An 8 December
erletter from Gen. McCorkle,
Gen.
Commander of AFSWC to
Canterbury of AIDC indicates McCorkle's feeling that the 4950th
a lf
should indeed be designated as Air Force Task Group 7.4 but that it would
carry both titles and that it would continue to be an AFSWC unit.
Further,
McCorkle states that he has becn informed that the JCS has approved the
formation of a permanent 7.4.
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On 8 December 1959, there came a memo from BII] Abkwere of Nevada Operations
mmensten
Ol
to Bob Newman
a?
at LASL that shed some light on the practices at, the NTS to
attain and maintain test readiness during the moratorium.
fP
A€Laive
At+heebe states
that “our general policy on procurement of items from maintenance of the
testing capability is that we will procure only those items having a procurement
lead time of 90 days or longer."
Apparentiy the equipment that Newman
has
‘requested which are induction motor generator sets for LASL do fall within
the criteria of having a lead time of 90 days or fonger.
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By December of 59 the high altitude detection system study was taking on
some detailed shape including discussions with NASA as to their cooperation and help and it had taken on the name VELA. This concludes the notes
on the Upper Atmospheric Physics Group folders through 1959.
\ parallel with those negotiations mentioned above, the Secretary of the
reasury by letter of 30 June 1959, requested the Secretary of Defense
t
i
k
¢
»make Sand Island available to the United States Coast Guard for use
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sa Loran A and station site. The Secretary of Defense by letter of
0December 1959 granted permission for the installation of the Loran
tationonSandIsland with the provision that it operate on .a non-interference
asis with the proposed Nike-Zeus program.
Asthe Loran Station satisfied
equirements in support of military operations
under the operational authority
{ the Commander in Chief, Pacific, authority to shut down was vested in
im, On 30 October 1961 the U.S. Coast Guard relinquished its permit
> occupy a portion of Johnston Island.
SFPAY
aaatersatian nynoram was
completed in June 1960 and
.