personnel exposures to ionizing radiation during the atmospheric nuclear tests. These records, discussed in section 3.1.1, provided useful information on personnel who had worn film badges. There were no entries, though, for the participants who did not wear film badges. The committee concluded that information would be needed to supplement the data made available by the REECo files and that cooperation would be required between the participants in the testing and CDC. The Army representatives supported this conclusion but announced they would proceed with a unilateral investigation of Army personnel at Shot SMOKY. They accordingly requested access to information on Army personnel exposures and related data as they were identified (1). During the next 2 weeks, Major Alan L. Skerker, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, developed a roster for one of the | Army contingents that had been at Shot SMOKY: Airborne Division. the Provisional Company, 82nd He recovered names from such sources as yearbooks housed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Individual dosimetry information came from records kept at the Lexington Bluegrass Signal Depot, Lexington, Kentucky. These data were sent on 15 June 1977 to Dr. Caldwell after the dose information had been removed according to constraints seemingly imposed by Public Law 93-579 of 1974, commonly known as the Privacy Act. It was later learned that the dose information could be provided to CDC (1). By mid-August 1977, the ad hoc committee, which had been restructured to include the Surgeon General of the Air Force, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the Department of Energy, had summarized its findings. It agreed to the following (1): e That the concerned Federal agencies support Dr. Glyn Caldwell in his attempt to identify, locate, and obtain the necessary medical data on SMOKY participants e That the ad hoc committee be established formally as an interagency e That the review of DOD. personnel exposure records associated with the nuclear weapons testing be continued. committee with DOD, DOE, VA, and the U.S. Public Health Service as members