OFFICIAL USE ONLY we me en During our discussion certain steps were mitually agreed upon which in our opinion will materially strengthen the operation of ABCC. The three most important for immediate action are? 1. The appointment of a full-time top level person reporting directly to tne President cf the Academy to handle all matters concerning the ABCC seemed to be of prime importance. This individual would have to have stature sufficient to assure the cooperation and assistance of all the Division of the NRC-NAS organization. He would have to be provided acequate staff. He should develop complete rapport with the Director of the ABCC staff in Japan and as a part of his responsibilities would visit the ABCC twe or three times a year. He would be expected to maintain liaison with universities, associations of universities such as AUT and OPINS, major AEC radiobiological laboratories and appropriate schools of public health, preventive medicine and the like, as well as laboratories of the USPHS and various departments of the Department of Defense for the purpose of planning for an uninterrupted supply of competent personnel to the project in such a way that persons employed in Japan will be relieved of worries concerning their status on return to this country. He would plan a 3-months orientation period for all scientists prior to their departure for Japan so they would have adequate grounding in radiation biology and become familiar with current experi~ mental work going on in this field and where appropriate a similar orientation in epidemiolory. The former could be accomplished by arrang< ments with such laboratories as the Argonne National Laboratory, the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, the ORNL, and the BNL. ¢. The establishment of an additional top-level position in Japan. in this connection, it was agreed that the responsibilities vested in the position of Director were too much for one man. The best solution to this problem seemed to be that there should be a director or an administrative director who among other things would be responsible for public relations with the Japanese which appear to be almost a fulltime job in themselves, In addition, there should be a scientific Director or Deputy Director for Research who would coordinate the research program anc by relatively frequent visits to the States assist the Western Office of the Academy in its responsibilities as to procurement of personnel, liaison with laboratories, medical shcools, and the like. This would be a particularly important part ol his activities, for in the past recruitment for ABCC without personal -~l7 - OFFICIALUSE ONLY