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. 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