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

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We are conifident that a detailed consideu-atiun of these facts will leadU
the O.P.R.R. to conclude Lhal none of these complaints has any foundation,
and that its action constitutes an unjustified attack.
I. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SCIENTISTS
OF THE N.I.11. AND OUR GROUP
Collaboration and periodical exchanges or instances of help bet-wcn
N.IH. cin~it~and our group have a bearing both on rce.curch on humiin
sub jects, as well as, on animal and ijwio ex per I Men1110.
I. Research on human subjects
Th.e periodic exchanges and thc co operative Programs of our group
with the '%CientiSts of the N.I.H. iniclinuical trials carried out on human
suhjects arec CluijVvlimiited to ifleCliet"Wal exchanges. to t%%.(,
ec) opcratik-e program~s. one instance of help with establishing our programn
of innunothorapv at 'Saint Antoinc hos-)pitul and to supplying r'eagcnt.Ls for
ldboratvry use. Collaboration oii uaii mal nd i '(a) experiments witi)
N.1.11. sciflLiSLS 1()(ok place ifl afothLuF context.
1.. ntcllcctual exchanges
Robert Gallo, a pioflct~t of humian retrovirology, introduced Daniel
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