The first was the show trial of the Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty for treason in 1949. As the Cold War began, however, two seemingly unrelated developments on opposite sides of the world stunned the newly created Central Intelligence Agency and gave Detrick a new mission. The reason was simple: The United States had nuclear weapons, so developing biological ones no longer seemed urgent. On March 9, 1943, the Army announced that it had renamed the field Camp Detrick, designated it as headquarters of the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories and purchased several adjacent farms to provide extra room and privacy.Īfter World War II, Detrick faded in importance. Baldwin chose a mostly abandoned National Guard base below Catoctin Mountain called Detrick Field. It hired a University of Wisconsin biochemist, Ira Baldwin, to run the program and asked him to find a site for a new bio-research complex. In 1942, alarmed by reports that Japanese forces were waging germ warfare in China, the Army decided to launch a secret program to develop biological weapons. Together, those sources reveal Detrick’s central role in MK-ULTRA and in the manufacture of poisons intended to kill foreign leaders. Some of its secrets have been revealed in declassified documents, through interviews and as a result of congressional investigations. Directors of the CIA mind control program MK-ULTRA, which used Detrick as a key base, destroyed most of their records in 1973. For decades, though, much of what went on at the base was a closely held secret. Its leading role in the field is widely recognized. That’s because Detrick, still thriving today as the Army’s principal base for biological research and now encompassing nearly 600 buildings on 13,000 acres, was for years the nerve center of the CIA’s hidden chemical and mind control empire.ĭetrick is today one of the world’s cutting-edge laboratories for research into toxins and antitoxins, the place where defenses are developed against every plague, from crop fungus to Ebola. In fact, it was chosen for its isolation. Seventy-six years ago, however, when the Army selected Detrick as the place to develop its super-secret plans to wage germ warfare, the area around the base looked much different. Suburban sprawl has engulfed Fort Detrick, an Army base 50 miles from Washington in the Maryland town of Frederick. They may have died without knowing they were part of the CIA’s highly secretive program to develop ways to control minds-a program based out of a little-known Army base with a dark past, Fort Detrick. In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. Stephen Kinzer's new book book is Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. All four say they suffered flashbacks and other severe symptoms for years after they were drugged by the CIA. Maole, is a fugitive, and the fourth, James T. A second victim, Don Roderick Scott, says he suffered permanent brain damage from the tests. After being dosed with a variety of 'drugs, Kirk attempted suicide by burning and hanging, and once tried to gnaw an arm off. Kirk, was used as a chemical mixing bowl even though the CIA knew he was mentally unstable. The victims, in their 50s, are seeking $500,000 apiece in damages from the government. Maddox Jr., who represents four of the prisoners who were experimented on in the Atlanta federal penitentiary in the 1950s and 1960s. The CIA confessions were extracted in writing by Atlanta attorney Thomas E. But now, for the first time, the CIA has been forced to acknowledge in a judicial proceeding the terrifying, scope of its experiments. Bits and pieces of the story have come out over the years in various forums. The nightmare still isn't over for some of the tortured guinea pigs. On MK-ULTRA More than six years ago, I first ex- posed the horror of MK-ULTRA, the CIA's super secret program that used unwitting victims.as living test- tubes for bizarre, mind-altering drugs.
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