just one observation which may provide some perspective to this, although
The University of
it's not necessarily relevant to the DAAG, and so on.
legal
eight
some
named. in
of
Regents
the
California,
in
with
do
to
having
are currently
health
radiation
It is entirely conceivable that the discovery
practices in the fifties.
process~ involved
suits
California,
of
University
the
legal
those
suits will
cost the University several
million dollars.
I think that. you have gotten a tremendous bargain out of the CIC in
terms
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of overal monies
that would
have been
spent
in
finding
these
documents in all ofthe places that they formerly resided.
ll
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:- I don't know whether this comment has been made or
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not, but in actuality the: genesis of the CIC had nothing to do with the
13
Dose Assessment Advisory: Group. _It was required by other federal legisla-
14
tion that a communication and. information center be established.
It was
15
established here in Las Vegas, ~and the Dose Assessment Advisory Group was
16
given some relation to it for reasons that I don't totally understand at
17
this
18
separate
19
gratuitous.
point
in terms of their
legislation
that
advisory ~function,
establishes
In any case --
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MR. FRADKIN:
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CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
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MR. FRADKIN:
the
but
CIC.
there
Maybe
our
is
specific
advice
is
ee
May I?
—
Yes.
Again, my name is Philip Fradkin.
If I could just say a
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few words as one who has to use the CIC extensively—in doing research for
24
my projects,
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knowledgeable person in the world, or the most menial clerk, deciding what
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I could see, because I don't know what I need until
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think, to set somebody up within that system to select things out, you are
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putting one person's or two or three persons’ biases in place where perhaps
I would
hate
to
see
295
anybody,
whether they are the most
Isee it myself.
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