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Roe was a leading member of many tobacco-funded organizations and operations, and is known in some of the tobacco literature as the "main [[Whitecoat Project|whitecoat]] in Europe" <ref>[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jiq68e00 Monthly Report Highlights 870900.] Report. Gaisch, HW. Fabriques de Tabac Reunies SA. September 30, 1987. Philip Morris Bates No. 2001160764/0780, at Page 13</ref>
==Documents & Timeline==
<B>1988 Apr 18</b> Helmut Gaisch's ETS Plan and Budgets for four years (Paraphrased - Gaisch ran PM Europe's FTR operation out of Switzerland)
* '''<u>Aim</u>:''' ''to maintain the argument: There is no convincing scientific evidence that ETS is a health risk for non-smokers.''
* '''<u>Scope</u>:''' Management of experts as scientific spokespersons (extra mural research - scientific events)
* '''<u>Experts</u>:''' total of 22 excluding Germany: '''[[Lucien Abenhaim|Abenheim]], [[Claude Bieva|Bieva]], Brun (A Brun -Alzheimer Researcher), [[Gerolamo Chiappino|Chiappino]], [[John M Faccini|Faccini]], R Fresenius (consultant recruiter), Lambert (unknown), [[Annuka Leppanen|Leppanen]], [[George B Leslie|Leslie]], [[Tors Malmfors|Malmfors]], [[Bo Mikaelson|Mikaelsson]], [[Georg Neurath|Neurath]], [[Odd G Nilsen|Nielssen]] (spelling), [[Roger Perry]], [[Francis JC Roe|Roe]], Schneider (6 possibilites), Scholz (unknown), [[Daniel Thorburn|Thorburn]], van der Val (unknown), [[John Wahren|Wahren]], [[Lars A Werko|Werko]], [[Arne Westlin|Westlin]]'''
** '''Germany''' handled by [[Gunter Wille|Wille]] and [[Franz X Adlkofer|Adlkofer]]
** '''Nordic''' by Malmfors, with [[John Rupp|Rupp]], [[David H Remes|Remes]], [[Nancy Balter|Balter]]
** '''UK''' by Roe & Leslie with Rupp, Remes, Balter
** '''France/Italy''' by Rupp, Remes, Balter
* '''<u>Program</u>:''' (see document too extensive to paraphrase)
* '''<u>Annual Budget</u>:''' $6 million
[Note: [[Gunter Wille]] MD was Chairman of German Cig. Mfts Assn, and worked for Philip Morris, He died "a tragic death" (no further mention);
'''[[Franz X Adlkofer]]''' was a corrupt scientist who worked for a number of industries, at this time, for tobacco via the [[Verband]] (aka VdC - German research group) http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ugh22e00/pdf
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