with the Site Manager immediately before departure, Mr. Ray was convinced that there was essentially no likelihood that the AEC survey could be resumed for at least two weeks. He had at that time approximately 20 survey personnel on Kwajalein who could do nothing productive at that location. He was aware of severe competition for space on MAC flights from Kwajalein to Honolulu and was aware also of the fact that a MAC passenger flight was then at Kwajalein destined for Honolulu with seats probably available. With ten minutes available before takeoff of the evacuation aircraft for its return flight to Kwajalein, Mr. Ray's only means of commmication with Kwajalein was by telephone to the Coast Guard LORAN Station at Eniwetok, thence by Coast Guard radio relay to the Coast Guard Station at Ebeye, thence to the Air Operations Office at Kwajalein. Over this circuitous route, he passed instructions to have all members of his survey team who could be accommodated manifested on the MAC flight for Honolulu--there to await further instructions. In someway this instruction was interpreted to apply also to the Holmes and Narver people who had been participating in the DNA engineering survey and, as a consequence, they too were aboard the MAC flight to Honolulu. Liaison with Helicopter Pilots Upon return to Kwajalein on October 25, Mr. Ray received a telephone call from Lt. Colonel Joe Robinson of Marine Air Group 36 on Okinawa advising that MAG 360 was committed to provide helicopter support at Eniwetok commencing about November 1. Colonel Robinson had heard that the Survey was in some difficulty due to Typhoon Olga and asked whether MAG 36 should continue with its deployment plans. Mr. nay advised that, in his judgment it was doubtful that the mission could be accommodated at Fiiwctok as early as Novemper 1. Lt. Colonel Robinson informed Mr. Ray that it was feasible for the CH-55 helicopters to stage from Kwajalein