Senator Jackson, in turn, referred the letter to the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC then sent to the Senator — :welve-page report from the General Manager. information is being consciouslyand intentionally withheld from it, but rather that there are perhaps larger, unseen forces at work of which the Committee is for the most part totally unaware, but which it believes exist nonetheless, due to the conflicting nature of its mandates which could possibly conflict with certain interests of the Administering Authority. One final word should be mentioned concerning this report: how to read it. As readers will discover, it has been written in an inductive fashion; that is, evidence is presented, studied and evaluated, which forms the basis for later conclusions. The report at the same time also goes from the general to the specific, an example of which is the early broad sections on radiation in general which help explain discussion of specific radiation effects later on. The Committee began its study with no assumptions, but has formed opinions and conclusions as information has developed. The report is written to reflect this. Lastly, one word of advice, for those who wish to merely read the recommendations because of the length of the report. against this. The Committee would advise This report is structured so that evidence and information build continuously to the concluding recommendations. Thus the recommendations are not easily understandable without reading the whole report, Committee, We, the members of the suggest that those who only want to read the recommendations, reading the report at this point. stop tr ‘ that it has developed a pathologically paranoid attitude wherein i: believes that ' What the Committee wishes to prove by mentioning these incidents is not ett its request. we et Committee only came into possession of it indirectly and not in response to Bw : This report included some information requested by the Committee; however, the