LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM P. SMITH FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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lAx. William P. fkaith
Dear
3 MAY 1959
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ending my brother.
It use very considemte at you to mitts sal
yam can be ewe that yaw suggestions, es moll. ea
those at many other thougktAil persons like roar-
self, aro being given careful attexction and cce-
sideruction.
I ea returning the copy at yaw book latch
you so kindly loaned me es / have another eagy
of it available !Isere.
With best wishes.
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WILLIAM PEABODY SMITH
May 19,1959
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
2430 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Dulles:
I have lost some relatives and many friends
from cancer ( one was a medical doctor whose cancer started
with an Xray burn) therefore am extra conscious of developments
in this field. Recently I wrote to Senator Neuberger expressing
my thoughts and beliefs in the matter. With a prayer and in the hope
that what I said in that letter may lead to some help for your
brother I am enclosing a copy of it and attaching to this letter
a copy of the book referred to.
Sineer
Will am P.
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Hon. Richard L. Neuberger
Senate Building
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sen. Neuberger:
The Newspapers report that you have introduced a
bill proposing to appropriate $500,000,000.00 to start a crash program
of research on Cancer - -camparable go the Manhattan project which
produced the atom bomb - and that said program be under the direction
and supervision of the National. Cancer Institute.
The sucnoss of the Manhattan project was due to the
fact that its directors and staff were dedicated to ACCMPLISHING 'THE JOB,
could use all the brains they had - without interference and were not
under the necessity of dojing _JAY "hoot saving" fioK anybody.
The National. Cancer Institute is not in a comparable
position - - it must "cover up" for all past mistakes, errors and omissions
on the part of the American Medical ASSOCIATION - -and those who have
h -lped them.
The American Medical Profession -- the doctors you and
I go to Dor help are an honest, conscientious, hard working group of men and
women doing all they can to help us, and, within the restrictions limiting
the r service, are according recognition to the fact that nutrition and
other methods besides "drugs" have a place in the health field.
The American Medical ASSOCIA,T1011 is Rol doing all it
can for public health, and is actually acting as a "road block" to retard
or stop anything except "drug" methods and practices from being evaluated,
developed and used. The Association' a membership is ( I believe) restricted
to medical doctors ( s.), but it in run by a politically minded control
group who dictate what drugs can be used and what methods employed, and once
their opinion is issued - - the local doctor who deviates - or questions -
does so at the risk of losing his right to practice. The local meaber
doctors we go to for help, have no more control over this "top brass" control
group, than the local truck driver has to upset Jimmy }!off,' a International
Teamsters Union - without legislative cadets:ice.
I have a reprint from the Yale Law Journal, May 1954
entitled: "THE AMERICAY "EDICAL ASSOCIATION
POWER, PURPOSE, POLITICS IN ORGANIZED MEDICINE"
It give-icomplete reference for pvery statement made in it. It is brutally
factual.
What happens to the doctor who oversteps the dictates
of the "top beano" ? The answer to this c-me to me by accident. Ienliired
a subway car --someone had discarded a newspaper - -I picked it up and there
before my eyes was the report of final decision of the New York Court of
Appeals - - Board of Regents vs Stammer
Dr. litanuel Stammer, Jamaica, L.I.N.Y. had been given a formula
by an old patient of his - saying that it had been given to him by a friend
who clnimed that- it would remove a skin cancer --and that perhaps the doctor
could use it sometime to help someone. Dr. Stammer thanked him and pigeon-
holed the formula.
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Later a woman eme to Dr. Stammer with a akin cancer on her face. She had
been treated by surgery and radium and now the cancer had recurred.
Aside from the treataent already used Dr. Stammer knew of nothing else
to suggest -.and then he thought of the formula and told her about it,
laying, "surgery and radium have not cured your cancer, maybe this formula
would help". If you are willing I will have a batch made up - -try it on
my own skin to ascertain if it harms healthy flesh, and if it don't, we'll try
it on your cancer. She agreed --he did- and in a few weeks the cancer fell
off leaving healed skin. She was overjoyed and told everybody " Dr. SAtmmer
cured me with a salve". The AMA "top brass" heard of it and preferred charges,
against Dr. Stammer, of "unethical" practice Ware the Board of Regents,
Albany, N.Y. A hearing was held. Dr. StammeOlem what he had used. and
how, and how the fOrmula had came to him. The Board of Regents suspended
Or. Stammer from practice for one year for "using an untested substance in
a serious case of cancer". Dr. Stammer took a vacation in Europe. When he
returned he found that he had been supendedkperaanently. He hired a lawyer --won thr
won through every court up to and including Appeals where the judges said,
"initiative and originality should.not be kilt effectively stifled". That was
Januar; 23.1914. Ift called him up and then want to see him,- - told him I
had a relative with a akin cancer ( so pronounced by her medical doctor Who
recommended surgery) on her side. Will you treat her ? Yes, bring her to
me. I did. He treated her and in a few weeks her cancer fell off leaving
ilteg_LEAkc . That was sevente5m,tears ago and ete_11_2=1.11Ejjakjialvii.
The late Sen. Tobey had a son afflicted with cancer which had
been pronouhced "hopeless" - --and then he was treated and CURED by Dr. Robert
Lincoln of Medford, Mass. - using a method not recognized by the AMA "top
brass". Sen. Tobey felt as you do that something should be done about
research --particularly about a new drug brought to NUB country by Dr. Stephen
Durovic and known as KRMIrZEN. Knowing the 7?. owerfull opposition he was
planning to encounter - -he went to the Dept. of Justice and asked for their
beat investigator. They assigned Benedict F. Fitzgerald to work with him.
Unfortunately, about the time Fitzgerald' a investigation was finished,
Sen Tobey died, but before death he requested another Senator to carry on
the invErIttgation because of its life-and death importance to the American
people. That Senator would' t talk with Fitzgerald, and buried the report
in some subcommittee where it waspermitted to die.
The whole &tory about PREBIOZEN in all its sordid details is
completely reported in the book "A Matter of Life Oft Death" by Herbert
Bailey. Everyone interested in cancer should be vitally concerned with
this report.
The late Sen. McMahon who died of cancer was helped so much
by KREBIOZEN ( it practically eliminated all pain) that he requested Sen.
Douglass to push through the lAROVICIKPEBIOZIN hill, and telephoned hie
friesadSpeaker Rryburn and said, "Sam, there is one thing I want you to do
for me - -get that bill passed to keep the discoverer of EREBIOZEN in this
country. I know what it did for me, and it will probably do better for
others before long. ;,ets give it a chance".
The wife of Mr. S. Arthur Hershey, a Chicago business man, had
cancer atich was pronounced "hopeless" by three top medical doctors. He
heard of KREBIOZEN --got his wife treated with it and she recovered to where
she was able to play golf twice a week. Re felt that be should do something
so that all doctors would use it --so he wrote to Sen Lyndon Johnson asking
him to "do something about it Nothing happened.
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A House Committee was appointed to investigate ALL Federal egeneiee.
This Committee started under the chairmanship of Cong. Moulder - -hired
Bernard Swarz as counsel, but when he turned up so much in the way of "leads"
the Committee got into a wrangle and fired Swarz. That angered Cone. Moulder
so he resigned chairmanship and Cong. Ferries took over. The Committee could
not stop there, so, reluctantly', waded into FCC. Now what is in the cards ?
Chairman }Tarries issues an incomplete report on an unfinished investigation - -
says every member of the Committee believes the investigation should go on - -
but esks for no money to do it and is reported as stopping the c t vi ties
of the Committee. WHY 7
The American Medical Aesociation is reputed to have the most powerfttl
lobl-y in Fashingten. Last year they spent )4991906.00 on public relations
and lobbying. r.eeently they sent a questionnaire to their doctor members
asking information about the hobbies, church affiliations, newspaper support
and other nersonal facts about every member of Congress. WHY?
The AY.A I 'top brass" claim the essociation" has the health interests
of the public at heart and to be sating always touprojlect" said public.
7,70 ere they protecting when they try to suspend from practice an honest
- doctor who ariod) ,1 cancer - re' when they use their influence with the
Federal eeencies to block an honest evaluation or F110 'EN
The oesence of what the r: A "top brass" is trying to do, is to
brie' about a situation where pala r, edictal doctors can SAY. or DO anything
about "73AT.7.1-1 and then only as directed by the AMA "top brass". No Chiropractors,
Naturopaths, Naprapaths, Nutritionists, Mectronic Daignostic methods or
treeteents, Nurses, Purveyors of pure foods - -NOBODY. The Osteopeths are
new eecognized, since they agreed to study "drug" methods and qualify as M.DI s.
e Congress= I talked with about this matter said " I ani not a
lawyer, doctor, engineer or scientist, therefore when a matter comes up for
my decision I have to depend am the EXPERTS in those professions for advice.
He honestly believes that the American Medical Profeesion and the American
'eecleel Acsocia.tion are one and the same thing, consequmtly when a doctor
In al 7:Tealth Service says to him , thus and so -40 "TUE
CON ttiJe "eD1CAL OPINION" he thinks that that is the opinion of the majority
opinion of /65,000 doctors. Actual)* it is not, but is really what the AMA
"top brass" want to be considered as the opinion of 165,000 doctors. Senators,
Congressmen and Judges are Jr this same situation - --they depend on ,XPFET
opinion, consequently with this "CON 1L3 OF MEDICAL OPINICNe (presumed to
he true) --weapon, the vafious Federal egencies, FTC, Fero P.O.FReDD Div.,
and the Courts have driven many honest citizens out of honest legitimate
ix/sir:ere-les --but this is a minor matter compared to the blocking of honest
irdependent cencer research.
Before any money is appropriated for use by the National Cancer
Institute there should be an investigation ( comparable to that being run by
Senator ro.11elland ) into the aperetion of all the Federal egencies to ascertain
TO ricks the doctors that staff these 'igencies --and WHY. WHY the late
lireeten C!eleral of the U.S,Public Health Service retired to become the
preedent of !,'Tarner Lembert Phar, Co. What individuals control the American
Medical Associatton --The American Cancer Society, the "big" drug companies
and 17' they all work together so perfectly with the Federal Agencies to
prevent an honest evaluation of any proposed treatment for cancer - -except
surgery, Xray and radium
Attached is a copy of "A Natter of Life and Death" ,by Ilerbert Dailey.
Start your reading with Mr. Hershey, e letter in the appendix - -which shows how
he Ise?oke the !ere "top beasse hATTIMS to eet help for his wife --then read the book.
-'aer God give you the health, strength and wisdom to FTEE cancer research
and Teske it as urirhibited as the Manhattan project.
Sincerely,
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illiam P. anith