THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10021-6399

 

JOSHUA LEDERBERG
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR February 20, 1991

Mr. Paul Wolfowitz

Undersecretary of Defense (Policy)
The Pentagon

Washington, D.C. 20301-3140

Dear Mr. Wolfowitz:

I am still looking forward to the opportunity to
spend a little time with you personally; but I have
understood very well how busy you are (not to mention,
on a different plane, my own schedule).

There is one topic that I would particularly like
to discuss with you, namely, aims and means of continued
dialogue with the Soviets with respect to confidence
building and the BWC. I hear that there is some dissent
in another department about the desirability of sustain-
ing certain reciprocal visits and exchanges. I am parti-
cularly eager to make a positive case, particularly for
those at a more official government level than the in-
formal ones that we have been undertaking under the
auspices of the respective National Academies of Sciences.

To be sure you have handy our most recent visit
report, I enclose a copy. We are very appreciative of
your intervention to make that visit possible.

One particular point: we were given to believe
that there would be a very positive response to joint
meetings between the respective Surgeons General of our
armed forces. (On our side that might either be our
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, or
the Surgeon General of the Army). I will be in touch
with your office when you might be able to see me.

I'm in the building almost weekly.

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Letter to Mr. Paul Wolfowitz
February 20, 1991
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The Defense Science Board task force to assess
the Biological Defense Research Program (BDRP) is
coming along well in three important respects:

a) I am pleased with the terms of reference that
Charlie Herzfeld has signed off on; b) we have an
excellent panel of the most reputed medical sci-
entists in the country: c) and we have superb

staff support in the person of Col. John Cutting --
by coincidence he was one of the very first medical
students that I taught when I came to Stanford in
1959. Clearances, etc., as usual take forever.

Our first plenary meeting is scheduled for Ft.
Detrick March 6th.

I hope you might be available to meet us at one

of our future sessions in Washington.

rs sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg

Enclosure: Visit Report - Swiftwater 12/8/90
Draft Joint Statement