September 6, 1972 INFORMATION REPORT REACTIVATION OF THE MEDICAL SURVEY TEAM FOR THE FALLOUT FROM RAVO TEST ON MARCH 1, 1954 Note by the Secretary The General Manager has requested the attached report from the Director of Biomedical and Environmental Research be circulated for the information of the Commission and has provided the following digest: It was previously reported to the Commission in ~\ SECY-2304, February 8, 1972 and SECY-2471, May 8, 1972, that considerable antagonism generated by political figures in the Marshall Islands against the AEC and ' U.S. resulted in major interference with the medical | survey in March 1972, making it impossible to carry out the regular annual examinations of the Marshallese. However, an accommodation has now been reached with } the Special Investigating Committee of the Micronesian — Congress whereby the Medical Survey team led by Dr. Robert Conard, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory will be able to resume the examinations of exposed and control Marshallese. The accommodation is based on the addition to the team of three or four independent physician-observers who will report to the Special Investigating Committee their views of the quality and value of the medical examinations carried out by the Medical Survey team On its annual examinations. A staff report is attached. R US DOE ARCHIVES 326 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY ; '————-—-GOMMISSION{otteeton. SECRETARIAT « . { Rox I TFAY YQ vs | ! [Folder_dites 3 KadeaTow L ec. Tr. ' W. B. McCool Secretary of t C the Commission * . ~ r