STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
, STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg JUL 1 3 1969

Hen. Paul McCloskey
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

Dear Pete--

This is not entirely an invitation to go
into some public-spirited muckraking, though
with a new administration, some headway might
be possible.

I am no fan of Garrison's, but it was a dirty
game to release his psychiatric files (reported
by the Chicago Tribune, and then the NYTimes
eon 12/30/67.) I watched intently for a follow-
up and the most I ever found was this brief
clip from the AMA News. I know (from your re-
marks on the Census) that you are very much
concerned about rights of privacy. On the strength
of that, I would ask you to make some inquiry
of the US Army, at least to get the official re-
leases behind the AMANews story; and use your
own judgment whether to pursue it any further.

I will also make an innocent inquiry as a
private citizen, but doubt if I will get any
reply.

The NSF is getting clobbered again, as you pre-
dicted. Can you help wake up your fellow congress-
men that this makes the seed corn for our techno-
logical affluence and commercial survival, not
to mention the hope of ever dealing with our
environmental problems.

  
     
  

Lr. Josep P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES/FOp
dedicated to the study of merteal retardation

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