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I have discussed with several people the problem of radiochemical
sampling with guided missiles,
I have found that specific information is
lacking here on the capabilities of guided missiles,"
He then listed
requirements or objectives he hoped could be met by missiles if they were
developed as samplers.
Upon gaining the requested data concerning guided missiles, efforts
to obtain suitable manned aircraft continued,
The report on the guided
missiles as samplers was decidedly unfavorable, although including such
units as the Matador, XQ-2 Drone, Snark, and Rascal,
Thus, with no
possibility of obtaining guided missiles which could do a satisfactory job,
officials bent their efforts for the B-57,
At one step of the procurement negotiations, a high-ranking Air Force
officer, Colonel Murray A, Bywater, posed the phlegmatic situation that
nm. . . we could not say that the F-8 was unsatisfactory as a sampling
aircraft since this contradicted the stand taken during IVY to obtain F-8)
aircraft, . .* with no regard to the progress in aviation represented by
the B-57 since their efforts to obtain the F-8) as a sampler or in weapons
development,
At the same meeting, Joint Task Force SEVEN leaders let it be
known that they had not asked for the B-57, giving as a reason, that ", ..
this was consideredcontroversial and the paper was designed to eliminate
any controversial matter since it might hold up issuance,"*
When Colonel
E. M. Gavin objected, a representative replied if the task force decided
it needed B-57 aircraft at a later date, that they had sufficient influence
to get them, Learning that the Joint Task Force SEVEN had not requested B-57
aircraft required immediate conference with Los Alamos
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