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MEMORANDUM

TO:		Members of the Advisory Committee on Human 
		Radiation Experiments

FROM:		Advisory Committee Staff

DATE:		June 9, 1994

RE:		Addendum to June 3 Staff Memorandum Regarding
		Ethics Follow-up (Briefing Book, TAB H)

	Attached for your review the following two previously
classified items, both obtained from the National Archives
on June 7, 1994, concerning policies of the Department of
Defense and its predecessors:

Attachment 1:	Letter from the Director of the Office
			Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
			to the Executive Secretary of the OSRD,
			dated October 30, 1942.  See, in 
			particular, page 4, which specifies that
			human subjects should be volunteers who
			are aware of the dangers of experiments.
			This was the policy reported in the Moore-
			Richards correspondence that was included
			in the briefing book for the May 18-19
			meeting.

Attachment 2:	Set of correspondence from the weeks prior
			to the classified February 26, 1953 Wilson
			memo.  (The 1953 Wilson memo identified
			the Nuremburg Code as the standard for 
			research on human subjects).  This
			correspondence reflects the deliberations
			and recommendations of the Armed Forces
			Medical Council to the Secretary of
			Defense, which evidently prepared the way
			for the 1953 Wilson memo.