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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
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letter from
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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:
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