A0S098
TEC Eye
August 11, 1980
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H.
W.
J.
wy BArp
Clusen, ASEV
Hollister, DASEV/R
W. Burr, D/GHER
Blair, D/HHAD
T. McCraw, QOHER
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J. Deal, OES
/
S. Gottlieb, OGC
R. Ray, NVOO
V. Bond, BNL
E. Cronkite, BNL
H. Pratt, BNL
W. Robison, LLL
W - Bair, PNL ———-5
Subject:
Medical Opinion Provided to Copaken and the Government
of the Marshall Islands
Mr. Copaken and Mr. deBrum submitted the attached at a meeting at the
Department of Interior on October 6. {which I did not attend) as
evidence in support of their position that radiation-related diseases
are prevalent throughout the northernMarshal 1 Islands.
Presumably,
Dr. Merliss was requested to examine the population on Wotje Atoll;
although, with a single reference to Utirik, atolls are not named in the
letter. The point of Mr. Copaken and Mr. deBrum was that problems exist
beyond Likiep, that since the Department of Energy has not sent
physicians they have hired on their own, and that past information is
questionable.
Te
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a
Bruce W. Wachholz, Ph.D.
EV/OHER
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