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CIA Must Disclose Data on Human Experiments
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CIA Must Disclose Data on Human Experiments

18th November 2010


” … Judge Larson ruled for the CIA on other issues, however, saying the agency’s not required to testify about test subjects who withdrew their consent or refused to participate; devices allegedly implanted into certain test subjects … “

[Image: testtube1.jpg]By ANNIE YOUDERIAN
11/17/10 (CN) – A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975.
Three veterans groups and six individual veterans sued the CIA and other government agencies, claiming they used about 7,800 soldiers as human guinea pigs to research biological, chemical and psychological weapons.
The experiments, many of which took place at Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick in Maryland, allegedly exposed test subjects to chemicals, drugs and electronic implants. Though the soldiers volunteered, they never gave informed consent, because the government didn’t fully disclose the risks, the veterans claimed. They were also required to sign an oath of secrecy, according to the complaint.
The veterans filed three sets of document requests to find out who was tested, what substances they were given, and how it affected them. Between October and April, the government produced about 15,000 pages of heavily redacted records, most of which related to the named plaintiffs only.
The CIA argued that much of the information requested was protected under the Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Larson acknowledged that some of the requests were too broad and ordered the veterans to be more specific and to reduce the total number of requests.
For example, Larson said the plaintiffs’ definition of “test program” is “overbroad,” as it not only named experimental programs like “Bluebird,” “Artichoke” and “MKUltra,” but also included “any other program of experimentation involving human testing of any substance, including but not limited to ‘MATERIAL TESTING PROGRAM EA 1729.’”
He ordered the veterans to provide a list of specific test programs and test substances. But once the plaintiffs narrow their requests, Larson said, they are entitled to most of the information. Each government agency must respond individually to each request, he said, and if an agency denies any request, it must explain — in sufficient detail — why the records are purportedly privileged….
Larson….then addressed which topics are fair game for deposition, saying the government must produce witnesses to testify about the following: communication between the VA and test subjects on their health care claims; a 1963 CIA Inspector General report on an experiment called MKUltra, and the basis for each redaction on that report; the scope and conduct of document searches; the doses and effects of substances administered to test subjects; any contract or research proposals concerning the experiments; a confidential Army memo about the use of volunteers in research; all government-led human experiments from 1975 to date, but only those that involve specific drugs; and whether the government secretly administered MKUltra materials to “the patrons of prostitutes” in safe houses in New York and San Francisco, as the veterans claimed.
Judge Larson ruled for the CIA on other issues, however, saying the agency’s not required to testify about test subjects who withdrew their consent or refused to participate; devices allegedly implanted into certain test subjects; the alleged use of patients at VA hospitals as guinea pigs in chemical and biological weapons experiments; or the drug research studies conducted by Dr. Paul Hoch, who was purportedly funded by the government and caused the death of a patient named Harold Blauer. http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/11/17/31924.htm
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Officially, EA 1729 was the classified codename for LSD-25.

Quote:Title : CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF EA 1729

Corporate Author : CHEMICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS EDGEWOOD ARSENAL MD

Personal Author(s) : SIM, VAN M.

Handle / proxy Url : http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/AD323701 Check NTIS Availability...

Report Date : JUN 1961

Pagination or Media Count : 59

Abstract : EA 1729 (lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD25) has been studied extensively in animals and in humans as a possible incapacitating CW compound. Clinical, physiological, and psychiatric studies have been conducted. From the standpoint of biological effectiveness, EA 1729 incapacitates man at doses as low as 1 microgram/kg, the degree of incapacitation increasing with the dose. Its effects endure for periods ranging from 6 to 24 hours. There is a very wide margin of safety between the incapacitating and lethal doses.

Descriptors : *CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, *LYSERGIC ACIDS, DOSAGE, CHEMICAL WARFARE CASUALTIES, PHYSIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AMIDES, DRUGS, PSYCHOLOGY, ETHYL RADICALS, PSYCHIATRY.

Subject Categories : PHARMACOLOGY
CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL WARFARE

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getReco...=AD0323701

It wasn't just "tested" by intelligence agencies. Multinationals used it too:

Quote:AD-379676, Physical Properties of EA1729 and EA3528, Final Report, Sept
1964 - May 1966, Robert C. Binning, Harry S. Wilson, William G.
Scribner, Donald R. Adams, Lawrence E. Holboke, February 1967, 61 pages,
Monsanto Research Corp, Dayton, Ohio

http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Prohibition/Dr...20on%20LSD

According to "Acid Dreams" author, Martin Lee:

Quote:The CIA was still searching for a viable "truth serum" -- the Holy Grail of the cloak-and-dagger trade -- when it initiated Operation Artichoke in the early 1950s and began utilizing LSD during interrogation sessions. Odorless, colorless, and tasteless, LSD was hailed as a "potential new agent for unconventional warfare," according to a classified CIA report dated Aug. 5, 1954. But even a surreptitious dose of LSD, the most potent mind-bending drug known to science, could not guarantee that an interrogation subject would spill the beans.

Perhaps the concept of a "truth serum" was a bit farfetched, for it presupposed that there was a way to chemically bypass the mind’s censor and turn the psyche inside out, unleashing a profusion of secrets. After much trial and error, the CIA realized that it doesn’t quite work that way.

Eventually, CIA experts figured out the most effective way to employ LSD as an aid to interrogation. They used its terrifying effects on some prisoners as a third-degree tactic. A skillful interrogator could gain leverage over prisoners by threatening to keep them in a crazed, tripped-out state forever unless they agreed to talk. This method sometimes proved successful where others had failed. LSD has been used for interrogations on an operational basis -- albeit sparingly -- since the mid-1950s.

U.S. Army interrogators also employed EA-1729 (the code for LSD) as an intelligence-extracting aid. Similar to the strategy of their CIA counterparts, Army interrogators used the drug to scare the daylights out of people who were zonked and terror-stricken on acid.

Documents pertaining to Operation Derby Hat record the results of several EA-1729 interrogations conducted by the Army in the Far East during the early 1960s. One subject vomited three times and stated that he “wanted to die” after he had been slipped some LSD. His reaction was described as “moderate.”

After another target absorbed triple the dose normally used in such sessions, he kept collapsing and hitting his head on a table. “The subject voiced an anti-communist line,” an Army report noted, “and begged to be spared the torture he was receiving. In this confused state he even asked to be killed in order to alleviate his suffering.”

http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/LeeTruthSerum.htm
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