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Memo to Dave, Subject: Human Material Bearing Plutonium (Draft)

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material bearing plutonium (or other transuranic s). A s you iiiay know Dr.. / I two persons Bbh one each with have unearthed all of radio as say and soh on. I n addition we have located the pathological specimens,&6ines and present status of all four persons. We sre arranging t o have sections cut for r@$$@?-aXoT-of autoradiographs. All four persons had some bony lesion were de calcified. But hopefully, the 5'$ IINO in alcohol treatment still left some isotope bebind. who was ds diagnosed) and unfortunately the tissue specimens The dodc was uell known for all four, absorption da-cc; seem good on the ~ W Gi nje c ted U.1, but except for the assay of tissues was badly done, and the data are not worth too much. I enclose 238-pua briefs wary of the cases. It seems t o me t o be time, iiiasmuch as isJTi11 alive and .~ well as of July 1568, tore - assess &.$policy with respect to this old - Coiiimission's attbi-neys work out some form of pqmerik, for waiver of suit rights, and let usfhave access tothe Rochester and Cihcago files, so that can be learn e dLof the hospital records, and whereabcjuts, m1-2tissue specimens arS-/ and place of residence of the survivors and place of burial of these who have died. It seems t o me that whatever would have tobe paid, the mount of information that could b e gained seeins t o me that - i t might be better to own up toone ' s ed& rassment a d bring it oui: into the open, than ltcep trying to "keep things quiet". would be far more valuable. It also ~. ' If weget anything from the nia teri al we kiave here, we would very much like to publish it. NE I am concerned that the status of this . ' -. . material'will remain i n limbo forever -- but it can ' t red ly - and some;. :