BOLL SO
BROOKHAVEN NATIONALLABORATORY
ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC.. UPTON, L,I. NY. 11973
TELEPHONE:(516) 345- 3568
wESICAL DEPARTAEERT
26 April 1973
James Liverman, Ph. D.
Director
Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington, DBD. C.
20545
Dear Dr. Liverman:
I have finished reading the extensive report of the Micronesian Congress on the events preceding and following the fallout
accident in the Pacific on March 1, 1954.
This report and the
questionnaire that Senator Borja proposes is-really loaded.
Separately I am sending you the comments of Dr. Knud Knudsen
who has been in residence in the Marshall Islands this year.
One of the suggestions of Senator Borja is to have a single
report including the present status of the people from the Marshall Islands, the American Service Men and the Japanese who were
exposed.
Of course, this is a good suggestion and one which all
of us has supported in the past.
However, for reasons not at all
clear to me,
the Department of Defense failed to have followup
studies on the American Servicemen who were exposed despite the
fact that this was strongly recommended by me at the termination
of the initial survey in 1954 and again in 1955 when my personal
participation ceased,
When a report on the American Servicemen does not appear, T
believe this will be logically interpreted by Senator Borja and
the Micronesian Congress that the AEC and Department of Defense
are trying to suppress knowledge.
i am bringing this to your attention because I think it is
potentially a very serious problem that certainly will reflect unfavorably upon the Department of Defense and by inference, upon
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Sincerely yours,
KL?Oia.Vs
Eugene P. Cronkite, M. D.
Chairman.
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