APPENDIX "B!
DRAFT LETTER TO MAJOR GENERAL P. W, CL
COMMANDER, JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN
at
1.
Since the receipt of a copy of
ur letter of March 24,
1953 to the Chief of Staff, United States Army, the Commission
has considered
e desirability of establishing a peraonal mail
censorship progr
at the roreneeiye test operations at the
Pacific Proving Groukds.
e.
After careful\const Sration of the many factors involved
in this problem,
the Comm
made to the Chief of Sta
of self-censorship of
course to official
‘Lon concurs with your recommendation,
nited States Army, that "The policy
gversonal\mail be continued without rensorship, backed up.by an intensified
security indoctrination and securi
program,"
In reaching this decision\the Commission has attached
considerable
have on the
education and examination
mportance to the effect
Morale of personnel assigned
censorship program would
to the operation, the
obvious difficulties of administering a cenacrship program,
and
the fact/that such a censorship program would\apparently be unique
in time
of peace,
3. The Commission, however, is mindful of thé
pyblicity which appeared in the press following the
unfavorable
Operation
nd trusts that the security education program for Operation
CASTLE will be such as to preclude a repetition of the letterwriting incidents.
In this latter regard, we believe that
close adherence by all Task Force personnel to your propvosed
curity regulations which our Division of Security has reviewed
will accomplish this objective,
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Appendix "B"