Support Group, all concerned with radiological safety, and asked them to
come over to my quarters for a conference.
They arrived about the time
Major Montgomery departed for the communications center.
I also called
Col. Miller of Task Group 7.1 to see if we could learn anything more
definite on the seriousness of the situation.
He informed me thatMr.
Breslin was aboard the USS Estes and could not be contacted immediately.
I
requested that he make further efforts to evaluate the situation and let me
know.
Col, Hammond phoned Major Montgomery and asked him to relay the infor-
mation in the original TWX to the USS Estes and this was accomplished.
Since
I had a weather island resupply flight going to Rongerik the next morning, I
requested that a monitor be sent along with the flight to Rongerik, All
agreed that this could and should be done and Captain Christenson said he
would furnish one.
Col, Miller called back and was unable to furnish
additional information except that he believed the auto-monitor to be able
to record @ maximum on the order of one hundred milli-roentgens,
After
discussing the situation at length, we all agreed that since we were now
certain that the information was in the hands of the radiological safety
people on the USS Estes, a monitor would go into Rongerik the next day, and
since my people were under cover, we had accomplished all we could possibly
do that night.
It was now about 0200.
All departed and I remained up to
take care of details concerning the monitor going by MATS to Kwajalein.
. About0220, Captain Christenson returned to my room and said that he would
go. However, he was PCS at Eniwetok and had no orders.
We contacted the
MATS Terminal people and found he had to be there before 0300 for departure,
To expedite matters I decided to cut orders myself.
This-was done at