Pamela Allen

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Pamela Allen was a Senior Reproduction Toxicologist at the Research and Consulting Company AG (RCC), in Switzerland. Formerly she had held similar positions at Smith, Kline & French Research Ltd., UK, and Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research Division.

Also at SKF Research were George Leslie and Graham Betton, who along with Allen, later formed the second tobacco industry WhiteCoats organisation known in the UK as Associates for Research on Indoor Air or ARIA.

Members of this group claimed to be 'independent scientists' expressing their own opinions, but in fact they were undercover lobbyists who needed to be trained in the basic science of Indoor Air Quality determination and the problems of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS).
  They were actually disinformation experts and scientific influence-peddlers for the tobacco industry who were paid to attend and speak at scientific meetings, conferences, media briefings, and appear as well-paid witnesses in legal cases.
  The tobacco industry created a number of these fake scientific associations in different regions (initially Philip Morris) with the help of law-firm Covington & Burling and the scientific recruiting agency, the Weinberg Group. ARIA provide these contracted ETS scientists (called WhiteCoats) with credibility and cover.

WhiteCoats Orgs.
IAPAG   (Nth America) ARIA   (UK & Europe) IAI, IAIAQ & ISBE EGIL   (Scandanavia) EMIES (E Med/N.Africa) ARTIST   (S.E. Asia) AAOH SCIA (Asia) APTRC   (East Asia) APAIAQ (Asia-Pacific)

The organisational name implied a true research association with interests much wider than just passive smoking problems which took the focus of suspicion from tobacco. The member often joined forces to peer-review each other's studies, and the organisation sometimes laundered payments to the individual members. It was run by George B Leslie, and Professor Roger Perry of Imperial College London.

Documents & Timeline

• Pam Allen is listed as "ARIA Consultant and SCS Consultant (consultants for Philip Morris)" in Philip Morris Glossary of names [2]

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1990 Oct /E Activity Report of the Corporate Affairs division, Philip Morris International.

Closed and Controlled Conferences run by Philip Morris (1989-1992)
[See document for details]

• McGill University ETS Symposium [Nov] 1989
• Lisbon Conference (April 1990)
• Montreux Conference (May 1991)
• Athens Conference (1992)

Court cases. Commissions etc

  Three witnesses gave evidence in Australia. Others made written submissions
  Two consultants gave evidence before the Magnusson Commission in Sweden
  Seven consultants submitted written opinions to the EPA, one is to appear before the SAB.
  Our consultants assisted in the preparation of two submissions to the House of Commons Environment Committee hearing on IAQ.

[Attached to this report is this long list of consultants who supplied witness and disinformation services (via ARIA/EGIL etc, and direct) to the tobacco industry in Europe and the Middle East.

[They also ran the separate and secret whitecoats program through Covington & Burling]

PHILIP MORRIS'S EUROPEAN & MIDDLE EAST CONSULTANTS
AUSTRIA	Prof H Altman	Vienna	Toxicology
BELGIUM	Dr Albert Bar	Brussels	Toxicology
DENMARK	Prof K Grunert Dr F Kissmeyer-Nielsen Dr T Voss	Aarhus Arhus Fredrikevaerk	Advertising Clinical Immunology Medicine
DUBAI	Dr A Garner	Dubai	Occupational Medicine
EGYPT	Prof Ahmed Massoud Prof Aly Massoud	Cairo Cairo	Architect Occupational Medicine
FINLAND	Prof Juhani Janne Prof T Ronnemaa Olof Selroos	Kuoplo Helsinki Helsinki	Biochemistry Environmenal Sciences Respiratory Medicine
FRANCE	Dr D Bienfait Guy Crepat JC Descotes Pierre Dusserre Prof John Faccini Dr Andre Fave Roland Fritsch Jacques Gandemer Pro P Guisnet Jean-Pierre Mouillot Prof Andre Rico Prof G Tymen Prof Alain Viala	Marne la Vailee Dijon Lyon Dijon Biere Paris Dijon Nantes Lille Champs Marne Toulouse Brest Marsellies	Building Engineering Biology & Reproduction Environmental Sciences Toxicology Pathology Toxicology Communications Building Engineering Occupational Medicine Building Engineering Toxicology Radon Pharmacology
GERMANY	Dr P Atteslander Reinhold Bergler Dr GS Neurath Prof B Schneider	Augsburg Bonn Hamburg Hannover	Epidemiology Advertising Chemistry & Pharma [Statistics]
GREECE	Prof V Bazas Dr E Tsani-Bazaca	Athens Athens	[not specified] [not specified]
HUNGARY	Prof G Kendrey Prof K Lapis Dr J Moldvay Prof B Szende	Budapest Budapest Budapest Budapest	Pathology Pathology Pathology Pathology
IRELAND	Dr T Meenaghan Dr Petr Skrabank	Dublin Dublin	Advrtising Toxicology
ITALY	Dr Angelo Cerioli Prof G LoJacono Prof L Manzo	Castelleone Rome Pavia	Toxicology [not specified] Toxicology
NETHERL'DS	Prof T Poiesz Prof WF van Raaij	Tilburg Leiden	Ad.psychology/Consumers Economics & Advertising
NORWAY	Prof Odd Nilsen	Tronthelm	Toxicology
PORTUGAL	Prof JJ Amaral-Mendes	Lisbon	[not specified]
SWEDEN	Kjell Anderson Prof Sune Larsson Torbjorn Malmfors Bo Mikaelsson Prof D Thorburn Arne Westlin Prof Lars A Werko	Orebro Huddinge Stockholm Sundeval Stockholm Vallingby Stockholm	Occupational Medicine Toxicology Toxicology Pulmonary medicine Statistician Occupational Medicine Cardiovascular medicine
SWITZERLAND	Dr Pam Allen	Basel	Reproductive Toxicology
UNITED KINGDOM	PH Appleby Dr Alan Armigage Dr David Bowyer Dr GR Betton Dr Robert Brown Charles Caliendi Dr John Dilley Dr JH Edwards Dr E Field Dr Austin J Gardiner Prof John Gorrod Prof B Halliwell Dr J Hoskins Peter Lee George B Leslie Dr Len Levy Dr Ross Lorimer Frank Lunau Dr A Markham Dr B Martin Prof A Milner Dr Paul Nicholls Prof Patrick O'Sullivan Prof Roger Perry Dr A Poole Dr Francis JC Roe Prof J Sneddon Dr CE Steele Frank Sullivan Dr Hugh BC Thomas Dr D Tyrell MJ Waterson Prof DF Max Weetman Dr B Young	London Harrowgate Cambridge London Redhill Harfield Herts Caine Wiltshire Cardiff Oxted Surrey Aldrie Scotland London London Carshalton Sutton Biggleswade Birmingham Glasgow K-on-Thames Sunderland London London Cardiff London London [not specified] London Sunderland [not specified] London Sheffield Salisbury Henley Sunderland Exeter	Architecture Reg Toxicology/Pharma [not specified] Pathology Toxicology Aeronautics Occupational medicine Respiratory Toxicology Occupational Medicine Respiratory physician Biochemistry Biochemistry Respiratory Toxicology Stats & Epidemiology Toxicology Occupational health Physician/Cardiologist Occupational hygiene Biochemical Pharma. Sociology Pediatrics Biochemistry.Pharma Architect Pub.Health Engineering Toxicology Pathologist Phamacology Reproductive Toxicology Repro. Pharmacology Psychiatry Respiratory Virology Advertising Pharmacology Advertising [3]

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1992 Jan 20 - Feb 7 Gordon Leslie on behalf of ARIA is billing Philip Morris (via C&B) for "fees for professional services on consulting work" This is for expenses and fees at the IAI Athens Conference (in UK pounds):
[Some of the information has been redacted.]

• Professional Services     [REDACTED]
• Transport and car mileage     -- £ 446.30
• Atheneaum Meals               -- £ 328.85
• Hotel and Conference Registration--£19,177.00
• Payment to (organizing) consultants   -- £22,403.21
  [Individual payments to consultants were redacted]
• Miscellaneous expenses         -- about £10,000

The primary (organization) consultants are listed as AR Lorimer, AD Milner, DF Weetman, AJS Gardiner, P Allen, J Gorod, LS Levy, FW Lunau and J Dilley.

The registration fees for the Conference (picked up by ARIA, and paid by PM via C&B) was £270 per person, with some surcharges of £110, One fee was down to £145 [presumable subsidy for East European consultancies] Some additional names, not known as tobacco scientists, were included in this Registration payment list -- despite ARIA paying -- in total £ 15,055.

These ARIA/EGIL members have also been given IAI Subscriptions worth about £62 each, or in total, £ 3,460.
Pamela Allen Swiss toxicologist	Prof Hans Altmann Austrian toxicologist	Alan K Armitage UK toxicologist (Hazleton)	B Bazas
D Bienfait	M Borzsonyi	RC Brown	A Cerioli
Guy Crepat	J Descotes	J Dilley	J Faccini
A Fave	R Frisch	AJS Gardiner	J Gorrod
J Green	P Guisnet	J Hoskins	MV Johl
G Krstic	S Larsson	PN Lee	GN Leslie
L S Levy	C E Lister	A R Lorimer	F W Lunau
Torbjorn Malmfors	L Manzo	B Martin	A Massoud
A A Massoud	J McCormick	Bo Mikaelson	A D Milner
J Munby	P J Nicholls	Odd Nilsen	P E O'Sullivan
Prof.Roger Perry	D Petras	A Rico	Francis JC Roe
F Rosendaal	B Schneider	O Selroos	P Skrabanek
P Sobotka	A Spurgeon	F Sullivan	D Thorburn
G Tymen	A Viala	T Voss	D F Weetman
L Werko	A Westlin.
Lawyer John Rupp of C&B has claimed professional fees for 14 days miscellaneous work for ARIA, IAI, etc. in London, Lisbon, Rotterdam and Athens during February. His personal expenses total £ 6,920 including a visa for Egypt. [4]