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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
anuary 13, 1967
COLLECTION
Honorable William R. Norwe
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High Commissioner
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Dear Mr. Norwood:
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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.