As7 TaeREelaRieesEE JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN APO 187 (HOW) ¢/o POSTMASTER SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 5-3/7294 18 March 1954 pe SUBJECT: Radiological Surveys of Several Marshall Island Atolls TO: Distribution . ae ‘ a J Ms ’ 1. Attached herewith for your information and retention are coples of radiological surveys made on certain Marshall Island Atolls, The surveys were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolls by BRAVO Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and or: half nautical. miles southwest of Nam, Bikini Moll, - 1845 Zebra, 28 February 1954, BRAVO Shot time was 2. Water and soil samples were shipped to the Health and Safety Laborstory, New York Operations Office, Atomic Energy Commission (Attention: Mr. Merrill Eisenbud) for analysis. FOR THE COMMANDER: DISTRIBUTION: CTG 7.1 CTG 7.2 - Copy 31 CTG 7.3 - Copy 32 CTG Te CTG ~ Copy 33 e - CINCPAC Copy Chief of Staff 324 US ATOMIC EXERGY ( ' bocaton Ra!ia CollecitsaRecerds Center ~ Copy 37 COUNAVSTAKWAd ~ Copy 38 DEM/AEC - Copy 40 Dut/KEC - Copy 39 ) c/s US‘, ExAgt LASL H Div, ~- Copy 41 - Copy 42 — Copy 43 - Copy 4h _ FolderCASTLE CRS ery Low. EEGs CONFIRMED TO GE UNCLASSIFIEG BY Td ORITY OF DOE/OG GI) ewfae, Sa L og? £4 H'SL, NYOO (c/o Mgr Opns) = Copy 45-46 USS RENSHAW (DDE-499) ’ USS PHILIP (DDE-~498) USS NICHOLAS (DDE~L49) — Copy 47 - Copy 48 - Copy 49 3 Inecls: 1. Report on Soil and Water Sampling COPIED/DOE LENL RC Mission by Major R. D. Crea 2. Report on Soil and Kater Sampling Mission by Dr. T. N. White, LASL 3. Rad. Survey of Downwind Atalla_Contemingted. by BRAVO by Dr. Herbert Some SRD-AIB-sHe we COM MISS} ay E-7 gs vr 34 ~ Copy 36 HICOMTERPACIS CG FlidComd(DWET Brigadier General, U.S, Army - Copy 35 CINCPACFLT Ch Flacomd( URaay EE. McGINLEY ~- Cupy 1-30 ’ f bees) a uneh wer en bes