COVER-UP: Pentagon Admits 60,000 Black Soldiers Used in Human Experiment – By David A. Love

Source – atlantablackstar.com

– “… The U.S. Department of Defense conducted the tests based on the race of the soldiers. Black, Japanese-American and Puerto Rican soldiers were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to the chemicals. White soldiers were used as the control group”:

(Pentagon Admits 60,000 Black Soldiers Used in Human Experiment* – By David A. Love)

Black enlisted men were used as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments during World War II—not by Nazi Germany, but by Uncle Sam.

As was reported by NPR, 60,000 American soldiers were enrolled in a secret chemical weapons testing program in which they were exposed to mustard gas and the chemical agent lewisite, which causes lung irritation and blisters. Moreover, the U.S. Department of Defense conducted the tests based on the race of the soldiers. Black, Japanese-American and Puerto Rican soldiers were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to the chemicals. White soldiers were used as the control group.

“They said we were being tested to see what effect these gases would have on Black skins,” said Rollins Edwards, 93, of Summerville, S.C.

“You had no choice. You did not know where you were going. They didn’t tell you anything.”

Edwards says his skin still falls off in flakes as a result of the testing. For years, the World War II veteran carried around a jar full of flakes to convince people that something had happened to him.

Although the Pentagon had admitted as early as 1991 that the Army tested mustard gas on enlisted soldiers during World War II—and the experiment program was officially declassified in 1993—news about the racial targeting of soldiers was kept under wraps until recently.

This revelation that the Army tested chemical weapons on soldiers of colour is both troubling and an outrage, but the concept of Black people being used in medical and other experiments is by no means a new phenomenon. There are numerous examples of Black people being used as guinea pigs in unethical medical experiments. Perhaps the most well-known example is the Tuskegee experiment, in which the Tuskegee Institute and the U.S. Public Health Service studied the natural progression of syphilis in 600 Black men, who were never notified of their condition and were not treated. The tests, which began in 1932, did not end until news reports exposed the inhumane and racist practice in 1972.

But there are other cases beyond Tuskegee. For example, in the early 1800s, Sara Baartman, or “Hottentot Venus,” one of two KhoiKhoi women made into freak show attractions in Europe, was subjected to medical experiments. And modern gynaecology was the result of torturous gynaecological experiments that J. Marion Sims performed on enslaved women without anesthesia.

At the turn of the century, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted experiments on Black prisoners suffering from pellagra, which is a B-13 or niacin deficiency leading to sensitivity to sunlight skin lesions, dementia and death. In 1945, 53-year-old truck driver, Ebb Cabe, was injected with plutonium by the U.S. Atomic Agency after he was taken to the hospital and kept there for six months following a car accident. Cabe received 40 times the amount of plutonium—the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb—a typical person is exposed to over the course of a lifetime. He died eight years later of heart failure.

During the 1950s, the CIA and the U.S. military released half a million mosquitoes with yellow and dengue fever into Black Florida communities, leading to multiple illnesses and deaths. The government wanted to assess the use of mosquitoes as military weapons. Also in that decade, Henrietta Lacks became the first test subject on cloning, without her knowledge or permission, with 20 tons of her cells grown since her death.

During the 1950s and 1960s, poor Black St. Louis neighbourhoods were used in Cold War experiments in which the Army, using aerosol blowers mounted on vehicles and rooftops, sprayed a radiation-laced toxin called zinc cadmium sulfide, a fluorescent powder. Thousands likely inhaled the toxins.

In the 1990s, children in Los Angeles were injected with an experimental measles vaccine unapproved by the FDA, and one which had developed a bad reputation for increasing high death rates in Haiti, Guinea Bissau and Senegal.

Between 2006 and 2010, 148 female prisoners in two California prisons—the majority Black and Latino— were sterilized without their consent. Meanwhile, Israel subjected African immigrant women to mandatory contraceptive injections of Depo-Provera, leading to a 20 percent birth rate decline for Ethiopian Israelis.

In 2000, federally funded researchers placed sludge from a sewage treatment plant on lawns and vacant lots in Baltimore and East St. Louis. The communities were told the toxic waste was safe. And in 2012, at least 500 children in Chad were given MenAfriVac—whose side effects include convulsions and paralysis— without notification or parental consent.

In addition, the CDC hid evidence that Black babies had more than triple the chance of developing autism if they were given an experimental measles vaccine before the age of three.

For years, the Black community has warned of conspiracies against their communities, and were told they were neurotic and imagining things. But as the latest news from the Pentagon shows us, these conspiracies are not theories but reality.

Pentagon Just Admitted to Using Black Soldiers as Human Guinea Pigs in WWII

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Project SHAD: Deception in open waters

Project Shad or Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense, were a succession of Cold War era tests by the U.S. Dept of Defense and other federal agencies. The project was part of a larger effort by the Dept of Defense known as Project 112. Using biological and chemical weapons, these tests took place from 1962 to 1963. Tests were conducted on the open sea in the North Atlantic, open water locations of the Pacific Ocean, and near the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Baker Island, Puerto Rico and the California coast. As well as land based tests in Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland, Florida, Utah, Georgia, Panama and the UK. Many uninformed U.S. military personnel were exposed to deadly toxins during the testing. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was directed to strengthen the nation’s chemical program and the result was Project 112, giving rise to the development of chemical weapons like Agent Orange. McNamara was fully informed of these tests. He had approved them. Evidence has been found that shows local governments were involved in these tests as well, but specifics are unclear.

Project Shad’s official purpose was “ …to identify U.S. war ships vulnerabilities to attacks with biological warfare agents and to develop procedures to respond to such attacks while maintaining a war fighting capability”. 134 tests were planned, but only 46 were actually completed. Chemical and biological agents were introduced to unaware military personnel in their vessels. Some of the nerve agents and chemicals included VX nerve gas, Tabun gas, Sarin, Soman and the marker chemicals zinc sulfide, cadmium sulfide and QNB. All done without consent. Today those same military persons feel they have been deeply deceived and betrayed by their own government who used them as guinea pigs. Many may be dead before the complete documents revealing the testing are ever declassified.

Decades later it has been found there were exposures to toxins now known to be connected with Anthrax. Cleaning procedures aboard the vessels would also include using products that contained poisonous decontaminants.

The living survivors of these tests have spoken out, furious that the Pentagon has been quiet about this for so long. Many veterans have debated that the reason for the cover up could be for the Department of Defense to dodge liability. The fact that the veterans are suffering from mysterious cancers even their doctors can’t explain, is causing many to ask questions. It was veteran Jack Alderson who became a whistleblower when he began asking questions about chemical testing he was involved in and its effects on his health and others. This led to a introduction of the bill HR 5954 that would provide health benefits to veterans exposed to chemical agents during the 60s and 70s.

In my research, this is just one of many secret tests that were implemented onto unaware subjects. The bottom line is, that U.S. military servicemen and women give their lives to protect their nation. So the fact that the government has used them as guinea pigs is incredibly unethical and shows complete disregard for our military and there families. It’s time that all of these secrets be declassified, as these brave soldiers deserve at least that.

Robert McNamara (CA, U.S.A. Jun 9th 1916-Jul 6th 2009) (Secretary of Defense Jan 21st 1961-Feb 29th 1968) American business executive ant the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Later serving as President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy.

Agent Orange Code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

HR 5954 (U.S.A. 2010) A bill that if passed, will provide Veterans Affairs health benefits to veterans who were exposed to biological, chemical or other toxic agents as part of Project 112 and Project SHAD.