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- From: wbrown@access.digex.com (William Brown)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
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- References: <BxJzIr.FtJ@access.digex.com> <stovall.721499344@ficus.cs.ucla.edu> <1992Nov12.202044.14862@srg.srg.af.mil>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:01:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.202044.14862@srg.srg.af.mil> dpipes@spica.srg (Dave
- Pipes x4552) writes:
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- >
- >That's interesting. LSD was tested on white, middle-class psychiatric
- >outpatients, in Boston at least. A psychiatrist my father saw at one
- >point was involved with these tests, as it turned out. My dad was none
- >too pleased.
- >
- >Soldiers were used in the late 40's and early 50's to test the effects of
- >atomic bombs. At one point, I believe prisoners could volunteer to test
- >various medicines. A contagious flu virus was released on a crowded subway
- >in New York City (?) in the 60's to test the epidemiology of bioweapons.
- >
- > David Pipes
- >robear@digex.com
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- David,
- About that "flu virus" in the New York subway. It was not a virus, it
- was a bacteria - S. marcesens (sp?) if I'm not mistaken. And one very
- important point. At the time it was released (and it WAS released to test
- the spread of potential biological weapons) it was NOT KNOWN that this
- bacteria produced disease. In fact, the bacteria was thought to be
- harmless, but to easily trackable - that is why it was picked.
- Unfortunately, all those subway riders started comming down with an
- unusual pneumonia...
-
- Well, you live and you learn. The hard way.
-
- Peace
-
- Bill
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