BC 411559 ALO FILES NOTES ON "REPORT§ OF THE STUDY GROUP ON ORGAN! ZATION FOR FUTURE TEST OPERATIONS", 20 August [959 This report about 260 pages long is classified SRD and a copy of it was sent to Los Alamos which was destroyed some time in the past and therefore 1 am taking the notes from the ALO copy for our records. The report was signed out on 20 August 1959 with a cover letter for the Secretary of Defense, the AEC Chairman, and the JCS Chairman from the study group who Commander of Joint Task Force 7 (Major Gen. Charles H. Anderson, U.S.A.F.) the Chief of BAGA (Rear Admiral Edward N. DADA Parker, U.S. Navy), and the “| approved the conclusions and recommendations of the study who were the ay ” = Director of DMA (Starboard). 2 an 5 aw 4 " Na ag8, mS ze8 $2 The enclosures to this study make up the background for conducting the = = Qi a Bre to rg study and also have some very interesting information of the deliberations = Paar: _ ~™ ~ es ~ Sly ain: and thinking in the AEC ard DOD that have preceded this study and were ~ 7 At ~ A 7 March 1959 letter from Poavlebe: very relavent to the moratorium situation through 1959. the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Donald A. Quarles) to Mr. McCone, Chairman of the AEC notes that in reorganizing the Department of Defense and planning for a greater consolidation of atomic weapons activity in AFSWPthe advisability of maintaining JTF7 on a permanent basis is becoming questionable in light of the current test moratorium. He states that "it seems probable that significant economies might accrue through transfer of the Task Force to the AEPOL cecial weapons project under the new terms of reference. On the other hand, the possibility that future tests might have to be conducted on very short notice argues for the maintenance of the Joint Task Force on an active status: \