[Memorandum to Acting Deputy Director for Intramural Research, NIH from F. William Dommel, Jr.]

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they have developed Lhcorcticol concc'pts that have guided Prof. Zagury"3
expcrimenta1 ideas. They have moreover hcld general discussions in which
they jointly analyse and interpret the Significance of basic experimental
results. R. Gailo 'is prompt to offer his criticism of these results, to help in
their intcrprctation and to suggest corrections in manuscripts5 prior to
their publicationl.
It is these intellectual exchainges that justify K{. allos appearance as. a
co-author in our publications. These exchanges in no way implicate him in
an), wayPU in the human e'.%perimenta1 programs %:hich We 'tcurry out
elscwhie in the framework of Franco-Zairian, and not
AMOcricana-Iranco Zairian co-operation. (For example, the N-.1-1. has its
own Zaire project in which we arc in no way involved and to which we
maE oC10laii to belong. Sirnilarly, even if General Swz-i ot f our project
aCCuw1iiudUtes som,,une of the laboratories of the NAl11 AIDS project in his
insitUte, the IXN,., in Kinshasa, this is no basis for supposing that General
Salaun %worl~s in collaboration with that project.)
R, Gallo had absolutcl, no kiiowledyte of the mietth(. of our clinical
LI'iUIS, iLhCuCntent of our prc'kgiarns their experimental procedurcs and their
foMMllowp. At the co)nclusion of an experiment, in the analysis of ouir
results, we w%-ould rseck hit. opinion at an expert rctro)viroA(.rgist Sl as a
II ad\*it c(fC01CCfllng 9 PbliCULiofl. but R. Gallo never LOOK part in budgetary
comitminents, or in the initiation, implementation or sub-.sequent stages of
these immunological experimnents, sincce he himself is not an immunologis.
R. Gallo %xwill bc abic to confirm this.
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