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ftscfu 3 z 231 Mr. G. M. 'Vlkening' Head Industrial Hygiene &. Safety Administration Department . Bell Telephone Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07971 '. . 'Tear I-Ir. kilkening: 2 Lease accept sy thinks for your letter of August 13th concerning the statement made by 3. 3. Brodie et ai., concerning the conversion of tetraethyllead to a carcinogenic compound. This v,-as called to my attention recently by a member of the bibliographic staff o f .the Department. In my efforts to wind up my affairs in the Department and to get away on a much-needed vacation (on a trout stream in Montana, from which I have just returned), I neglected to do anything about, chis, ana I am glad to that you have reminded me. I have no clue to the background of chis remark, but I suspect that something in the literature (perhaps in a Duesian publication) vas responsible. In anv case, we .are trying to find out. I shall certainly follow these up and ara considering hew best to do it. As to ray retirement, it may interest you to ;cncw that I am heading for Santiago, Chile for the next three months, as a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization through Jack Bloomfield. After that I hope to return, on some part-time basis, to the Laboratory, and to have a quiet corner, with freedom from other responsibilities, where I can gather together the material on lead, which we have been collecting for many years, for publication as a monograph. Ivith best regards. Sincerely, RAKsrms Jobert A. Cohoe, M.D.