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(a) Fires were started in two or
three trash cans which were placed in the passageway
outside of the Research room and attempts were made
to burn classified papers.
(b) Almost all of the material from
the Administrative DIfiee and some additional data
from the Research room was then placed in weighted
bags with the intent that they would be jettisoned;
however, only one unidentified bag was actually thrown
over the side. FUrther attempts to jettison material
(i.e., through a porthole) were hindered by gun fire
from the North Koreans; therefore, no further efforts
were made to discard material in this manner.
(c) Cbntinued efforts to burn material
in the trash cans .caused considerable smoke which filled
the spaces and necessitated the removal of' the cans to
the open deck.w
Cd) An insufficient number of weighted
bags were available for the amount of classified
material on board and resulted in the use of laundry
bags or mattress covers which were then filled with
material w
(e) Even though much o£ the classi£ied
material was placed in various bags and could have been
jettisoned, continued gun £ire by the North Koreans resulted
in an order to cease further attempts at throwing
material over the sidew This order was issued not only
on the basis of Korean gun fire. but also by the fact
that the water depth was only 34 fathoms, far less than
the 100 fathoms believed by Research personnel to be re-.
quired by Navy regulations for deep water destruction w
(f) Documents, message rolls and other
classified material were then torn into pieces am
scattered about the deda Some of the material in the
laundry bags (or mattress covers) was dumped and
scattered about in the passageway outside the Research
spaCes with the intent that these documents would be
set on firea Unfortunately, this never occurred, and
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