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(Account of Interview by Joseph G, Hoffman, May 21, 198, at 11:30 A.N.)
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I had gone up fairly close to watch
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the planes, not closer than 50 feet before 7:30 A.M. We had put on
pocket meters when the planes started laniing around 7:00, and the
monitor gare me one film badge and a dosinster.
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filter units.
-_ patled all the lanyards that held the
I helped teke oft the top filter units from the fork
lift for the lest four planss that came in.
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worked with me on the next two, and
worked with ms on the last two. J vas standing around watching while ths
first four plenes came in. There was the ususl dust flying around. I
noticed a black gummy substance which rubbed off the filter wits canto
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the gloves. Thsre were no measurements made on this substence, but I
imagined that it was hot. They had washed down the planes with a de-
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when ve got up that morning around 2:00 A.M. JI had on a pair of rubber
surgical gloves and a pair of thin white cotton gloves just before I
started working on the plenes. They vere fairly lbose and you sould
eee the dark rubber through the thin cotton mesh. Before that tine I
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I went over ani started working about a half hour before
the planss lenied and was around the planes until about 9:00 A.M.
not quite gure when ve) fintahed,
greasing solution of kerosene, and this may have caused thse gummy substance.
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around 7100 A.M. I got there about 7:30 A.M. We had put the lead pigs
on the back of the jeep and vent out ani watchsd the shot for avhile.
There ves gensral redietion around from the drones which Were parked on
the airstrip. The meter read about 300 mr per hour at ons spot where I
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As fer eas I know, there were no radietion measurezents mods
around the filter papers. JY made a measurement with a gamma ray survey
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been used for all the shots, but IJ don't feel that it was contaminated.
It covers a range from about 100 mr tol r. Vandergrifr vas the monitor.
He vould walk up to the plane after it bad landed while they were going
up to teke off the filter units and take measurements off the tail of tha
plane as it stopped. He was not aromd while we were teking out the
filter papers, but appeared when ve were almost through. The pocket meter
that I hed recorded the intensity during the entire operation.
It vas a
10 r. dosimeter. Vandergriff took it from me together with the filu badgs.
It read about BE r. but I thought it was leaking.
ever got close to the planss.
It read lr. before I
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The lower filters were left on the planes.
wentaround jerking out the sides, leaving them on the ground near the nose
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end I went around with fs fee, I handled about all of ths
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