411698 November 16, 1972 Major General Frank A. Canm, USA Dre Assistant General Manager for Military Application FURTHER BACKGROUND ON "THE QUARANTINE OF RUNIT AFFAIR" On May 22 (local time) Roger Ray sent his recommendation for the quarantine of Runit via teletype to the CG, SAMIEC, information to the SAMIEC operating contractor on Eniwetok, MATSCO (a department of GE), and the Manager, NV. This message was followed up by a telephone call from Mr. Ray to General Low to provide additional details. A copy of this message and a notation of the phone call is on file at NV. The PACE Test Group Director on Eniwetok, Mr. Bob Henny, was shown this recommendation by the MATSCO man, at which point he sent a verbatim transcript of it to Headquarters, DNA; FC, DNA; AWFL; and AFSC (Tab 1). Headquarters, DNA, apparently not having any background on the recommendation, sent a message (Tab 2) to Manager, NV, requesting further information on _ Mr. Ray's recommendation. Tab 3 is the reply to this request and relates in detail the events leading up to the recommendation to quarantine Runit. These events extended over a period of at least five days (May 17-22) from the discovery of suspicious particles on Runit to the confirmation that the particles were plutonium. During this period, the DNA representative (LTC Circeo--now transferred from DNA) was in company with Mr. Ray and the problem was discussed between them in detail. When the confirmation was received that the suspicious particles contained plutonium, the recommendation was prepared by Mr. Ray and coordinated with LTC Circec. After receiving the recommendation, conducting his own. investigation, and reading Tab 3, the CG, SAMTEC, quarantined Runit (Tab 4). Tab 5 is our original paper on this and other topics conceming Mr. Ray. Comment: It appears that during the five-day period, Wednesday, May 17 to Monday, May 22, no contact was made by the DNA project REPOSITORY Doe Bist« *) Divisen cottection £9 326 Loom M Crew Sob #320 BEST COPY AVAILABLE BOX No. FoLpeR 5S 04 2tushon Ne