Bliley RJReynolds
Draft Report Prepared by A RJR Scientist Performing Work on Behalf of the Legal Department Containing Summaries, Mental Impressions and Opinions Concerning A Tobacco Industry Committee Meeting and Including Handwritten Marginalia by Fg Colby (RJR Scientist).
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- Author
- Colby, Frank Gerhardt, Ph.D. (RJR R&D Research Director)R.J. Reynolds scientist. He was employed by RJR as head of then-to-be-founded Scientific Library and Information Division in 1951, Manager of Scientific Information Division 1965-1979, Associate Director of Scientific Information in 1980, and employed by Jacob Medinger & Finnegan as Chief Scientist in 1983.
- Recipient
- Bentley, H.R.
- Imperial Tobacco
- Copied
- Witt, Samuel B., III (CTR and RJR Director & Gen. Counsel)Held various executive positions for RJR and Council for Tobacco Research
- Jacob, E.
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ATTN DR. H, k, ~ENTLEY
~RI STOL
HAVE YOUR LETTER 07 3~ JUNE" ~OR WHICH THAN~S, AS
I A,q LEAVIN~ TL, iqORROW ON OTHER :~USIN~SS IN EUROPE
AND DO NOT PLAN TO RETURN TO OFFICE ~EFORE ARRIVING
IN LONDON JULY ~1, I A;q TAKIN~ THE LIBERTY OF
RESPONDING uY TELEX. I HAVE THNEE CO~qNENTS:
I. WITH RE~ARD TO YOUR ~ENERAL SUGGESTION
FOR APPROACH TO THE TASKS AT HAND, WE FEEL IT
WOULD }JE PIO~E DESIRABLE PERHAPS TO AVOID INITIAL
SELECTIVITY, EVEN IF THAT WERE TO AEAN A LESS TBAN
COi,iPREHENSIVE REPORT ON ALL I'FEi.IS 13Y 17 SEPTEMBER.
I WILL HOWEVER HAdE SPECIEIO SU~.ESTIONS WITH
AID OU.R THINKING IN REFININ~ AND ~EVELOPIN~ PRIORITIES.
~. FURTHER, WE ~ELIEVE THE QUESTION OF CAUSATION
RE{.IAINS OPEN WITH REGARD TO ALL DISEASES WITH WHICH.
S;-}OKIN~ HAS ~EEb] ASSOCIATED. WE WOULD THEREFORE
PROPOSE THAT DETERi~IINATION AND ANALYSIS OF GAPS
CUR~EN]" SCIENTIFIC ~NOWLEDGE CCNCERNIN~ DISEASES.
I WILL ~RINE ,.iATERIAL ON THESE [~APS WITH
3. FINALLY, WE HAVE U.S. LEGAL PRO~LEHS IN
CONNECTION WITH ANY DISCUSSIONS RELATING TO PRODUCT
{dODIFICATIONS AS SUGGESTED IN YOUR PARAGRAPH (II
[ WILL CALL YOU FROM EU~{OPE NEXT WEEK TO DISCUSS THE
AbOV E.
FRANK G, COL=~Y " BI£nd cc: E, Jacob
S. B. Witt
