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...order to seal the documents came in a two-page letter sent to Richard J. Wolf, who is in charge of the Benda papers at Countway, by an attorney in the University's Office of General Counsel...
...Benda, a Medical School professor, served as the director of clinical psychiatry at the Fernald State School for the retarded from 1946 to 1962. In 1954, he reported in the Journal of Nutrition on a study in which retarded children at the school were fed radioactive milk with their breakfast cereal to monitor their intake of calcium...
Former Fernald residents have said repeatedly in interviews and in testimony before a special U.S. Senate panel that they were not told of the radiation used in the experiments. Instead, the students participating in the tests say researchers, including Benda, referred to them as members of a "Science Club...
Some papers from the Benda files will be turned over to the state task force, according to Harvard officials...
...Although Benda died in 1975, many of his patients are still alive. Harvard is merely seeking to keep their private records out of public scrutiny, according to Corlette...