ATTACHMENT 5

   

                                                         PRIORITY
                                                   April 25, 1958
                                         Classification Cancelled
                                                          DC Navy
                                          By "illegible" Date 3/1
                                                 Medical Resurvey
USAEC, WASHINGTON, D.C.

CJTF-STEVEN, ENIWETOK, MI

INFO:     CHIEF, AFSWP, WASHINGTON, D.C.
          JTF-SEVEN REAR, WASHINGTON, D.C.

FOR LUEDECKE FROM STARBIRD INFO PARKER AND LEDOUX

REFERENCE YOUR DTG 200025Z CONCERNING MEDICAL RESURVEY AT
RONGELAP.  THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE AND THE MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT OF BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY HAVE REEXAMINED THE
ADVISABILITY OF RESURVEYING THE WHOLE BODY CONTAMINATION BURDENS
OF THE MARSHALLESE DURING MAY.  ALL CONCERNED BELIEVE THAT THE
PROMPTEST RESURVEY POSSIBLE IS IN BEST INTERESTS OF AEC, STATE,
INTERIOR, AND DOD.  THE POSSIBLE CHANGE INDUCED IN THE
ENVIRONMENT BY A FEW SHOTS MAY WELL NOT HAVE INFLUENCED THE
NATIVES APPRECIABLY BY THE TIME THE RESURVEY CAN BE MADE.  ON THE
OTHER HAND, IF THE BEGINNING CHANGES ARE OBSERVED (BASED ON
MEMORY OF THE ORIGINAL LOST DATA), IT MAY TURN OUT TO BE MOST
IMPORTANT THAT THEY BE DETECTED AND EVALUATED.

(PARA) CONSEQUENTLY, WE REQUEST THAT PLANS BE MADE TO DO THE JOB
IN THE MANNER SUGGESTED IN YOUR MESSAGE.  THE TEAM, CONSISTING OF
DR. ROBERT A. CONARD, DR. JAMES S. ROBERTSON, AND MR. DANIEL W.
POTTER, CAN BE AT ENIWETOK WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT AS EARLY AS MAY 7
PROVIDED THAT THE TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS CAN BE MET. 
HOWEVER, MUST KNOW SOONEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE AVAILABLE
POWER

                            (continued)

RISchnittke/jpr
Room A-480
Ext. 4186

COPY FOR BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

REPOSITORY     Washington National Records Center
COLLECTION     32681-6
BOX No.        Box 1
FOLDER
CJTF, ENIWETOK, MI                 2

SUPPLY ON THE ASSIGNED LUC; THE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT OPERATES ON
115 VOLTS A.C. AND HAS ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT FOR CONVERTING FROM
240 VOLTS D.C. TO 115 VOLTS A.C.; THE MAXIMUM POWER REQUIREMENT
IS 5 KW.

(PARA)  REQUEST IS ALSO MADE FOR MATS TRANSPORTATION FROM TRAVIS
AFB FOR PERSONNEL OF TEAM AND EQUIPMENT.  THE EQUIPMENT WEIGHS
4500 POUNDS AND OCCUPIES 325 CUBIC FEET.  REFER TO MY EARLIER
MESSAGE DTG 161836Z FOR OTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING PROJECT
NOTING THAT INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN SUPERSEDES APPLICABLE
PORTIONS OF PREVIOUS MESSAGE.  PLEASE ADVISE AS TO ETD FROM
TRAVIS AFB WHICH WOULD FIT YOUR PLANS AT THE EPG.  END REF
MAT:RIS

                              Alfred D. Starbird
                              Brigadier General, USA
                              Director of Military Application