Many here have read the diaries of Mike Bailey , testvet6778, who was, as the user name implies, one of the Army 'test veterans' who took part in these experiments and all his physical problems suspected to come from those experiments. Mike's last diaries were back in September of this year.
This is what our government were conducting on a captive audience of soldiers in the name of 'patriotism' in their service to the country, and then forgotten.
Though not experiments, hopefully, many believe that many of the problems that, in more recent times, stemmed out of the first gulf war, Desert Storm, and label 'Gulf war Syndrome' came from quickly given a variety of different preventive shots to soldiers being sent into theater that were untested or under tested as to the effect on humans. That to was quickly forgotten by the country or just plain ignored, as other issues were from our other wars, until the present and staying now Executive Administration and the present Veterans Administration - Gulf War Illnesses under retired Gen Shinseki.
I was doing a search of some NPR programs and ran across the following which aired yesterday and didn't catch then. It's about Mike, though not named personally, and the brothers that went through these experiments for the U.S. Army and Country.
'Operation Delirium:' Psychochemicals And Cold War
December 11, 2012 - In the latest issue of The New Yorker, journalist Raffi Khatchadourian writes about a secret chemical weapons testing program run by the U.S. Army during the Cold War.
Throughout the 1950s and '60s, at the now-crumbling Edgewood Arsenal by the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, military doctors tested the effects of nerve gas, LSD and other drugs on 5,000 U.S. soldiers to gauge the effects on their brain and behavior.
"People who were getting sarin, people who were getting other nerve agents that the Nazis had developed, they would ... experience giddiness, lassitude, depression, and at some point, someone said, 'Can we just focus on these side effects? Can we make a weapon that will incapacitate people mentally and not kill them?' " Khatchadourian tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. read more & listen to discussion>>>
December 11, 2012 - Manufacturing Madness
December 17, 2012 - Operation Delirium
Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets. read more>>>
About the coming class action lawsuit, finally:
N.C. veteran's questions lead to class-action lawsuit against government
Oct 11, 2012 - A North Carolina man’s quest to learn how the military experimented on him in the 1960s has turned into a class-action lawsuit for as many as 100,000 veterans the government used to test hundreds of drugs, chemicals and biological agents over more than 50 years. read more>>>