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BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
ASSOCIATED
UNIVERSITIES.
INC. UPTON. L.1. N.Y. 11973
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
TELEPHONE: (516} 345- 3577
October 13, 1972
Senator Olympio T. Borja
Chairman, Special Joint Committee
Concerning Rongelap & Utirik Atolls
Congress of Micronesia
Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950
Dear Senator Borja:
Thank you for your letter of October 4, 1972.
LI was glad
we were able to successfully complete the medical examinations
of the Rongelap and Utirik people.
I am sorry you were not able
to be with us.
Please extend to Vice-Chairman Wiliander and
other members of the Committee that were with us our appreciation
for their efforts in helping make for a successful survey.
I am
also most grateful for the help of the distinguished physicians
of the medicai observing group who participated actively in the
medical examinations and contributed a great deal to the success
of the survey.
I am enclosing a copy of my answer to Mr. Farley's letter
summarizing in a preliminary way results of the examinations.
IT am most regretful about the leukemia case and can only assure
you that everything possible is being done for him.
With regard to your return visit to Rongelap and Utirik, IL
would like very much to send along a brief statement to the
peoples of these two islands concerning the results of our
examinations in September.
I will have the statement translated
into Marshallese and will send you both versions prior to your
departure.
Please let me know when you expect to leave.
If I can be of any further help, please let me knw.
Sincerely,
q
Ypbed a Larter
Robert A. Conard, M. D.
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