December 19, 2014

Alfred Richards, a pharmacologist, headed the Committee on Medical Research coordinating wartime medical research initiated by Department

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1942–1975: U.S. Soldiers Experimental Guinea Pigs

December 19, 2014

1942–1945: U.S. Navy initiated poisonous Mustard Gas and Lewisite (derivative of arsenic) experiments to test protective clothing

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1942–1945: Soldiers subjected to poisonous mustard gas & arsenic experiments

December 19, 2014

In early summer of 1951, officials within the CIA’s Security Office — working in tandem with cleared

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1951: Ultra-Secret LSD Experiments Begin at Edgewood Arsenal

December 19, 2014

1947–1960: Sarin, soman and tabun, the deadly weaponized nerve gases developed by Nazi scientists and imported from

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1947–1960: Sarin, Soman and Tabun Were Tested on Soldiers

December 19, 2014

Declassified Edgewood document AD351962 – LSD tests on “volunteers” states: “When this document has served its purpose,

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Biochemical Weapons and Pharmaceutical Rejects Were Tested on U.S. Solders

December 19, 2014

1943–1973: Operation Whitecoat conducted at Ft. Detrick on 2,300 Seventh Day Adventist draftees who volunteered in lieu

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1943–1973: Operation Whitecoat

December 19, 2014

CIA’s Project ARTICHOKE involved extreme methods of interrogation — “enhanced interrogation” — these included hypnosis, forced morphine

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U.S. Soldiers Subjected to Extreme Interrogation — i.e., Torture

December 19, 2014

James Stanley, a career soldier was one of these unwitting subjects who was given LSD in 1958.

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1987: Supreme Court rules against soldier experimented on with LSD without consent

December 19, 2014

December, 1990: FDA issued a waiver from informed consent to permit the Department of Defense to use

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1990: Soldiers used as guinea pigs break their silence

December 19, 2014

Following the compelling testimonies of the soldiers who had been subjected to poison gas experiments, Jay Katz, MD

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1992: Jay Katz, MD, admonishes the IOM to Consider the Ethics not just “cold science”

December 19, 2014

Following public hearings by the Committee of the IOM (1991) and by the Senate Committee on Veterans

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1993: The IOM Committee Issued a Seminal Report, Veterans at Risk

December 19, 2014

On May 6, 1994, the Senate Committee on Veterans held a hearing titled: “Is Military Research Hazardous

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1994: Senate VA Committee Hearing: Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?

December 19, 2014

In 2009, Gordon Erspamer, a San Francisco lawyer filed suit against the CIA and the US Army

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2009: Vietnam Veterans of America Files Suit Against the CIA & US Army

December 19, 2014

The Veterans Affairs website demonstrates that the agency is a source for disinformation about unethical medical experiments

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The Veterans Affairs Website: A Source for Disinformation about Unethical Experiments