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...Harvard, the Countway Medical Library had to hire an independent archivist to go through 72 boxes of files donated by the estate of the late Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who led some of the experiments at the Walter E. Fernald state School for the retarded. Benda was the medical director at Fernald and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School...
...Records donated to Harvard University by the estate of Dr. Clemens E. Benda, Medical Director at Fernald during the time period, allowed the positive identification of the 57 subjects in the Calcium studies," the task force report says...
...Benda's files, the subjects' names were all indicated by corresponding numbers, which were accompanied by corresponding research notes, according to the report...
Some of the papers show that Benda may have pressured parents into having their children participate in the radiation tests. The failure of Benda and other researchers to obtain the informed consent of test subjects leq the task force to conclude that the human rights of those who participated in the experiments were violated...
...letter which Benda sent to parents of Fernald boys requesting permission for the experiments say: "if you have not expressed any objections [by the given date] we will assume that your sons may participate...