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

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3. against many AIDS sufferers and others who have been infecte d as
well as those who have generously volunteered to be subjects in
vaccination trials in France and in Zaire.
4. against the honor of our colleagues in the NA.,. who art respecLed
worldwide, and hence against the N.I.H. itself. We shall avoid furfler
comment upon this Amnericano-American matter, but in no case would we
wigth to be usvcd as a pawpn in thcsc internal disputcs.
'This investigation by [he O.P.R.R. has also disturbcd the work being
carried out by our group on AIDS, and hat, already bad unaging
con:-equcncc-. for AILDS rccarch by thrciacning thc consitructive relations
prevailing between Frcndi seich ud N.I.H. ieXtjt. o huave
been unjustly accused in this memoranduim.
Thle coniiliias CUIlLUi Tled in the nwrnorandum of the O.PRRK are false,
ifcC they do fnot coOoi.w
1)I the precise nature. the limits and the formn of the Franco- American
CooUPLUr'Lofl program:,%' and the periodic exchanges we have had With
N.ari(*s ['C$CcWcheCs in the N.I.H. There is instead a jumble of' situations and
generalisations that arc false and contrary to the actual facts. This is the