 Aprilthat “importantnew developmentsin atomic weapons
will be demonstratedsoon to members of the Congressional Atomic Energy
Committee who have been invited to fly out to the new provingground
at Eniwetokfor the occasion.ll No specific time was mentioned.
However, on 2 and 3 April, the ‘WashingtonPost, the
Nashtigton Star, the Balttiore Sun and the Dallas Morning News all
carried an Associated Press report from Honolulu stating ‘%hat initial
phases of atomic test may have been under way at Wiwetok for two
weeks.11
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All quoted the Honolulu Advertiserwhose Staff‘l!riter
Buchwachhad, on 30Uarch 1948, reportedthe prior departure(7 ~rch
1948) of the USSIJt.McKiriley
and the othervesselsfrom Qahu while4
Russianmerchantvesselswere dockedat Honol~u. In none of these
reporting was there a sufficientlycloseapproximation
of test time,
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