Chestnut of GC Dewey Company A 12 January 59 TWX within the Amy notes that Walt re- on the effects of the various ABM systems. will be doing some work for the Amiy very soon f such as the NIKE-ZEUS. Z | , etc. proposes A 12 January TWX from Sanders of ALO to Starbird, Graves par- tives of a |day mecting of the EPG Planning Board with representa launching plans for ticipating agencies to address drawing up alternate we get the opporshould a short but austere type of overseas operation . January. 28 tunity. The date of the meeting later was changed to ty Libor tion of (Mention of equipping diagnostic ship and rehabilita . Ships). Brown documentation that Harold i ry, there is lacerep About this time, mid-Janua a ary and that the Geneva negotiations in Febru wilil return from hnical advisor is required. ment for him as principal tec Both Graves and | Ogle are mentioned. the appropriate : i discussion in this time period of There is considerable di ¢ underground shots at the NTS. nt o formula to use for containme . . . e ; . n gener . lated iis rete rence to some documentatio in high altitude re perloe time regar d to LASL interest In this n in Ter Also Hoerli Herman ated by research. : A 1S Jan. 1959 memorandum from Task Group 7.3 to Commander of JTF-7 haavereneaorn , CY discusses a deep water mooring feasibility test. It is noted, "During Operation Hardtack precision deep water mooring was attempted for the first time. In this design three of four legged moors were used in 1000 fathoms of water, and YC used as mooring buoys. The precedure, however, introduced great dangers to personnel on board the y's during handling of the mooring tackle." There were significant problems with the number of visits that had to be made .to the moor and with the problems of small boat handling in high seas and the overall personnel risk was considered unacceptable. “After the completion of Operation Hardtack, the staff of Task Group 7.3 made an extensive study of a more practical three point moor which would reduce these dangers and which would allow fully instrumented YC's or targets vessels to be placed in the ~ moor as required." This design of a new type of moor is now complete and a teasibilit y test to : prove out the design j is considered necessary and JTP-7 is requested to arran e & © for such a was in fact done is not clear here. test off of Nassau. Whether this test