    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 16 (Monday, April 25, 1994)]
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    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement on the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

    April 21, 1994

        I commend the work already done by Secretary O'Leary, other members
    of the Cabinet, and the many other agency officials on the issue of
    Government-sponsored human radiation experiments which took place during
    the past 50 years. Today's first meeting of the Advisory Committee on
    Human Radiation Experiments is another step by the administration to
    have an honest and open approach to its investigation of the cold-war-
    era experiments.
        The Advisory Committee has an important task in determining whether
    the U.S. Government treated its own citizens wrongfully through human
    experimentation. Both those Americans who were the subject of these
    questioned experiments and the scientists who performed them deserve a
    fair and thorough investigation.
        Only by dealing honestly with the past can we hope to build a better
    future.