UNITED STATS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
Pacific Supervisory Office
P. 0. Box 3650
Honolulu 11, Hawaii
April 21, 1958
Commander
Joint Task Force SEVEN
APO 437
San Francisco, Calif.
(Attn:
Major Frank Ritchie, RADSAFE)
Dear Sir:
In response to a telephone request from a Captain Matt of your
organization, may we inform you that the Weather Bureau has no
monitoring capabilitiesfor radioactive fallout in the Hawaiian
- Islands.
We have at three stations in Hawaii; namely, Honolulu, Hilo and
Lihue, the "fly paper type of collection which the Weather Bureau
performs for the AEC.
exposes the paper.
The Weather Bureau, in this instance, merely
All analyses and measurements are made by AEC
and, therefore, any data which you require from these "fly paper"
exposures would have to be obtained from the AEC, not the Weather
Bureat.
Very truly yours,
;
FoNecelanne
H. Dean Parry
Meteorologist Acting in
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