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suaLk you for your reply to our. Levicrs concerning the people of
their desire to return to Bikini o
We Hepe the information you rceetved Loom the Offieo of Torrie
csscd you as to the Killi problem. Dat as far as lope ark
scorned, there wos nothing new in what they had to say. In
ce, we have infosmation that may make more cloar the picture of these
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people as we sec it.
wo Want 0G reomphasize the Lazoon provlen cince this is the crux
ns SLWEUIOn, oul will not So inte any celails except to suy
shat our peeve us letvers give examples.
vere we gould Like to“seake come coments and observations concerning
the lebtor from the Office of Torritorics anda some other gonerai coments.
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y choose to live on Megit? We whink this makes a big differS ‘to people's obtuse’ anc their accopbtance of the siiLUEBTLON o
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@he Pleid trip ship will aie shortly with *Une somleanimal interest
Honeys cach person on Killi will receive cil of $12, Sa us if we
ound impertinent, but with the cost of kerosenc at $1 a gallon we and
ihe Killi people are not very immresscd. Also the payment of this money Gid not begin until 1957, ten years after they wore removed from Dikint.
asain wo ave not impressed, morc
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a goverment sarang 4in the Kiili peeple
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