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Report by the Directors of Classification

and Information Services
THE PROBLEM

1, to consider removing from the Restricted Data category
a modified version of a motion picture on Mike Shot,

tion Ivy, (IVY Project No, 21-3).

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SUMMARY

2, At the request of the Federal Civil Defense Adminis-

trator an attempt has been made to prepare a film suitable for
Showing to a Conference of Mayors,

on December 14 and 15,

Sponsored by the White House,

This film, which was shown the Commis-

Sioners at Meeting 939 on November 12,

1953, and which has

been revised in accordance with suggestions at that meeting, is

a deleted version of the documentary: film “Operation Ivy" (prepared by the Lookout Mountain Laboratory, project No, 21-3) and

reveals that information on

the Mike Shot of Operation IVY which)

it is believed can be declassified at the present time.

The

major items which will be declassified as a result of release of
this film ares
a, A calculable yield of Mike Shot,

Operation IVY;

b. That Mike probably was not a deliverable device;
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