ACY 794 BEST COPY AVAILABLE OQ, a PRIORITY USAEC, WASHINGTON, DC CJEF-SEVEN, ENIWETOK, MI INFO: APR 25 1958 > fk CHIEY, AFSWP, WASHINGTON, DC JTP-SEVEN REAR, WASHINGTON, DC FOR LWEDECKE FROM STARBIRD INFO PARKER AND LEDOUX REFERENCE YOUR DIG 200025Z CONCERNING MEDICAL RESURVEY AT RONGELAP. THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE AND THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF BROOKHAVEN WATIONAL LABORATORY HAVE REEXAMINED THE ADVISABILITY OF RESURVEYING THE WHOLE BODY CONTAMINATION BURDENS OF THE MARSHALLESE DURING MAY. ALL CONCERNED BELIEVE THAT THE PROMPTEST RESURVEY POSSIBLE 18 IN BES? INTERESTS OF AEC, @TATE, INTERIOR, AND DOD. ‘THE POSSIBLE CHANCES INDUCED IN THE ENVIRONMENT BY A FEW SHOTS MAY WELL NOP HAVE INFLUENCED THE NATIVES APPRECIABLY BY THE TIME THE RESURVEY CAN BE MADE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE BECINNING CHANGES: ARE OBSERVED (BASED ON MEMORY (8 THE ORIGINAL LOST DATA), IT MAY TURN OUT TO BE MOST IMPORTANT THAT THEY BE DETECTED AND EVALUATED. (PARA) CONSEQUENTLY, WE REQUEST THAT PLANS BE MADE TO DO THE JOB IN THE MANNER SUGGESTED IN YOUR MESSAGE. ‘THE TRAM, CONSISTING OF DR. ROBERT A. CONARD, DR. JAMES S. ROBERTSON, AND MR. DANIEL W. POPTER, CAN BE AT EWIWETOK WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT AS EARLY AS MAY 7 PROVIDED THAT TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS CAN BE MET. HOWEVER, MUST KNOW SOONEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE AVAILABLE POWER (contimed ) NCS43€ RISchnittke/jpr Room A-480 Ext. 4186 COPY FOR BIOLOGY & MEDICINE REPOSITORY os8) COLLECTION p 118192b BOX No. Box -_/ FOLDER Lh - : tt a / feaiy (