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Premeditated Deceit: The Atomic Energy Commission Against Joseph August Sauter, Clifford T. Honicker
Premeditated Deceit: The Atomic Energy Commission Against Joseph August Sauter, Clifford T. Honicker
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About 130 miles northwest of Minneapolis, lies the farming community of Farwell, Minnesota (pop. 103). This is the case of Joe Sauter, a sheep farmer who in 1958 filed a claim against the Atomic Energy Commission for loss of livestock, damage to trees, and personal injuries that he believed were the result of radioactive fallout. This case will detail the efforts of the AEC to cut short the claim of radiation injury by suppressing key radiological data which would have substantiated Sauter's claim and proved damaging to the AEC.
Officials within the AEC knowingly and willfully made false statements and …