reese I ' “INDICATE (J COMER “ [Ey aurce 10" _ so . ; a “SENTTO: Amembaeey TOKYO PRIORI me Orste "tafe, ‘Department's 247% ‘Food | rs | check TELEMACHUS cargo found one ninety-pound yellowfin tuna with | £ gamma rediation above proposed.tolerances. ‘Radiation-in region of © OLT | gills, mouth, one side fin, oy TOP _ OCRL 7 ’ hensively, May, 19 found second contaminated yellowfin, seventy= * UNQUOTE five pound 8, ‘marked quorEe Daiichi Trading Company Shimt 2u/HRRER |' two-thirds of first fish and loceted. in bony parts back of mouth vertebra. and/asaERO. Fieh hed elready errived butchering line in cannery ‘sh when “found, heving previously parsed spot checke CT Due 394 Ties a " yg ee and tagged QUOTE April 24, 1954 ‘uNquoTE. ° Radiation équalled ¢ here. S es 7 . 53 Clearancess 7 - . + vO - Ho publicity: ; ; Expect ESHRXEK © finich May la. Atomic Energy Commis sion Laboratory New York starts radiochemical, analyeis first ‘fish today on priority basis. 3 should be available May Zle ey - Cergo examination now two-thirde completed. = (kiSLAG. SSIFICATION CANCELLED g iAUTHORI TY OF DOE/OG OOF oe, oo — _ = FDA innedtately began monitoring ‘TRLEVAGHUS cargo compre” - ‘ _ CIAL ! a Results _ Suggest Embasey not. (repeat not) inform Japanese Governnent . _ BEST AVAILABLE COPY U/Fils WFLooney! joa Telegraphic tronsmission ond a far tea dassification approved by: Wie Cc. Herrington = oc f SAE - Mr. Spiegel (in gubetance by ghone) Siang tection 7 20962 VP EU Ss NA - Mr. Finn FEDA - Mre Cribbett : REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY, if CLASSIFIED, 18 PROHIBITED. .