October 27, 1971

Mr. Harvey D. Carter, Jr.
Williams, Witten, Carter & Dollard
Attorneys

115 Elm Street

Bennington, Vermont 05201

Dear Mr. Carter,

Thank you for your letter of October 21, In my opinion the
comment in my earlier affidavit has been aijted by the regulatory
actions announced by the AEC since that time. I would see little
merit in re-entering the same material.

I am enclosing a published article which expreases my present
views. As this is already on the record you may, of course, make
any fair use thereof that you see fit.

My remarks obviously do not cover the contingency of a catastrophic
release of radioactivity in excess of the AEC's own standards. However,

I do not believe I can make a competent judgment on the sufficiency of
current precautions,

I think you will find other papers in the September 1971 issue
of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of great interest and relevance
to the present case.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr
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