The weather today v* s cooler with winds from the east at shout 
20 nots and scattered clouds, the see remains rather rough with 10 foot 
swells and many whitecspps, we have seen very few birds. 
I asked the Capt. today shout the weather and locality data, 
and he said I was welcome to take any information from the ships log 
which I could use. I then procidea to obtain the ships position 
every hour for the pa^t days, the weather information, course direction, 
and other information which 1 felt was useful from the log. Mr. Bushman 
found me doing this and st-rted a big stink shout how the ships position 
was classified and what we were doing was classified end I didn't have 
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security clearance and therefore I couldn't have this information, and 
I asked him how in hell I was supposed provide a report on bird attlvity 
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in this study area if we couldn't know where we were or information 
about the ships movement. In the insueing decussion he tried to put 
the blame for my lack of security clearance on seme slip up of Phil's 
at Smithsonian and I inturn definded Smithsonian saying that I know 
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that these forms had been sent out to the Kavy and that the slip up 
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had been somewhere in the Navy hands and certainly not in ours, we 
also went into the problems of the lack of weather imformetion he 
couldn't see why we had to have it done every hour and I told him I 
felt it wps highly important,as we were retting some interesting 
corallations between weather perramitors and bird sitings. I told him 
we would be glad to get this imformetion ourselfs if it was too much 
trouble for him man and he indicated that we probably couldn't do it 
right so, he finially agreed that his would it every hour. 
This trip has been running very smoothly and I can't understand 
this sq,uabling about what lmformation we can 
