APPENDTX "A"
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSTON
BACKGROUND
1. The AEC and the Department of Defense, in previous
weapons tests
in the Pacific, have sought to hold information
activities to a low key preceding and during operations but
after the tests have provided considerable official reporting
such as the news conference after GREENHOUSE, and, in the case
of SANDSTONE,
GREENHOUSE and IVY,
the release of documentary
films.
2, With each succeeding announcement of a new test series,
demands from U. S. and overseas news media to cover tests has
become more persistent.
This general Information Plan for
Operation REDWING would be in effect at all times except a
period during which correspondents might be admitted,
If
correspondents should be admitted a special information plan
would be effective.
3. In the CASTLE series there was authorization for
compilation of a comprehensive public reporting record for all
media for use after the series had concluded.
However, the
incident of heavy contamination of the Japanese fishing boat
and the subsequent unfavorable reaction abroad caused the
abandonment of plans to process the material that had been
gathered by Joint Task Force Seven.
i, In the interval since Operation CASTLE, interest in
and concern over the subject of radioactive fallout resulting
from nuclear weapons tests has
increased in the United States
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