“ETHICALLY IMPOSSIBLE” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946-1948 
4. Collaboration between the agency and the U.S. PHS, particularly with 
regard to activities that: 
a. related to STD research; 
b. involved the use of vulnerable subject populations; 
c. were conducted or partially conducted outside of the United States; or 
d. involved the use of intentional infection protocols. 
U.S. Department of Justice : all records that relate to the use of prisoners as 
subjects in clinical trials, particularly those trials that were conducted at the 
Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute (1942-1943) and at Sing Sing Correc- 
tional Facility (1954-56). 
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association : records 
related to any living U.S. PHS officers who may have had a firsthand knowl- 
edge of the U.S. PHS Venereal Disease Research Laboratory during the time 
period that the STD experiments were underway in Guatemala. 
In total, Commission staff reviewed over 125,000 pages of original records, 
550 secondary sources and publications, and collected thousands of relevant 
documents. The collected documents of the Commission investigation are 
organized as follows: 
PCSBI-HSPI record group 1 - National Archives and Records Adminis- 
tration (NARA): NARA Southeast Region (Morrow, GA) 
■ NARA record group 442 - Records of Dr. John C. Cutler 
■ NARA record group 442 - Records of the U.S. PHS 
PCSBI-HSPI record group 2 - NARA-II facility (College Park, MD) 
■ NARA record group 59 - General Records of the Department of State 
■ NARA record group 84 - Records of the Foreign Service of the 
Department of State 
■ NARA record group 220 - Records of the Advisory Commission on 
Human Radiation Experiments 
■ NARA record group 22 7 - Records of the Office of Scientific Research 
and Development 
■ NARA record group 229 - Office of Inter American Affairs 
■ NARA record group 443 - Records of the NIH Division of Research 
Grants 
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