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additional fireball and bhangmeter coverage and LRL
,measurements and the modifications are scheduled for completion on 31Oct.

Movement to the field for these aircraft can be accomplished within 15 days
after authorization.

In noting the preparations for supporting a program

off Johnston Island, AFSWC reports that the island is congested by programs

with higher priority and sees problems with operations taking place from
there, including facilities and housing as well as fuel for sampler aircraft which would have to be staged out of there. The modifications couldn't
take place, they feel, in the time scale contemplated for the off-Hilo
program.
In the area of NTS, ALO reports that they could reduce the
response time for the balloon program by two weeks, if authority were
granted to fly the practice balloons for training purposes.
On 31 Oct. the second weekly planning meeting for JTF-8 was held and
here is a memo for Gen. Betts from Capt. Craig of DMA Test Branch reporting
on the meeting. At the meeting were representatives from DASA, the Army,
Navy, Air Force and the AEC, with a Gen. Polhamus acting as Chairman.
Key personnel to man JTF-8 are beginning to arrive and about S50 are expected to be in place by mid-November but space has not yet been found
for the Headquarters' staff.
It is stated that DASA is proposing W-27
warheads for the
effects shots but the Airforce believes that W-49's

should be used since they are already compatible with the missiles.

I

assume this has to do with high altitude effects tests and the missiles
mentioned are probably Thors, but it doesn't give any indication here.
It is stated that 'The ASROC test. is ready to go.
Some ships are presently
at sea. The longer this test is held up, the greater the danger of information leaking to the public." Mention is also made of the Polaris test

to be fired from the submarine Ethan Allen, which is presently on a shake-

down cruise and the shot is planned for the Atlantic missile range with
impact southwest of Ascension Island. Four missiles are being prepared
with the proper destruct features and the dates given are that the sub
can sail on 11 Nov. and fire the missile during the week of 20 Nov. and
that the sprexakisnxx Observation Island and another ship will be downrange to provide backup destruct control. As for the Air Force plans,
they are divided into three phases:
Phase 1, the 28% and 43 airdrops;
Phase 2, is the 50, 56 and 59 airdrops; and Phase 3 is the Atlas test.

Preparations are complete for the first two phases up to about 10 days
prior to test and are being held there to prevent too much activity which
Might lead to public disclosure. Aircraft are planned to operate from
Hickam Field and Barbers Point in Hawaii, with the two C-130's for

diagnostics and the two B-52 drop aircraft ready to go, as well as all
other aircraft for the operation having been earmarked. Once the series
begins, the Air Force says that drops could be made every other day and
that the obtaining and returning of air samples are the limiting factors
in the conduct of the airdrops.
$4.5 million has been spent for an
additional twelve B-57 aircraft. As for the Atlas test, it is to be
ready anytime after 15 Nov. with the launch to take place from Vandenberg AFB
and the target area to be in the open sea either west of Wake Island or
east of Taongi Atoll. SAC is the operational command in charge of this
test.
DASA is working on an eyeburn experiment to be conducted in conjunction with the Air Force Phase 1 and 2 operations and the Air Force
feels that the AEC could add other development tests in with the planned
Phase 1 and Phase 2 tests. As for the Army, their ABM plans are still

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