General Correspondence of Sandia

Summary

Released by the U.S. Army as DOW-UAP-D017, this 116-page record holds general correspondence filed under Sandia Base; the OCR text covers only the opening 20 pages. The extracted material begins with a 7 April 1949 letter from Headquarters, Detachment D, 1100th USAF Special Reporting Group at Campbell Air Force Base, Kentucky, to the Commanding General at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, reporting on a security inspection. It describes amended guard orders closing the electric gate between 1700 and 0700 hours, locks replacing bolts on outer fence gates, and locks fitted to inspection ports on both bridges. The letter also notes that the alert plan remains incomplete pending assignment of a stockpile custodian and arrival of the 11th Airborne Division, and reports installation of jeep radios.