Jan 13 2009
Vets sue CIA for drug, mind control experiments
Last week six veterans and the Vietnam Veterans of American filed a lawsuit in federal court, suing the CIA over drug and mind control experiments. The suit, filed in San Francisco, aims to force the government to contact all of the subjects of the experiments and pay for their health care.
One of the vets, Frank Rochelle, was 20 when he just got out of Army boot camp, and saw notices for volunteers to test uniforms and equiptment. Once he got into the program, however, it turned out to be a strange series of drug tests and mind control experiments by the CIA. He stated,”We volunteered, yes, but we were not fully aware of the dangers. None of us knew the kind of drugs they gave us, or the after-effects they’d have.”
One of the experiments he took part in was taking one breath of an aerosol chemical, which left him drugged and halucinating for two and a half days. He saw animals coming out of the walls and the freckles on his skin moving like bugs under the skin, which he tried to cut out with a razor. After two months of these tests, he was sent to Vietnam.
The veteran’s affairs department considers him 60% disabled. He has breathing and memory problems, trouble sleeping, and still has visions he blames on the drugs.
The experiments took place from 1950-75 at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. They have been the subject of Congressional hearings, and in 2003 the U.S. Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs released information stating that nearly 7,000 soldiers were involved in the experiments, which saw over 250 chemicals tested on them, including LSD and PCP, along with biological and chemical agents.
Around 3,000 of those who took part in the tests are still alive. Most of them are in their 60s and 70s, and have been denied benefits from the Army due to health conditions from the experiments.
Source: The Guardian - US veterans sue CIA for alleged drug and mind control experiments January 12, 2009
Bloomberg.com - Veterans Sue CIA Over Past Chemical Tests on Soldiers (Update2) January 7, 2009
Now that we have come to far as a society, a federal government institution would never treat its own citizens like guinea pigs, right?
