Ground in the Marshall Islands is being enlarged to include Bikini Atoll and that construction of technical facilities at Bikini Atoll was to »%egin shortly. 6. It is observed that there has been no censorship of personal mail for personnel of the Department of Defense since the end of hostilities in World War II, even for troops on front line duty in Korea. 7. Many task force personnel are returned to stateside prior to the completion of the tests, These persons, in addi- tion to Joint Task Force personnel stationed in the United States, have significant information concerning the testing operations, and would not be subject to mail censorship. Per- sonnel of either group might either deliberately, or through inadvertence, disclose classified information in their possession concerning the testing program, In view of this possibility and to prevent the public disclosure of test information it would appear essential to establish voluntary press censorship of information concerning the test activities to supplement mail censorship. The question of whether an arrangement could be established in which the press would voluntarily agree to withhold publication of information concerning the testing program pending official Commission clearance has not been pursued, However, it is the opinion of personnel of the Division of Information Services that a voluntary press censorship program could be established only with great difficulty, if one could be established at all, 8. Any type of personal mail censorship is objectionable to personnel affected, In support of this observation Division of Military Application points out that scientific personnel -6- Appendix "A"