bse X—C TIVE OFFICE OF THE PRES ATIO SECU COUN IF NT REPOSITORY Gly aL couecnins -$¢ N3 -326793-0/0 BOX No. NAL RITY WASHINGTON Py ‘FOLDER tr 409026 a The Secretary of Defense The Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission REFERENCES: COPY NO. _3_ October 21, 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State SUBJECT : _,} CIL Peychological Exploitation of Certain Thermonuclear Developments < AOL Lact U im 3-9e i sf cin ‘ F. Gi!oeaie A. Memo for Secratepiessef:State, and.Defense. and. B. Memo for Secratariggef'Btate and Defense.rom: Be Executive Seoretary, NSC,-aame subject, dated”. Chairman, AR,StgyRxpcutive‘Secretary,’0, same subject, dateSGepterber 17, 1952 September 19, 1952. BEST COPY AVAILABLE In accordance with the directive of the Special Committee of the National Security Council on Atomic Energy at its meeting on Thursday, October 9, 1952, your i designated representatives have reviewed the PSB draft statements on the subject \ as set forth in the enclosure to Reference A. 4 The staff representatives recommend that you approve, for submission to the President, the decisions of the Psychological Strategy Board on the subject, as set x forth’ in tmemenemtimmenn Reference A, subject to revision of the text of AppenB thereof to read as follows: ' "In recent days Joint Task Force 132, operating for the Department of Defense and the United States Atomic Energy Commission, has completed the first of a series of tests V4 at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. | > SS g & me & et sepa Ea ® 4 #t This detona- tion was one in our1952 series which, like the 1951 ser- ies, looks tovard further development of various types of weapons releasing the enerpy resulting from fission of heavy clements or fusion of light elements, The tests are being conducted under the full security restrictions of the Atomic Energy Act and no further facts on them will * be issued,® fs requested that you indicate your action, as a member of the Special Com- above decisions of the Paychological Strategy Board, as amended, by completing and returning, as a matter of urgency, the enclosed memorandum forn. 8S. EVERETT GLEASON Acting Executive Secreta: : . ee: The Director of Central tSonoloeure) fee pre dard ind AEC oSas” Ola af thunses Rescived ta Of" Date 10[22ff, AE BA. , (without enclosure ) Poe, A . oo es ym PM os WMigtee of the National Security Council on Atomic Energy, with respect to the