ee ei R. E. Hollingsworth -h- Our recent experiences with Enivetok have demonstrated an urgent need for agency-level coordination of future United States actions pertaining to that Atoll. The visit of the Marshallese in May included senior members of the Trust Territory Administration headed up by the Deputy High Commissioner, the District Administrator of the Marshall Islends District, Micronesian Congressman Ataji Balos (a severe critic of U. S. actions in Micronesia), the Magistrate and a Councilman fron Ujelang (the present hone of the Eniwetokese), the District Attorney of the Marshall Islands and several attorneys who are in @ lawyer-client relationship to the Eniwetox leaders and people. ‘he thrust of the visit, as evidenced by a close-out meeting on May 20th was the urgency of an early return, the determination on the part of the Marshallese to determine their own destiny bydrawing up their own specifications for rehabilitation, their dismay at the continuing use of their lands for a variety of apparent) unrelated and uncoordinated purposes and, specifically regarding the lawyers, their clear intention to document in detail current and future United States actions forlater useinbehalfoftheir clients. (By a separate informal memorandum, this latter point has been brought to the attention of the General Counsel, Hq). Becavse there was no designated spokesman for U. S. Government interests at the May 20th meeting and because there were issues and questions of multi-agency concern, my representative who attended at the request of the Deputy High Commissioner accepted . responsibility for two actions: _. ! \ a. ° . to convey to appropriate national level authorities the need for central U. S. Government coordination of all future actions pertaining to Eniwetok. b. _to convey to the same authorities the desire and the need of both the Marshallese and, in their behalf, the Trust" Territory Administration for current and accurate information regarding United States actions and intentions. (In this connection, it is noted that there is in the . | tape recorded record of the meeting an acknowledcement by the Deputy High Commissioner that until March 1972 the Trust Territory Administration was not aware of the PACE Program, although quite substantial efforts on that - program had then been underway at Eniwetox for seme months.) I believe that the conditions set forth in this memorandum > strongly suggest the establisnnent at the Washington level of.a nee ee eee single menager for all future United States actions pertaining