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There is a considerable
probability that unethical and involuntary human experiments are currently
being conducted by the U.S. Federal Government for research into
behavioral control. In this research, bio-effects of EM fields and beamed
energy are used to directly affect the central nervous system, with the
goal of influencing human behavior.
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In the past the U.S. Federal
Government engaged in unethical and involuntary human
experimentation for the development of technologies thought
critical to U.S. national security.
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This occurred during
the Cold War.
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"From the end of world
War II well in to the 1970s, the Atomic Energy
Commission, the Defense Department, the military
services, the CIA and other agencies used
prisoners, drug addicts, mental patients, college
students, soldiers, even bar patrons, in a vast
range of government-run experiments to test the
effects of everything from radiation, LSD and
nerve gas to intense electric shocks and prolonged
‘sensory deprivation.’ Some of the human guinea
pigs knew what they were getting into; many others
did not even know they were being experimented
on."
The Cold War
Experiments , Budiansky, Goode and Gest,
U.S News and World Report , January 24,
1994
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"During the last 50
years, hundreds of thousands of military personnel
have been involved in human experimentation and
other intentional exposures conducted by the
Department of Defense (DOD), often without a
servicemember's knowledge or consent. ... The U.S.
General Accounting Office issued a report on
September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940
and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies
studied hundreds of thousands of human subjects in
tests and experiments involving hazardous
substances. GAO stated that some tests and
experiments were conducted in secret."
Is Military
Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?
Lessons Spanning Half a Century,
A
Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs,
103d Congress, 2d Session,
United States Senate, December 8, 1994
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"Between 1944 and 1974,
the federal government authorized and funded
experiments to test the effects of radiation on
humans.
... For example, institutionalized
children and adult prisoners were used in
experiments, some cancer patients died after being
given total body irradiation with no medical
benefit, and 410 uranium miners died of lung
cancer from a radon hazard that could have been
avoided.
... Even when there was no prospect
of medical benefit, it was common for researchers
to conduct experiments without patient consent.
... Perhaps most important, the committee
found that hiding experiments from subjects was
simply the norm."
The Verdict: No
Harm, No Foul , Danielle Gordon,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ,
Vol. 51, No. 1, January / February 1996
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"In 1993 the
Governmental Affairs Committee began to
investigate the cold war radiation experiments.
These experiments are one of the unfortunate
legacies of the cold war, when our Government
sponsored experiments involving radiation on our
own citizens without their consent. They did not
even know the experiments were being run on them.
It was without their consent."
U.S. Senator John
Glenn,
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS
AND
JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Senate - January 22, 1997)
Statements Introducing Human Research Subject
Protection Act of 1997
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"Some 2 years ago, the
Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling
testimony about the human experimentation
activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The
Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30
universities and institutions ere involved in an
‘extensive testing and experimentation’ program
which included covert drug tests on unwitting
citizens ‘at all social levels, [high and low] ,
native Americans and foreign.’ Several of these
[tests involved] the administration of LSD to
‘unwitting subjects in [social] situations.’ ...
The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American
citizens without their knowledge or consent. It
used university facilities and personnel without
their knowledge."
Project MKULTRA,
the CIA’s Program of Behavior Modification,
Testimony of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy,
Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on
Intelligence,
U.S. Senate, 95th Congress, 1977
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The U.S. Federal
Government continued to conduct unethical and
involuntary human experiments even after the Cold War
was over.
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During a 1994 U.S.
Senate hearing, U.S. Senator Rockefeller made the
following statement regarding the testing of
experimental drugs on U.S. soldiers during the
1991 Persian Gulf War:
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"During the Persian Gulf War,
hundreds of thousands of soldiers were given
experimental vaccines and drugs... The
Pentagon... threw caution to the winds, ignoring
all warnings of potential harm, and gave these
drugs... with virtually no warnings and no
safeguards... "
Senator John D.
Rockefeller IV, Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
United States Senate Hearing, May 6, 1994
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in 1994 the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Veteran’s Affairs published a report on its
investigation into the use of U.S. soldiers in
federal research. This report reflects the opinion
of the majority of the staff, and concluded:
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"DOD [Department of Defense]
incorrectly claims that since their goal was
treatment, the use of investigational drugs in
the Persian Gulf War was not research. DOD used
investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War in
ways that were not effective. ... DOD has
demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the
danger of various military exposures that
continues today."
Is Military
Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?
Lessons Spanning Half a Century,
A
Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs,
103d Congress, 2d
Session, United States Senate, December 8, 1994
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From 1990 to 1991 the
Center for Disease Control (CDC) conducted a study
of an experimental measles vaccine is Los Angeles,
California involving 1200 children whose parents
had not given informed consent for their
children’s participation. The study was
experimental in that:
- It involved administration of the
Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ) strain of measles virus,
which was not licensed for use in the United
States.
- The vaccine was administered in an
experimentally high dosage.
- The vaccine was administered to children
under 1 year of age, while in the U.S. measles
vaccine is not recommended for children under 15
months of age.
News that children had
been used in this study without their parents’
informed consent surfaced in 1996. A magazine for
pediatricians, Infectious Diseases in
Children, reported
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The informed consent form given to the parents
of the children enrolled in the study, however,
failed to make clear that EZ vaccine was under
FDA review and was not licensed for use in the
U.S. The study was stopped in 1991, 18 months
after the children were initially enrolled,
because of reports of excess mortality in
Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Haiti."
[(note from author of this report)
Walter Orenstein, MD is director of the National
Immunization Program, CDC. The article quotes
Orenstein as saying]
"... we made a
serious mistake by not telling parents that the
vaccine was experimental and not licensed in the
United States ... And we also did not accurately
explain to parents the purposes at the time of
entrance into the study."
Measles
Vaccine Study Damages Perception of Federal
Research Projects,
Infectious
Diseases in Children, October 1996
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Washington Office on Haiti and the National
Vaccine Information Center published a joint press
release in which Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder
and President of the National Vaccine Information
Center stated
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"The
parents in inner-city LA weren't told what it
meant to subject their babies to a dose of
measles vaccine many times stronger than normal.
They weren't told that measles vaccine is not
recommended for American babies under 15 months
of age.
... Their human rights were violated
..."
Washington Office
on Haiti
National Vaccine Information Center
Join press release, July 16, 1996
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