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MAY 5

1966

PRoPosEDANNouNC~~NTAND REsPONsESTO INQUIRIESON FIVEMARSHA~SE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THYROID NODUIJ3S
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Attached for your approval are a proposed public announcement and responses
to inquiries on circumstances surrounding five new cases of thyroid nodules
detected in the Marshallese people during the March, 1966, medical survey.
Two upcoming events are likely to receive news media attention:
1. the arrival, this month, of five Rongelap people in this country
for clinical examination and possible surgery; and
2. the appearance of an article, in June, in the New England Journal
of Medicine on the latest findings by Dr. R. A. Conard of BNL.
We recommend that the announcement be approved for issuance by Brookhaven
National Laboratory just before the arrival of the five Marshallese. The
questions and answers are for use to the extent necessary in response to
telephone inquiry only, or for guidance before interview with media representatives .
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APPROVED:

General Manager

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