_ 60 DASA 2019-2 EISENBUD: DUNHAM: March 14th, precisely two weeks. EISENBUD: WOLFE: The 17th here, the 18th chere, [ think. Then I'm wrong, You mean our people didn't know that ship was out there? EISENBUD: That's right. If you've ever been on any of these sweeps, you could understand why. It's a big ocean ani the radar isn't very effective on a small wooden vessel, DUNHAM: EISENBUD: Remember how long it took to find Eddie Rickenbacher. Yes. WOLFE: He had the winds blow in two directions, EISENBUD: The boatput in, I thought it was the 17th but you say it was the [4th, and I think the first newspaper accounts were on the 16th, as I recall. DUNHAM: EISENBUD: Right. Now it comes back to me. FREMONT-SMITH: The Japanese? EISENBUD: The Japanese ivewspaper account were, of course, picked up 211 over the world. Consistent with the pattern right from H plus 7 hours, the initial reaction here wa:. ‘isbelief, that this was just a propaganda stunt, that there would b thing to it. Dr. John Morton, who was then director of ABCC, ». - Jispatched pronto up to Tokyo to help out and telephoned me inthFREMONT-SMITH: EISENBUD: niddle of the night. Where were you at this point? In New York. He-told me that he would need somebody who could evaluate the physical facts, There was no one there at the time. Itried to catch John Harley, who had just left Japan, but I couldn't intercept him, and it was finally decided that I should go there myself. FREMONT-SMITH: How long did it take you to get there?