Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
Excerpts
....During these dark early morning hours, some of the coalition soldiers are understandably nervous. Their charge is to carry out a plan they have never attempted, except in simulated exercises. Each platoon has gone through drills with gas masks for several days, sometimes also wearing the hated, stifling suits that make it so difficult to function...
excerpt from prologue
excerpt from prologue
G: I had my own dream. [Speaking in low voice as if to himself]
C: [To G] How’d you feel inside?
H: Everything was funny. The least little movement. It was cutting through my sides. Boy! [rubs side] it hurt!
C: Yeah. It puts you way out. I can imagine - I mean it really gets me inside, you know. I mean, I wanted - I know, between H and I - well, he’s getting married in just a few days and I just got engaged, and it really got me - and him, too. I mean, just far as tearing you up inside. You feel like you want to be wanted, you know.
C: [To G] How’d you feel inside?
H: Everything was funny. The least little movement. It was cutting through my sides. Boy! [rubs side] it hurt!
C: Yeah. It puts you way out. I can imagine - I mean it really gets me inside, you know. I mean, I wanted - I know, between H and I - well, he’s getting married in just a few days and I just got engaged, and it really got me - and him, too. I mean, just far as tearing you up inside. You feel like you want to be wanted, you know.
Volunteers trying to assemble a pup tent after LSD
“They chanced upon a herb that was mortal, first taking away all sense and understanding. He that had eaten of it remembered nothing in the world, and employed himself only in moving great stones from one place to another, which he did with as much earnestness and industry as if it had been a business of the greatest consequence. Through all the camp there was nothing to be seen but men grubbing upon the ground at stones, which they carried from place to place.”
From historical article describing atropine poisoning
From historical article describing atropine poisoning
Like the bucket-carrying brooms in Fantasia, once BZ molecules began to flow into the body no one, in 1961, seemed to know how to turn them off. They moved easily into the brain, largely unimpeded by the blood-brain barrier that blocks out many unwanted substances. Their high degree of “relative central potency” enabled them to gain access to nerve cells in the gray matter.
Once in the brain, the BZ molecules sought out receptors designed to accept acetylcholine, the natural neurotransmitter that triggers physical and mental activity. Shoving the acetylcholine molecules aside, the BZ interlopers took up residence on their receptors and, like dogs in mangers, crowded out the transmitter molecules essential to normal thinking and acting.
From Chapter 11
Once in the brain, the BZ molecules sought out receptors designed to accept acetylcholine, the natural neurotransmitter that triggers physical and mental activity. Shoving the acetylcholine molecules aside, the BZ interlopers took up residence on their receptors and, like dogs in mangers, crowded out the transmitter molecules essential to normal thinking and acting.
From Chapter 11
Volunteer taking test (often described as an “unwitting guinea pig” by the press)
Excerpt from volunteer discussion after recovery from LSD
Nurse recording neurological examination using TV monitor
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
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J.S. Ketchum
J.S. Ketchum
AA: It gives you a contented feeling like some (inaudible) of - peace and quiet.
Q: Suppose you had to get up and go to work now. How would you do?
A: I don’t think I’d even care.
Q: Yeah? Well, suppose you, you know, you - well, like the place were on fire?
A: I don’t think it would be - it would seem funny.
Excerpt from interview with volunteer who received THC
Q: Suppose you had to get up and go to work now. How would you do?
A: I don’t think I’d even care.
Q: Yeah? Well, suppose you, you know, you - well, like the place were on fire?
A: I don’t think it would be - it would seem funny.
Excerpt from interview with volunteer who received THC
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Perhaps you have heard of BZ, for example, and believe it was a secret concoction, far stronger than LSD, and able to drive people mad. You may not realize that if you ever had major surgery, you probably received a drug just like BZ before receiving anesthesia, to reduce unwanted secretions into your lungs. You probably don’t know that more than a dozen similar drugs, all related to BZ, were part of our experimental agenda.
Volunteers trying to assemble pup tent after LSD
BZ Volunteers in safely padded room.