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FIIM ON OPERATION IVY
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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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DOE ARC HIVES
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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