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ENERGY RIZSEARC1-{ AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 8’3114 Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research, HQ BEST COPYAVAIUBLE Enclosecl is a copy of a letter to me from Oscar de Bruin, District Administrator of the Marshall Isla.ncls with, in turn, an enclosed,—.- memorandurn to Mr. de Bruin from his representative at Bikini. Mr. de Bru~m requests that the people resiclent at Bikini be included in Dr. Conard’s annual surveys. The next such survey is presently schcdulcd for mid-April, 1976. In view of the pending Bikini la~vsuit and of recent allegations ancl misunderstandings regard in: Dr. Conard’s lMarshall Islands activities, I believe that this request merits careful As set forth in my memorandum to Brookhaven Program at Bikini, we you of October have for some time had to deal underly the rncdical pro~ram, From the NTovenlber 21 lmemorandum, Acting Djs Lad Rep. to District Administrator (enclosure), it appears t]]at this misundcrsizinding clearly persists. Note that the wri!er remeans c}I prcven Ling hazards 10 hca]t.11, among those rcsiclcnt at Bikini.
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2- baclly in neecl of general medical care, apart entirely from any real or imagined radiation Jn the past, wherever the Broo!chavcn medical team has visited it has, “ on apurcly humallj. ta. riail basis, attempted to !OOIC after the general condition of health of the population - including even those who have hacl no exposure whatsoever. Should this humanitarian service again be extended to the Bikini people, I recommend that it be ]made clear to the District Administrator and throu~h him to the counsel for the people of Bikini ancl the Bikini people themselves, that the program is just that: a voluntary hurnanitarjan service ~vhich is being provided at the req[lest of the concerned inclividuals. We should also take Lhis opportunity to explain the distinction between medical examinations and 1976 v~sit to include a “sick call” visit to Bikini provicled he is invi~ecl to C1Oso by the people themselves. I strongly recom,mencl that every effo~t be made to do so, subject of course, to concurrence of the NV is prepared to support this activity with existing resources and Lo A copy of my interim reply to Mr. cle 13rum is enclose cl. I will coordinate a subsequcnL reply with your staff. I
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