femme,
SUBJECT:
Island Evacuation
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The first I knew about the outer perimeter radiological situation
was when I received a TWX at 1043 on D¢1 from Navy Aircraft #1902, which
inguired if Rongerik Island should be evacuated and requesting innediate
answer, I queried various sources and discovered that Captain Chrestensen
had gone to Rongerik the previous night to investigate reported fall out
in this area.
I immediately notified Lt Col Richard House, JIF 7 of the TWX and asked
him what action he would like to take,
He said that there was no reason to
evacuate as far as bs was concerned, because he was of the opinion that they
should be reading about 300MR of Gamma shine and this would disappear in a
couple of hours.
On the basis of this conversation I sent a TwXx informing
N1902 not to evacuate Rongerik,
Almost immediately I received a message saying that the radiation was
340 MR at 250 ft, and I sent a messape back at 1126 Dl telling then to
disregard my message to not evammte and requested the radiological situatio
inmediately.
At 1200 I received a TWX stating emergency imperative that we furnish
PBN to evacuate RAM, and that UF aircraft was evacuating 8 personnel and
20 more still remined to be evacmted, Finally after many attempts to get
information, I received a TWX stating that the readings were 3.28 at 1 inch
and on this advise I consulted with Colonel Houghton, TG 7,4, as to what acti