Roger Ray, DFO, RY

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the brother of _
and has been a bitter critic of the program and
Dr. Conard for some years. He is unexposed. Earlier in the day he
had tried to turn one family away from seeing the medical team. I asked
him if we could help him to which he replied "I am with the Japanese".
Since they were not coming aboard that day I essentially moved
off
the boat. I told him I was rather surprised that he came aboard after
trying to turn people away. He lied to me that he didn't say anything to

anyone and that his actions were only his personal ones.

Since there was

no mission justification for having him aboard, and his presence was not

helpful to us during the interview, he continued to be disinvited.

Asahi News conducted a filmed interview with Or. Adams and me aboard
ship on November 3. The ground rules I established were that we had to
have the questions written and submitted to us in advance, and that there
were to be no follow on questions. We received the questions 7 hours
in advance of the interview and Dr. Adams and I organized our proposed
replies (the questions and notes from the questions I answered are
attached). I decided that we should address every question in spite of the
fact that many were very "loaded". Dr. adams was very apprehensive at
first. ‘I felt that had we ducked a question there was a reasonable
probability the documentary would have contained a sentence like "Here
are some questions the U.S. spokesman refused to answer".
All things considered the interview went very well. Dr. Adams did an
excellent job in my view. I had off the record talks with Messrs Toyosaki
and Uematsu and realistically believe we have done no more than perhaps
“cut our losses". We will be lucky to get off with "60 Minutes Revisited".
To top it off I learned they were leaving the next evening on an RMI ship
for Bikini, Rongelap, Utirik and Wotje for further material.

During the course of the day, another exposed person came aboard for
examination and I immediately dispatched RMI Health Services who sent over
a medex to secure permission from this person (Ronald Mathew, brother of
Senator Donal Mathew of Utirik) to be photographed while being examined.
He declined so the media team told me they would settle for generak
pediatrics photos if they secured permission. I asked for and received
a verbal promise that they would not portray the person as exposed and

would indeed acknowledge that this was part of a non-radiation related
pediatrics mission.

The RMI Health Services obtained permission (attached) from Mrs. |!

to have her child photographed while being examined by Dr. Adams.
also photographed the laboratory area.

They

The media group then left for Bikini Atoll, Rongelap, Utirik and Wotje
on the Micro Chief, to continue their coverage. ;

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