Anonymous Coward User ID: 1008531 United States 08/28/2010 01:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. The Vietnam Veterans of America filed a lawsuit on behalf of six Vietnam War veterans in January, 2009, claiming that the CIA had used an estimated 7,800 US service members as "guinea pigs" in experiments involving "at least 250, but as many as 400 chemical and biological agents," according to Courthouse News. Among the chemicals the lawsuit alleges were used on the soldiers were LSD, sarin and phosgene nerve gases, cyanide, PCP and even THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The lawsuit described it as a "vast program of human experimentation" that was "shrouded in secrecy" and carried out without the informed consent of the experiment subjects. "In 1970, [the CIA] provided Congress with an alphabetical list showing that they had tested 145 drugs during Projects Bluebird, Artichoke, MKULTRA and MKDELTA," the lawsuit stated, as quoted at Courthouse News. [ link to www.rawstory.com] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1008531 United States 08/28/2010 01:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops filed in a California federal court this week [ link to www.courthousenews.com] note: the link is a PDF |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 526155 Canada 08/28/2010 01:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops Yeah, right, sanction the shits who have their fingers in every pie. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1080803 Germany 08/28/2010 01:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops its more than just the soilders themselves, they did and still do experiments on their kids. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1008531 United States 08/28/2010 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops Read the comments on the Rawstory link. This comment interested me the most.
"This happened to me and I'm not a Vet,, I'm a Mk Ultra Victim now Under Protective Custody and have been since Nov.2004... April 2001 the CIA via the internet announced they were in my home implied they were the United States Secret Service,," |
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