“Doe~//,pASo REPOSITORY i 7 : é COLLECTION 401959 VY a"€ eLae #24 BOX No. LEAE D4 OUTING SiIP PASO ROUTI | 3 W310 — MED, “ir ChHAILO FOLDER Of THR “12/12 FG. PER : : | PrCIALIST Marshali Islands District Trust Territory of the Majuro, Marshall Islands 96960 SEND COPYT?: —HaN JA SITE REP. —|— p_OTHER REMARKS: — Ihave just read Dr. Conard's February 5 letter to you, wherein he discusses his forthcoming visit to Bikini. For the purpose of this letter, Iam assuming that our Hieadquarters in Washington will approve your request for medical examinations of the Bikini people. Gn that assumption, and considering the misunderstanding which have prevailed in the past, I think it most important that there ba a carcful explanation to the Bikini people at the beginning of this visit. It must be made clear to the people being examined (and perhaps to their counsel) that the radiation environment in which they have been living is no cause for medical concern and would nor justify or require medical examination or procedures. The medical doctors who are to be in the Marehalla will be there in behalf of the Rongelap and Utirik people as they have been for many years. And also, as they have done for meny years with your consent and approval, they will rerier normal health care to any people who recueast It. It is thie normal health care which will be offered the Bikini peopte on a purely humanitarian basis. As Dr. Conard indicates, he personslly will be at Bikini for only a few hours. { fre SPEC! staOR ‘PROGRAM District Administrator Dear Oscar, ay ‘PROIECT OFMCTR | Mr. Cacar de Brum Pacific Isiands ! a PROJECT ENGINTE!Ri “ADMINISTRAT!aa | ' INT But I have urged him, because of past misunderstandings, to meet personally with the bikini people and answer whatever questions they may have as to his past, present or future actions. Eecause we will be chartering a C-54 from Kwajalein for this trip, lamtentatively planning to go to Bikini myself just fcr those few hours (on April 4, Kwajalein time) to agsist Dr. Conerd and to answer any guestions which BEST COPY AVAILABLE