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HAND DELIVERED.
Mr.
Wallace O.
Green
Acting Assistant Secretary of
International and Territorial Affairs
Department of the Interior
Room 6151
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18th and C Streets, N.W.
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Dear Mr.
Green:
Mr. Anton A. deBrum, Foreign Secretary of ft he
Marshall Islands, has asked me to forward to you the followested
ing information, which Congressman Robert Duncan re
from Secretary deBrum at the conclusion of his testi ony on
April 2, 1980 before the House Appropriations Commit ee,
During his testimony, Secretary deBrum related to th
Committee the efforts of the Government of the Marshall Islands
to determine the health consequences of previous rad ation
exposure and residual radiation in the northern Mars all
Islands left by the United States nuclear weapons te
As Secretary deBrum explained in his testimony, shor
after assuming office on May 1,
1979,
the Government
farshall Islands discovered extremely disturbing dat
dicating serious medical abnormalities of a type oft
connected to radiation exposure in people of atolls
northern Marshall Islands which had been viewed by t
United States as either uncontaminated by radioactiv
out from the nuclear weapons testing or contaminated
a low level of radiation as to be of no consequence.
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