THE MEETING

Very strong evidence was obtained that the Dog shot radioactive fall out on Japlan, Perry, and Eniwetok islands, and on neighboring vessels consisted of large particles, mostly 100 microns in diameter or larger.[9]

The document in which the above statement appears was the first such contemporaneous paper that I required in my initial attempt to go back in time to when I was an 18-year-old Regular Army noncommissioned officer sitting on the edge of Eniwetok lagoon watching bombs go off. Today my office is overflowing with thousands of documents, not only those from GREENHOUSE, but nearly every other test series as well. My research subsequently revealed that what the Pentagon today says occurred at the various operations as opposed to what the historical documents report, lead to the obvious conclusion that someone is playing fast and loose with the truth. Finding the truth was something else.

Several days following the detonation of Dog Shot, a non-thermonuclear test, a meeting was convened at the Radsafe director's office on Perry Island, which is separated from Eniwetok Island by a few hundred yards. Present at this meeting were, among others, Brig. Gen. James Cooney, US Army Medical Corps, personnel from the Los AIamos National Laboratory, which designed the GH weapons, and members of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL). However, at that time I had no idea of who or what the NRDL was, to say nothing of their mission at GH. Gen. Conney wrote, concerning Dog Shot fall-out (sic), that interest was widespread and cited three points of concern: a desire to support physical observations and calculations, obtain more data on fallout phenomenon as it would relate to testing in Nevada, and three, that the conclusions about 100-micron size particles "were not accepted as fully established by all interested parties." [10] The Genernl concluded, despite results of (fallout studies) Operations CROSSROADS (Bikini Atoll, 1946) and from SANDSTONE, that the argument of those who did not agree with the 100 micron particle size proposition " was apparently too tenuous a counterargument to be convincing."11

To understand Gen. Cooney's thinking, the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments noted, in an April 28,1995, memorandum that this medical officer "recommended 'orientation of radiologic defense thinking away from the infinitesimal tolerance doses used in industrial and laboratory practice and towards vastly larger military acceptable doses.' He, and perhaps other participants further recommended 'aceeptance of 100 roentgens for a single exposure and 25 roentgens weekly for eight weeks for related exposures'."[11]

The document which generated Gen. Cooney's thinking also proves that the offical army policy regarding inhalation and/or ingestion of radioactive materials

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