Robinson Memcons
Julian Robinson recorded his impressions of phone conversations on CBW issues as "Memcons." These memoranda, recorded between 1985 and 2006, cover topics mainly centered on the Yellow Rain investigation and the Sverdlovsk Anthrax release.
October 8, 1980 Sterling Seagrave re: chemical weapons
January 18, 1981 Meselson re: chemical weapons
September 25, 1981 Meselson re: Scientific American article on chemical disarmament
October 11, 1981 Meselson re: Chester Mirocha analysis - Yellow Rain
October 14, 1981 Meselson re: chemical analysis - Yellow Rain
October 16, 1981 Josh Lederberg re: mycotoxins - Yellow Rain
October 29, 1981 Meselson re: Sverdlovsk anthrax
October 30, 1981 Meselson re: Mirocha analysis - Yellow Rain
October 31, 1981 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
November 1, 1981 Sterling Seagrave re: Yellow Rain
November 9, 1981 Meselson re: Yellow Rain government response
November 11, 1981 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
November 15, 1981 Sterling Seagrave re: chemical weapons use reports
November 17, 1981 Sterling Seagrave re: CW seminar at US Embassy, London
November 17, 1981 Sterling Seagrave re: CW in Thailand
November 21, 1981 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
November 24, 1981 Meselson re: CW in Thailand
December 10, 1981 Meselson re: Soviet CW allegations
December 14, 1981 Kirsty Hamilton re: Yellow Rain
December 15, 1981 Rex Watson Porton Down visit
December 17, 1981 GB Carter Porton Down visit
December 23, 1981 Meselson re: Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain
January 5, 1982 Sterling Seagrave re: Yellow Rain
February 4, 1982 Sterling Seagrave re: Yellow Rain
February 10, 1982 Robert Mikulak re: CBW
February 11, 1982 Col. Fred Celec re: CBW
February 12. 1982 Fred Swartzendruber re: CBW
February 24, 1982 Meselson re: Chalermsuk Thailand
March 5, 1982 Meselson re: Pugwash, Thailand
May 11, 1982 Crocker, Celec, Murray US Dept. State re: Yellow Rain briefing
April 12, 1983 Porton Down visit summary
April 19, 1983 Meselson re: Soviet CBW factory
April 22, 1983 Meselson re: allegations against Vietnam and Soviet Union
April 23, 1983 Jeanne Guillemin and Matthew Meselson re: anthropology
April 28, 1983 Elisa Harris re: US government intelligence
April 28, 1983 Roger Rumpf re: Laos and Thailand
April 29, 1983 Gary Crocker US State Dept. re: Yellow Rain
May 5, 1983 Emma Rothschild re: Yellow Rain
May 6, 1983 Robert Mikulak re: Soviet CW, Yellow Rain
June 28, 1983 Stuart Schwartzestein re: Yellow Rain
June 30, 1983 Elliott Marshall, Science Magazine re: Yellow Rain
July 7, 1983 Jeremy Taylor re: Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain
July 24, 1983 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
January 12, 1984 Williams of Midhurst re: Yellow Rain
February 4, 1984 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
February 7, 1984 Ricardo Fraile re: CW
March 22, 1984 Gary Crocker US State Dept. re: Yellow Rain
March 29, 1984 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
April 11, 1984 Peter Pringle re: Yellow Rain
April 12, 1984 Meselson re: CW
May 9, 1984 Tom Inch re: UK Chemical Defence Establishment (CDE)
May 12, 1984 FCO/ACDD re: Yellow Rain
May 17, 1984 Tom Inch re: Meselson visit to King's College
May 20, 1984 Summary of Heyndrickx Conference, Ghent
May 21, 1984 Robin Black and David Upshall, conversations at Heyndrickx Conference
May 31, 1984 Meselson re: mycotoxins
June 14, 1984 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
July 1, 1984 Tom Inch and Jim Creasy re: CDE
September 19, 1984 Gordon Vachon re: CBW
October 25, 1984 Meselson notes on conversation with Henry Wilde re: Yellow Rain
November 29, 1984 Meselson trip to London (Royal Society) and Paris (Academie Fracaise) plus visit to Porton Down
February 12, 1985 Meselson re: several phone calls Feb 12-Mar 14 1985
March 15, 1985 Robin Black re: Scientific American Yellow Rain draft
April 27, 1985 Meselson re: Robinson visit to Harvard
May 1, 1985 Anonymous re: CIA - three copies with handwritten annotations
May 1, 1985 David Burns re: Bangkok
May 1, 1985 Meselson re: Yellow Rain and environmental samples
June 28, 1985 Meselson re: Meselson visit to London
July 12, 1985 Robin Black re: Scientific American Yellow Rain draft
July 12, 1985 Meselson re: Scientific American Yellow Rain draft
July 15, 1985 Meselson re: Memcons
October 16, 1985 Jeremy Taylor re: Yellow Rain
October 29, 1985 Meselson re: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute/Pugwash Conference in Stockholm, 23-27 Oct 85
October 30, 1985 Meselson re: two separate conversations
December 1985 - March 1986 Various meetings in Washington, London, Los Angeles and Cambridge
February 12, 1986 Meselson re: Meselson visit to London and Brighton
February 14, 1986 Andrea Crossland re: Thailand, Cambodia
April 22, 1986 Meselson re: various CBW topics
May 23, 1986 Woulter Basson re: The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
May 28, 1986 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
June 11, 1986 Meselson re: Aspen Berlin Conference June 11-14, 1986
June 14, 1986 Jack Ooms re: Yellow Rain
October 31, 1986 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
November 1, 1986 Meselson re: Major-General David Einsel
November 6, 1986 Paul Doty re: Central Intelligence Agency, Sverdlovsk, and Yellow Rain
April 11, 1987 Meselson re: Robinson visit to Harvard
April 16, 1987 Meselson re: Scott Barnes
April 17, 1987 Meselson re: Central Intelligence Agency, Sharon Watson
April 18, 1987 Meselson re: Joseph Campbell, Richard Burt
April 19, 1987 Meselson re: Yellow Rain
October 7, 1987 Ottawa Chemical Weapons Conference
January 24, 1988 Meselson re: Pugwash Workshop Geneva January 24-26, 1988
March 18, 1988 Sir Ronald Mason re: International Institute for Strategic Studies
May 17, 1988 John Walker Foreign Office re: Chemical Weapons Convention
September 5, 1988 Meselson re: in Moscow
January 18, 1989 Nikita Smidovich re: at Meselson home, comments on the Paris Confrence
January 21, 1989 Nikita Smidovich re: at Meselson home, Geneva Protocol
March 7, 1989 Robert Maynard re: Yellow Rain
April 13, 1989 Meselson re: Les Avants Conference on the Chemical Weapons Convention April 13-16, 1989
August 4, 1989 Meselson re: conversation with Paul Doty about the Chemical Weapons Convention
January 10, 1990 Gary Crocker US State Dept re: Yellow Rain, Chemical Weapons treaty
January 24, 1990 Meselson re: Pugwash Genevea January 24-29, 1990
January 28, 1990 Nikita Smidovich re: in Geneva, Chemical Weapons Convention
February 6, 1990 Meselson re: editorial for Chemical Weapons Bulletin
February 15, 1990 Martin Kaplan re: Nikita Smidovich
March 1, 1990 Meselson re: Chemical Weapons Convention
January 18, 1991 Nick Griffiths Foreign Office re: Biological Weapons Seminar
May 1, 1991 Quaker United Nations Office conference in Rougemont, May 1-4 1991
August 8, 1991 Meselson re: various conversations in Geneva August 8-16, 1991
December 12, 1991 Meselson re: Alexis Shelekov, Biological Weapons
March 20, 1992 Batsanov in Geneva re: tear gas and disabling chemicals
June 20, 1992 Meselson re: Sverdlovsk trip
July 4, 1992 Meselson re: Sverdlovsk briefing
August 5, 1992 John Walker re: Pakistan joining Chemical Weapons Convention
August 11, 1992 Walker re: Sverdlovsk anthrax
September 25, 1992 Wilton Park CBW Arms Control Seminar
October 8, 1992 Meselson re: Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies meeting
October 10, 1992 Meselson re: Borisov visit
November 11, 1992 Meselson re: Sverdlovsk anthrax
November 12, 1992 Hans DeVrey re: Sarajevo anti-CBW protection
November 15, 1992 Meselson re: various CBW topics
January 17, 1993 Moscow with Meselson 17-25 January 1993
May 7, 1993 Meselson re: In Geneva, for Pugwash CBW workshop, then in London
June 11, 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention Geneva notes
June 24, 1993 Meselson re: Soviet nerve gas
July 6, 1993 John Walker re: various CBW topics
July 13, 1993 Meselson re: Harvard-Sussex Program Advisory Board meeting
July 28, 1993 Meselson re: various CBW topics
September 4, 1993 Meselson re: in Amsterdam, Meselson and Guillemin return from Sverdlovsk
September 24, 1993 Wilton Park CBW Arms Control Seminar
October 21, 1993 Meselson re: various CBW topics
November 3, 1993 Meselson re: various CBW topics
January 27, 1994 Meselson re: anthrax
February 18, 1994 Meselson re: Chemical Weapons Convention
February 22, 1994 John Walker re: Chemical Weapons Convention
March 3, 1994 Meselson re: Ft. Detrick and Sverdlovsk Nature article
March 10, 1994 Walker re: UK BW PCI
April 14, 1994 Rex Stephenson re: peace-keeping operations for UK forces
April 14, 1994 John Walker re: various CBW topics
April 16, 1994 Meselson re: various CBW topics
April 17, 1994 Hassan Mashhadi re: various CBW topics
April 22, 1994 Meselson re: Moscow trip
April 22, 1994 Meselson re: more aspects of Moscow trip
May 31, 1994 Mikulak re: Chemical Weapons Convention
May 31, 1994 Rex Stephenson call with Meselson re: tear gas
September 29, 1994 Thomas Stock re: South Africa facilities
September 30, 1994 Wilton Park CBW Seminar
November 3, 1994 Thomas Stock re: various CBW topics
November 6, 1994 Meselson re: The US-RF bilaterals in Moscow
November 24, 1994 Batsanov re: Russian CBW issues
November 24, 1994 Mike Walls re: Chemical Weapons Convention
November 25, 1994 Johan Santesson re: Edgewood scientific conference
November 25, 1994 Ralf Trapp re: Chemical Weapons Convention
September 29, 1995 Wilton Park Biological Weapons Convention Meeting
October 11, 1995 John Walker re: Biological Weapons Convention
November 9, 1995 Meselson re: Meselson trip to Russia
September 26, 1996 Ernst J Hogendoorn SIPRU before the Wilton Park Biological Weapons conference
September 27, 1996 Wilton Park Biological Weapons Convention Meeting
October 8, 1996 Ernst J Hogendoorn re: Serbia and Montenegro
October 11, 1996 Pugwash Chemical Weapons Workshop Noordwijk, October 11-13, 1996
October 15, 1996 Jack Woodall re: Iraq
October 20, 1996 Damien Lewis re: Ethopia and Sudan
November 18, 1996 OstWest Forum in Berne