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This FBI file concerns Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, an NIH scientist and the 1976 Nobel Prize recipient in Physiology or Medicine. It includes a 1959 name-check and references to an earlier security investigation concerning receipt of the Russian political propaganda publication 'Leader' in 1953 and 1954. The main records document a Washington Field Office preliminary inquiry opened in October 1980 over possible contact with a redacted person and Gajdusek's scientific travel to the Soviet Union. A January 1981 interview memorandum records that he said his research was open and unclassified, declined travel briefings and debriefings, and described professional relationships with Soviet and other international scientists; the inquiry was then closed.

FBI file number: 100-394984 | Documents span: 1959-1981 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Subjects: security investigation, National Institutes of Health, Soviet Union travel, scientific research, FBI interview