Attachment 4

          UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES (UCLA)

OVERVIEW

Type of institution: Branch of state university including medical 
school; affiliated with VA hospital

Mission: Atomic Energy Project's fourfold mission included studying 
biomedical effects of radiation, bone marrow injury by radiation, 
metabolism in bone and protein degradation; VA radioisotope work 
performed for clinical diagnosis and therapy and for research

Links:  AEC/ERDA/DOE, VA, NASA, HHS, DOD, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge 
(ORINS), School of  Aviation Medicine

Experiments or other radiation research: 
*    Atomic Energy Project (of medical school) established in 1947 in 
     conjunction with AEC and research is still ongoing; obtained 
     broad AEC radioisotope license in early years; performed some 
     classified research
*    nature of experiments: VA work included metabolism, blood volume, 
     tissue clearance and muscular dystrophy studies; Total body 
     irradiation; likely others include UCLA biomedical work connected 
     to fallout/  weapons testing (Nevada Test Site), strontium/bones, 
     blood studies 
*    number of experiments unknown
*    period of study: medical school established in 1947; VA central 
     advisory body established in 1947; local VA radioisotope unit, 
     created in 1948, awarded general AEC license for radioisotopes in 
     1965; NASA connection beginning in 1961

Secret or classified research: Yes; aside from retrospective and other 
field work at bomb test sites, nature and extent of this work not yet 
explored

AVAILABLE DATA 

Experiments: 
*    Histories of research program: none specifically identified
*    "Start/stop" documents for specific experiments/programs: some 
     protocols identified
*    Publications or reports for specific experiments/programs : 
     articles on VA research; other reports (some classified)

Program:
*    Record of chains of command for program decisions and review : 
     objectives of Atomic Energy Project set out in reports; some 
     information on VA chain of command set out in reports and 
     correspondence
*    Funding source: AEC funding known, but documents not yet located  

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Was there secret or classified funding?  Yes, but details not yet 
established

Consent:  What was the extant consent policy?
Unknown how obtained; believe VA policy was to require only oral 
consent until early 1960's, no UC university program identified until 
1960's
*    The  institutional form for the policy: Not yet identified
*    Records of implementation:  mechanism for recording consent 
     unknown

Subject selection: process unknown, but VA subjects would be a 
controlled population; 1965 VA 40-year age limit for volunteers (based 
on AEC model)

Oversight: 
          probably some from AEC/VA headquarters offices; minutes of 
          VA Medical Center radioisotope committee meetings show local 
          procedures; questions raised regarding lack of appropriate 
          oversight of one VA project


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