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Herman
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Bales
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Henry
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PALAU
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Timothy
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I wish to bring to your attention and consideration
a matter of great concern to me personally and the
people on whose behalf I am writing you and the
members of t’neCommittee.
Shoda
MARsHALG
DISTRICT
Dols
Sasauo Haruo
I am speaking of the plight of the people of Rongelap
and Utirik who were exposed to radioactive fallout
from the 1954 hydrogen bomb tests in Bikini.
I now
believe that the United States Government has, for
reasons I can only guess, ignored and neglected the
health of these H-bomb victims.
Moreover, they have
not been adequately compensated for what they have
been subjected to. And because of circumstances
surrounding +e 1954 - tests, I am now compelled to
believe that their plight may have not been wholy an
accident as the U.S. Government has been claiming.
I have enclosed a copy of the Journal of the House of
Representatives, Congress of Micronesia, which contains
The journal
the speech I made concerning these people.
also coilta~.nsa memorandum detailing the deportation
from Micronesia last December cf a professional Japanese
medical team wno had come at mjr invitation to investigate the health of these H-bomb victims.
Also in the
journal are observations of the Head of the Japanese
team contaiaed in a letrer to inc.
Ma$ao Nak?yama
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
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I am writing to you and the members of the Comiiittee
because I believe that you share the same concern for
I also believe that you
the plight of these people.
want to clear che air of any question surrounding the
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