Kreisher, John H., Ph.D.
(CTR Associate Research Director) Former associate scientific director of the Council for Tobacco Research; says everything about CTR Special Projects Division was "cloak and dagger" (WSJ 2/11/93).Says the CTR lawyers "worried like hell" about the nine year 10,000-mouse inhalation study, conducted by Microbiological Associates Bethesda, MD, before the CTR cancelled further experiments, circa 1982 (WSJ 2/11/93). Kreisher spoke on BBC's Panor ("British 60 Minutes") story on the tobacco industry, "A Pack of Lies" (1993?); Kreisher was CTR's associate director for 12 years; Kreisher says CTR was only for corporate counsel (BC 7/7/94). "Everything changed" at CTR in 1977; lawyers started becoming much more involved (BC 7/12/94). See Personnel List Part 1: Presumed Pro-Plaintiff, also TTLA Almanac - Names. He has been quoted in WSJ and on the BBC show about lawyer involvement. Try to interview first. (Source: Multi-State Deposition Team - Identified Individuals May 9, 1997)