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mitted to General de Saussure by letter of August 14, 1969.
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;All “radioactive debris fron the Dog-George complexhad’ been renoved
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‘I have been assured by Joe Merrill that the disposal of debris from
Dop-George and Charlie has been accomplished. I am satisfied at this
tine that the radiological cleanup is complete and JTF-S may be so
notified. Any further efforts on Bikini are a matter of negotiation
~ between JTF-S and the Trust Territory and do not affect the status of
the radiological sazety effort.
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