b. The AEC Director of the Division of Information
Services and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public
Affairs, will assign such additional personnel to the JOTI
in Washington as may be required,
12. In order to have available the material that may
be needed for official issuance:
a. The Commander,
JTF-7, will include in his
operational reports the data detailed in Annex "B",
b. The Division of Blology and Medicine, AEC, will
compile readings of fallout in the U.S. from reports
received from 1] AEC installations and from about 40 U.S.
Public Health Service stations which are cooperating
in this project. These installations and stations will
give, upon inquiry, fallout readings. for their respective
localities from day to day.
c. The New York Operations Office will compile data
resulting from the information collected by its monitoring
network,
a. The JOTI will evaluate the information arising
from the actions under a, b, and c and recommend the
character of public information action to be taken if
any is indicated.
13. With the aim of countering, if necessary, adverse
reaction abroad before and during Operation HARDTACK:
a, The United States Information Agency will be
requested to prepare for AEC and DOD weekly surveys
of foreign reaction relating to Operation HARDTACK.
b. The JOTI,
the Assistant Secretary of Defense,
Public Affairs, and the Public Information Service, AEC,
will orginate or accept from others and evaluate requests
for issuance of information relating to Operation HARDTACK,
The JOTI will coordinate preparation of such statements
as are issued.
ec, The JOTI will have under constant consideration
whether any information action not scheduled in this
Plan is warranted,
Recommendations for such action will
be made to the appropriate authorities,
14, In the interest of accomplishing as complete official
reporting as may be practicable for meeting expected requests
from news media, and to aid in combating possible unfavorable
reaction in the U.S and elsewhere, the JOTI will prepare for
AEC-DOD issuance, such textual informational material as:
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