Mor-sBeRet~ | AFOAT-1/SWO INT 1-2 February 25, 1954 MEMORANDUM FOR REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD N, PARKER: SUBJECT: -(Pep-—Seeret ) Exchange of Information Under Area 5 1. DA, References, aFOR-SEGRED-TWX DA 956320 to Commander JTF 7 from G-3, 29 January 1954, Operation CASTLE, re: JCS decision on British participation in b. —BOP-SECRET Memo to Brigadier General Canterbury from Chief, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, file SWPNV-CPCS-40, subject: 1953. "Exchange of Information Under Area 5", dated 16 December 2. One of the two operational RAF Canberra aircraft of the British contingent was lost while enroute to Kwajalein from Australia. Hence, the British capability for obtaining aerial filter samples for each event and for the total series has been drastically impatred., 3. AFOAT-1 has been presented with a request by the accredited United Kingdom representative for a portion of aerial filter samples collected by AFOAT-1 Long Range Detection operations, based on the referenced JCS decision on British participation in Cperation CASTLE and on the corrolary U. S. offer to provide "hot papers" from our own airplanes in lieu of British flight missions, 4, In view of the change in operational capabilities of the Sritish unit at Kwajalein, and the previous policy decisions on such an exchange, authority is requested for AFOAT-1 to provide the British with exposed Long Range Detection filter papers obtained oy AFOAT-1 during Operation CASTLE, FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF; WILLIAM A, HUNTER Lt, Colonel, USAF Executive, AFOAT~1 Office for Atomic Energy, DCS/O oe