PART 7 « SWUm OF OPZRATIUSS (CQHT) 
Public Health defined a symptom which would make the case an emergency — 
the symptom appeared, USADO Ecuador advised that competent s. tdical p©r» 
aonnel were stationod In the Galapagos, AKVER providod data on two ships 
soitable to our purpose within thirteen minutes after a request for a 
tire was selected because it offered the least diversion from the mission. 
Attempt# to raise the ships on radio were unsuccessful for about twenty 
hours and then contact was made with the British freighter S3 SOMERSET, 
VAX at 1200 GMT on 14 September, The rendezvous veto medo at the appointed 
specifications laid down by the Weather Bureau, Two weather observers 
by the Bureau of Contereiol Fisheries, end the THOMAS WASHING!2 opera- 
