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1950s: CIA retains consultant to help perfect interrogation

1950s: Dr. Henry K Beecher, chief anesthetist at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, an outspoken advocate of the Nuremberg Code; who authored a seminal article in the NEJM (1966), was a secret paid CIA consultant who participated in secret, CIA- and US Navy-sponsored experiments aimed at perfecting interrogation (i.e. torture) techniques…

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

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1964–1970s: MK-SEARCH experiments were conducted on “expendables”

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Experimental lobotomies at NYS Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University

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Disposable slave laborers; disposable children

Pervasive violence, brutality and murder, combined with hard labor, overcrowding, disease, and starvation systematically limited the number who survived Ravensbrück. The coercive hierarchy of the camp encouraged the guards to brutalize and terrorize prisoners. Paradoxically, women conscripted to work as slave laborers considered themselves lucky; they avoided being “selected” and transported…