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20 May 1981

- MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:

On 9

FOR

RECORD

Medical Records/Notes-Rongerik

April

1981,

I

had a call

from Dr.

town (353-3721).
Dr. Maxwell is
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as a consultant’'to DOE.

Personnel, 1954

Roy Maxwell,

DOE-German-

a former participant in the
Program and currently serves

One of his principal jobs is to review

the historical volumes currently under production by DNA contractors as well as conduct some research in the DOE vault.
Dr.
Maxwell advised me that he had located some "original" medical
records on several servicemen who were stationed on Rongerik

in 1954,

These records have been in the DOE vault for about

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ten years.
Location before that is unknown.
He agreed to trans~
fer the records to DoD.
I agreed to pick-up the records and
to insure that these records are forwarded to the proper service
for inclusion in the individual's historical file.
On 4 May
81, I went to DOE-Germantown and received the records.
The box
contained approximately one cubic foot of documents including
medical forms for some 29 servicemen and assorted other notes.
All records had been classified SECRET at one time but had been
downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL.
On 4 May 81, I took the entire box
to DNA/ISSO (Mr. Niles) for review and downgrading.
When ZT received
all pages (1 cy

and

transfer

the

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record back from ISSQ I intend
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