XII 7 ( 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 2h AFWiHO SWEH-2 -00 34 rb % Ly As