put a source aboard a passenger flight to the Big Island for a job at Big Island Meat Company.  Two other FTL employees, at Finlay's direction, brought the undocumented source back to Oahu.  In April 1987 an FTL employee made three interisland trips on passenger aircraft secretly carrying sources at Finlay's direction. Also at Finlay's order they secretly carried a source to Maui and back to Oahu.  On August 18, 1987, Finlay packed a container carrying a source for Ron and Randy Austin, who then carried it without documentation on a military passenger flight from Oahu to Johnston Island.


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The NRC required licensees such as FTL to maintain "U-logs" to be prepared each time a source was used.  FTL was also required to maintain shippingFinlay was stated to have provided all the appropriate shipping papers, including a Hazmat form to Ron Austin for the August shipment to Johnston Island.  Carroll's action was portrayed as "surprising, aberrational and unusual," and to have been met, when discovered, by Carroll's prompt suspension, at the end of which chastisement he would return, reformed, to the company.  Attached to this request to the NRC were six false documents that Carroll had faked in April 1987 at Finlay's direction to cover up the illegal January 1987 shipments to and from Johnston Island.  These documents were submitted as evidence that the proper papers had been prepared for the later Austin shipment.  The bluff was clumsy since the documents on their face were dated January 9,