Attachment D

Department of Veterans Affairs
Memorandum
Date:	June 1, 1994
From:	The Secretary (00)
Suj:	Radiation Research Records Search
To:	Acting Under Secretary for Health (10)

	1. In January, I directed a full and comprehensive
review of the Department's nuclear medicine activities and
records.  Since then you have conducted several information
collection activities in the field and in Central Office. 
As we complete the fifth month of this effort, we need to
revitalize our efforts if we are to answer the questions
raised in January.

	2. By June 6, please provide me with a summary of all
activities to date and a status report of what we have
learned so fra.  Your report should include the most recent
information resulting from your surveys of January 28 and
April 6, and reports on all follow-up work done inventorying
the records identified on those surveys.  In addition,
please provide a summary of what you have learned of the
Atomic Medicine Division which apparently once existed as an
element of VA engaged in "confidential" activities.  I am
extremely concerned that we use all available sources of
information in our attempt to identify all the activities
performed by that Division.

	3. As I stated in my initial memorandum to the field, I
want our review to be thorough, accurate and energetic.  As
the Acting Under Secretary for Health, I consider you
responsible for assuring that our effort fulfills my
expectation.  If other elements of the Department are needed
to assist you, they will be made available through the
Radiation Information Coordinating Committee which the
General Counsel chairs.

Jesse Brown