APPENDIX "Cc" 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 Appendix i i SECURITY WOULD BE LOST WHEN CONSTRUCTION FORCES ARRIVE. 1 mR AREA, APOCams PRT TORIES II uk ‘c"