William J. Stanley, Director/PASO 5. -3- On page 13 he again states that my "unique, unilateral field decision of medical policy . ANSWER: .. " had never been discussed with. him. This has been addressed in my answer number 1. this decision was administrative and not "medical policy”. say that it was not discussed with him is a total untruth. 6. Further, Finally, to On page 13 and 14, Dr. Pratt gives evidence that the few patients who were examined as a result of my announcement " . . .at great expense to the BNL medical program --- will have little or no impact on our scientific dafi". 4 ANSWER: The background to this is given in answér number one. It is true that I feel strongly that all exposed persons and control persons should be examined if they wish, not to satisfy a BNL percentage but to reassure these@ individuals as to their health status and afford them the same opportunity as the others in their "group". These few persons, it seems to me, should not be excluded just because they live on other outer islands in the Marshalls. assertion that this was done " . . As to Dr. Pratt's .at great expense to BNL... I can only ask you to consider the cost of sending the ship and the medical team to another outer island for a few days. I consider the $2,000 some dollars to examine these people to be a very worthwhile and cost effective endeavor. 7. On page 14, Dr. Pratt says " .. . Mr. Brown admitted that he had made the arrangements for the use of the boat for our survey". ANSWER: This is patently false. arrangements for boat transportation. Tony Greenhouse originally made My Trip Report June 4, 1979, copy to Dr. Pratt recommends PASO make future arrangements ". . . small boat support from Ejit to Majuro was not negotiated in advance with a resulting overcharge". Dr. Pratt did not task PASO with this function for the September mission. 8. On page 15, I am credited with making an independent arbitrary decision to pay Ejit people $10.00 per day for whole body counting. ANSWER: This is a lie. I call your attention to Mr. Greenhouse's letter to PASO dated March 23, 1979, “A $10 subsistence allowance will be provided to the Bikinians on Ejit who will be monitored again". Common sense allows that I could not make a unilateral decision of this nature. 9. On page 15, Dr. Pratt says that my answer to all these problems was "I goofed". I cannot dignify that absurdity. wy Sr ge