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August 11, 1980
Note to:
R.
H.
W.
J.
T.
S.
J.
R.
V.
E.
H.
W.
M.
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Clusen, ASEV
Hollister, DASEV/R
W. Burr, D/OHER
Blair, D/HHAD
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McCraw, OHER
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Gottlieb, OGC
Deal, OES
Ray, NVOO
Bond, BNL
Cronkite, BNL
Pratt, BNL
Robison, LLL
Bair, PNL
Subject:
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Medical Opinion Provided to Copaken and the Government
of the Marshall Islands
Mr. Copaken and Mr. deBrum submitted the attached at a meeting at the
Department of Interior on October 6. (which I did not attend) as
evidence in support of their position that radiation-related diseases
are prevalent throughout the norther~\Marshall Islands.
Presumably,
Dr. Merliss was requested to examine t$e population on Wotje Atoll;
although, with a single reference to U$irik, atolls are not named in the
letter. The point of Mr. Copaken and Mr. deBrum was that problems exist
beyond Likiep, that since the Department of Energy has not sent
physicians they have hired on their own, and that past information is
questionable.
&._.
BruceW.
EV/OHER
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