PAGE 2 RHWNEAAQOOS UNCLAS////EYES ONLY//// . ROUTE, HE PASSED ENSTRUCTIONS TO HAVE ALL MEMBERS OF HIS SURVEY TEAM WHO COULD BE ACCOMMODATED MANIFESTED ON THE MAC FLIGHT FOR HONOLULU -- THERE TO AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, # UNDERSTAND THAT UN SOME WAY THIS INSTRUCTION WAS INTERPRETED TO APPLY ALSO TO THE HOLMES & NARVER PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN PARTICIPATING §N THE ZoDNA ENGINEERING SURVEY AND THAT, AS A CONSEQUENCE, THEY TOO ie:WERE ABOARD THE MAC FLIGHT TO HONOLULU. ROGER*S JUDGEMENT EN RETURNERG HIS SURVEY PERSONNEL TO HONOLULU WAS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE SCOPE OF HIS AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY AT THE TIME. KNOWING THE FACTS THAT HE THEN HAD AT HAND, | ENDORSE HIS DECISION AS A WIESE ONE, SUBSEQUENT EVENTS, OF COURSE, HAVE COMPLETELY SUPPORTED HIS ACTIONs { REGRET, AS DOES HE, THE MISUNDERSTANDING WHICH CAUSED THE HOLMES & NARVER PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HONOLUOLU ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM OTHER THAN THEIR OWN PROJECT LEADER. AS A FOURTH MATTER, | UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAS BEEN CRITICISM OF RAY®S ** TALKING TO THE HELICOPTER PILOTS OIRECT’*. THE FACTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: UPON RETURN TO KWAJALEIN ON OCT. 25, ROGER RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM LT. COL. JOE ROBINSON OF MARINE AIR GROUP 36 ON OKINAWA, ADVISING THAT MAG 36 WAS COMMITTED TO PROVIDE HELICOPTER SUPPORT AT ENIWETOK COMMENCING ABOUT NOV. 1. COL. ROBINSON HAD HEARD THAT THE SURVEY WAS