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STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 « (415) 321-1200

STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

. Department of Genetics | APR 7 1970

Mr. Kenneth Yalowits

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
State Dept. Bldg.
Washéngton, D.C. Z2oysy

Dear Mr. Yalowitz:

In response to your phone call. Please f@bl free to use my
columns and the additional material I enclose herewith in any way
you see fit. I have expressed myself on BW mainly via my column;
however, I am also enclosing a couple of versions of the testimony
I gave before Repr. Zablocki's subcommittee. This also has a good
deal of other material that would be useful to you.

There is some merit in the view that the U.S. "gave up nothing"
in disavowing biological weapons, if the narrow interests of the U.S.
are in question. It can hardly be a bargaining point in trying to
win compensatory concessions in other areas that we are sensitive to

the need to forfend disastrous epidemics. Small countries might feel
that_ they could make a bid for great power at great risk with Biv,
However, the toxins did reflect a somewhat different possibility,

for they could have been developed into very significant weapons, with
the possibility of specifically immunizing the attacking forces. It was
no inadvertence that the Army was very reluctant to have toxins swept
along with the living biological agents.

You probably already have most of the material I have gathered up
here; but it may be of some use just to have these formats.

We already discussed the W.H.O. rexport on "Health Aspects of C&BW",

There is also Robin Clarke's hook "We All Fall Down", and of course
the chapter on "Biologicals" in Seymour Hersh's "Chemical and Biological
Warfare",

Freeman Quimby, at the Legisl. Ref. Service, Library of Congress has
also surely collected a great deal of material that would be of use to
you.

Sincerely,
P.S. I never did get a copy of Smith's talk in

at Geneva.

LT. J. P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION

- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY HEREDITY | NEUROBIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE

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