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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
' OUTGOING TELECOMMUNICATION MESSAGE
March 29, 1958
FROM:
TO:
USAEC, WASHINGTON, DC
JTE-7 ENIWETOK, MI
PERSONAL AND EYES ONE7 TO GEN LUEDECKE FROM STARBIRD
YOUR 2602202 AND 280430Z ARE SUPERIOR ANALYSES,
COMMISSION
HAS REVIEWED IN DETAIL AND WILL ATTEMPT TO FIRM ITS POSITION
TUESDAY 1 APRIL.
THEY HAVE DIRECTED THAT I ATTEMPT TO DETBRMING
EY THAT TIO IMPACT ON MOVING TO ANOTHER LOCATION Ty DINE Wits.
THE FINAL PORTION OF YOUR 2604502.
LHIS DUNS NOT REPHESENT THArk
POSELTICN AS OF NOW BUT A DESTRE TO HAVE ALL INFORMATION SPORE
TAKING ONE.
FROM OGR RAPID ANALYSES HERE IT WOULD APFEAR THAT ONLY
FOUR PLACES ARE REAL CANDIDATES,
EACH IS DISCUSSED BRIEFLY IN
“HE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS,
WAKE,
SOME BUT NOT INSURMOUNTABLE DISRUPTION WOULD BE
CAUSED TO SHIPPING AND AIRLINES (AIR MIGHT REROUTE ON SHOT DAYS
‘SHROUGH KWAJELEIN),
ABOUT 300, TO
MIS
EVACUATION OF GARRISON, BELIEVED TO BE
TYPE VESSEL, OR EVEN BY ATR, AT SHOT TIMES
WOULD NOT BE TERRIFICALLY DIFFICULT.
LAND MASS, THOUGH SMALLER
THAN DESTRED, MIGHT BE ADEQUATE FOR ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTATION,
DISTANCE FROM PRESENT BASE WOULD BE LEAST OF THE IFOUR LOCALES .
HALF OF TEMPORARY-CDANGER AREA WOULD BE WITHIN EXISTING LANGER
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