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Hon. Henry A. Waxaan ' -12- Septeaber 27, 1994 



files that are arranged alphabetically by the naae of the 

 principal investigator or, in some cases, the investigator's 

 institution. There are also docvuaents from files containing 

 financial information about Council Special Projects and 

 documents from Special Project desk files of certain Council 

 employees. Approximately one-third of these pages consist 

 of applications and pre-publication reports by researchers, 

 or evaluations of a researcher or of his or her research. 

 He believe that the information that is reflected in these 

 documents was provided to the Council with a reasonable 

 expectation of confidentiality, and we therefore regard 

 these documents as confidential. 



We expect to be able to provide all these docu- 

 ments to you promptly after we have reached an understanding 

 with the Subcommittee staff with respect to procedures for 

 the Subcommittee's handling of materials provided by the 

 Council. In the interim, I respectfully request that this 

 letter be included at page 106 of the May 26 transcript. 



In addition, I aua advised that there are 54 docu- 

 ments from these Council Special Project files that are 

 subject to claims of attorney-client privilege, attorney 

 work-product protection or joint defense privilege asserted 

 by the Council or its sponsors. He do not intend to provide 

 51 of these documents to the Subcommittee, and we intend to 

 redact the other three. None of these documents constitutes 

 a researcher's report of his or her results or findings. 

 (As stated above, the Council has not asserted any privilege 

 with respect to such results or findings; and my 

 understanding is that none of the Council's sponsors have 

 done so.) No communications with scientific researchers arc 

 being withheld on privilege or work-product grounds. 



" Special A ccounts" fTr. at dp. 115-16. 117> . I 

 was asked on May 26 to provide information about "Special 

 Account Number 4" and "Special Account Number 5." No such 

 accounts are currently maintained by or for the Council, and 

 so far as we can determine no such accounts have ever been 

 maintained by or for the Council. 



1 respectfully rec[uest that this letter be in- 

 cluded at pages 116 and 117 of the record. 



Blanket request fTr. at p. 99) . At the hearing, 

 Mr. Synar asked me to provide "all materials that are cen- 



