OFFICIAL USE ONL.’ Dr. Bruner reported that since Dr. Conard's return to the United States a number of new developments had taken place. In the first place the Trust Territory administration took a stronger stand with respect to the necessity for medical follow-up and insisted that three of the natives who had evidence of thyroid disease go to Tripler General Hospital in Hawaii for evaluation. On the basis of this evaluation two of these patients were taken to Cleveland and their thyroid glands were explored. There was no evidence of cancer in these thyroids and the patients were returned to their home island, A second development was that a committee of the Micronesia Congress had been set up to investigate the charges leveled against the United States by one of its members. The Committee agreed that the team headed by Dr. Conard should return to Rongelap on the condition that four impartial physicians accompany the team as observers. The composition of this team was to be as follows: 2 Japanese, 1 named by the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service and 1 named by the World Health Organization. The WHO refused to get involved in the politics of the situation and would not name a representative. The Director-General did, however, suggest that Mr. Pochin, from England, accompany the team, The team is now on Rongelap and Dr. Bruner was optimistic that most of the difficulties had been resolved and that in the future good cooperation would again obtain. Dr. Bruner briefly reviewed the current medical status of these islanders. On Rongelap there were 19 children between the ages of 0 and 10 years at the time of exposure to fallout. Of these, 2 are normal at the present time. Three are hypo-thyroid and are treated with thyroid medication, Fourteen of the 19 have had surgery for abnormal thyroid states. On Ailinginae where the exposure dose was somewhat lower there were six children at the time of exposure and all are currently normal. Two of the 34 adult Rongelap natives have developed thyroid carcinoma. Findings on the other islands where doses were lower have been negative. Mr. Joe Deal discussed problems of the resettlement of the Eniwetok Atoll. The Atoll is now controlled by the Department of Defense but is to be returned to the Trust Territory by the end of 1973. The Atoll, of course, was used in a large series of weapons tests but in addition was used more recently as a target area for intercontinental ballistic missiles fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Because of this use some of the islands have been contaminated by beryllium which is potentially much more toxic than residual radiation. A radiological survey of the Atoll was made in 1971 and again somewhat later under the leadership of Mr. Tom McCraw, of the Division of Operational Safety. The gamma ray levels on the various islands are quite low but one weapon misfired on the Island of Runit and spread 239Pu over a large area. There is also a considerable amount of scrap and debris scattered around on the various islands. Another radiological team is to leave for Eniwetok shortly for a tentative evaluation of the radiological status of the Atoll. OFFICIAL USE ONLY