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Office M morandum . UNITED STATES GO ERNMENT

Chief, Security Research Staff - FILE DATE: 30 June 1953

Chief, Technical Branch

1. Is one of the outstanding pharmacologist in the United States today.He has been widely honored for his work in penicillin and is asfar as this Office has been able to ascertain, is q citizen although he has resided in the United States for a great number of years.

2. Since dapolitics are unknowm and his citizenship apparently isAve it has been determined that too great a security risk woüld be involted in contacting him in regard to the ARTICHOKE work.