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MKULTRA "TEST VETS" SUE CIA, DoD AND U.S.
ARMY --
Complaint asks the Court to determine that
Defendants'
actions were illegal and that Defendants have a
duty to notify
all victims and to provide them with health care
going forward.
The "Test Vets" may soon get their day in Court.
Below is a statement from Morrison & Foerster
regarding a lawsuit just filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
It is self-explanatory.
For more about "Test Vets," use the VA Watchdog
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http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sesse
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And, for a copy of the entire complaint filed in
Court, click here...
The case is Vietnam Veterans of America v. CIA,
09-37, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San
Francisco).
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Morrison & Foerster Files Suit
Against CIA, DoD, and U.S. Army on Behalf of Troops Exposed to Testing of
Chemical and Biological Weapons at Edgewood Arsenal and Other Top Secret
Sites
Complaint Filed—Vietnam Veterans of America, et al. v. CIA, et al.
United States District Court, Northern District of California
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP have filed an
unprecedented action against the Defense Department, the CIA, and other
government institutions based upon failures to care for those veterans who
“volunteered” in thousands of secret
 experiments
to test toxic chemical and biological substances under code names such as
MKULTRA. The new case comes on the heels of an earlier case the firm filed
on behalf of veterans afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(“PTSD”), which is now pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The
firm is handling both cases on a pro bono basis.
The current action was brought in U.S. District Court, Northern District
of California, on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six aging
veterans with multiple diseases and ailments tied to a diabolical and
secret testing program, whereby U.S. military personnel were deliberately
exposed, by government and military agencies, to chemical and biological
weapons and other toxins without informed consent. This multifaceted
research program, which was launched in the early 1950s and continued
through at least 1976, was conducted not only at the Edgewood Arsenal and
Fort Detrick, Maryland, but also across America by universities and
hospitals under contract to Defendants.
Defendants include the CIA, the Department of the Army, the Department of
Defense (“DoD”), and various government officials responsible for these
agencies. The CIA secretly provided financing, personnel, and direction
for the experiments, which were mainly conducted or contracted by the
Army.
Plaintiffs seek declaratory
and injunctive relief only – no monetary damages – and Plaintiffs seek
redress for 25 years of diabolical experiments followed by over 30 years
of neglect, including:
-- the use of troops to test nerve gas, psychochemicals,
and thousands of other toxic chemical or biological substances, and
perhaps most gruesomely, the insertion of septal implants in the brains of
subjects in a ghastly series of mind control experiments that went awry,
leaving many civilian and military subjects with permanent disabilities;
-- the failure to secure informed consent and other
widespread failures to follow the precepts of U.S. and international law
regarding the use of human subjects, including the 1953 Wilson Directive
and the Nuremberg Code;
-- an almost fanatical refusal by the DoD, the CIA, and
the Army to satisfy their legal and moral obligations to locate the
victims of their gruesome experiments or to provide health care or
compensation to them;
-- the deliberate destruction by the CIA of evidence and
files documenting its illegal actions, actions which were punctuated by
fraud, deception, and a callous disregard for the value of human life.
 The
Complaint asks the Court to determine that Defendants’ actions were
illegal and that Defendants have a duty to notify all victims and to
provide them with health care going forward.
According to Gordon P. Erspamer, a litigation partner in Morrison &
Foerster’s San Francisco office, “Until this case is concluded, and all
the victims are found and made whole, we cannot put behind us this sad
chapter in American history when the government exploited the very
citizens, both civilian and military, that it was supposed to protect.”
Vietnam Veterans of America’s President John Rowan commented, “Over 30
years ago, the government promised to locate the victims of the MKULTRA
experiments and to take care of their needs. It now is painfully obvious
that what it really wants is for the victims to just quietly die off while
the government takes baby steps. VVA cannot leave these veterans behind.”
Full complaint is here...
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posted by Larry Scott
Founder and Editor
VA Watchdog dot Org
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