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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
ALLOCATION OF COMMISSION OBSERVER
SPACE FOR OPERATION SANDSTONE
Report by the Director of Military Application
THE PROBLEM
1.
To allocate 30 spaces for Atomic Energy Commission
visitors to witness the conduct of experiments in Operation
SANDSTONE.
BACKGROUND
ec.
Commander,
By agreement between Lt.
General John E.
Hull, USA,
Joint Task Force SEVEN and Captain James S.
Russell,
USN, AEC Test Director, provisions have been made to accommodate
62 observers during the conduct of experiments in Operation
SANDSTONE with a general allocation as follows:
30 Atomic Energy Commission
15 Secretary of Defense (sub-allocation not yet kno:
17 At the invitation of General Hull
(Includes 4 JCS, 2 MLC, 2 AFSWP, 2.C.G. U.S.
Army Pacific,
@ C.G.
Seventh Air Force,
CINC PAC, 3 C.G. Far East Command)
2
DISCUSSION
3.
suggested
For the selection of Atomic Energ, obs: everc,
tnit attendance
be
limited
to
those who
are
it 1s
Jamiliar
with the technica’.
issues involved in the experiments and whose
duties
need
include
the
the results obtained.
for knowledge of,
and
the need
to
act
on,
Similar criteria have been suggested for
observers from the Nationai military establishment.
4.
To accommodate thirty AEC observers,
being reserved on the U.S.S.
ABLEMARLE
(AV-5),
CURTIS (AV-4), and ten ashore at Eniwetok.
ten spaces are
ten on the U.S.S.
These spaces will be
availabic continuously throughout the operation,
hence accemrw>
tions exist for a maximum of thirty Atomic Energy Commissic:.
servers at any one time.
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