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Hathaway: So it turned out to be a good choice on your part. What about Leonard McCoy, Len McCoy? Other people have talked to him, not for this study per se, but about other studies having to do with Nosenko. Apparently he sent you several memoranda, out of channels. He also recalls talking to you on the telephone once or twice. Do you have any recollection of any input into this? Helms : What was McCoy's role? Why is he . . . ? Hathaway: McCoy was in SB Division, was very upset apparently by the way in which the Nosenko case was influencing SB Division's handling of all their cases, or virtually all their cases. He remembers sending you memoranda out of channels documenting his concerns about this.. I was curious as to whether or not you recalled this, whether these had any impact. Helms : No, but that doesn't mean anything, that I don't recall it. Hathaway: I understand that. At one point there is some talk about using sodium amytal on Nosenko. You first of a l l OK this and then later on you reverse your decision and say, "No, we're not going to do this." Do you have any recollection of that? Helms : Well, I have some vague recollection that I decided that I did not want to open this up to the accusation that we had used any drugs or any medicines or anything of that nature on Nosenko. In other words, I ' 12