Attachment II - Page 1 
FOUNDATION ON ECONOMIC TRENDS 
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STATEMENT CONCERNING THE SHIGA LIKE TOXIN EXPERIMENT 
We are formally requesting that the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee 
(RAC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) table indefinitely any 
action on the proposal to clone a Shiga toxin and refuse to consider any 
further requests from the Uniformed Services University of the Health 
Sciences until such time as the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency conforms with section 36 of the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Act. Section 36 requires a complete Arms 
Control impact statement (ACIS) assessing and analyzing the arms control 
and disarmament impact of any "program involving technology with 
potential military application and weapons systems application." It is 
important to emphasize the intent of subsection 36 (a)(3) of this act. 
According to the legislative history of this provision, the Congressional 
Committee responsible for the act wanted to make sure "that there would be 
no question that technology with potential military application, rather than, 
simply, weapons technology, could be reviewed and reported upon under the 
legislation." 
Paul Warnke, former Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 
and Chief negotiator for the SALT talks under the Carter 
adminstration 
Congressman Ronald Dellums, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Installa- 
tion and Facilities of the House Armed Services Committee 
Admiral Gene LaRocque, Director of the Center for Defense Information 
Herbert Scoville, Former Deputy Director of Science and Intelligence of 
the CIA, and Former Assistant Director of Science and Tech- 
nology for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 
Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law, Princeton University 
Marc Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies and Former Member of the special 
staff of the National Security Council under President Kennedy 
Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends 
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