MEMO FOR THE RECORD ON MEETING WITH OPERATIONAL CONTACT ON 24 FEBRUARY 1970.
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Document date: 03/11/1970
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1.

Attached are WUSLÁB/1/ contact reports for the

period 22 February-22 < April 1970. Contacts with WUSLAB/1/

for this entire period have been affected by a deterioration

of an eye condition which required an operation with

a longer

recuperatior period.

On 20 April he began to return to work,

but is still operating in a somewhat limited fashion.

2. After further discussion with WUSLAB/]

we plan

to forward ideas on the utilization of WUSLAB/! for the

remaining period of his Washington assignment.

expects

to remain in Washington for the rest or (370/wita

a possible transfer in 97%

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Meeting With WUSLAB/] on 24 February 1970

1. WUSLAB/i] phoned on 21 February and told me of his

medical plans.

He had been examined by the doctors at

NIH? who confirmed the verdict that he had small and large

tears in his two retina. The AIH/specialists had photo-

graphed his retinas and on the basis of their examination

they

think he should have an operation, on the largest tear

In the left retina and use friosurgery on some of the other

holes.

a retina

cLinic at Johns

He will also go back to NIH on

25 February where they will check the hematology of his

blood.

The blood vessels in the eye and even the lids

are enlarged, so they will check his blood out.

2.

I went to W/l'3 home as arranged by the phone call

on 24

February at 1100. W1/was alone in the downstairs

part of the house.

He was wearing dark glasses and the

light was muted.

He has been confined to his house pretty

much, but asked

for a ride downtown as he had to sign

checks in his office.

He is not reading anything and

cannot

look at television.

3.

[w/1 recently received a call from Ortiz in the lof

in New York stating that both the head and the deputy of

the UN office in Mexico City were resigning at the end of

etc. La showed is not only an OpI office, but also UNDP,

some interest in the position in Mexico.

Vladimir Pavlechenko phoned and wished him well on his

eyesight problem. Pavlechenko]made a joke about political

vision.

4. In commenting on health/W/l said that he had seen

Ralph Bunche in New York on one of his recent trips. Bunche

did not recognize him at once. Bunche then said that he

expected to be blind by the end of 1970. The Soviets had

arranged for him to be examined at a famous eye clinic in

Odessa. They had told him that there was nothing they

could do, or could be done to save his sight. Bunche's

eyes suffer from a deterioration of the blood vessels in

the eye.

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5.

Jose Rolz-Bennett has

aged rapidly in recent years.

He has lost a great deal of weight.

He suffers from a clores

tral condition.

cholestoral

6.

W/l's wife

' on 26 February is having a tea to which

Kims st annes Se vate exents that sand that an

W/recently, but said that there

was nothing new.

The Bolivian Finance Minister Losada is..

In washington at the moment having arrived over the weekend.

FLOYD B. MCCULLY

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