Initiation and Implementation of the Plutonium Injections

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1. The AEC will seek t o discov-er all available information, including facts and circumstances relating to the initiation and implementation of the plutonium injections and the follow on studies.This inquiry will take the form of a search for documentation of events and the interview of people suspected of being knowledgeable of o r involved i n the original injections. The investigation will be conducted by the Division of Inspection,with the assistance of personnel of the Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research( (BER). All interviews will be conducted on a regularized basis by a team(s) of Inspection and BER representatives. The detailed plans and procedures will be formulated by these two divisions in consultation with the Office of the General Counsel. Records would be kept of all interviews,all available materials could be compiled so as t o be accessible to review by an external AEC group and i n every sense the option here is t o accumulate information in a way that all of the materials could be made public including the possible release of information that might be c o ; n side red comprimising t o some of the individuals interviewed. 2. In addition to complying with the provisions for "informed consent" of the four(4)living persons and the relatives of the exhumed person the AEC would collect and collate published information in Manhattan District and AEC and AEC contractor files that is c o ; n side red pertinent to an accumulation of all available facts. The privacy of the patients and their attending - physicians would be protected but the intent in this instance is t o make a published record * of all documents i n one volume but relying principally on available materials. Interviews would b e conducted solely with the view of making that information as complete as i possible with no implication of possible legal action.