Meeting with Coast Guard l4 
I9CV 
March l4--Made arrangements to meet with Coast Guard offic. 
Contacted Capt. Johnson, Chief of Staff, CG l4. Phone 588 - 851 . 
Located on fourth floor of Seaborn Bldg, near and behind Ala Moa^ra 
shopping center• 
Had previously been in contact (telephone) with Col Hutson and 
John Bushman--they were unable to attend a 1000 meeting. Capt. Reeves- 
HAWSEAFRON--suggested that DTC not get involved. I had impression that 
they didn’t want to be involved and weren T t too pleased with my idea to 
visit Coast Guard. 
My plan as explained to both Col. Hutson and to Mr. Bushman was to 
present myself as the newly-arrived field director of S. I. research 
in the central Pacific. I would then explain our program and leave the 
problem of the third man on Kure until later, if possible. 
Contacted Capt. Johnsen, made appointment for 1000, delivered by 
Dick Merrill. 
Met with Capt. Johnsen, and Capt. Crosbey (sp.). I presented our 
program and presented copies of the two preliminary reports. They were 
ready and waiting for discussion of their problems and ours on the 
islands. This was their first contact with S. I. They had had only 
contact with Capt. Sudduth from DTC and asked about liaison man from 
DTC. Capt ? Crosbey ? brought in all of their communications involving 
Kure and Sand and went through each series giving the complete history 
with appropriate comments. 
I may have presented too much information since much of what I 
said was completely new to them. Some of their problems were: 
1 . They had no information on out work and claimed they had been 
asking for information from Washington for months. 
2. Their information from DTC was very outdated. They had no 
statement of our activities after 31 December 1963* except request for 
people to visit island. 
3* Much data from DTC bypassed them and went to the station C.0. 
This was also true of orders to S. I. people from S. I. 
4. Our travel requests gave the impression of short term projects 
They were shocked to know that our program might extend to 30 June 1965 
5• ^thergroups are involved on these islands other than S. I. 
personnel. 
