HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

Source: Robert Drake, Montauk Project

Did the government inject plutonium into innocent people without their consent? Were documents related to these radiation experiments classified as top-secret? Did the government "stonewall"?

The answer is "yes" to all of the above according to today's Reuter's article shown below.

An excerpt from the Department of Energy Web Site relating to these experiments will be shown in a a seperate post.

Best regards,

Bob Drake

Tuesday November 19 6:52 PM EST

Energy Secretary Apologizes to Test Victims

NEW YORK (rueters) - Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary, announcing a $4.8 million settlement with the families of 12 victims of secret radiation tests, apologized on Tuesday for the pain they suffered for many years.

"By making the settlement the government ... apologizes for the behavior of the government so many years ago," she said at a meeting of the American Public Health Association.

The settlement pays "these families tribute for the great and very painful lesson they've taught us about government accountability, about humility and about a moral obligation to very high morale standards when we are dealing with technology," she said.

Each of the families will receive $400,000, she said.

The settlement covers 12 out of 18 victims whom the Clinton administration last year promised to compensate for harm done by the government's Cold War-era radiation tests.

v All but one of the victims were injected with plutonium without consent in experiments coordinated at the University of Rochester to test the potential effects of nuclear fallout.

Only one -- Mary Jean Connell who was injected with uranium -- is still alive.

O'Leary, who noted that "stonewalling" by the government should never have occurred, said "on balance" the settlement sets "a new standard for care and a new standard for government accounability."

She said she plans to meet with family members in January.

O'Leary has led efforts to declassify top-secret documents on the radiation experiments since she learned of these secret tests in November 1993.

The government is in the process of negotiating settlements with four other plutonium claims. Another claim was settled earlier this summer, the Energy Department said.

Earlier Related Stories

O'Leary to Announce Radiation Settlement - Tue Nov 19 7:52 am U.S. Reaches Settlement for Radiation Victims - Mon Nov 18 7:20 pm

Human Radiation Experiments - Part 2

In my previous post, "Human Radiation Experiements - Part 1", today's Reuter's article titled, "Energy Secretary Appologizes To Test Victims", discussed a settlement for families of innocent people who unknowingly were injected with plutonium without their consent. The purpose of this post is to take a broader perspective relating to these experiments.

The human radiation experiments were discussed on the All Politics Board (CIA Backed Contras) some time ago as shown below.

Best regards,

Bob Drake

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All Politics Board (CIA Backed Contras)

http://pathfinder.com/@@Y*vsawUA7S6fIYWP/cgi-bin/boards/nph-read/11/1618 Author: nj ( ) Date: Oct 9 1996 1:31AM

On your Report on Radiation Experimentation:

I think that some small number of cases were found where evidence existed of human experimentation with radiation- I seem to remember O'Leary announcing a number of black subjects had been used without their knowledge and weren't children somewhere fed cereal that had been radiated?

MY RESPONSE:

I found this information in the Department of Energy (DOE) files regarding weren't children somewhere fed cereal that had been radiated? (Please note the word "minute". I wonder what that "minute" amount was, and whether this quantity might have been life threatening.)

I also included some general information on human radiation experimentation including "body snatching of dead friends in the name of science."

Bob Drake

DOE INFORMATION REGARDING CHILDREN BEING FED RADIOACTIVE IRON

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=9761120865+0+0+0&WAISacion=retrieve

In the late 1940s and again in the early 1950s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists conducting research fed breakfast food containing minute amounts of radioactive iron and calcium to a number of students at the Walter E. Fernald School, a Massachusetts institution for "mentally retarded" children.[1] The National Institutes of Health, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Quaker Oats Company funded the research, which was designed to determine how the body absorbed iron, calcium, and other minerals from dietary sources and to explore the effect of various compounds in cereal on mineral absorption.

In 1961, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston University School of Medicine administered small amounts of radioactive iodine to seventy children at the Wrentham State School, another Massachusetts facility for mentally retarded children. With funding from the Division of Radiologic Health of the U.S. Public Health Service, the scientists conducting this experiment used Wrentham students to test a proposed countermeasure to nuclear fallout. Specifically, the study was meant to determine the amount of nonradioactive iodine that would effectively block the uptake of radioactive iodine that would be released in a nuclear explosion.

Recently, these two studies have received considerable media attention, and an official Massachusetts state task force has reported on both episodes in some detail.[2] Although they represent special cases because they involve institutionalized children, the Fernald and Wrentham experiments nonetheless are the most widely known examples of a category of research that raises particular concerns for the Committee: nontherapeutic experimentation on children.

Experiments involving children are important to the Committee for two reasons. First, children are more susceptible than adults to harm from low levels of radiation, and thus as a group they are more likely than adults to have been harmed as a consequence of their having been subjects of human radiation experiments. Second, an evaluation of research with children is critical to determining whether any former subjects of radiation experiments should be notified in order to protect their health, one of our specific charges.[3] Subjects who were children at the time of their exposure are more likely than adults to be candidates for such notification, both because of their increased biological sensitivity and because they are more likely to still be alive. (See chapter 18 for the Committee's recommendations with respect to notification and follow-up.)

DOE GENERAL INFORMATION ON HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS:

http://nattie.eh.doe.gov/systems/hrad/preface_4.html

The Records of Our Past: The Memories of the People

The Committee listened to the testimony of more than 200 public witnesses who appeared before us. We heard from people or their family members who had been subjects in controversial radiation experiments, including the plutonium injections, total-body irradiation experiments, and experiments involving the use of radioactive tracers with institutionalized children. We heard from "atomic veterans": soldiers who had been marched to ground zero at atomic bomb tests, sailors who had walked the decks of ships contaminated by radioactive mist, and pilots who had flown through radioactive mushroom clouds. We also heard from their widows. We heard from people who lived "downwind" from nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and intentional releases of radioactive material in Washington state. We heard from Navajo miners who had served the country in uranium mines filled with radioactive dust, from native Alaskans who had been experimented upon by a military cold weather research lab, and from Marshall Islanders, whose Pacific homeland had been contaminated by fallout after a 1954 hydrogen bomb test.

We heard from officials and researchers responsible for human research today and from those who were present at or near the dawn of the Cold War. We heard from individuals who, on their own time, had long been seeking to piece together the story of human radiation experiments and offered to share their findings. We heard from scholars, from members of Congress, and from people who wanted to bear witness for those who could no longer speak. We heard from a woman who, as a high-school student intern decades ago, attended at the bedside while a terminally ill patient was injected with uranium and from a powerfully spoken veteran of the nuclear weapons work force who told of the "body snatching" of dead friends in the name of science.


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