C1iiff Sloan June 24, 1980 Page Three | ~~ U- mejor finding in the Brookhaven studies, and it points up the continuing uncertainties relating to the long-term effects of radiation, and the need for extreme caution and prudence when making policy decisions affecting the future health and safety of the Mmjebi people. 3) The decision to allow the Bikini people to resettle on their ancestral atoll, and then the decision to quickly remove them in light of the potential threat to their health stemming from the internal deposition of radionuclides in the form of “residual® radiation at Bikini surely must not be forgotten when considering the proposed Enjebi resettlement. I have enclosed a 1975 radiation study from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory which should be compared with the current Bender-Brill study of Enewetak.e. It is uncanny to compare the reassuring language in both studies, and the “misical chairs" fiasco of the unfortunate Bikini Islanders--who were previously "unexposed" and who are now “exposed"=-should remind us of the continuing enigmas surrounding the nuclear debate, especially as it pertains to “safe" levels of radiation for humans. 4) In retrospect, 1t seems clear why Japanese radiation scientists-who were invited out to the Marshalls by Marshallese and their elected representatives--were not allowed to visit the irradiated atolls o Rongelap and Utirik. The history of mistakes and mismanagement in radiation matters in the Marshalls exhibits the flaws associated with cecisions being made from the recommendations of a point of view which hes consistently been at odds with reality. What has sorely been needed (and wanted) in the Marshalls is an alternate point of view concerning the radiological data, and we now have the opportunity to correct our past mistakes by allowing truly independent radiation exverts to assess Fnewetak and Enjebi, as well as the rest of the Northern Marshalls which were effected by nuclear testing. 5) In my 1979 address to the United Nations Trusteeship Council, I requested independent and non-governmental radiation experts for an assessment of the Marshall Islands. he Trusteeship Council agreed with my request in its “Report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council" (in the Security Council's Official Records, Thirty- Fourth Year, Special Supplement No. 1, 9 June 1978 - 15 June 1979). To my knowledge, there has been no such survey by independent radiation exverts in the Marshalls, and the time is right for such a survey. (Please see the enclosed U.N. documents) In closing, I would like to mention that I have received a copy of a letter written by Mr. Theodore Mitchell (of Micronesian Legal Services), who represents the Enewetak people. I feel obliged to