"Dr. Mary's Monkey"

[Christer Forslund]

From CIA: What Really Happened in the quiet French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit by Hank P. Albarelli Jr. (16 March 2010)

When I discussed the FBI memoranda with former Fort Detrick biochemists they confidentially informed me that the New York City experiments "were delayed until after the experiment was conducted in France." Said one former Special Operations Division scientist, "The overall results of the experiment in southern France were good, but there was also an adverse effect or what would now be called a black swan' reaction. That several people died was unexpected, completely unexpected. It wasn't supposed to turn out that way, so it was back to the drawing boards."

Earlier in the article, I wrote that I found the Pont St. Esprit experiment initially shocking. In many ways, I still do. But perhaps not for all those reasons many readers would imagine. Firstly, I find it shocking when I read Internet reactions to it, as contained in my book, over the past month like, "So what, at least they didn't do it in a small town in America", or worse yet, "Why didn't they pick a town in Mexico; it's closer by?" I'm saddened to find that some Americans have become both numb and immune to the arrogant and horrible past actions of the CIA.