Spraying radioactive poison on St. Louis in 1950s

[JackRiddler]

This broke in September 2012 - missed it then. U.S. Army in the 1950s was spraying zinc cadmium oxide over projects in St. Louis full of poor people, predominantly black. (The projects were later subjected to one of those showy mass demolitions in the 1970s.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7p2w9p8pM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcNl4YzK4g

All parts of the local TV news here, but from November and headlining the Army's assurances that it was all to "no health risk":

http://origin.ksdk.com/news/article/345 ... n-St-Louis

Lisa Martino Taylor, whose research led to the senators' query, had this to say:

"The focus of my research was on the lack of consent, secrecy, deception, organizational structure, and possible connection to a broader radiological program. The Army's letter seems to be relatively silent on those issues.

"Whether or not this satisfies the senators' concern and curiosity I cannot say, but I do know that it does not mine, and I believe that there are many aspects of this which merit further study.

"Given the level of secrecy, the original deception, and lack of public input and consent, it would be helpful for further government inquiry to include public hearings and statements from those with concerns and recollections from the open-air study."

Lisa Martino-Taylor on Google Scholar, haven't found an available post-2012 study on the subject:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en ... 3&as_sdtp=

But here's her 2011 paper downloadable open access as PDF:
http://gradworks.umi.com/35/15/3515886.html

Coverage on accuracy.org

Exposed: Secret Cold War Inhalation Experiments on Poor, Minority Communities in St. Louis; Possible Radiological Testing
http://www.accuracy.org/release/exposed ... l-testing/

And I'll check if I can download this when I get university library access - right up my chute:
http://www.refdoc.fr/Detailnotice?cpsid ... raduire=fr

Titre du Document
THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-ACADEMIC COMPLEX AND A NEW SOCIAL AUTISM

Auteur(s)
MARTINO-TAYLOR Lisa

Résumé
This article adds the third element of academia to C. Wright Mills' theory regarding the Military-Industrial Complex, and examines the dynamics, power, and secrecy that support chemical and biological weapons testing on human beings. Within the insular community of the Military-Industrial-Academic (MIA) Complex, chemical and biological weapons testing and use on humans is seen as normal and desirable, and secrecy is employed to pursue these activities. This secrecy creates a new social autism which encompasses a societal misunderstanding of reality, a minimal appreciation of danger, and a suppression of full and open debate regarding the manufacture, use, and testing of biological and chemical weaponry on humans. By identifying those activities that are hidden behind a shroud of secrecy, society can compare the moral universe of the MIA complex to that of a democratic society. If in conflict or harmful to citizens, society can challenge the parameters of the MIA's powerful local moral universe and remedy the social autism.

Editeur
Journal of Political and Military Sociology

Identifiant
ISSN : 0047-2697

Source
Journal of political and military sociology A. 2008, vol. 36, n° 1, pp. 37-52 [16 pages] [bibl. : 2 p.3/4]

Langue
Anglais

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[cptmarginal]

I first heard about this (or rather, what I assume to be the same experimental program) in the 90s, via The Big Book of Conspiracies comic book anthology. Actually an excellent book, by the way. "Allegedly True Tales of Treachery from the Information Underground!"

[Nordic]

There was I think a thread on this then.

This is very sad. My mother and her family were from St Louis and she grew up in the 50s there. Not in a black neighborhood but working class. She and her brother and her parents were experienced very poor health as they got older. My mother dead at 54 and her brother coming down with a non-treatable brain degenerative disease at about 51 or so, which killed him a few years later. Their father, my grandpa, dead of lymphoma in his 60s. Etc etc.

I always wondered if there was some kind of toxic waste buried near them, or something. Well, it could have been this.

Anecdotal I know and certainly not proof of anything just something that has haunted me for a long time. My own RI telling me something just wasn't right around there.