(US) Edgewood Arsenal Experimentation (jan 1, 1948 – jan 1, 1975)

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments
^ at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Chemical_Biological_Center
- https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/edgewood-aberdeen/index.asp
- https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/ikrs/KRIM2950/h11/undervisningsmateriale/McCoy.pdf

"It was common for investigators who were funded by such sources to publish some results in the medical literature and transmit other results directly to the government. It is thus unclear how extensive Beecher’s research on hallucinogens actually was. Beecher’s work on this topic may also have been funded, or in
some other way supported, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In a book on the history of LSD, Beecher is referred to as “an esteemed member of the Harvard Medical School faculty who conducted drug experiments for the CIA.” The CIA had a secret project exploring drugs for mind control (a project called MKULTRA) and they were at the very least aware of Beecher’s research for the army. Beecher’s name appears in several files of the CIA and
MKULTRA program that were obtained after declassification of the documents[...]"
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150319072156/http://csahq.org/pdf/bulletin/LSD_58_1.pdf

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