Archive description
This six-page typewritten document is a listing, in outline form, of issues to be resolved (such as informed consent or disclosure), questions to be answered, and people to visit at specific locations. This appears to be a tool to be used on the interviews that will be part of the aec inquiry into the plutonium injection cases. No author or date are provided for this document.
Document text
Machine-read from the scan, so expect some errors. Lines that couldn’t be read are left out.
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*: a. Durbin stated that they were Stone, Hamilton, Staf Warren, Friedel l 3 b. Confirmation available from I. Discover composition of health group and whether they decided t o I authorize coordinated injection project. L. (1) Warren i f he will talk (2) Friedel l if he will talk (3) Hamilton papers. Durbin can get them but she sags that they (4) Stone files. Durbin says that he dictated recollections to Radiology Dept. personnel and that tapes may be available. (5) Stone correspondence if available. c. Also, from MED files if any records were kept of such a group. Dick Hewlett may be able to help. d. Langhan article 111 B 10 stated that a meeting was held to discuss this matter a t Los Alamos i n March, 1954. I-s-there-anythj-krLangham correspondence may be revealing. e. It is stored in Los Alamos. 11. Records of transfer of Pu, called product (HP), which may have gone from Hanford t o someone else (possibly Langham) t o Rochester. It was coded and possibly recoded. Injected by people who may have been unaware of its nature. Hempelmann may be able to elucidate this.
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I11 Rochester AEP activities 1. What we need t o know. c . Who issued orders for injections ? f . Did c. have knowledge of what they were doing? h. Was any record of g. kept i f yes? i. What was length of early followup (available from LA-1151)? j . How did Howland get in the act? k. What did he do and what does he know? What was composition of relevant group at that time? Was there any informed consent i n connection with his activities? 2 . Sources of information a. MED files for Rochester AEP (1) Possibly a t University (Rochester). Inquire of Bill Neuman. (2)In Rochester AEP (go t o records i n AEP). (3) Possibly in historic files at OR (check with Dick Hewlett). b. Hospital records a t Strong Memorial Hasp. (1) Staff of metabolic ward i n 1945-46, possibly few following years. (2) Patient records t o be searched by hospital administration for records of informed consent, names of attending physicians.
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(5) Others picked up in b. IV. U. of Chicago cases 2. Sources of information a. Argonne or stored files b. Billings Hospital records 1. Questions to be raised - see 111 a-g.
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2. Sources of information a. Stone files if any available. c . Hamilton files. Durbin said that they contain nothing. d . U. of California hospital records e. Check with Durbin about informed consent record leads. VI. AM: involvement, early a. When did AEC personnel become aware of problem? d . Is there any correspondence in files relating to it? 2. Sources of information Fragments of minutes of ACBM meetings. Old correspondence o r records of meetings if available.
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b. Sources of her information. c. Relations with AEC re: matter. Reasons for her further interest in the patients. Relations with Rowland and Waterhouse. 2. Sources of information a. Interview with her. d. AEC correspondence files. a. Reasons for Argonne, Rochester interest. f . Were records of such kept? Who made contacts with patients or estate ? 2. Sources of information
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(3) AEC 189's and correspondence IX. Late AEC a. When did AEC personnel become aware of the patients? b. Were they aware of deficiencies in informed consent? d. Chronology of AEC activity. 2. Sources of information h. Argonne correspondence and records