409930 ‘R August 11, 1980 Note to: R. H. W. J. T. S. J. R. V. E. H. W. M. 1 Clusen, ASEV Hollister, DASEV/R W. Burr, D/OHER Blair, D/HHAD “ McCraw, OHER ~/“ Gottlieb, OGC Deal, OES Ray, NVOO Bond, BNL Cronkite, BNL Pratt, BNL Robison, LLL Bair, PNL Subject: /; 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 Attachment Wachholz, . ‘. ,6*, . . . DOCUMENT DOES NOT CONTAINECI’ Repository Reviewed by u Ph.D. D.~e<h/q7 ““ COLLECTION fhou. &f5Q~ Hods