Pvastb bn
Here are minutes of a meeting held in Las Vegas and chaired by Ogle on 28 December
61 on the subject of overseas operations with the intent to clarify operational plans.
The political situation is summarized as "best infomation on Caristmas TsLang. sees to
be that there is no disagreement on obtaining it for operations.
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1962.
Final negotiations will probably not be
Pursue open
sea plans until Christmas is in our
implies no barge operations.
on our safety council.
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completed until January 15,
hands.
Tentative esreement
The Britash are proposing that they have on individual
We must not forget the possibility of getting Christmas
Island but must plan for open sea.”
As for Jarvis Island, it is noted to have been
checked out and there are no objections to its use but it may be mid-January before
the AEC can firm up its availability.
As for J.I., H & N is moving out there with
the control moving to the Task Force about 15 February.
As of this date, the tine
Here is a December memo from Coon to Hoerlin which
is the first summary of the
Ph/PL high altitude wespons test preparations program.
These groups intend to prepare Aiy
instrumentation to be carried on rockets for diagnostic measur
enonts of the
hoo
kilometer shot and the very high altitude (approximately 1800 kilometer) shot.
Coon says that no attempt will
the main objective is to
be made to instrument
the fifty kilometer shot;
cevelop cepability for spece testing.
Sandia has
assigned 16 NIKI-APACHE rockets (eight per launch) to LASL, which will be
launched
from Kauai.
Sandia is also trying to procure two Journeyman rockets for the
extremely high altitude
of using
Javelins.
event, to be launched from Arguello, with the possibility
The groups are aiming at 15 April as the
their instrumentation in the field ready for launcn.
ready date for having