July 15, 1980 -, Gordon Stemple Attorney at Law 9720 Wilshire Boulevard 4th Floor Beverly Hills, California . .: 90212 RE : I;arshall Islands Dear )lr. Stemple: . ,, x- . . u-... .- .=, .- .- .. ,. . . ,.. . At your request I have prepared a suTm,ary of my op~~~o:>s on my visit to the Nershall Islands . I was deeply impressed by the kindness of the people a:~dby L\. >.” cjentlu.-.-= courtesy, and by the willing.=--~s znd innate ~J1~4r r,~ss of the vice speaker and the president to spend time with us and listen to us. Ily medical background should be set out so that I have practiced internal these opinions may be judged. I have been accredited medicine for thirty-five years. many years ago to use by the Atomic Energy Conrnission radioacti~re isotcpes in medical practice for tl>eatment of certain thyroid diseeses, including h~.pert.hyroidism, and I think I was one in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases. Of the fi~st doctors to be so lice~=e~ for use of radio-. There active isotopes in their office in Los Angeles. rsay have been ten or fifteen Ot-.hersof us at the same In preparation for this licen~ure I stu~3ied =bout . tine. six months at UCL.~, teking ccurses in radioactive physics and radiation in general. I used radioisotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of thy~oid disorders up until about five years ago, when space became c~o~ded an~.the lzrge scanner and the devotion of a rocin In my office was . . .. BEST COPY AVAILABLE