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UNITED STATES
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
NEVADA OPERATIONS OFFICE
P.O. BOX 14100
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89114
409798
March 28, 1974
Mr. Tommy F.
REPOSITORY
McCraw
Division of Operational Safety
U. S. Atomic Energy Conmission
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Tommy,
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I make this a personal letter for a number of very personal
reasons.
First and foremost is my respect for you and my desire
not to complicate your already difficult position. Too, I find
that I have personal convictions wnich I cannot properly ask my
boss to endorse without also asking him to expend the effort to
become as well-informed as I think but few of us are on the very
complex radio-bio-geo-political-cultural-economic puzzle that
we have been troubled with for the past couple of years. I defer, without question or reservation, to your superior knowledge
of Bikini’s recent history and, aqain without question or reservation, to your knowledge and judament regarding standards and
criteria. JI am most grateful for our dialog of the past two
years and our continuing exchange of confidence. Both of us, I
think, have arrived - albeit by different routes - at a common
commitment: to do that, which intellect and conscience will] permit, to see the birthright of the people of Bikini and Enewetak
restored.
You have met the Bikini people; you have talked with them, and
you have been privileged to be instrumental in the steps toward
their return. I have met some of them, too, and it was a joyous
occasion that we witnessed when three little families stepped
off an ancient LCM on February 4th to start a new life ina
strange land called "home".
I have also met a number of the Enewetak people - perhaps 20 of
them - over these two years - and I must admit that just by that
fact of many exposures over 4 long time I have unavoidably become more personally involved in their destiny than in that of
the Bikinians - not more interested, just more personally involved.
There is another difference - grossly more difficult for me to
quantify - and that is the different world in which we live, conpared with the world which existed four and five and six years
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