07-02-2012, 07:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-02-2012, 09:54 PM by Adele Edisen.)
Jan,
Some of Heath's money came from the Commonwealth Fund, a front for the CIA. LSD was used on prisoners in experiments to test (?) Taraxein. a substance extracted from the blood of schizophrenics. The added LSD was probably what gave the "schizophrenic-type reactions" of the non-psychotic prisoner subjects injected with the combination. We knew this because Heath would allow only one of the biochemistry technicians to make the substances for these studies. Another biochemistry technician somehow found out about it and talked.
When Ralph Gerard (with whom I had received my doctorate) was invited to give a lecture to the Department by Heath, I managed to get some private time with him when my husband and I drove him to the airport for his flight home. I told him about the experimental work I had observed, how the patient-subjects were handled, the lack of controls in certain projects, and various errors which should not have occurred. Dr. Gerard had a lot influence in Washington, D.C., and after I left the Department some of their funding was greatly reduced.
There were many decent clinicians there; not everyone was engaged in top secret experimental work, and my husband was not involved in the experiemental work and surgery on patients. My laboratory was on the second floor where experimental patients with deep implanted brain electrodes were brought for stimulation and recording purposes just a couple of doors down the hallway, so it was difficult to not know what was going on. Also, one of the biochemistry technicians and I became friends and she and I often gossiped about activities in the Department, along with one of the secretaries.
I never heard of Ewen Cameron, George Estabrooks, Jolly West, Martin Orne while I was there, but years later, through reading I learned of them.
It was after 1975 when a lot of information began to be released.
Rivera got around and I think he was connected to CIA-MKULTRA. After all, how did he get his supply of LSD? He was at Loyola University in New Orleans in 1959-61, then went to NIH, 1962-1973. Before New Orleans he was in San Antonio, Texas, working with some Paperclip Nazis, brought here from Germany by the CIA and US Army after WW2. See Magda Hassan's post under Black Operations in February 2011. Rivera is mentioned in Hank Albarelli's article, and so am I in Part 2:
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...+Albarelli
I noted that you had said in your earlier post that some people you had interviewed claimed to have been experimented upon by Heath when they were children. I never saw any children, all patient subjects were adults. However, things might have changed after I left. The only children I ever saw were clinical patients on the first floor where Dr. Irv Marcus, an excellent child psychiatrist, had his office. All the clinical offices (psychotherapy treatments) were on the first floor; the labs were on the second and third floors.
Quote:Robert G Heath's work is clearly part of the nexus featuring other dark luminaries such as Ewen Cameron, George Estabrooks, Jolly West and Martin Orne.
And probably your own Jose Rivera.
Some of Heath's money came from the Commonwealth Fund, a front for the CIA. LSD was used on prisoners in experiments to test (?) Taraxein. a substance extracted from the blood of schizophrenics. The added LSD was probably what gave the "schizophrenic-type reactions" of the non-psychotic prisoner subjects injected with the combination. We knew this because Heath would allow only one of the biochemistry technicians to make the substances for these studies. Another biochemistry technician somehow found out about it and talked.
When Ralph Gerard (with whom I had received my doctorate) was invited to give a lecture to the Department by Heath, I managed to get some private time with him when my husband and I drove him to the airport for his flight home. I told him about the experimental work I had observed, how the patient-subjects were handled, the lack of controls in certain projects, and various errors which should not have occurred. Dr. Gerard had a lot influence in Washington, D.C., and after I left the Department some of their funding was greatly reduced.
There were many decent clinicians there; not everyone was engaged in top secret experimental work, and my husband was not involved in the experiemental work and surgery on patients. My laboratory was on the second floor where experimental patients with deep implanted brain electrodes were brought for stimulation and recording purposes just a couple of doors down the hallway, so it was difficult to not know what was going on. Also, one of the biochemistry technicians and I became friends and she and I often gossiped about activities in the Department, along with one of the secretaries.
I never heard of Ewen Cameron, George Estabrooks, Jolly West, Martin Orne while I was there, but years later, through reading I learned of them.
It was after 1975 when a lot of information began to be released.
Rivera got around and I think he was connected to CIA-MKULTRA. After all, how did he get his supply of LSD? He was at Loyola University in New Orleans in 1959-61, then went to NIH, 1962-1973. Before New Orleans he was in San Antonio, Texas, working with some Paperclip Nazis, brought here from Germany by the CIA and US Army after WW2. See Magda Hassan's post under Black Operations in February 2011. Rivera is mentioned in Hank Albarelli's article, and so am I in Part 2:
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...+Albarelli
I noted that you had said in your earlier post that some people you had interviewed claimed to have been experimented upon by Heath when they were children. I never saw any children, all patient subjects were adults. However, things might have changed after I left. The only children I ever saw were clinical patients on the first floor where Dr. Irv Marcus, an excellent child psychiatrist, had his office. All the clinical offices (psychotherapy treatments) were on the first floor; the labs were on the second and third floors.