_ 842 Mr. McKay. How do you get coconuts in the program! What kind of a bureaucratic round-about do vou have to go through to get them on the mt Mr. Be RUM. T guess We just include it, make sure we have enough moneyto go around. Mr. McKay. Would you have authority toapproveit! Mr. DeBreat. No, sir. It would have to be approved by the High Commissioner. Mr. McKay. Could he approve it alone or would he have to get approval up here? Mr. DeBres. I think he has authority to approve it. the High Commissioner. Mrs. Vax Creve. Yes. Mr. Yates. Mr. DeBrum. vou said if coconuts were notsupplicd to you asa Tikinian. vou would leechesae ge Jalil] torr’ “Mr. DEDRUM. 2s. i Ubev were availble onphe jeland yes. Mr. Yares. And THe avab op thejstind. are they not? Mr. DeBrrss. Jes. Mr. Yarns. Sof y acayuts they are going to climb the pecs ce foto eeyep jf they are contaminates ne tbat sir hgve boo boo EBRUM. Thev herve NATURE AND THE TYPE OF ANALYSIS BY DOE Mr. Yarra. Let's gro back to the interrogation. “So you became a little more alarmed than when vou were the Atomic Energy Commission. in 76 youfirst encountered this kind of « test. Is this an annual test that you had been making of the people ! “Mr. Dear. Yes, sir. “Mr. Yates. What kind of tests. mou.thly. semiannually, every four months. or what? “M- Dat. I can supply vou o statement for the record. I will give yo: 20. information.” Then «vere is placed in the record on pages 1172 and 1173 & pretty gird statement of tests that were made and a very bad estimate of the cSults of the tests. We find in 1964 the findings. “photographed and alentified organisms on reefs and i-lands. No gross anom- alies seen in plants and animal: duc to radioactivity.” 1976 shows “exposure Jevels to the Bikinians varies considerably fromislandto island on the atoll.” February 1967, “confirmed earlier survey results for external radiation.” That does not tel] us anything. “Cs-137 and strontium % predomi- nate in terrestrial organisms. Co-60 and Fe-o5 in marinc organisms.” What docs that mean. Dr. Deal? ir, Drav. It means that in the fish that they were catching they found eobalt-60 and Fe-55. Mr. Yatrs. In large amounts! Mr. Drar. I do not know, sir. Mr. Yates. This result does not show that then! Mr. Dratr. No. We did not trv to give vou a complete copy of the reports. We just tried to give vou the highlights of the surveys at the time, and probably, as vou say, did a pretty poor job on that. Cot ARCHIVES 9001823.