66 DASA 2019-2 EISENBUD: And I was completely discredited because it was generally known that lL was sending daily reports and State Department telegrams as to the technical facts and they had every right to assume that this idea came from me. The other staterneat was that the Japanese were presumably inside the danger area, Well, this, coming steaight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, widely publicized, nationally televised, and presumably an authoritative statement, made it very difficult for John Morton and me ta be effective any longer. 1 stayed on, [ think, for about two weeks after that but it was obvious that very little was going to come of it. Actually, I stayed on for the two weeks primarily so that [ cculd gee some contaminated fish. We worked out a method for rronitoring which is not easy to do because there were literally hundreds of thousands of fish piled up on the docks waiting to be shipped. FREMONT-SMITH- These were all fish from this ship? EISENBUD: No, The fish on the Fukuryu Maru were confiscated immediately. They were buried and forgotten about. FREMONT-SMITH: EISENBUD: No. FREMCNT-SMITH: EISENBUD: measured, LANGHAM: Had they been measured? No. They were never measured? They were dug up and. ., no, they weren't I'm sorry, Merril. I can’t keep quiet any longer. Again, your story sounds incredible to me. It's not that I don't vbe- lieve you. Ido, because I've been through a similar exercise, It is just that the public reaction to a radiation incident is incredible, I think that we should be studying the psychology of government relations with governments, Will you please tel] me why such a fuss is made over something of this nature”? [fa G.I. in Japan had accidentally killed two or three people with a carryall, this wouldn't have made any news at all. Why isn't it fashionable to admit a mistake when it involves radiation? Do you mean to tell me the greatest nation in the world can't say, "Okay, we made a mistake"?