But McLaren said the cheating in Sochi was a one-shot deal.
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The report confirmed that state-sponsored doping in Russian sports went far beyond the Sochi Olympics.
He said the USOC will rely on the IOC, WADA and global sports federations to apply appropriate sanctions.
Russian track and field athletes have been banned from worldwide competition by athletics world governing body the IAAF after an earlier inquiry said there was “state-sponsored” doping. Last week, he said if the report was as damning as expected, he would push for such a ban.
The letter encourages exceptions for Russia-born athletes who can prove they were subject to strong anti-doping systems in other countries.
Mutko is also a member of world soccer body FIFA’s ruling council and chairs the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup being hosted by Russian Federation.
Russia’s Ministry of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athlete’s test results.
UK Anti-Doping, which has been running the testing programme in Russian Federation on WADA’s behalf since RUSADA’s suspension, said the entire sporting community must unite to find new ways and a stronger commitment to ensure clean competition.
IOC President Thomas Bach said last month that individual Russian track and field athletes assessed as clean would be able to compete for their country in Brazil.
He called the McLaren report a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games.
The IOC’s executive board will hold a teleconference on Tuesday to make preliminary decisions, “which may include provisional sanctions” for Rio.
“If Monday’s report confirms the Rodchenkov allegations, then the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will have no choice but to ban all Russian athletes from this summer’s Olympic Summer Games in Rio”, Melia wrote.
It calls for the IOC to take action by July 26 to ensure that Russia’s Olympic Committee and sports federations are banned from the Rio Olympics, which begin on August 5.
“It is clear from the e-mail and letter that both the independence and the confidentiality of the report have been compromised”, he said.
“I have to question on what authority the US and Canadian anti-doping agencies prepared their letter and what mandate they have to lead an worldwide call for a ban of another nation in the Olympic family”.
Investigator Richard McLaren says he’s confident the report was not leaked, and the moves to send the letters were based on nothing more than speculation.
An investigator looking into Russian doping found the country’s state-directed cheating program resulted in at least 312 falsified results and lasted from 2011 through at least last year’s world swimming championships.
“The Independent Investigation led by respected worldwide arbitrator and law professor Richard McLaren confirmed a shocking pattern of long term, systemic and state·sponsored doping and interference with anti·doping processes by the country of Russian Federation”.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency commissioned an investigation by McLaren into claims made by Russian laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov in The New York Times that anti-doping procedures were subverted by Russian government agencies at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
