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of the Departmentof Agriculturearrived la
Oslo on August 2S. The follwlng afternoon,accompaniedby an Embassy
officer he spent with Dr. Torleif HVIEDElf,head of tha Physics Divlsiom
ef the &fense Research Instituta,who had already been informedof the
purposQ of Dr. Alexander ~s visit. Dr. Wlnden was most cooperative
and, among other thhgs ~ readily agreed to Dr. Alexander~staking sei~
samples&em twenty spots in his own back yard.
(These soil Sample*
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hy discussionof tho fallout question in general,and
al) in particularo the
need (voicedby Dr. Alexander)for animal bones
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for testing. Dr. Hvinden indicatedthat he would promote cooperation
between l?orwayand the U.S. in this matter.
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a Foreign Office representative(hut HEDEMAl$B,
a working level official
concernedwith atomic energy matters), and the Smbassy officer called
on Dr. Reidar EKEB, head of the Blozwegian
Radium Hospital,and a
lengthy and technical exchange of ideas followed. That afternooaDr.
Alexanderand the Embassy officer visited the Norwegian Agricultural
College at Vollebekk (or Aas) some twenty miles south of Oslo, to di8cuss matters with Mr. Kjell SkEHBEIW, head of the Isotope Laboratory.
ProfessorC)ttarMB3N0, head of the Pharmacologyand ToxicologyMvision of the VeterinaryCollege, Oslo, was with h. Steenberg. Dr.
Alexanderrepeated his will$n esa to arrange for bone analyses.
until
such time (in the near futurer as the l$orweglans
are equippedto perform this work, and to exchangs samplesand data with them. Steonberg N
and Dybing,while whlontly lnterest6dIn these possibilities,were
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Rorway and which organizationswould be responsible. W. Alexanderde>
parted
for Paris on August 28. The above calls were arranged through
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that Dr. Alexanderwas enttre~y satisfied .~
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he accom lished here, and that he believesthat the Horue>
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bge’’ofthe U.S. offer of further coowmation. There is no d~ubt but
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