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- Jul - Aug 1992 (Creation)
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Interview notes'. Typescript notes of preliminary research interviews conducted Jul-Aug 1992, with US Army volunteers in the LSD and BZ drug testing programme at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, from 1956 to 1971, including William Spellbring, Troy Roark, James Dell, Steve Bonner, Maurice Hahn, James Stanley, William Jordan, Lyman Lewis, Roger Hagerman, Chris Roop, Ronald Brookes Mason (formerly Ronald Tatanish), Calvin Sweet, and Otto Hytien, in which they describing their test experiences, their reasons for participating in the tests, subsequent career and medical conditions. Also notes on interviews with other individuals in involved in testing programs including Richard Kupfer, Attorney for James Stanley; Rita Furman-former wife of Ron Tatanish; Dr Richard P Wheat, doctor at Stanford University Hospital San Francisco concerning cases of Serratia Marcescens infection 1950 and the death of Edward Nevin; Belinda Blauer, daughter of Harold Blauer who received a lethal injection of an experimental agent at New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1953; and Dr James Ketchum, US Army psychiatrist at Edgewood Arsenal 1961-1966, 1968-1971, describing tests he carried out and comments on the films made of the test subjects reactions.
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