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Subject: backlog, re end May mtg

Reply-to: (J. Lederberg) lederberg@rockvax.rockefeller.edu

I did get your faxes while I was travelling in Japan last week, but
it was not convenient for me to respond before now.

Time is short, but both of the two alternates you msg’d me about
would be OK.

I should have raised this question sooner; but I’m wondering about
our standing in having invited our own nominees to attend. How does
this jibe with the definition of CISAC as an inter-academy
consultation? If not that, how then are we defined? Could you ask
Dr. Wyngaarden or Dr. Press about that? I'’11 be glad to call them
for any further discussion. Do we:just assume their academies are
in such disarray that we’re ad-hoccing?

Matt Meselson was not very happy apout having been "left out"; though
he probably couldn’t make to it toiWye anyhow. I did promise him we'd
send him minutes. I just told him we were trying to get OFF the
question of "What happened at Sverdlovsk?", we were not an
investigative or intelligence body.

He calculates as little as 10 mg. spores could have accounted for the
epidemic!

Please acknowledge you’ve received this.

Josh

MAY 16 1009