plan for handling observers in groups of about twenty per trip.
Rach trip would require ten to fourteen days absence from the
Washington, D, C. area, including five to eight days in the
forward area,
On the basis of 20 obServer spaces per shot, equally split
between DOD and AEC, these six shots would provide 60 observer
Spaces for each.
5. An allocation of 60 AEC spaces should be sufficient to
allow extension of invitations as appropriate to all of the 1196
individuals listed in Appendix "B", since on the basis of past
experience a large number of invitations are expected to be
declined.
Records of Operation CASTLE show that of approximately
100 Official Observers invited, about one-half made a trip to the
PPG, and about half of these or one-fourth of the total actually
stayed to see a shot.
Undoubtedly the extensive weather delays
experienced in CASTLE were largely responsible for the small
number who observed @ shot.
[In this respect the REDWING operation
should effect a definite improvement, since greater flexibility
will result from more than double the number of shots, many low
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Appendix "A"