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Uncle Sam's Human Lab Rats
By Bruce Falconer | Mon May 18, 2009 5:00 AM PST
Their stories are a staple of conspiracy culture: broken men, suffering hallucinations
and near-total amnesia, who say they are victims of secret government mind-control
experiments. Think Liev Schreiber in The Manchurian Candidate or Mel Gibson
in Conspiracy Theory. Journalists are a favorite target for the paranoid delusions of this
population. So is Gordon Erspamer—and the San Francisco lawyer's latest case isn't
helping him to fend off the tinfoil-hat crowd. He has filed suit against the CIA and the
US Army on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six former American soldiers
who claim they are the real thing: survivors of classified government tests conducted at
the Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland between 1950 and 1975. "I get a lot of calls,"
he says. "There are a lot of crazy people out there who think that somebody from Mars
is controlling their behavior via radio waves." But when it comes to Edgewood, "I'm
finding that more and more of those stories are true!"
That government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is not in
question. "The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes,
psychochemicals, and irritants," according to a 1994 General Accounting Office (now
the Government Accountability Office) report (PDF). At least 7,800 US servicemen
served "as laboratory rats or guinea pigs" at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer's complaint,
filed in January in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans
Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological
substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World
War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests,
however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the
agency's infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, "The names of those involved
in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were
subsequently destroyed." Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and
other psychochemical drugs "were administered to an undetermined number of people
without their knowledge."
Erspamer's plaintiffs claim that, although they volunteered for the Edgewood program,
they were never adequately informed of the potential risks and continue to suffer
debilitating health effects as a result of the experiments. They hope to force the CIA and
the Army to admit wrongdoing, inform them of the specific substances they were
exposed to, and provide access to subsidized health care to treat their Edgewood-
related ailments. Despite what they describe as decades of suffering resulting from
their Edgewood experiences, the former soldiers are not seeking monetary damages; a
1950 Supreme Court decision, the Feres case, precludes military personnel from suing
the federal government for personal injuries sustained in the line of duty. The CIA's
decision to use military personnel as test subjects followed the court's decision and is
an issue Erspamer plans to raise at trial.
"Suddenly, they stopped using civilian subjects and said, 'Oh, we can get these military
guys for free,'" he says. "The government could do whatever it wanted to them without
liability. We want to bring that to the attention of the public, because I don't think most
people understand that." (Asked about Erspamer's suit, CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf

2. would say only that the agency's human testing program has "been thoroughly
investigated, and the CIA fully cooperated with each of the investigations.")
Erspamer's involvement in the case is deeply personal. His father was a government
scientist during Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll
in the Pacific in the summer of 1946; he was present aboard a research vessel for the
"Baker" test, during which a 21-kiloton thermonuclear bomb was detonated 90 feet
below water. The blast resulted in massive radioactive contamination. Erspamer's
father and the rest of the ship's crew, he says, all died in middle age from radiogenic
diseases. Erspamer makes his living in the field of energy litigation, but has twice
before argued class action suits for veterans—one for soldiers who, like his father, were
exposed to radiation during nuclear tests (a case he ultimately lost in a 1992 appellate
decision) and more recently one on behalf of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans denied
treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The case is on appeal in California's 9th
Circuit.
"Nobody out there is doing these types of cases," he says. "It's really sad because the
veterans are left holding the bag, and it's not a very pretty bag."
One of those vets is Frank Rochelle. Unlike those of other test veterans, portions of his
heavily redacted medical records have survived, providing a rare, if incomplete, account
of his experiences. In 1968, while posted at Virginia's Fort Lee as a 20-year-old Army
draftee, he saw a notice calling for volunteers for the Edgewood program. Among the
promised incentives were relief from guard duty, the freedom to wear civilian clothes,
three-day weekends, and, upon completion, a medal of commendation—all for
participation in experiments that, according to the notice, would help the military test a
new generation of equipment, clothing, and gas masks. Upon his arrival at the testing
facility in Maryland, he says he was asked to sign a series of documents, including a
release form and a secrecy agreement. The tests would be risk free, he says he was
told, and any drugs given would not exceed normal dosage. Over the next two months,
however, he was subjected to three rounds of experiments that, Rochelle says, left him
permanently damaged. His medical records indicate that he was exposed to nonlethal
incapacitating agents like DHMP and glycolate, both of which act as sedatives that
produce hallucinations. In the latter case, Rochelle says he was taken into a gas
chamber and strapped to a chair by two men in white lab coats, who affixed a mask to
his face and told him to breathe normally. He quickly lost consciousness. According to
Erspamer's complaint, "Over the next two to three days, Frank was hallucinating and
high: he thought he was three feet tall, saw animals on the walls, thought he was being
pursued by a 6-foot-tall white rabbit, heard people calling his name, thought that all his
freckles were bugs under his skin, and used a razor to try to cut these bugs out. No one
from the clinical staff intervened on his behalf…"
Medical records indicate that Rochelle went through a third round of testing, but he has
no memory of it. For years he's been having nightmares about the Edgewood tests and
now suffers from anxiety, memory loss, sleep apnea, tinnitus, and loss of vision, all of
which he claims are direct results of the experiments. Still, he didn't inform his doctor
of the tests until 2006, believing that he was still bound by the oath of secrecy he swore
in 1968. (The government finally released human test subjects to speak to their
physicians about the tests in June 2006, under the condition that they not "discuss
anything that relates to operational information that might reveal chemical or biological
warfare vulnerabilities or capabilities.")
Rochelle's story is similar to those of Erspamer's other plaintiffs, all of whom claim to
be suffering debilitating health effects stemming from the experiments. Of course,
substantiating these claims is a challenge, given that most of the medical records were

3. destroyed upon completion of the program. Rochelle's records remain intact, but for
"others we have less information," says Erspamer. "We spent a great deal of time on
that topic, and we are confident that the plaintiffs are who they say they are, were
where they said they were, and got what they said they got," in terms of exposure to
experimental chemicals. "Who bears the burden on that issue when the defendants
destroyed the evidence?" Erspamer asks. "They've put all that stuff through the
shredder."
Compensation for injuries sustained during human testing of chemical and biological
agents is not unprecedented. Last year, more than 350 servicemen who served as test
subjects at Porton Down, a secret military research facility where the British
government conducted its own series of mind-control experiments, were granted nearly
$6 million in compensation in an out-of-court settlement with the UK's Ministry of
Defence. Likewise, in 2004, the Canadian government began offering $18,000 payments
to eligible veterans of experiments at its testing facilities.
Nevertheless, says Erspamer, "No American soldiers have ever been compensated." The
CIA and the Army "just hope they're all gonna die off, and they will unless somebody
does something."
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May 2009,
Dear Friends,

4. We appreciate all of the support and we trust that you will find this news flash of use. We
have been covering both sides of the Mind Effects controversy for the last fifteen years. As
this issue has evolved much has been revealed that continues to cause great concerns on
the side of abuse of human subjects rather than seeking to enhance human mental
performance. Just a few years ago the Navy announced their new requirements for work on
human subjects including the below statement which you can see in its entirety at our
website www.earthpulse.com under the Mind/ Brain Effects section.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
SECNAVINST 3900.39D
3 November 2006
Taken from page 9.
"(2) The Under Secretary of the Navy (UNSECNAV) is the Approval Authority for research
involving: (a) Severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human
subjects (such as consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques)."
Published May 14, 2009 in Wired Magazine a very important article:
Danger Room What's Next in National Security
Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push
"Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the
soldiers of the future want to communicate, they'll read each other's minds.
At least, that's the hope of researchers at the Pentagon's mad-science division Darpa. The
agency's budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called
Silent Talk. The goal is to "allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the
use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals." That's on top of the $4 million
the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for
computer-mediated telepathy.
Before being vocalized, speech exists as word-specific neural signals in the mind. Darpa
wants to develop technology that would detect these signals of "pre-speech," analyze them,
and then transmit the statement to an intended interlocutor. Darpa plans to use EEG to read
the brain waves. It's a technique they're also testing in a project to devise mind-reading
binoculars that alert soldiers to threats faster the conscious mind can process them.
The project has three major goals, according to Darpa. First, try to map a person's EEG
patterns to his or her individual words. Then, see if those patterns are generalizable - if
everyone has similar patterns. Last, "construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would decode
the signal and transmit over a limited range."
The military has been funding a handful of mind-tapping technology recently, and already
have monkeys capable of telepathic limb control. Telepathy may also have advantages
beyond covert battlefield chatter. Last year, the National Research Council and the Defense
Intelligence Agency released a report suggesting that neuroscience might also be useful to
"make the enemy obey our commands." The first step, though, may be getting a grunt to
obey his officer's remotely-transmitted thoughts."
This information and the related technology we have reported on in the past in well
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This video is based on the book Controlling the Human Mind by Dr. Nick Begich,
Mind Control - A Brave New World goes beyond where others dare to go. Well documented
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The material below was taken from our book Earth Rising the Revolution - Toward a
Thousand Years of Peace. It was a pre 9-11 expose on what was to come and it is now here!
In "a dramatic demonstration of mind reading, neuroscientists have created videos of what
a cat sees by using electrodes implanted in the animal's brain. 'Trying to understand how
the brain codes information leads to the possibility of replacing parts of the nervous system
with an artificial device,' he said." The scientist commenting on this technology saw the
future possibility of brain activity mapping being used in creating electronic components to
replace damaged parts of the system. The use of mind mapping had other possibilities as
well. Similar research was pursued by Dr. José Delgado at one of the country's leading
research institutions in controlling the behavior of humans and animals. Actual testing of
certain systems proved "that movements, sensations, emotions, desires, ideas, and a
variety of psychological phenomena may be induced, inhibited, or modified by electrical
stimulation of specific areas of the brain." By 1985, Dr. Delgado was able to create these
effects using only a radio signal sent to the brain remotely, using energy concentrations of
less than 1/50th of what the Earth naturally produces. This discovery implied that
frequency, waveform and pulse rate (modulation) were the important factors rather than
the amount of energy being used. In considering this it makes sense because the human

7. body does not require high electromagnetic power concentration to regulate its normal
functioning - the key was in finding the "tuning" mechanisms for locating the right
"receiving station" in the brain.
By 1998, publicly released information was being discussed as a result of information
openly flowing out of Russia. A meeting was held to assess the threat: the "main purpose of
the March meetings was described in the Psychotechnologies memo as to 'determine
whether psycho-correction technologies represent a present or future threat to U.S. national
security in situations where inaudible commands might be used to alter behavior.'" The
threat assessment was likely to begin to condition Americans for the pubic
acknowledgement of one of the government's long held secrets - the human mind and body
could be controlled remotely without a trace of evidence being left behind. In another
quote, one of the leading researchers in this area began to announce his findings: "But
psychological-warfare experts on all sides still dream that they will one day control the
enemy's mind. And in a tiny, dungeon like lab in the basement of Moscow's ominously
named Institute of Psycho-Correction, Smirnov and other Russian psychiatrists are already
working on schizophrenics, drug addicts and cancer patients." The results of this research
have been investigated and demonstrated to members of the intelligence community in the
United States and have even been demonstrated on a Canadian television documentary by
Dr. Smirnov.
"Fantasies are thought processes involving internal monologues and imaginative sequences
which can motivate healthy people to constructive behavior; likewise, they can inspire
unbalanced individuals to destructive or dangerous behavior. One conclusion from that
research was that fantasy played a major role among violent criminals. Researchers learned
that criminals often daydreamed their fantasies, and then practiced elements of those
fantasies before committing their crime. FBI agents determined that violent criminals often
exhibit telltale signs as children and as adults. Hence, disturbed employees or students may
demonstrate signs of violent fantasies to close observers. Troubled individuals may be
obsessively interested in music with violent lyrics, or may have a drug or alcohol problem.
When these signs reveal themselves, they should be reported to a threat management
team, which can then neutralize the threat, either by therapy, if rehabilitation is possible, or
by firing the employee. Workplace and school violence is usually preceded by warning
signs." This issue is also an interesting one as the next chapter will show. The ability to
determine a "predisposition" for a behavior does not mean that a person will make the
"choice" to act on the feelings and internal thoughts. Every person on the planet can
remember times when his thoughts were dangerous, immoral or otherwise un-acceptable,
falling below the standards set by societal and cultural "norms." Yet, we could have these
thoughts in the privacy of our own mind. The trend in the application of mind control
technology now would make our most private internal thoughts, as we wrestle with the
temptations and choices of everyday life, subject to scrutiny by government and employers.
Who will define the rules for psycho-correction? Who will decide what is ethical and right in
this area as it develops over the next decade?
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