AQOZOLS BROOKHAWV J NATIONAL LABC “‘ATORY ASSOC , .TED UNIVERSITIES .c. OH @TON, LI N.Y. 11973 TEL REFER: EA CODE S16 YAPHANK 4-6262 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT anuary 13, 1967 COLLECTION Honorable William R. Norwe Saipan, Mariana Islands Doe[Ase Doe/v Vv JAR, ERLDH # 3 High Commissioner Trust Territory of the Pa. REPOSITORY cic Islands 96950 BOX No. “BroFOLDER neo, ae. CovAaD (o- a Le 12 4ZGEk Dear Mr. Norwood: * This letter serves co review preparations for the fort. oming special medical examinations of che Rongelap ;.eople scheduled to begi:. the latter part of February. Thowuj4 we have no. received final word on “rust Territory transportation support, it is necessary that we proceed wit:. -inal arrange- ments from this end. assuming that: Unless we he..< to the contrary, we ar. cherefore (a) A ship will transport . ir advance medical team and equipment from Kwajalein to Rong -iap on February 23 (Trust Territory time). (b) A ship will be available to transport medical equipment and possibly certain personnel on March 15 (TT time) from Rongelap to Kwajalein. Either (a) or (b) would be in conjunction with a routine TT and Marshall Island field trip operation and the other trip would probably have to be chartered on AEC expenses. (c) On March 1 (TT time) an SA-16 flight to transport members of (d) On March[(5 (IT time) an SA-16 flight to transport medical team the medical team from Kwajalein to Rongelap along with personal luggage will be arranged, and personnel from Rongelap to Kwajalein. These flights would be chartered by AEC-Honolulu, and they may already have or will negotiate the above transportation with Mr. Windel at Saipan and Dwight Heine at Majuro. Please note that the days for the SA-16 flights are at a time when these planes normally are at Kwajalein,and discussions with one of the Pan American pilots last September indicated that such a mission could be carried out without interrupting the routine SA-16 schedule. Department of Interior sent me the UN Visiting Mission schedule, and though it appears that one week SA-16's will be used at times for transportation for this group, the dates of our requests do not appear to conflict. I hope this is the case.