[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS: Ruling on CIA human experiments

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CIA Must Disclose Data on Human Experiments

By ANNIE YOUDERIAN
Courthouse News Services
November 17, 2010

(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.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/11/17/31924.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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