3 She submitted it to you with the request that you immediately forward it to Congress as the deadline for action was only a few days away. This was not done. Despite the fact that the impacts on children was the primary reason for extending your report by several months, you did not submit this new material to the Yates Committee. The Bertell report concludes, among other things, that the data from blood samples taken from the Rongelapese was never analysed, that the control group used in DOE studies was abnormal, and that the impacts on children and mothers indicate serious problems. DOE says it's safe and you advise us to return to Rongelap. We do not understand. Mostly, we don't understand why this report is being withheldybeyond critical deadlines in Congress. (3) : participated Nuclear Radiation Accident. You selected Dr. John Dunster as one of your consultants. I have just learned of Dr. Dunster's personal and direct role in covering up the October, 1957 “Windscale" accident in Britian. Documents declassified early this year finally reveal the nature and extent of the willful withholding of information from the affected British people, both at the time of the accident and over the years since it occurred. That you would select such a person to participate in the Rongelap Reassessment Project is unthinkable. (4) Rongelap ed -- ow Co ° ase of Docume Pollowing the April hearing, and the disclosure that the DOE undertook a special review of the plutonium problem only two years ago, requests for information by one of your study consultants were referred to DOE. In early May, Mr. Franke sent written requests to you for the materials referenced at the hearing, and to Brookhaven National Laboratories, for additional materials relating to the plutonium problem. You wrote to Mr. Franke on May 7, stating, “the material you want should be obtained fron Harry Brown (DOE). I am sorry that I have forgotten to send you his address."* On May 9, Edward T. Lessard writes, "please forward your request to Mr. Harry Brown.* Requests for this information were then immediately sent to Brown, but as of today, none of the information has been received. This study is not supposed to be "cleared" by DOE. supposed to be independent of DOE. were promised? (5) gtudy Work Plan Altered. It was Is this the independence we The Study mandated by Congress was to review the DOE data in the 1982 report and to determine its accuracy. Early in the study, you were highly critical of a work plan advanced by consultants who recommended gathering new data. Now however, you are embarking on such 5000693 86