i 16 Jamary 1957 J3etie29 Taongi in a test operation under thes¢ various circumstances, low this is not only the real estate, which I would like to have 3c Ine vestigate with 7.5, but the other types of aupport, (Air and levy support) watch I think Lueke and Gattis can work with, For our purposes, I think we can assune that these are our problems and the problens of weather and firing frejueney should be left up to people like Rex ad Vay Shelton, Now you and I disagree somewhat on the preliminary feasibility, getting the channel open, ete. I don't think ve actually disagrees. assume that one can get into the lagoon, We siuply It costs some money, I don"t nas just hoy mich, but hare again, maybe tho justification problems loans very large. For our purposes, I vould like to assume that we can get to the place to opcrate, It's difficult, but we make som estimates as to how difficult in order to feed this into our estimates of the oporas tional problens that we've ect. Thess problens are important but they're not important at this level. They're important for purposes of justie fication at a higher level. And, of course, there is one point that I propose te leave out entirely and that is the guestion of whether or not the AEC and the United letions will agree to our using the place. For our purposes, ve just ass.ime that that'e been taken care of, SENDERS: As I see it, you say do we need it, why do we need it. and what are the ale vantages? Now I think that if you em prove you need it, if wa can sell that point, you can take care of the rest of it. GI33INS: Okay, wa got te the point where we wanted some facts about the atoll and we got stopped on an 918,000 tab. ‘That's exactly where w are, I haven't been doing anything different than wiat you just said, and we do need this survey, You're talking to me about what kind of a feasie bility report can be written without the marine survey. one «= you can write down all kinds of things, 9009594 22 ae You can write As Gaelen says, we have