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The US Government has along history of experimenting on citizens and soldiers. Everybody knows about the Tuskegee Experiments
with Syphilis and African Americans three generations ago. But it didn't stop then.
Under Project Paperclip scientists were brought in to conduct experiments on humans. Including 7000 American soldiers
were subjected to testing of biological and chemical weapons at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Nazi doctors brought in under
Project Paperclip performed the tests using documents of prior experiments from Auchwitz. Other experiments were also conducted.
Many suriviors from these experiments, including Carol Rutz have written about their experiences and done futher research.
She has presented hr case and others to many academic forms and has lectured at universities. Through the Freedom of Information
Act many documents been released and more than 16,000 have also been declassified.
In 1994 a congressional subcommittee acknowledged that more than 500,000 people were subject to defence department tests
from 1940-1974 including radioactive materials, mustard gas, LSD and her biological materials. How many more people were used
outside those dates, and how accurate is that number? At the hearing the General Accounting Office revealed that between
1949 and 1969 the Army released radioactive materials int the air in 239 cities to study its effects. Massachussettes Representative
Ed Markey also headed hearings in 1986 to investigate human experiments by the US government.
In 1996, the government paid $4.8 million to the families of 12 people who were secretly injected (without their consent
or knowledge) with Plutonium 239 to test is effects in the 1940's. Nobody has been held accountable for these crimes.
A large impetus for these tests was the cold war. In 1953 the CIA instituted the MK-ULTRA program which consisted of
mind control experiments in children. As the fear of communism grew, the US government sought to counter what they feared
as brainwashing and interrogation techniques by the Russians and Chinese. These experiments were contracted out to 150 institutions,
including hospitals and universities.
In the 1940s and 1950s children at the Ferald School in Massachusettes were fed cereal with radiation to study its effects
on the body. The parents were told their kids were being given a high iron diet and that they were part of a "Science
Club". The experiments were conducted in the MIT Faculty Club.
Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University studied the effects of Hepatitis on children in the 1950s and 1960s. He went
to the Willowbrook State School, a New Jersey public institution for mentally retarded children. He took strains of the disease
from the feces of his hepatits patients and infected these retarded children just to see what would happen and document the
progression of the disease. Dr. Franz Inglefinger, who would later become the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine,
would go on record praising Krugman, claiming the benefits outweigh the patients rights.
From 1948-1954 third graders in the Baltimore public school system were subject to nasal radiation exposure in experiments
conducted through Johns Hopkins Univeristy without any kind of medical notice.
Several experiments occured in the 1960s at the DC Children's Center in Laurel, MD, another institution for mental retared
children. They were being used for a test on NeoBazine, a diet pill. It contained Thyroxin, which caused nervousness, tremors,
insomnia and tachycardia. In 1964, the FDA determined the drug was not safe for use. In 1962 these kids were also used to
test a drug for skin diseases which had been pre-determined to cause liver problems. Half the children in the study did develop
liver dysfunction and eight wound up in intensive care at DC General Hospital.
Prison inmates in Oregon and Washington State were subjected to tests by the Atomic Energy Commission. Their testicles
were irradiated and then observed for results.
Peter Lewis is another person who came forward about the experiments done on him. Peter and his sister Carol were adopted
from Germany in the 1950s. Their adoptive parents even admitted that the US Army paid $1000 for him and that the Army owned
him. He even had dog tags. Walter Reed doctors put a substance in his breakfast cereal that caused painful boils and lesions
on his legs and arms. The parents claimed they were just doing their duty and he was just a project. He was also given pills
from Walter Reed that caused nightmares and hallucinations. The suspected substance was LSD, as this was also being used
in MK-ULTRA.
At Walter Reed, they also performed bone biopsies while he drank radioactive material. None of the subjects were named,
they were all given numbers. Sound familiar? After so many experiments people began to ask questions, so the Army tried
to get him committed for mental retardation. His IQ at the time was 128. His sister Carol has since died from the radiation.
She had brain cancer and her last doctor diagnosed her with it dated its inception to at the ime of the experiments. Peter
is in possession of all the documents that his father had kept of his experiments and hospital records. Including official
US Army documents and photographs he was asked to destroy but hid instead.
Carol Rutz is a survivor the the MK-ULTRA program. At the age of our (in 1952) her grandfather sold her to the US Government
as her mother was giving birth to another daughter. She was tested on for 12 years for sensory deprivation, electroshock
and various drugs, such as LSD. The purpose was total mind control. The US Government had learned that the soviets were
pouring money into research on psychic abilities: ESP, psychokinesis and others. So the CIA countered. They recruited (bought
actually) children such as Carol Rutz who were exceptionally gifted. A real life Manchurian Candidate.
Soviet and Czech scientists were said to be working on electromagnetic devices that would cause strokes or heart attacks,
and it was even rumored that they had perfected a "psychotronic generator", which could scramble people's minds
at great distances.
An declassified 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report expressed concerns that :
"Soviet efforts in the field of psi research, sooner or later, might enable them to do some of the following,"
(a) Know the contents of top secret US documents, the movements of our troops and ships and the location and nature
of our military installations
(b) Mould the thoughts of key US military and civilian leaders at a distance
(c) Cause the instant death of any US official at a distance
(d) Disable, at a distance, US military equipment of all types, including spacecraft."
In 1977, Stansfield Turner, the Director of Intelligence admitted the existence of MK-ULTRA. In an offical affidavit
he defends that the program of behavioral modification was necessary due to the efforts of those behind the "ion curtain"
and what would happen to American prisoners of war.
It was only in 1974 that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare adopted a comprehensive set of regulations for
all human-subject research, and not until 1991 that the regulations were instituted government-wide.
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