505 Wanna Marcus All else about this man seems to be subject to dispute, conjecture, hypothesis and, in far too many cases, the politically self-serving reconstructions of the ancient chroniclers For example, Yueh ap-peais to have been given High College Impe nal Conditioning However, Professor Eisor Zhurcia, the medical historian of the time and Suk apologist, allowed that Yueh never graduated from either the Suk Imperial Conditioning or medical arts programs ' Zhurcia maintained that Yueh's transcripts and other academic records were forged and that his graduation documents were fabrications Zhurcia contended mat Haikonnen agents planted these deceptive documents in the medical school's registrar's office and library archives in order to deceive Leto Atreides and his Mental, Ttuifir Hawat, who was sure to check on Yueh's authenticity when the Atreides were first considering purchasing a Suk doctor The Harkonnen plan, according to the Zhurcian theoretical reconstruction, was to infiltrate Yueh, a trained saboteur and assassin, into the Atreides household Few contemporary scholars today give serious credence to Zhurcia's theory, although it was widely accepted by several of the Minor Houses during the early years of Paul Muad'Dib's reign The evidence we now have suggests that Yueh exhibited a considerable amount of medical expertise and human sensitivity These characteristics, most would agree, are generally not found in saboteurs and assassins Current opinion holds that Yueh indeed did graduate with High College Imperial Conditioning in approximately 10112 Yueh thus came to be regarded as the paradigmatic case of the fatal failure of Suk Conditioning Yueh's actual role ui the downfall of Duke Leto Atretdes is difficult to ascertain because of conflicting and incomplete reports Even the Atreides family journals concerning those tragic and hectic days are unclear The earliest published version of Yueh's role is to be found in the widely used and very popular The Irulan Report written by Paul's wife, the Princess Irulan Cornno 2 In that account Yueh is described as the "betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides" (p 81) Although it is clear that Irulan could not have been present at the moment of the alleged betrayal, she self-confidently promulgates the official Atreides famil) position that the rival Baron Harkonnen could not have possibly prevailed agdiru>t House Atreides without the assistance of a villainous traitor Paul Muad'Dib apparently never took a public position on Yueh, but neither did he contradict Irulan's claims We can infer, therefore, that he was content to have Yueh regarded as a traitor Although the young Paul was quite fond of Yueh and Yueh felt an avuncular affection for the young Atreides (even to the point of giving Paul a special gift, an Orange Catholic Bible once the pos session of Yueh's beloved wife Wanna), it seems that either Muad'Dib believed Yueh to be a traitor, or, as many now hypothesize Paul found it in the i