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NFIDENDAL
PART Hl, CHAPTER 7
7.19
AEC and H&N security personne) were
and TG 7.5 Pass and Badge Office was establish-
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PUBLIC INFORMATION PROGRAM
ed on 16 June 1953. A}l cleared JTF-Seven personnel at Johnston Island wore green badges,
and all others were required to wear red badges,
Special ‘““No Clearance” hadges from the EPG
interim badge system were used to denote uncleared H&N personnel working there as “Good
7.26
Responsibility for issuing all public information materials concerning Operation
HARDTACK, Phase I, rested with the Joint
Office of Test Information in Washington, D. C.
The staff of JOTI was made up of AEC and
DOD public information personnel, with a representative of AEC’s Division of Information
Services as Director.
Security Risks.”
7.20
The controls on photography at EPG,
as set forth in SOP 205-5, were followed
by both TG’s 7.1 and 7.5. At the request of this
Headquarters, CIC personnel of Headquarters,
JTF-Seven, conducted a survey of all TG 7.1
7.27
7.28
Public announcements of individual detonations were generally confined to those
for which the vield was more than 200 kilotons.
were brought to the attention of the CTG 7.1
During the series, a total of 16 detonations were
and Jater corrected. TG 7.5 photo processing
points were checked by AEC security personnel
and were found to comply with the prescribed
regulations.
7.21
<A security survey of AEC interests at the
EPG was conducted by inspectors of the
Office of Security. ALO, during the period 25
May to 1 June 1958, and it was found that. in
general, the EPG security program was functioning satisfactorily.
In addition, a military public information
officer was assigned to the staff of the
Commander, JTF-Seven.
photographic processing and issuance points.
Compliance with control regulations was generally satisfactorv: however, certain deficiencies
announced.
7.29
The Director of ALO’s Office of Information was assigned as a Liaison Officer to
‘he Joint Task Force on the staff of JOTI for
the PINON (open shot) event of Operation
HARDTACK, Phase I; however, the event was
cancelled during the latter part of the program.
CLASSIFICATION
7.30
Prior to Operation HARDTACK, Phase
7.22
I, representatives of the Classification Offices of ALO, SAN, FC’AFSWP, LASL, UCRL,
and Sandia Corporation met to revise and re-
Military Police departed on 1 August. The Ma-
Test Operations. The revision agreed upon was
submitted to AEC, Washington, and AFSWP,
ROLL-UP
The last test detonation at Bikini occurred on 22 July 1958. All classified information was remcved from that atoll, and the
rine guards of TG 7.3 were relieved from further
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hadge system which had been suspended during
the HARDTACK, Phase I, operational period.
assigned to Johnston Island in June, 1958,
guard responsihilities at EPG on 22 July.
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The last test detonation at Johnston Is-
land occurred on 11 August 1958 All
classified activities of TG’s 7.1 and 7.5 ceased
on 18 August, at which time the military security guards were no longer required.
7.24
The last shat at Eniwetok Atoll occurred on 18 August 1958. The operational
phase was concluded on 15 September 1958.
Responsibility for the custody, security, and ac-
countatility for snexpended test materials (SS
materials at the EPG reverted to the Manager,
ALO. on the latter date. All SS materials left
the EPG for return to the Mainland by 20
Aucust 1958. Classified documents and other
materials, other than those to be maintained at
the EPG hv the AEC and its Contractors, were
removed by the same date.
7.25
The Military Police closed their last guard
post at the EPG on 20 August 1958, and
departed
for the
States.
The HARDTACK
hadge system was deactivated on 9 September
1958, and was replaced by the EPG interim
write the Classification Guide for the Pacific
and after their approval it was forwarded to
JTF-Seven where it was approved for use in
Operation HARDTACK, Phase I.
7.31
The Chief of the Classification Branch
of the Classification Division.AEC, Washington, was designated as Chief Classification
Officers for JTF-Seven. His alternate was the
Chief of the Declassification Branch of the Classification Division. AEC, Washington.
7.32
Direct participation of the ALO Classi-
fication Division in the Marshall Islands
phase of the Operation was rather limited and,
in the main, was handled by communication with
Albuquerque. A representative of the ALO Clas-
sification Office was in residence at Eniwetok
and Bikini Atolls as the Classification Officer
for TG 7.5 for a period of three weeks. Since
most classification problems arose within TG 7.1,
which had its own classification representatives,
there was relatively little demand for a resident
classification representative for TG 7.5 affairs.
7.33
Major involvement of the ALO Classification Division started with the Johns-
ton Island phase of Operation HARDTACK
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