Ate Léa . auc dg 03 13°75 repositony COLLECTION DOE7LLASO DoEnV BOxNo. LAA EF “ELOK #3" Bi0mED- Dr. ConAreo FOLDER F tex / LLG AS PATUZYUW RUHEWIAD198 2400149-UUUU--REEGHVO RUHMJIA RUWIALA. ZR VUUUU P 200144z AUG 75 FH OSERDA/PASO KONO HI TO RHEGNVO/USERDA/NV ROGER RAY ATTH RN EWNAN LAS VEGAS KY RURHJIA/USERDA SITE REPRESENTATIVE JOWNSTON ATOLL RUWJALA/ROGER RAY C/O AL SEYMOUR UNIV OF WASHSEATTLE WASH AE BT UNCLAS/M O WW D/NARR/W.3, STANLEY SENDS, MOLD POR 0730 DELIVERY. QUOTE NICROMESIAN NEWS SERVICE REVISED: MAY )2, 1975 PAGE 2 DATE: 8/23/75 PACH AVPACENGCOM PEARL HARBOR EY SAMTEC VANDENBERG AFB CA FCDM A-LGA KIRTLAND AFB No 1 AR BEST COPY AVAILABLE CDRUSAGO MAKINIW ATO SAPME//TTPI-LNO// AMEMB CANBERRA AS ARENBASSY TOKYO . UNCLAS PAGE 2 RUNBWZA019@ UNCLAS CONTWELVE PASS INFO FOR AMR WILLIANS SECSTATE PASE TO DEFT INT/SEC INTERIOR/DOTA OBN AMEMBASSY CANBERRA POR PAC. ISL. MONTHLY (BIKINI ISLANDERS RETURN To HONE ISLAND DBLAYED) SAIPAN, AUG.23 (MNS)o-—~THE PLANNED RETURN IN AID-SEPTARNEER OF THE FIRST OFFICTAL CONTINGENT OF SOME 450 BIKINIANS TOTHEIR HOME ATOLL HAS SEEN POSTPCHED TO PERNIT COMPLETE MMALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF TRE LATEST RADIOLOGICAL SURVEY. IT WAS CONDUCTED I JUNE 1975 BY THE PNERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELCOPMENT ADMINISTRATION (ERDA) OW BIKINI ATOLL. BIKINI WAS THE SITE OF 23 NUCLEAR TESTS (INCLUDIBG SURFACE AND SUB<-GURFACE BURSTS) IM THE PERIOD 1946-50. TBE BIKINIANS WERE MOVED FROM BIKINI ATOLL BEFORE TESTING BEGAN, THEY WERE SUBSZQUENTLY SETTLED TEMPORARILY OR KILI ISLAND, ALSO IN THE MARSHALLS. I8 AUGUST, (966, PRESIDENT JORNGON ANNOUNCED THAT THE BIKINIANS WOULD BE AFLE TO RETURN TO TERIR HOMELAND AT A LATER TINE, WE DIRECTED THE DEPARTNENT OF THE INTERIOR, ORVARTNMNT OF DEFENSE, AND THE ATONIC EWERGY COMMISSION (NOW PARYOF. ERDA) TO COOPERATE IN PREPARING POR THEIR RETURN.