Beyond Tuskegee: Other US Atrocities Committed

Beyond Tuskegee: Other US Atrocities Committed

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(CNN) -- A U.S. presidential commission has uncovered more details regarding human experiments conducted by American researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s in which the subjects were exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

The research reaffirms much of what is already publicly known: that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. researchers intentionally infected non-consenting subjects in Guatemala with STDs, in what the commission called a "clearly unethical historical injustice."

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I hadn't heard of this. The same "researchers" also conducted experiments on prisoners in Indiana. I think this shows what governments are capable of when there is no transparency and/or accountability.
I thought the Tuskegee Experiments were bad enough, and I had no idea that the program had been under way in other locations. ( I'm not shocked, but I didn't have any knowledge of other programs. )
I'm sure some knowledge of this has floated around out there, probably even here at ATS. The "news" element is the confirmation.
An example of a true conspiracy.
Imagine what we don't know about...


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Our caring US government has tested '___' on entire towns, radiation on our servicemen, and countless other horrors that we will know little about. But, if you compare us to other super powers, our experiments are pretty mild in comparison.

The US carried out these atrocities without people finding out for years and years, and yet there are people who won't believe any of the 9/11 conspiracies, JFK conspiracies, RFK conspiracies, MLK conspiracies, etc., could be true because their government wouldn't do that sort of thing and couldn't keep it quiet if they did.

Well the US government can do this sort of thing, they will do this sort of thing, and they can keep it quiet long enough so nobody can do anything about it.

Worry people! Worry! What other horror stories lurk in the dark unopened archive of the United States Government, Military, and Intelligence agencies?

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What's up with our government and infecting people with STDs?

According to the study, more than 1,600 people were infected: 696 with syphilis, 772 with gonorrhea and 142 with chancres.

"Non-consenting subjects", I bet those responsible haven't been punished. Oh wait, nevermind, they paid for their actions:

"The United States has apologized for the incident"

We're sorry!

Originally posted by moonzoo7

Beyond Tuskegee: Other US Atrocities Committed

www.cnn.com

(CNN) -- A U.S. presidential commission has uncovered more details regarding human experiments conducted by American researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s in which the subjects were exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

The research reaffirms much of what is already publicly known: that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. researchers intentionally infected non-consenting subjects in Guatemala with STDs, in what the commission called a "clearly unethical historical injustice."

Most amazing isn't it that the bad deeds revealed were done in Guatemala (a place where few care about or even know about).

Yet the MK-Ultra programs in various places across the US for decades have never been fully flushed out. I suspect somebody is cutting a deal: "Let's give 'em the Guatemala thing if they keep hands off the CIA and their tinkering with '___' on unsuspecting citizens and their own people."

Yet another anti USA/thread here on ATS , despite scores of Chinese/Russian massacres and atrocoities being committed , the focus alaways on the west, Israel,USA, UK, the most evil of the evil.

I wish we could have basic info on ATS that had to be vetted, such as nation of residence, religion , ect...and a stricter control of multi accounts ...it would make us all more accountable if we trashed the USA and the west?

We also declined to prosecute war crimes of Japanese doctors (Unit 731) who performed gruesome lethal experiments on prisoners, in exchange for the data.

en.wikipedia.org...

Experiments which were performed without anesthesia, on men, women, children, and infants (referred to as 'people'):
Vivisection of people
Amputation without anesthesia to study blood loss
Limbs frozen and thawed to study gangrene and rotting
Stomaches removed and esophagus attached to intestines
Parts of brain, liver, lungs, etc. removed
Grenades thrown at live people at various distances
Flame throwers tested on live people
People tied to stakes and used for germ, chemical, bomb testing
People injected with STDs and covered with fleas to see if fleas could transmit the diseases for germ warfare
People infected with Plague and covered with fleas, then flea infected clothes and supplies dropped on Chinese cities
People hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death
Air injected into their arteries to see onset of embolism
Horse urine injected into their kidneys
Starvation or dehydration to time death
People placed in high pressure chambers until death
People spun in centrifuges until death
Animal blood injected in veins to see results
People given high doses of x-rays until death
Various chemicals tested on people in gas chambers
Injecting sea water instead of saline
Burying people alive

Originally posted by Dbriefed
We also declined to prosecute war crimes of Japanese doctors (Unit 731) who performed gruesome lethal experiments on prisoners, in exchange for the data.

en.wikipedia.org...

Experiments which were performed without anesthesia, on men, women, children, and infants (referred to as 'people'):
Vivisection of people
Amputation without anesthesia to study blood loss
Limbs frozen and thawed to study gangrene and rotting
Stomaches removed and esophagus attached to intestines
Parts of brain, liver, lungs, etc. removed
Grenades thrown at live people at various distances
Flame throwers tested on live people
People tied to stakes and used for germ, chemical, bomb testing
People injected with STDs and covered with fleas to see if fleas could transmit the diseases for germ warfare
People infected with Plague and covered with fleas, then flea infected clothes and supplies dropped on Chinese cities
People hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death
Air injected into their arteries to see onset of embolism
Horse urine injected into their kidneys
Starvation or dehydration to time death
People placed in high pressure chambers until death
People spun in centrifuges until death
Animal blood injected in veins to see results
People given high doses of x-rays until death
Various chemicals tested on people in gas chambers
Injecting sea water instead of saline
Burying people alive

edit on 14-9-2011 by Dbriefed because: (no reason given)

There is no salvation to this except .......love....that lonesome spirit amongst demons and powerful humans, that deceive and canvass for the masses asquience.

Only love can repay those who were victim to their fellow humankinds barbarity and evil.

My dad was a POW in a Japanese camp. He told of them eating monkey meat, and they liked it tenderized, with adrenaline. So the Japanese would skin the monkeys alive, dad said they looked like shivering babies without their fur.

Never got that image out of my head, so now I've just given a few hundred people the same nightmare visuals.

Originally posted by Dr Expired
Yet another anti USA/thread here on ATS , despite scores of Chinese/Russian massacres and atrocoities being committed , the focus alaways on the west, Israel,USA, UK, the most evil of the evil.

I wish we could have basic info on ATS that had to be vetted, such as nation of residence, religion , ect...and a stricter control of multi accounts ...it would make us all more accountable if we trashed the USA and the west?

Since when is telling the truth trashing anyone? So you want to fall back on moral relativism to support immoral practices? There are medical ethics and standards of practice that are well established, in case you haven't noticed. I have no problem in standing by my post, I'm not ashamed of it. I don't have mulitple profiles on here, by the way. I only need one identity to participate in this community. My participation here on ATS is one of my inherent Rights as an American citizen. Perhaps if these atrocities had been perpetrated against you and yours, your attitude might be different. If you were alive to have any kind of attitude at all, that is.

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Originally posted by AboveTopSecret.com

HISTORY OF SECRET EXPERIMENTATION

ON UNITED STATES CITIZENS

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.

1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.

1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.

1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.

1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.

1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.

1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.

1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.

1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.

1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

1947 The CIA begins its study of '___' as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.

1950 In an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.

1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.

1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.

1955 Army Chemical Corps continues '___' research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.

1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958 '___' is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of '___' in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1965 CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.

1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.

1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.

1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.

1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine.

1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.

1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.

1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War.

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.

Originally posted by BIGPoJo
Our caring US government has tested '___' on entire towns, radiation on our servicemen, and countless other horrors that we will know little about. But, if you compare us to other super powers, our experiments are pretty mild in comparison.

'___' has been tested on towns? Apart from free handhouts to drug users, how has it been done?

Originally posted by Cassius666
'___' has been tested on towns? Apart from free handhouts to drug users, how has it been done?

French bread spiked with '___' in CIA experiment

A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with '___' as part of an experiment.

www.telegraph.co.uk...'___'-in-CIA-experiment.html

reply to post by TupacShakur

Originally posted by xavi1000

Originally posted by Cassius666
'___' has been tested on towns? Apart from free handhouts to drug users, how has it been done?

French bread spiked with '___' in CIA experiment

A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with '___' as part of an experiment.

www.telegraph.co.uk...'___'-in-CIA-experiment.html

Dang the conspiracy theorists were right...again. Just like they were right about MKUltra. Why would the cia do such a thing. What could be the possible benefit?