This study reflects an Army point of view. Based on Army records for the most part, it indicates but incidentally and in very general terms the relevant activities occurring at the level of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Table of contents: guidelines; Hoelscher Committee; operations of the study groups; the Hoelscher report; the Traub Committee; the decision; implementation; Project 39A; preliminary appraisal; glossary; and charts.

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