R. E. Hollingsworth -h. Our recent experiences with Eniwetok have demonstrated an urgent need for agency-lLevel coordination of future United States actions pertaining to that Atoll. The visit of the Marshellese in May included senior members of the Trust Territory Administration headed up by the Deputy High Commissioner, the District Administrator of the Marshall Islands District, Micronesian Congressman Ataji Balos {a severe critic of U. &. actions in Micronesia), the Magistrate and a Councilman from Ujelang (the present home of the Enivetokese), the District Attorney of the Marshall Islands and several attorneys who are in a lawyer-client relationship to the Eniwetokx leaders and people. Tne thrust of the visit, as evidenced by a close-out meeting on May 20th was the urgency of an early return, the determina- tion on the part of the Marshallese to determine their own destiny by drawing up their own specifications for rehabilitation, their dismay at the continuing use of their lands for a variety of anparentl unrelated and uncoordinated purposes and, specifically resarding the lawyers, their clear intention to aocunentin detail. current andfuture United states actions forlateruseinbenalf of their ‘clients. (Byaseparateinformalmemorandum, this latter point has been brought to the attention of the General Counsel, Ha). Because there was no designated spokesman for U. 5. 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 accevted responsibility for two actions: earners * 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 acknowledgement by the Deputy Hish Commissioner that until March 1972 the Trust Territory Administration was not aware of whe PACE Program, although cuite substantial efforts on tha program had then been underway at Enivetox fcr sene mooaths. ) QL believe that the conditions set forth in this memorandon ~ e | lashington level of 4 surongly sugsest the establishmen . . ingle manager for all future United States actions pertaining ns