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Staff Memorandum--Materials from
Secretary O'Leary's June 27, 1994
Openness Press Conference





                           DISCLAIMER

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. 
All staff memoranda are subject to revision based on further 
information and analysis.  For conclusions and recommendations of
the Advisory Committee, readers are advised to consult the Final
Report to be published in 1995.

			    STAFF MEMORANDUM

TO:	Members of the Advisory Committee on Human 
	Radiation Experimentation

FROM:	Advisory Committee Staff

DATE:	June 28, 1994	
	
RE:	Materials from Secretary O'Leary's June 27, 1994 Openness 
	Press Conference

	On June 27, 1994, Secretary O'Leary held a second press 
conference on the openness initiative.  A featured item of the 
discussion was the topic of human radiation experiments.  The 
Secretary repeatedly referred to the Committee in her presentation.  
There was significant press interest in the Committee's work, both at 
the overall conference and in the follow-up "breakout" sessions 
devoted specifically to human radiation experiments.

	The primary information released by the Department of Energy 
was a compilation of 48 "new" experiments, i.e., experiments that are 
believed not to have been included in the Market collection.  
Congressman Markey's staff person told us that, in fact, there may be 
some duplication between the "Markey experiments" and the newly 
released experiments, but that the majority were not contained in the 
Markey collection.

	The DOE stated that the "experiments listed are those for 
which a specific medical benefit to the subjects involved was not 
expected."  This information was culled from the primary source 
documents (which DOE recently provided to the Committee), and suppl
emented by sources such as J. Newell Stannard's book, Radioactivity 
and Health:  A History and the Atomic Energy Commission's semi-annual 
reports.  DOE noted, as our set of the documents show, that in many 
cases data about a particular experiment is quite fragmentary.

	We attach the DOE documentation that summarizes the 48 
experiments, as well as other material distributed at the conference.