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and she was very suspicious of me.
But to my knowledge
he never found out, and he sifpped through cur fingers
at the age of 8&he died from something.
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SSH:
Nothing to do with*plutonfum?
KGS:
Ganthe got many times the so-called lethal textbook dose
of plutonium.
Patricia Durbin knows more about that.
She's kept up with. the~datay his data.
SSH:
weit in those days it was possible to do experiments
on human beings with such ease?
KGS:
Yes, yes.
SSH:
What did it involve, E-mean—wee—it_juet—e-matter—oP
Kes;
It involved getting a needy patient who had‘ known
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disease, or thought ft was known, (bebY be came out of the
clinic for us at U.C. Cana’ I took the plutonium over
there and gave it to. Earl Mtller,who-injected it into
this guy.
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yarergysther experiments of that nature were done?
KGS: .
There was one more that Pat reminded me Crm
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Australian chilgywho received some etasihe
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of‘leukemia when they got him.
And I "thtak he subsequently
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| Wheb.atathe human’ use committees,‘put a stop to all that?
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