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Task Group 7.3
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Operation Plan
CTG 7.3 No. 1-53
Annex D
Intelligence, Security, and Public Information
Part I_- Intelligence Summary
1.
General.
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This Annex supplements Annex C to CJTF SEVFN OpPlan 3-53, the
provisions of which are applicable to all ships and wmits of this eomnand.
2.
Area of Operations.
a. ENIWETOK and BIKINI Atolls are part of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands, placed under the United States as the administering autherity by the Security Council of the United Nations, They are, therefore,
subject to the full powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction
of the Unitec States,
The trusteeship agreement for the Trust Territory
permits the United States to close any of the areas for secyrity yeasons.
b.
On 2 December 1947, by notification to the United Nations, the
United States closed the area of the entire ENIWETOK Atoll and the
territorial waters adjacent thereto. On 13 December 1948, the State
Department coneurred in the establishment for an indefinite period of a
Danger Zone around ENIWETOK Atoll.
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On 1 April 1953, BIKINI Atoll and the adjacent waters thereto, was
also closed by notification to the United Nations,
On 2 April 1953 the
United States expanded the ENIWFTOK Danger Area to include BIKINI Atoll.
Danger Area notices were published in air and marine navigational notices
and in the press.
The State Department notified all foreign governments
concerning this expansion, ~
d.
The Danger Area for the operation is shewn on the following diagram:
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