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September 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 29/09/2010 10:59 PM Page 6 6 Clandestine Human Experimentation Clandestine human And while the US signed the Nuremberg associated with US Air Force and clandestine experimentation disclosed. document in 1947, officials with the military, intelligence agency operations. the then-new Atomic Energy Commission Current activities include a contributory More to come? (derived from the Manhattan Project) and other effort by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, previously head of the government agencies and research contractors abjectly and routinely disregarded the Obama transition team and now president of the Wellesley history prof unearths Guatemalan Nuremberg Code, while conducting a range of Center for American Progress, who penned a syphilis tests;Obama, Clinton apologize as US experiments on unwitting citizens. forward for a new book pushing "UFO promises more disclosures!Will "Roswell Previous revelations about these disclosure" by journalist (Ms.) Leslie Kean. UFO" and other cover-up conspiracies be practices caused a stir in the Clinton Kean previously teamed with Podesta next? administration, when a 1993 series by then- for a 2001 investigation into a claimed 1965 Albuquerque Tribune reporter Eileen Welsome "UFO crash" at Kecksburg, PA, sponsored in by Dick Farley, Washington Correspondent revealed "The Plutonium Experiments," a long- part at the time by the Science Fiction (SyFY) term study of the effects of Plutonium injected television channel, and used Freedom of WASHINGTON, DC -- October 2, 2010 into unaware patients by then-esteemed medical Information requests targeting NASA for -- Revelations yesterday (Friday, Oct. 1) that the researchers on behalf of government agencies. information about the Kecksburg event. United States government in the late 1940s Welsome stumbled upon references to Kean's new book features alleged "UFO conducted clandestine medical experiments on those human experiments in 1986 while looking interactions" reported by retired US military mental patients, prisoners and soldiers in into radiation experiments on animals and personnel, while Kean, and Podesta in his Guatemala rocked western hemisphere problems attendant to radiation leakages at forward to Kean's book, both claim they are international relationships, with more such older nuclear facilities. "agnostic" about whether "UFOs" as reported disclosures apparently on tap. Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize for her are actually "extraterrestrial" in nature. Announced late Friday by the Obama series in 1994, and President Clinton apologized Yet both Kean and Podesta previously administration, apparently to reduce domestic to the families of those victims, as well as to advocated the "ET" genesis of such events. coverage, the disclosure nonetheless is thousands of American service personnel In 1993, the late industrialist and provoking outrage in Guatemala and among (termed "Atomic Veterans") exposed to philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller funded a minority communities elsewhere because the radiation from nuclear weapons tests and, at range of "UFO-related" projects to encourage medical scientist reportedly in charge of the least until the mid-1990s, generally abandoned the Clinton administration to "disclose what the experiments also was central to the infamous and ignored by their government. government knows about UFOs," an initiative Tuskeegee syphilis study. Also in 1994, University of Cincinnati that also reached into the office of then-First That study, disclosed in the 1970s, professor and physician Eugene L. Saenger, Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. involved hundreds of African-American men who according to his Washington Post obituary Rockefeller met at at least twice with used as human "guinea pigs" by American in 2007, "led Cold War human radiation Clinton administration officials in the White researchers from 1932 to 1972. Many of the experiments," was sued by families of cancer House, in 1993 and 1994, and reportedly unwitting research subjects were left untreated patients "who said their relatives were unwitting discussed the "UFO question" with Mrs. for syphilis as researchers watched the guinea pigs in a military-sponsored Clinton during a Clinton family vacation at progression of their disease. Others were experiment." That lawsuit reportedly was Rockefeller's "JY Ranch" near Jackson Hole, administered various experimental drug settled in 1999 for $3.6 million. WY, in the mid-1990s. Mrs. Clinton has treatments. The link to the much publicized subsequently refused to acknowledge or discuss The Guatemalan studies reportedly "Roswell UFO," widely described by the subject. involved 1,500 men and women and took place government-linked "UFOlogists" as being a Mrs. Clinton, now Secretary of State, between 1946 and 1948, according to The "crashed flying saucer," replete with recovered issued a joint apology for the Guatemalan WashingtonPost as reported in its Saturday bodies of alleged "extra-terrestrial" occupants, debacle with Health and Human Services morning edition (Oct. 2, 2010; Page 1-A). arises from little-known rocket tests and other Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday, saying The full story, contained in a 29-page medical experiments associated with post- in part: "Although these events occurred more report by a Wellesley College history professor, World War II research into the effects of than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such is slated for publication in the January 2011 radiation and high-altitude exposures to reprehensible research could have occurred issue of The Journal of Policy History. humans. under the guise of public health," and "...we These latest findings, discovered by The tests were conducted by then-Army apologize to all the individuals who were researcher and professor Susan Reverby, came Air Corps and "our" captured Nazi scientists affected by such abhorrent policies." to light incidentally to her research at University beginning in 1946, at the White Sands missile Clinton era efforts to have a range of of Pittsburgh archives into the papers of John C. testing facility, and involved animals lofted into past government operations declassified came Cutler, a physician with the US Public Health near-Earth space in the nose cones of captured after Welsome's story about the Plutonium Service, and his involvement with the V-2 rockets as well as alleged human subjects experiments and in the wake of aggressive Tuskeegee study. Cutler died in 2003. flown by high-altitude balloons. activism by "atomic veterans" and advocacy Then-US Surgeon General Thomas Most contemporary advocates of the groups. Parran, Jr. was among a number of high ranking "Roswell UFO crash" scenario have A government-wide search for past US government officials who also knew of the involvements with government nuclear human experimentation efforts was instituted as Guatemalan studies, according to Reverby's programs and other military or intelligence part of President Clinton's effort to force report. Parran, who died in 1968, is quoted in research in their resume's, but now publish declassification of millions of pages of the Post story: "You know, we couldn't do such "UFO conspiracy" books and are regularly government documents from the Cold War's an experiment in this country." featured as speakers at "UFO" conferences. secrecy, although the effort was plagued by Parran quite likely knew very well that Their vaunted "investigations" rarely if ever bureaucratic foot-dragging and claims of lost his statement was not true. come up with prosaic explanations, especially files or intentional lapses in the documentation In reality, such experiments were widely those involving less well-known experiments of such programs. conducted in the United States during this using humans. Former President George W. Bush shut period, ironically while the US government Ongoing efforts to promote "UFO down that effort in the weeks after the proposed and signed the Nuremberg Code Disclosure" by the US government experience September 11, 2001 attack by Islamic terrorists, proscribing medical and other experimentation periodic up ticks in public interest, the most although President Barack Obama reinstituted on unwitting human subjects. recent accruing from several new books and government-wide declassification mandates Such prohibitions were born of Nazi media events claiming "ET/UFO interference" upon taking office. These are ongoing. atrocities uncovered at the close of World War II with military activities, such as at ICBM launch and prosecuted by the US at the Nuremberg War facilities in the 1960s and subsequently, as well Crimes Tribunals in the late 1940s. as other military related "UFO reports," often Continued on Page 7