Dangerous testing went beyond vets Orphans, prisoners among those used

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Orphans, prisoners among those used

BY DAVID ZEMAN
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


In April 1953, the military helped the CIA launch a Cold War program known as MKULTRA, in which unsuspecting servicemen and civilians were given LSD and other psychedelic drugs to study their use as truth serums.


This cycle of government deception continued well into the 1970s, with thousands of Americans exposed to nuclear radiation, plutonium injections, chemical sprays from airplanes, open-air nerve agents and mescaline in secret tests.


The tests flouted the principle of informed consent in the Nuremberg Code, drafted after the Nazi war-crimes trials in 1947 as an ethical standard for human experimentation.


Sometimes the victims were military personnel. Often they were from society's most vulnerable populations: mentally ill people, prison inmates, poor or illiterate people, pregnant women, children who were retarded or orphaned, drug addicts or prostitutes.


"You've got to ask yourself, how did these scientists sleep at night?" said David Rothman, director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia University and an expert on the history of human research.

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[cosmicaug]

1. Cheney & Rumsfeld.

I read that Cheney and Rumsfeld were somehow involved in some of the coverup for MK-Ultra. Then again, it comes from the same Israeli author who claimed that China had Bin-Laden.

[George_S]

2. More terrorism

April 17, 2000, Moreno pens new afterword to Undue Risk

Jonathan Moreno writes a new Afterword for the forthcoming paperback edition of his Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans in which he recognizes the historical motive for Frank Olson murder.

The hypocrisy of American attitude toward human experimentation in the post-Nuremberg period—the attitude that the American-imposed restrictions of the Nuremberg Code were appropriate for the Germans but not for the more civilized context in American itself, and that, in any case, the U.S., now up against another dark empire in the Cold War, had no room for moral niceties—set a very dangerous stage.

This hypocrisy was made all the more flagrant when just after WWII Detrick scientists negotiated a deal with the Japanese to obtain the biolological warfare data obtained in terminal experiements on hundreds of Chinese prisoners in return for not prosecuting the Japanese for war crimes. (For the details of this story see Sheldon H. Harris, Factories of Death: Japanese Biolological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up.)

Any researcher who pointed out the contradictions in this attitude placed himself in a position of great risk, not unlike that of a Mafia foot soldier who says he has had enough.

The paperback edition of Moreno’s book will be published by Routledge in Nov. 2000; the hardcover was published early this year by W.H. Freeman.

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/News/Moreno-Frame.html

[lostnfound]

3. When I was in college in the 80s, people used to talk about these tests

and I thought they were fringe nuts.

Huh.

[KT2000]

4. Not nuts - believe me

You may want to read Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas by Leonard Cole, with a foreward by Alan Cranston (1990)
Leonard Cole is a professor at Rutgers University

He also wrote The Eleveth Plague: Th Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (1997)

there were congressional hearing, lawsuits on some of this