VI strips, were exposed to contaminated surfaces, Also, to register radiation intensities received by the hands, personnel wore gloves with film strips inside and out, Yet another test, in which individuals rubbed their bare hands over contaminated areas, produced readings 30 per cent of the intensity found on the contaminated surfaces ,»° Altogether, the Center's survey group studied 1? airplanes with contamination readings that ranged from a density of 1 roentgen up to 1h roentgens, Five members of the survey team took part in all of the 17 surveys and no team member absorbed more radiation than the Atomic Energy Commission's tolerance limit of 3.9 reentgens, - One phase of this study caugit.the attention of newspapers. To get information from an atomic cloud more quickly than that obtained by sampler aircraft, Research Directorate officers used several T-33 jet trainers and flew into the cloud mich earlier,*’ One newspaper reported, "A group of dare devil Air Force scientists are making flights through the boiling reddish-brown atomic cloud in the interest of radiation research. . ." headlines: 18 ‘a: _. An Albuquerque, New Mexico, newspaper ran the following "Inside of A-Cloud Colored Brick Red, Kirtland Scientists, 19 Pilots Report," ©“ However, the film badge experiments fascinated reporters. PRIVACY ACT PROTECTED MATERIAL REMOVED 128 amndHO SYEH-2-003h ul Sue wits