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The following is a staff memorandum or other working document 
prepared for the members of the Advisory Committee on Human
Radiation Experiments.  It should not be construed as representing
the final conclusions of fact or interpretation of the issues. 
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Report to be published in 1995.





                         STAFF MEMORANDUM


TO:       Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation 
	  Experiments

FROM:     Advisory Committee Staff

DATE:     June 27, 1994

RE:       Transcripts of Selected Interviews Conducted by J. Newell 
	  Stannard


     When writing his book, Radioactivity and Health:  A History, J. 
Newell Stannard conducted a large number of interviews, which were 
transcribed.  Because the book was written under a contract with the 
Department of Energy,  DOE has copies of the transcripts.  The staff 
requested copies of the transcripts and is in the process of reviewing 
them.  We have attached a copy of one of the transcripts to (1) give 
the Committee a sense of the type of information that can be gleaned 
from them, and (2) allow the Committee to assess the value of such 
information.

     Attached you will find:

1.   Appendix A to Stannard's book, which describes the interview 
     process and lists all of the interviews. 

2.   A transcript of an interview with Stafford Warren who was the 
     former Medical Director of the Manhattan Project and Emeritus 
     Dean of UCLA Medical Center, and who worked in the Laboratory of 
     Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology  at UCLA.  The February 2, 
     1979 interview includes transcript discussions of  Manhattan 
     Project problems, the Pacific testing, the dial painters, Oak 
     Ridge, plutonium, uranium and other internal emitter work,  as 
     well as other topics.

     Please contact us if you would like to review any of the other 
interview transcripts listed in the Stannard Appendix, and we will 
forward them to you.

     In addition to the Stannard interviews, the staff is now in the 
process of compiling a list of prominent researchers to whom the 
Committee may wish to talk or whose collected papers the Committee may 
wish to examine.