bomber &roup, made it probable that a bonb would be dropped from the
air.
.’.rthur
Godfre;?,Columbia Broadcasting Lystem newscaster,
aidnlt really know.
Cn 2 Decen!ber,he ex;~ressedthe view that the
government announcement of the Lniwetok project was so worded as to
in addition to the A-bomb.
raise the possibilit~ of some new wcapor-.s
That the true nature or the
of the test were not disclosed
irithe ,rnericanpress may possibly be attributed to xhat the Honolulu
Ltar Bulletin somewhat extravagant
called the ltfabuloustl
security
th=t surrounded the entire operation.
r<
.. Communication
SecurityControl
10 Due to their extremelyhi~h security classifications, the
r~jor co~.unic~tions security control measures which the Communications Security Branch established and performed in impler,entinsthe
TOP SECRET Appendix 8 to Annex D :ecuriby of Field Order No. 1, JTF-7,
are not made a part of this report but are discussed in detail in a
special TOP SECRET report, copies of which are filed vith the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, “;;ashington,
D.C.; the Army Security igency,‘.;ashington,
D.C., and the Chief of Naval Operations,(OP-20-K)‘;iashineton,
D.C.
SecurityBranchperformedsuch
2. In addition,the Communications
other ftmctionsconcernedwith communication
securityas were feasible
with the limitedpersonneland equipnentavailable. The fact that the
personnelof the Communications
SecurityBranch were divided into three
u
unitswhich were basedat Kwajal.ein,
Eniwetok,and on the USS Lount
lJcKinley,
permittedthe maintenanceof continuousclosesupervision
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