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Mr. R. E. Motley
Administrative Assistant for Research
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NIMH Addiction Research Center PHS, Lexington, Kentucky

Increass in Budget for Defense Project, Fiscal Year 1958

I have been in contact with the Office of Naval Research concerning renewal of contract for the project "Addiction Liability of Synthetic Substitutes for Codeine" (Contract NR 113-1h9, Serial 102h9, Naonr 181-53). Request for renewal of this contract together with prospective budget was forwarded to you on 19 February 1957.

The Office of Naval Research has agreed to increase the . budget for this project in the amount of  This increase would be made in Item 3, under travel, and would. prina the total amount of money requested for the projact to Will you please make this change in the budgets that are to be sent to the OR?

The purpose for this lncrease is to supply funds for me to attend the International Congress of Psychiatry in Zurlch, Switzerland, which will be held on Septeaber 1-7, 1957. No statenent to this effect need be included in the project description.

Request for renewal of this project may now be sent to the Office of Naval Research at any tiae although, as has been custozary in the past, it will not be awarded until July lst 1957.

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Harris Isbell, M.D.

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