Report_from_Iron_Mountain

 
"Frank Fox" is a cultural anthropologist.
 
"George Green" is a psychologist, educator, and developer of personnel testing
systems.
 
"Harold Hill" is a psychiatrist, who has conducted extensive studies of the
relationship between individual and group behavior.
 
"John Jones" is a scholar and literary critic.
 
"Martin Miller" is a physical chemist, whose work has received inter- national
recognition at the highest level.
 
"Paul Peters" is a biochemist, who has made important discoveries bearing on
reproductive processes.
 
"Richard Roe" is a mathematician affiliated with an independent West Coast
research institution.
 
"Samuel Smith" is an astronomer, physicist, and communications theorist.
 
"Thomas Taylor" is a systems analyst and war planner, who has written
extensively on war, peace, and international relations.
 
"William White" is an industrialist, who has undertaken many special
government assignments.]
 
HOW DID THE GROUP OPERATE? I MEAN, WHERE AND WHEN DID YOU MEET, AND SO FORTH?
 
We met on the average of once a month. Usually it was on weekends, and
usually for two days. We had a few longer sessions, and one that lasted only
four hours. .... We met all over the country, always at a different place, except
for the first and last times, which were at Iron Mountain. It was like a traveling
seminar....Sometimes at hotels, sometimes at universities. Twice we met at
summer camps, and once at a private estate, in Virginia. We used a business
place in Pittsburgh, and another in Poughkeepsie, [New York]....We never met
in Washington, or on government property anywhere....Able would announce
the times and places two meetings ahead. They were never changed.....
 
We didn't divide into subcommittees, or anything else that formal. But we all
took individual assignments between meetings. A lot of it involved getting