he necessary cavity by mechanical means;and third, washing out a cavity in a salt
ormation.
The latter method seems to offer the most hope from the standpoint of
ime and money and ALOO is to pursue it with the appropriate mining and industry
ersonnel.
Correspondence between DMA and the Labs in the September time veriod indicates
hat all sorts of ideas for decoupling and concealment are being discussed and
tudied at this time (energy absorbtion by finely divided carbon, detonations in
ce, explosions in graduated holes, etc.).
On 10 Aug. 59, Gen. Anderson; Commander of JTF-7, sent letters to the
Chiefs
of the various services summarizing the changes to take place at
the EPG and in
essence
allowing and directing each service to transfer functions and decrease
manning appropriately.
The instructions to the Navy include returning all ships
to the Navy with the exception of 16 LCM's and 4 LCU's to be retained
at the EPG
for use by the AEC maintenance and security force.
Ji