qua. / HEADQUARTERS GOOG 1 TASK GROUP 7.1 JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN APO 187 (HOW), % POSTMASTER BAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA F-37338 ¢(7 we ____.10Febr N THe Gy eae LEbor lO Bee Cheepata PQ SUBJECT: TWK Procedure in the Forward Area TOs Mr. Henry R, Hoyt im ma Assistant Director for Administrationt!™ TEEbd BF Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory University of California Los Alamos, New Mexico 1. woe Gea within Sele Dea ° ee a teas For your information and concurrence, I have outlined below the routine procedures for handling incoming classified teletype messages in the forward area: a. The documentation of teletype messages from the States received at this Headauarters will vary, depending upon the time of arrival of the message. b. Incoming teletype messages are received in three (3) copies during duty hours (0730 hours to 1715 hours) and in two (2) copies during non-duty hours (1715 hours to 0730 hours). Classified messages are documented in accordance with the series assignment given in the message. If such assignment is not presented in the message the primary addressee ie assumed to be series "C" and each subsequent addressee is assumed to be series "D", "E", SF", ete., according to his position on the list of addressees. The originator is not notified as to whether two (2) or three (3) copies were received at this office and he is not notified of distribution of conies within Task Group 7.1. In the event a message is reporduced in excess of the copies received from the TWX Center, the new copies are assigned the next series and the originator ig notified as to the number of copies and the distribution of that series. ec. Classified messages for personnel at Bikini are received at Parry for retransmission. As it is not necessary to retype the message during duty hours for retransmission to Bikini, the Bikini series is the next letter following that of the message received on Parry.+ During nonduty hours it is necessary to reproduce the message on Parry for transmittal through the military system and therefore, the second Parry series assumes the next letter and the Bikini series "be comes two (2) letters following the series of the original "24 received at Hy) moa AWK:LWB jt) UO 8 Uewadl ARMAND W. thiol J-1 CLASSIFICATION CANCELLED REVIEW JAN. 19751 OC FE ermmmmmmmmeamiiatni, 4, the in any is pro-

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