The Green report was written by Andrew Conway Ivy, a medical researcher and vice president of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ivy mentioned the report in the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trial for Nazi war criminals.
[1] He used it to refute any similarity between human experimentation in the United States and the Nazis.
[1][5] It was only formed when Ivy departed for Nuremberg after he requested then Illinois Governor Dwight Green to convene a group that would advise on ethical considerations concerning medical experimentation.
[6] An account stated that he wrote the report on his own after he cited its existence in the trial.