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- From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
- Organization: just me
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:54:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145429.21215@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <BxnLF9.CEI@access.digex.com> wbrown@access.digex.com (William Brown) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov12.202044.14862@srg.srg.af.mil> dpipes@spica.srg (Dave
- >Pipes x4552) writes:
- >
- >
- >>
- >>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
- >
- >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
- >
-
- Thanks for the correction.
- David Pipes
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