PLANS AND PLANNERS 



exchange memos and drafts promptly. Telephone direc- 

 tories of Crossroads officials were issued every two 

 weeks, to keep pace with expanding forces and con- 

 stantly shifting quarters. Throughout the day, streams 

 of new personnel would crowd in, new desks and file 

 cabinets were wheeled in on creaking dollies; new- 

 comers, unable to find empty chairs would perch on 

 desk tops or sit on staircases In the midst of this 

 apparent confusion, the ubiquitous telephone men 

 worked with pliers and screwdrivers. 



A mammoth Operation Plan was prepared — a plan 

 so vast and detailed as to suggest the Book of Fate 

 itself. The Plan ' contained several thousand large, 

 finely-printed pages* and served as a bible throughout 

 the Operation. Heart of the Plan was a set of twenty- 

 nine annexes, each a veritable encyclopedia on all plans 

 relating to a given phase of the Operation. The titles 

 of the Annexes are illuminating ; they are : 



Movement Plan 



Logistics Plan 



Communication and Electronics Plan 



Security Plan 



Safety Plan 



Air Plan 



Instrumentation Plan 



Bikini Evacuation Plan 



Re-entry Plan 



* It is a great tribute to the Government Printing Office that it 

 could print and deliver this enormous plan in the space of a very 

 few weeks. 



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