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was decided that this was a reasonable and understandable re-
quest and the team leader indicated, without verbal discussion,
that he was favorably inclined.
indicated agreement.
Dr. Hansen and Captain Goeke
As stated in our original summary dis~
patch message 290955Z to DM4/AEC (see Tab H, Appendix I),
we felt impelled to do everything possible to obviate any
possibility of even slight impairment of what we considered
a most friendly and mutually beneficial relationship to this
point.
A denial of this request, for any reason we could
think of, we felt would be very impolitic and a serious
error.
We therefore suggested that we would be happy to
draft such a statement following a complete discussion of
our findings with them.
This was, in fact, done after our
discussion and is quoted below.
There followed a detailed discussion of our examination of the ships
and of the personnel and our swmary impressions.
During this period,
our radiation dose~rate readings wera copied, in toto, by each Captain
or one of his people, from our original records.
This was also done in
the case of the blood counts by the TAKUYO physician (the SATIMA doctor
had been permitted to do so the day before at the laboratory, once our
results had been recorded).
There were questions as to when the results
of the urine examinations would be known, and we advised that this would
be a matter of 2-3 weeks if there was any evidence of radioactivity,
sooner if there was none.
The sama regarding the blood samples.
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