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A 21 Feb. message from CINCPACAF to the Air Force Chief of Staff concurs
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in the Army's request for J.I. for their purposes and suggests that the first
avenue to pursue is to transfer the island outright to the Army.

Note that at this time, messages concerning planning for and estimating

requirements of an openseas concept were transmitted from LASL without any
classification and that this upset the Washington people because they felt this

was an extremely sensitive subject to discuss with
the Geneva negotiations

“ongoing and they requested that such informatio
n be classified.

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