DEAR LIBRARIAN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000100090008-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: LETTER

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Department of HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health ? Bethesda 14, Md.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND METABOLIC DISEASES
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL RESEARCH
NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
NATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND BLINDNESS
THE CLINICAL CENTER
DIVISION OF RESEARCH GRANTS
You have been receiving direct from the publishers copies
of two translated Russian journalsi'Biochemistry, and the Bulletin
of Experimental Biology and Medicine. This distribution is a part
of the Russian scientific translation program undertaken by the
National Institutes of Health.
There is more to come. We have let contracts to the
Pergamon Press for the translation and publication of the fol-
lowing journals:
Biophysics
Journal of Microbiology, Epidemiology & Immunobiology
Problems of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
Problems of Oncology
Problems of Virology
Seohenov Physiological Journal
Excerpts Modica will shortly publish the first numbers of
Abstracts of Soviet Medicine. This will be a quarterly in two
sections, the first devoted to the basic, the second to the
clinical medical sciences.
Academic Press will publish a Russian-English medical
dictionary, compiled by Stanley Jablonski, Index Division, Na-
tional Library of Medicine and edited by Dr. Benjamin S, Levine.
We have already distributed a preliminary directory of Soviet
medical research institutes, and there will be other published
translations.
All of these you will receive automatically, without
further attention on your part, by checking and returning the
enclosed postal card. If you do not wish to receive these,
please check the proper box and return the card also.
(cont.)
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IWO,
In case you may not have seen the newspaper and professional
journal stories about our Russian translation program, you may have
questions about it and your relation to it. Last year the Senate
expressed concern over the discrepancy between the Soviet scientists'
use of our research findings, and our use of theirs. In the words
of the Appropriations Committee's report- "Failure to promptly make
available to American scientists the full findings of Russian scien-
tists opens the door to useless duplication of work, waste of time
and money, and delay in grappling effectively with the major disease
problems of today."We are concerned with reporting the results of Russian
medical research, not with the ideological or political aspects
of medicine and health in the Soviet Union. We are trying to
place the information about the results of such research in the
hands of those who can make the best evaluation and use of it.
To this end we sought assistance from the Medical Library
Association, and to this you owe your present place on our
distribution list.
From our own point of view we are anxious to have this
information made available to research workers generally, and
particularly to the recipients of Public Health Service research
grants, and we shall appreciate any assistance you can give us
in calling these publications to their attention.
I hope you will return the enclosed postal card promptly.
We are required by law to make an annual review of our distribution
lists, and unless we hear that you wish to continue receiving these
publications, we shall have to drop you from our list.
Sincerely,
Scott Adams, Librarian
National Institutes of Health
SA:mk
Encl.
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