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Hon. Henry A. Waxman -8- September 27, 1994 



view that the Wall Street Journal article was inaccurate. 

 However, Ms. Cohen has noved, and we have been unable to 

 locate her. We have spoken with Dr. John E. Bevilacqua, 

 Ms, Cohen's treating neurologist (who is also her cousin). 



Dr. Bevilacqua has provided us with a letter dated 

 August 20, 1994, describing Ms. Cohen's medical condition as 

 of that date and as of February 11, 1993, when the Wall 

 Street Journal article appeared. Dr. Bevilacqua has asked 

 that his letter be treated as confidential, in deference to 

 Ms. Cohen's privacy interests. We expect to provide 

 Dr. Bevilacqua's letter to the Subcommittee promptly after 

 we have reached an understanding with the Subcomaittee staff 

 with respect to procedures for the Subcommittee's handling 

 of materials provided by the Council. In the interim, I 

 respectfully request that my letter be included at page 78 

 of the May 26 transcript. 



I have learned that I was mistaJcen when I testi- 

 fied on May 26 that, following the publication of the Wall 

 Street Journal article, Ms. Cohen called the Council and 

 apologized to one of our employees for the statements at- 

 tributed to her in the article. What happened was that 

 shortly after the Wall Street Journal article was published, 

 Ms. Cohen was contacted on our behalf and said that she had 

 been misquoted in the article. The fact that Ms. Cohen had 

 stated that she had been misquoted in the article was 

 reported to an officer of the Council, who in turn reported 

 that to me. As a result, I formed the mistaken impression 

 that Ms. Cohen had called the Council, but my basic under- 

 standing about what she did say was correct. 



Financial information fTr. at p. 82) . We have 

 prepared three separate tables setting forth the dollar 

 amounts contributed in each year, by each contributor, to 

 the Council and to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee 

 ("TIRC") for the General Fund, for Council Special Projects, 

 and for the Council's Literature Retrieval Division ("LRD") . 

 (I understand that LRD was a division of the Council from 

 1971 until 1983, that LRD compiled medical literature for 

 the use of the tobacco companies, and that LRD's assets were 

 transferred in 1983 to LS, Inc., a corporation that is unre- 

 lated to the Council.) This financial information is non- 

 public, and the Council's members regard it as confidential. 

 We expect to provide these tables to the Subcommittee 

 promptly after we have reached an understanding with the 



