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I fully agree with the theught expressed in your letter ef March 7,
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DECLASSIFIED BY
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Ul Joint Task Force SEVER; and ¢ representative ef the Atouic Energy
Commiasion. { hereby desiguate Brigsdier General Alfred 3D. Starbird,
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