Senator Jackson,

in turn,

referred the letter to the Atomic Energy Commission.

The AEC then sent to the Senator ~~ cwelve-page report from the General Manager.
This report included some information requested by the Committee;

however,

the

Committee only came into possession of it indirectly and not in response to
its request.

What the Committee wishes to prove by mentioning these incidents is not
that it has developed a pathologically paranoid attitude wherein ic believes that
information is being consciously and intentionally withheld from it, but rather

that there are perhaps larger, unseen forces at work of which the Committee is
for the most part totally unaware, but which it believes exist nonetheless, due
to the conflicting nature of its mandates which could possibly conflict with

certain interests of the Administering Authority.
One final word should be mentioned concerning this report:
As readers will discover,

how to read it.

it has been written in an inductive fashion;

that is,

evidence is presented, studied and evaluated, which forms the basis for later
conclusions.

The report at the same time also goes from the general to the

specific, an example of which is the early broad sections on radiation in
general which help explain discussion of specific radiation effects later on.
The Committee began its study with no assumptions, but has formed opinions and

conclusions as information has developed.

The report is written to reflect this.

Lastly, one word of advice, for those who wish to merely read the
recommendations because of the length of the report.
against this.

The Committee wouldadvise

This report is structured so that evidence and information build

continuously to the concluding recommendations.

Thus the recommendations are

not easily understandable without reading the whole report.
Committee,

We,

the members of the

suggest that those who only want to read the recommendations,

reading the report at this point,

we oh

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