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TO: FKOM : DATE : RE : M E M O R A I~ D U M E. Pepples J. K. ~;ells, III July 24, 1981 Smoking and IIealth-Tim Finnegan Tim Finnegan called with some matters he said were cooking that you should hear about before he would have opportunity to talk with you. At your request, Tim visited Dean Sullivan It was a cordial meeting and Tim believes he has persuaded the~ to take a new thrust with their research. The new thrust will have . ~~.,i.. ..... questionable value but no negative. Sullivan and his people are"~~~ enthusiastic but of questionable sophistication. Tim expects to receive a revised proposal and he will contact you then. ..~ ,".~~, ~~~--~ .... Dr. John Blass~ at Cornell (Burke Rehabilitation) has sent a letter requesting permission to apply unspent funds to new ~~" . " ~ .... ~'-"~ i-~,i7~' .... equipment. The letter enclosed a six month financial , .,.~ . . ~"~~~' .... Dr. Me~ster has requested aa~t~onal funds of approximately ~, -- -~ ...... ~-- and health. There is a possibility that the substance being ~ ," "i,,,'~:i!~/~- ~,i,~,:~:i~i~i~:.. not Meister's intention to help the tobacco industry butthere ,,~;-~:~,- issue, has passed the ball for development of a posit~on back to <;:,~<~;~ the U.S. Tin, believes, and understands that the INFO~AB embers now agree, eorse erma tends to unacceptable .;!.i,:.~., causation is proven. Recently a SWOP held a workshop at ~-~arton ---, . which Ber~an conducted. Something like I0,000 invitations were -,~.'?". issued ~nd only 22 attended. ~his turned out to be fortunate .~,~-.,~,.~:~!,;:.. because the theme of the Berman's presentations was that costs ~ ~- ~. ..... . associated with sra~king and health are not socfal costs but transfer payments. Tim's objective is to take the lead of the social cost program away frown Berman and put U.S. lawyers in the forefront of p~eparing an industry position prizarily through the develop~ent ef witnesses who can present a position. I told Tim you had written a superb memorandum., describing the ~::~:~.:."~~ application of various disciplines to the subject of costs and I sent a copy to him when you approved.

Liebowitz has sent Congressman Rose an extensive and hardhittlng letter very critical of James White. It is not clear whether the letter can be used by the industry in the present posture of the situation. Interesting Developments on the Hirayama Matter Dr. Adlkof8r who is the Scientific Director of the German Verbandt, has committed himself to the position that Lee and Hirayama are correct and Mantel and TI are wrong. Adlkofer called Frank Colby at Reynolds and said that Germany has received new data from Japan which confirms the Hirayama work. Adlkofer and Lee and another German associate were all asked to review Hirayama's work and did not find the error picked up by ~astenbaumo ~hey believe ~irayama ~s a good scientist and that ...... his nonsmoking wives publication was correct. Adlkofer invited Tsokos and Eastenbaum to Germany to view the new data, although they would not be allowed to work with it or make copies. The proposal added that after the session in Germany Tsokos, Kastenbaum, and apparently Adlkofer would proceed to Japan to visit ~irayama. Adlkofer had previously proposed four research.-- projects to examine the Hirayama work to be done by the research arm of the Verband At a meeting of the board of the research arm on July 15 Adlkofer was asked how he could continue to support the projects if Hirayama's work was dead. He replied with a strong statement that Hirayama was correct, that the TI knew it and that TI publisned its statement about Hirayama.. knowing that the work was correct. Mr. yon Specht is reported to have cut Adlkofer short. Subsequently Adlkofer told Colby that unidentified authors would publish in an unnamed ..~.-~ publication an article claiming that Hirayama was correct and that TI published its statement while privately acknowledging Hirayama's correctness. Within a few days Adlkofer called again to say that the article was off. Action Requested ........ Tim said he would like to have a word from you soon about the - Blass and Melster proposals. He would also like to have an " opportunity in the not too distant future to sit down with us to discuss the range of things he is doing for B&W. No comment is needed on the proposal to have Kastenbaum and Tsokos visit Germany to review the Hirayama dat~ unless you believe the visit should take place. Kornegay gave a forceful veto of the program and as of this point there is no dissent.