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finalize the paper fcr presentation to the Joint Chiefs of Staff which
had been in preparation sinca receipt of the JCJ directive (Jc~ 1?95/14)
UcKinley
of 20 February on this subject. A meeting held aboard tl.ei..t..
on X-Ray plus 2 days :~asattended by General Hull, CinCFac, Lr. Backer
of the Atomic Lnergy Commission, General Barker, Captain Hussell, Dr.
Froman and others interested in this problem, and the draft JCS paper
prepared by J-3 was discussed. However, at the end of this meeting
therewas no answerto the vital questionas to whetherthe craters
on the targetislandswould have to be filledpriorto the departure
of JTF-7 in orderto make generalsurveillance
of the islandsonly a
sufficientsecuritymeasureafterthe tests.
On 22 April,aftera finalanalysisby the scientificstaff,the
decisionwas made that,whereasit would not be necessaryto fill the
Engebi crater,it was impossibleto predictin advancethe need to fill
the cratersfrom the other shots. Accordingly,GeneralHull approved
the draftJCS paper as preparedby J-3, which providedfcr later
determination
of the necessity for filling
each crater. ‘CinCPac
concurred in this paper two days later, and General ti”edemeyer
was
askedby radio to present it for appropriate JCJ action.
The problem then remaining was what steps were necessary to remove
from the various service test structures any evidence of the blast
which might be considered WI Restricted Data under the terms of the
Atomic LnergyAct. As a resultof a conferenceheld on 23 Aprfl,
GeneralHull approveda directiveto GeneralOgden to move all the
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