PLANS AND PLANNERS 



crew was aboard; each time a group of experts was 

 needed to solve some unexpected technical problem, 

 the experts were there. 



INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONS 



Brigadier General T. J. Betts, Assistant Chief of 

 Stai¥ for Intelligence, had a positive and negative func- 

 tion. The negative job was maintaining military se- 

 curity. Never before had a nation fanfared its most 

 secret military weapon so closely before the eyes of 

 the world. Never before had an atomic bomb been det- 

 onated in front of the world press. Each man partici- 

 pating was checked for character and loyalty.* Special 

 pass cards were issued. Courier services were estab- 

 lished for sending secret messages between Bikini and 

 Washington, D. C. Photographs were developed only 

 by authorized Joint Task Force One persons, and no 

 photograph was released until it had been found to 

 satisfy the security rules laid down by the Joint Chiefs 

 of Staff. 



These security rules seemed to most persons to be 

 reasonable. They permitted discussion of the objects 

 of the Tests, the approximate locations of all target 

 ships, the kinds and numbers of animals placed on the 

 ships, the method of delivering the bombs, the types 



* Each woman, too. There were 37 women nurses at Bikini, 

 although few of the 41,963 men there ever caught glimpses of more 

 than a half dozen. 



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