APPENDIX "E"
DRAFT LETTER TO THE CHALRMAN,
MILITARY LLAISON COMMITTEE
1. Reference is made to your letter of February 17, 19556,
which requested concurrence in or comments on the DOD approved
Official Observer Program for Operation REDWING.
2, The Atomic Energy Commission concurs in the recommended
program with the exception of the limitation on AEC observer
space to 50 in number and the exclusion of public information
personnel, and with reservations concerning foreign observer
participation.
3 The number of official observers that we must sponsor
requires that the AEC allocation be raised to 60 observer spaces.
We suggest that, to accomplish this increase, the JTP-7 conduct
six trips of approximately 20 observers each.
The original
program, which recommends five trips, was based on attendance
at the five megaton category shots which were in the test program
at the time,
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trip will provide the required 10 additional spaces for AEC and.
10 extra for DOD,
4. Due to world-wide public attention on the tests and
persistent demands that tests be discontinued, it is felt that
representatives of AEC and DOD public information service will
be needed throughout the test series,
The question 6f informing
news media is being dealt with separately.
Appendix "E"