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Hon. Henry A. Waxnan -13- September 27, 1994 



tral to this hearing prior to 1987" and "all of the mate- 

 rials available in the (Council's] files." Tr. at p. 98. I 

 responded that the Council would cooperate fully "and would 

 provide whatever you require." Tr. at p. 99. I did not 

 understand Mr. Synar to be asking for every piece of paper 

 in the Council's files. Rather, I thought he was having Be 

 confirm that we would be responsive to the Subcommittee's 

 requests. Indeed, I have no way of )aiowing what documents 

 Mr. Synar regards as "central to this hearing." And it 

 certainly would not be feasible for the Council to produce 

 all of its files to the Subcommittee. We estimate that 

 those files include over 2.5 million pages, and I respect- 

 fully submit that it would serve no purpose to deluge the 

 Subcommittee with documents beyond those that the Council 

 has already gathered in response to the Subcommittee's broad 

 requests. 



I respectfully request that this letter be in- 

 cluded at page 99 of the record. 



IV. 



I would also like to clarify several points that I 

 made during my testimony on May 26. 



I was questioned on May 2 6 about documents that 

 are exhibits to the Majority Staff Report, dated May 26, 

 1994, and entitled "The Hill and Knowlton Documents: How 

 the Tobacco Industry Launched Its Disinformation Campaign." 

 As I testified, I had never seen Exhibits 9 and 10 to that 

 Report, which appear to be documents prepared by Hill £ 

 Knowlton in 1954. Tr. at 49, 51-52. To reiterate, these 

 documents and the events they describe predate my tenure at 

 the Council by three decades. Following the hearing, we 

 reviewed the Council's files, and as a result we have 

 learned that, contrary to my belief as of May 26, the 

 Council's files do contain copies of Exhibit 9 and of a 

 portion of Exhibit 10. 



Reviewing the exhibits to the Majority Staff Re- 

 port indicates to me, as a reader of these documents in 

 1994, that Hill 6 Knowlton provided resources to help orga- 

 nize TIRC and gave assistance to TIRC's public relations 

 efforts during its early years. In hindsight, I do not find 

 it surprising that documents prepared by TIRC's public rela- 



