bee E LETTOTK GGG NFIDENDAL PART Hl, CHAPTER 7 7.19 AEC and H&N security personne) were and TG 7.5 Pass and Badge Office was establish- \ 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 baa agy 66 6 b 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. 723 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 Page 55 eeeTL.1 1.) ria Pat yA we3 oe ees ae 5&