= CROSSREFERENCE = 408247 3 (Name, number, or subject under =. which this form is filed) — > _ 578072 So TO IDENTIFI- CATION FROM RECORD SUMMARY OF BRIEF - Oe oo Extract o Report No. 99 £ SECY 2471 - GM's Info. Seeerence teen temee | FILED under which the document ttself is filed) Z2lz§ S16 mes 1 Sy, Plaeg GH CO CaMertio; n 207 ZA _Secve Breit Information Reports : Rox 7 S r | PES A Pate ban lVf “entire at. Pohivr_ pie Medical Follow-Up of Marshallese* (Contact: AGMRY 7777” Since the accidental exposure of the people of Rongelap and Utirik to radioactive fallout in 1954, the AEC, through the Brookhaven National Laboratory, has conducted annual medical surveys of the exposed individuals. The survey team is composed of physicians from BNL, The Public Health Service, and certain specialists from universities. These surveys have resulted in the detection of thyroid abnormalities in a high percentage of the Rongelap people exposed below age ten. Therapy has been provided when indicated. In the past year, considerable antagonism was generated by political figures in the Marshall Islands against the AEC and U.S., resulting in major interference with the medical survey in March 1972. AEC and BNL personnel have met with Mr: Stanley Carpenter, Deputy al ez moe Dr. Steinfeld, who subsequently discussed this matter with a threeman committee of the Micronesian Congress. AEC and BNL staffs will =| id ae SOSE xe Optional Form 21 Feb. 1962 GSA Circular 269 vo 1 tN Assistant Secretary for Territorial Affairs of the Department of ull & | OSM 6 ~ Re S3 : ARCHIVE ae 326 US. ATOS HC ENERGY Interior and several of his staff to review the situation. Commissioner Larson has also contacted the Surgeon General (DHEW), meet with Mr. Carpenter and the Surgeon General to further assess this situation and determine what course of action can be taken to assure the continuing medical follow-up of the exposed Marshallese. A BNL account of the event that took place during the medical survey is available. CROSS-REFERENCE ; - “Pf o, CLASSIFIED Hal 0, 12088 3. OE US Bee | ONTENTS te ° (Name, number, or subject rn