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MEMORANDUM
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May 15, 1956
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venereal Administrative Jistribution.
FRO:
Classification Section, UCKL, Livermore.
SUBJECT:
Declassification of Certain Information Relative to Operation
REDWING.
A letter from Wilbur A. Strauser, Deputy Director, Division of
Classification, USAFC, dated May 8, 1956 is quoted _ in part for the in-
formation of all concerned:
"This is to confirm that the following information relative
to Jperation Redwing has been declassified:
a.
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The code word "RE(WING" when associated with 1956
test operations.
(For this operation, topice
2.12, 2013, 21h and 2.15 of the AEC-DOD Jenerel
Classification Guide for Test Operations in the
Pacific Proving Grounds have become unclassified).
b.
Time to the nearest minute and approximate yield
c.
Advance notice of expected date of detdcnation of
shot Cherokee. The fact that it is to be an air
buret with yield of several megatons.”
of La Crosee detonation.
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