ee CONFIDENTIAL was decided that this was a reasonable and understandable request and the team leader indicated, without verbal discussion, that he was favorably inclined. indicated agreement. Jr. Hansen and Captain Goeke As stated inour original summary dis- patch message 290955Z to DIMs/AEC (see Tab NH, Appendix I), we felt impelled to do everything possible to obviate any possibility of even slight impairment of what we considered a most friendly and mutually beneficial relationship to this point. A denial of this request, for any reason we could think of, we felt would be very impolitic and a serious error. We therefore suggested that we would be happy to draft such a statement following a complete discussion of our findings with them. This was, in fact, done after our discussion and is quoted below. There followed a detailed discussion of our examination of the ships and of the personnel and our swmmary impressions. During this period, our radiation dose-rate readings were copied, in toto, by each Captain or one of his people, from our original records. This was also done in the case of the blood counts by the TAKUYO physician (the SATUMA doctor had been permitted to do so the day before at the laboratory, once our results had been recorded). There were quastions as to when the results of the urine examinations would be known, and we advised that this would be a matter of 2-3 weeks if there was any evidence of radioactivity, sooner if there was none. The same regarding the blood samples. 12 DOE aRcuiys IVES CONFIDENTIAL fe