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the test director, and then afterwards you put out your own
reports.

If Los Alamos can diverge from that, I think the

rest of us have been getting a rather dirty deal.

Why a

report from Los Alamos and not a report to the test director?
MR. HARRIS:

Because we were using a few facilities

of the test group but we were only using them in a logistical
line.

As far as we were concerned, we were not members of ay

particular project or any other group at Eniwetok.

We were

operating out of our own laboratory, not as a part of J

Washington, D. C,

Alderson Reporting Company

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CDR. CRONKITE:

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Just because I am a little concerne

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about it, I have heard many times from Dr. Graves that this

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is exactly what should never happen.

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DR. BUGHER:

I think from our point of view that

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all those concerned in the study were operating as a part of

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the joint task force.

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and there could be no other participation.

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Payne, as I would see it, that your point of view would

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hold here.

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Division or any of the test groups.

MR. HARRIS:

The program was set up under that,
I don't think,

The thing about it was that we went

out to get these samples, and we had no knowledge of this
whatsoever.

We did not know that there was such a project

established until arriving at Quadjalein. - We had no
knowledge of this even from our own place,

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DR. BUGHER:

Tom Shipman had knowledge of it from

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