411789
AFOAT-1/SWO
INT 1-2
February 25, 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD N, PARKER:
SUBJECT:
1.
(Top Secret) Exchange of Information Under Area 5
References.
a.
TOP SECRET TWX DA 956320 to Commander JTF 7 from Q-3,
DA, 29 January 1954, re:
Operation CASTLE,
JCS deoision on British participation in
b.
TOP SECRET Memo to Brigadier Generali Canterbury from
Chief, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, file SWPNV-CPCS-40,
subject:
1953.
"Exchange of Information Under Area 5", dated 16 December
2. One of the two operational RAF Canberra airoraft of the
British contingent was lost while enroute to Kwajalein from Australia.
Hence, the British capability for obtaining aerial filter samples
for each event and for the total series has been drastically
impatred.
3.
AFOAT-1 has been presented with a request by the
accredited United Kingdom representative for a portion of aerial
filter samples collected by AFOAT-1 Long Range Detection operations,
based on the referenced JCS decision on British participation in
Operation CASTLE and on the corrolary U. S. offer to provide "hot
papers" from our own airplanes in lieu of British flight missions.
4.
In view of the change in operational capabilities of the
Sritish unit at Kwajalein, and the previous policy decisions on
s4’ch an exchange, authority is requested for AFOAT-1 to provide the
British with exposed Long Range Detection filter papers obtained
oy AFOAT-1 during Operation CASTLE,
FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF:
WILLIAM A, HUNTER
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Executive, AFOAT-1
Office for Atomic Energy, DCS/o
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