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In reply please refer to:
Priére de rappeler la référence: 15 October 1974

Dear Josh,

Further to my letter of 4 October I attended the meeting in Davos
on genetic manipulations, and had a chance to speak with Paul Berg.
He professed almost entire ignorance about WHO, except for a negative
report he had heard on WHO's bureaucracy, which made him question whether
we were the right organization to be imvolved in the international aspects
of the Moratorium problem and what might be done about it. ICSU had
been recommended to him as the appropriate organization. Perhaps, after
speaking with Maaloe and me he is slightly better informed. It does not
seem likely that WHO will be invited as an organization to the meeting
in February. Berg thought this might be a later step. I think it is
a mistake, but I did not, and shall not, press the matter. I told him that,
if asked to do so, WHO would be glad to consider what help we might give
in dealing with the entire matter,

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I shall send/Wi thin the next day or two the material we have collected
on security in laboratories, as requested in your last letter.

Thank you very much for the information you sent on SUMEX. I am sure
we shall take advantage of the possibilit#,it offers. I am having the
question studied here and shall be in touch with you again about it.

With cordial regards,
Yours sincerely,

Mido

Martin Kaplan

Director
Professor J. Lederberg Office of Research Promotion
Department of Genetics and Development
Stanford University School of
Medicine

Stanford, California 94305
United States of America