od A21 oS of the test would be air drops in the open ocean south of Hawaii or adjacent to Johnston Island with some of the shots to be on ships. best possible diagnostics are sought using Air Force capability and The diagnostic trailers designed so that they can be used on either ship or land Starbird stated. The first shot would be planned for April 1 with the whole program concluded as soon as possible but by 15 June as planned. A skeletal organizational chart was presented by a Mr. Parsons of JTF8 showing the commander and the deputies and the line of command then through a chief of staff to four subgroups one of which would have the scientific groups, one Navy, one Air Force, and one a support group. As for financing Starbird mentioned effort was being made to try to reinstate an old AECC DoD agreement whereby each of the parties pays the total cost for an event ” based on to whom the event was of primary interest. A large amount of the discussion centered around the support requested of each of the individual services, the Navy, Air Force and Army, and enclosures to this memorandum are the formal drafts of the memoranda for the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Chief of Staff of the Army as they would read from JTF8 to the respective services. Certains things of note on these enclosures are that on the Navy enclosure where the ship requirements are listed included is a request for six shot ships of the Liberty class which are to be expendable since they would serve as the platform for detonation of the near surface shots. Also included in the Air Force request list for support is a request for six B57D aircraft which was crossed out and changed to 10 and a note is written in that at this time only 3 of these were available for high altitude sampling and that others would be hard to come by. An LRL list of device by device readiness date for testing is contained herein as it was reported at the meeting and a note that LASL will provide a similar list for JTF is included. There was also some discussion of the missile requirements between Gen. Starbird, Don Shuster of Sandia Corporation, Dr. Herlin of LASL and Mr. Gale. In addition to the two shots that are planned, AEC is interested in a third shot with a yield of 50 kilotons or so at a few thousand kilometers to check out the capability of space testing as well as making physics measurements and doing some measurement relative to the Vela Hotel and Vela Sierra programs. There was agreement that the high altitude schedule would be set up to accommodate three shots in case one of the shots was a failure but that the likelihood of an added shot was remote.