ON THESE ISLANDS.” BALOS NOTED THAT BECAUSE OF FALLCUT FROM BIKINI TESTS, THE PEOPLE OF RONGELAP AND UTERIK WERE STILL AFFECTED 4FTESP TWENTY YFARS, SAID BALOS, " 1] AM NOT A SCIENTIST 2UT WHO ZNOWS WHAT VILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.” (PON LEARNING CF THIS PSLEASE ( WHICH JT OBTAINED FROM PRIVATE SOURCE) I SOUGHT A MEETING WITH CONGRESSMAN BALOS. DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR DE BRUM AND I CONFERRED WITH HIM FOR AN HOUR ON MARCH 17. I FIRST EXPLAINED THE QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 1954 EXPERIENCE OF THE UTERIK/RONGELAP PEOPLE AND THE LOW LEVEL CHRONIC EXPOSURE INCIDENT TO RESETTLING AN ISLAND OR ATOLL 1 FURTHER EMPHASIZED THE EXCEPTICNALLY LOW RADIATION LEVELS HERE ON ENEWETAK (CON THE ISLANDS DESIGNATED FOR EARLY RESETTLEMENT). BALOS SEEMED TO ACCEPT THIS AND TO BE REASSURED, ALTHOUGH HE aa TS ABO T AS EXPRESSIVE AS THE SPHINX. PAGE $3 RUHHDNA 16683 UNCLAS T PROCEEDED To DISCUSS QUR POSITION REGARDING MEDICAL EXAMINATICN AND MEDICAL RESPONSIBILITY. I BLUNTLY TOLD HIM QUITE THAT WE DO NOT EXPECT ANY RADIATION-TNDUCED MEDICAL PROBLEMS AMONG THE RETURNEES, AND THAT IF WE DID WE WOULD HAVE MOST STRONGLY OBJECTED TO THEIR RETURN. CONGRESSMAN BALOS CNOTE HERE THAT IS MOST LIKELY THE ORIGINATOR CF THE TERM "GUINEA PIG" AS APPLICABLE TO ERDA'S MARSHALL ISLANDS MEDICAL PROGRAM). I THEN EXPLAINED THAT WE HAVE MAE A DELIBERATE DECISION NCT TO EXTEND THE-RROOKHAVEN MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE / TO THE ENEWETAK RETURWEES TO AVOID MISUNDERSTAMDING AND & WITH SLIGHTLY ELEVATED BACKGROUND.