\ \ \ \ PAGE 3 RHWNEAAGOGB UNCLAS////EYES ONLY//// ESCORT AND TO INTERPRET TO THE MARSHALLESE THE REQUIREMENTS WHICH WE THEN SAW FOR ACTIONS PRECEDENT TO ANY REHABILITATION EFFORT. UPON ARRIVAL AT ENIWELOK, RAY LEARNED THAT HIS RADIOLOGICAL SURVEY PARTY HAD RETRIEVED ON RUNIT ISLAND THREE PIECES OF DEBRIS WHICH IT wWaS THEN BELIEVED MIGHT CONTAIN METALLIC PLUTONIUM. THESE FRAGMENTS WERE RETURNED BY SPECIAL COURIER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOR PRIORI TY ANALYSIS, WITH A REQUEST THAT THE RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS ‘BE REPORTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. UPGJ COMPLETION OF THE MARSHALLESE VISIT TO ENIWETOK, THE PARTY RETURNED TO KWAJALEIN AND, WHILE THERE, ROGER RECEIVED THE REPORT HE HAD REQUESTED. IT CONFIRMED THAT THE PARTICLES WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY METALLIC PLUTONIUM. KNOWING THE PROBABLE SOURCE OF THIS MATERIAL AND, THEREFORE, THAT A LARGE QUANTITY OF PLUTONIUN PROBABLY REMAINED ON RUNIT, HE BECAME DEEPLY CONCERNED THAT NO MEASURES WERE BEING TAKEN (OR WERE AVAILABLE TO PREVENT SERIOUS CONTAMINATION OF PEOPLE, EQUIPMENT, VEHICLES, AND MARINE CRAFT, AND, THROUGH THEM, PLUTOWLUN CONTAMINATION OF ENIWETOK ISLAND AND EVEN AIRCRAFT DEPARTING. THEREFROM. HE IMMEDIATELY CONSULTED WITH THE DNA PACE PROJECT OFFICER AND WITH THE SAMTEC LIAISON OFFICER ON KWAJALEIN AND 1 NFORMED THEM THAT HE FELT IT AIS # , i \‘