facilities. furthermore procurement of electrical cable and KBAX Coax and necessary rehab work on. the alpha and HRT stations have been requested. at NTS. . Pinex-on-a-balloon test is being conducted > Db ae \/ Also there is discussion at this time of proposing a new BER CP structure for LASL. Cost estimating is going on for basic tunnel configurations as well as experimentxstations in both tunnels and vertical shafts. Here are three memos of interest dated 23January, 23 January, end 27 January 959 respectively, alf from Dunc an Curry to Al Graves on possib le sites and - deta ils refavent to those sites for plan ning for overseas test operations — be they based at Johnston, Chri stma s, Midway, or Eniwetok Islands, or to be performed in the area sout h of Hawaii. One of the memo s looks into the iS4 Ad feasibility of the various areas in comparison with one another; the second TWX is entitied "Quick and Dirt y Balloon Shots at Johnston and Christmas Islands" and has a map with some details of Christmans Island; and the third memo, dated 27 January, is entitled "Additional Wea ther Information" and includes weather inform ation over the ocean as wel l as at Christmas Meeting #1459, 26 January 59: “ the Commis sion g§ . o § r to Geneva more be sent cor. . nical advis ch te e th as r old Brown to replace Ha r N