SECRET UNCLASSIFIED -1175-AEC 30-53 8 - IV. THE FUTURE SAMPLING PROGRAM The conference discussed the adequacy of the present samp program and concluded that it was quite adequate for the United States buk inadequate abroad. It was the feeling by many of the members of that this was due almost entirely to the difficulty of operating secrecy conditions. Some of the group felt that this would be p extremely -he conference Abroad under bitively difficult and that foreign assay with anything like the completenkss which is relaxation of the secrecy regulations occurs. The argument is a one; one cannot buy babies or human materials or the effort to boftle a sample of rain water and ship it. These things are not purchsseable becBuse the people who mist do them are people so learned, and so interested otherwife, that the money that could be involved would be of no consequence. The onl obtaining the samples is to obtein the cooperation of the fore way of rs themselves and this can be done only by telling them what the point or the the plan of the nation is. It is not clear that it is necessary fo tell then about the assays obtained, how radioactive people actually are the danger is. of how serious Jt is probably clearthat it is necessary to infofm them about the overall likelehood of the danger and that the problem is one importance. @f considerable So it seems to a group in the conference that the ch@ice to be made at the moment is largely between ignorance of the foreign situat hope that the SUNSHINE hazard be kept secret and a frank admissiog with sone of the purpose of the SUNSHINE PROJECT together with the proper emphasisjof the mumanitarian aspects and an ability ar opportunity to assay the 1045309. = = SECRET id as a vhole. UNCLASSIFIED LANL