Human Medical Experimentation at Edgewood Arsenal
March 2nd, 2012Via: CNN:
The moment 18-year-old Army Pvt. Tim Josephs arrived at Edgewood Arsenal in 1968, he knew there was something different about the place.
“It just did not look like a military base, more like a hospital,” recalled Josephs, a Pittsburgh native. Josephs had volunteered for a two-month assignment at Edgewood, in Maryland, lured by three-day weekends closer to home.
“It was like a plum assignment,” Josephs said. “The idea was they would test new Army field jackets, clothing, weapons and things of that nature, but no mention of drugs or chemicals.”
But when he went to fill out paperwork the morning after his arrival, the base personnel were wearing white lab coats, and Josephs said he had second thoughts. An officer took him aside.
“He said, ‘You volunteered for this. You’re going to do it. If you don’t, you’re going to jail. You’re going to Vietnam either way — before or after,'” Josephs said recently.
From 1955 to 1975, military researchers at Edgewood were using not only animals but human subjects to test a witches’ brew of drugs and chemicals. They ranged from potentially lethal nerve gases like VX and sarin to incapacitating agents like BZ.
The military also tested tear gas, barbiturates, tranquilizers, narcotics and hallucinogens like LSD.
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Testimony
Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee,
Committee on Government Operations, House of
Representatives
Human Experimentation
An Overview on Co1d.War Era Programs
Statement of Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division
September 28, 1994
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/05/uncle-sams-human-lab-rats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
http://www.republic-news.org/archive/57-repub/repub_57_scheler.html
(PDF Document)
http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat2/152601.pdf
The historical record on this entire subject is massive, comprehensive and beyond reproach…
…and yet when you bring it up as a means of *physically* demonstrating the true nature of the American system, it is waved aside as “conspiracy theories” or similar.
To my mind, that only a select few outside the walls are even willing to be aware of such things is a clear indication that several decades of conditioning via media and marketing ala Bernays and Lee have done the trick.
Hearst and Carnegie and Rockefeller and Morgan and the money behind (and yes, above) them have succeeded above and beyond expectations.
They possess a well-trained technocrat class of social and economic “leaders” and scientific fascists entrained to inflict immorality in the name of the “greater good” of the state at their beck and call. To serve and protect indeed.