"Bikinians" or to people of "Bikinian” descent. Even the bulk of the administration employees, as I understand it fell into this category. The question of who can be considered a “Bikinian" is a complex one as you know. Mr. Weisgall, the Legal Counsel for the people of Bikini, recently informed us that the list of "Bikinians" who claim some part of the Trust Fund payments now runs to well over 900 individuals. Again, as you know, many of these individuals have never lived on Kili or Bikini. All claim land rights on Bikini either through descent or marriage ‘connections. Also, before the relocation, the Bikini-Kili Council was consulted on several occasions with respect to locations of houses for the 28 families on Kili. Agreement on the weto arrangements on Kili Island was worked out. It does not seem realistic that the Bikini-Kili Council would have agreed on housing sites, etc., unless these 28 families had some claim either by descent or marriage, to land rights in Bikini Atoll. At the time of the move, the Andrew Jakeo clan and certain relatives of his did not elect to stay on Kili and they made up the original group which settled instead on Ejit Island. Also the families involved were living in the houses built on wetos on Bikini Island assigned to “Bikinian families". I do not have specific house numbers available here, but I doubt that complete outsiders without any "Bikinian" ties would have been permitted to set up permanent residence on Bikini. Representatives of the Bikini-Kili Council regularly visited Bikini Island to distribute Trust Fund payments as well as to make inspection trips. Certainly, the Council would have protested if Bikini Island was being taken over by families with no claim of any kind to Bikinian affiliation. We know also that there has been considerable intermarriage between the Rongelap and Bikini groups in recent times. Il am prepared, of course, to accept your statement that many of the group may not have come from Kili Island but as I noted above, there are hundreds of Marshallese with "Bikinian" ancestry scattered throughout the Marshalls. To say that these individuals are not "Bikinians", would not be accepted by Marshallese tradition. There seems to be discrepancy also in your claim that 71 of the people removed last August were Trust Territory Government workers or their dependents and only four of these were from Kili. The May 1978 Census shows eight families in this category with some 32 people involved. Additionally, by August, at least one or more of these families had been transferred by the Administration. As I pointed out earlier, District Administrator DeBrum explained in August 1968, that the bulk of these employees had married into "Bikinian families". This appears to be further substantiated by cable traffic between the District Administrator and the High Commissioner at the time of the relocation. You may recall that a “moving allowance" was given the families who would be returning to Kili and a careful list was prepared. On August 23, 1978, Distad DeBrum notified the