Mr. Wallace O. Green July 18, 1980 Pace Three I have enclosed a recent critique of the Bender and Brill mewetak Assessment, which calls into serious question the analysis and recommendations contained in that study. This recent critique, performed by Dr. Rosalie Bertell of the Ministry of Concern for Public Health, chellenges the interpretation of radiological data by Drs. Sender and Brill, and Dr. Zertell proposed resettlement of Mmjebi. fénother critique (also suggests prudence in considering the enclosed) by Dr. Karl 2. Mcrgan raises very serious questions about the dose assessment calculations of Drs. Bender and Brill, sand on the basis of his analysis of tre Bender-frill study, Dr. Morgan seems to suggest that their study is inadequate for making a determination about the proposed resettlement of MmJjebi. In all honesty, I do indeed favor the resettlezent of mmjebi, but only on the condition that another assessment of the potential health risks be commissioned by truly indepencent and non-governmental radiatior experts having no connection with the United States Government. The Bender-Brill assessment has been criticized by well-respected radiation experts, and as competent as these two researchers may be, they presert us with an inherent conflict of interest: as you may know, both Sender and Brill ere employees of Brookhaven Nationel Laboretory, and there is an inherent corflict of interest when Government researchers assess Government data. As an alternative, I propose that ae group of truly independent radiation experts be allowed to survey mewetak end Mmijebl, as well as all of the Northern Mershell Islands which were exposed to fallout during the testing program. I have in mind several radiation experts and doctors from an independent organization knowm as "Physicians for Social Responsibility" (PSR), which is based in Boston, and which has a membership of more than 1,500 physicians and scientists in the United States. I have been in recent communication with members of that organization, and I am told that PSR is very interested in doing an independent survey of the Marshall Islands, and in making recommendations based upon such a survey. Such an independent survey and assessment may cause a slight delay in the njebi resettlement, but I do maintain that an additional six months or so is really an infinitesimal period when contrasted with the’ 33 years of exile already experienced by the Snjebi people. Such a survey will go a long way to attain some degree of objectivity in the Marshalls, and it may be a way out of the "nuclear quagmire" which has caused much in-fighting between various Government agencies involved with the Marshall Islands, as well as the internal conflicts between the new Marshall Islands Government and the people of Mmewetak. For me, such a survey by independent radiation experts seems like an obvious solution at the present tine, and we can only benefit from another point of view