42 Mr. McKay. How do you get coconuts in the program? What kind of a bureaucratic round-about do you have to go throughto get them on the program t Mr. DrBren. T guess we just include it, make sure we have enough moneyto go around. Mr. McKar. Would you have authority toapproveit ! Mr. DeBrrau. No,sir. It would have to be approved by the High Commissioner, Mr. McKay. Could he approve it alone or would he have to get approval up heref Mr. DeBremu. I think he has authority to approve it. the High Commissioner. Mrs. Vax Creve. Yes. Mr. Yates. Mr. DeBrim. vou said if coconuts wore nat supplicdto you asaMikimian. vou would be clEo pho’ “Sir. DEDRUM. 1cs. i thie were praia: on phe jeland yes. Mr. Yares. And TtTapeavidb onthejeland are uiev not? Mr. DeBrras. Jes Mr. Yarns. So if yon donotrive them thecacapurs they are going to climb the trecs towot the coconut ever of they are contaminated” MT DrBres. Thev have beox cia s NATURE AND THE TYPE OF AXALYSIS BY DOE Mr. Yarra. Let's go back to the interrogation. “So you became a little more alarmed than when vou were the Atomic Energy Commission. in 76 vou first encountered this kind of a test. Is this an annual test that you had been making of the people / “Mr. Deac. Yes, sir. “Mr. Yates. What kind of tests. mo.thly. semiannnally. every four months. or what? “M- Drav Iean supply you a statement for the record. I will give yo: on information.’ Then vvere is placed in the record on pages 1172 and 1273 & pretty gerd statement of tests that were made anda very bad esti- mate of the cSults of the tests. We find in 1961 the findings. “photo- graphed and identified organisms on reefs and i-Jands. No gross anomalies seen in plants and animals due to radioactivity.” 1976 shows “exposure Jevels to the Bikinians varies considerably from island ic island on the atoll.” February 1967. “confirmed earlier survey results for external radiation.” That docs not tell us anvthing. “Cs-137 and strontium % predominate in terrestrial organisms. Co-60 and Fe-s3 in marine organisms.” What docs that mean. Dr. Dea)? . Mr. Drav. It means that in the fish that they were catching thev fourd eobalt-60 and Fe-55. Mr. Yatrs. In Jarge amounts? Mr. Drat. J do not know,sir. Mr. Yates. This result dors not show that then! Mr. Drat. No. We did not trv to give vou a complete copy of the reports. We just tried to give vou the highlights of the surveys at the time, and probably, as you say, did a pretty poor job on that. LOE ARCHIVES 0002482-