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MercurysBall2 ago

Translated from Norwegian:

Review of allegations of unethical medical research in humans - An examination of allegations of unethical medical research with LSD, electrodes and radioactive radiation on humans in Norway during the period 1945 - 1975

.... The commission's mandate states that "it has repeatedly stated allegations that subjects are abused in medical research in postwar Norway." Such research should, among other things, have taken place because vulnerable groups have been the subject of research with LSD. ..The claims that psychiatric patients should have been exposed to research with LSD were, according to the commission, first made public in 1992.

“More than 500 patients at Modum Bad Nerves Sanatorium were treated with LSD from 1961 to 1973. Dr. Gordon Johnsen led the experiments with blessings from the health authorities. The CIA may have paid the bill. ”

The paper's background was the report "Psychiatry's use of LSD in treatment and research", prepared by psychologist and criminologist Joar Tranøy. The allegations were elaborated on in a chronicle by Tranøy, which was printed in the newspaper the following day, on May 27, 1992. In 1995, Tranøy published the book "The Chemical Power of Psychiatry", in which these claims are continued.

The claims that especially war children should have been exposed to similar research were only made public at a later date.

"Norwegian institutions must have used war children and other weak groups as" guinea pigs "in military trials with LSD in the 50s and 60s. Three or four of the ten children of war must have died in the experiments. »

"The experiments will have taken place at Modum, Reitgjerdet and Gaustad hospitals in collaboration with the Pharmacological Institute at the University of Oslo, the Army's weapons technical corps and the CIA."

In the extension of the reports on the war child case, Professor Tore Pryser wrote in Dagbladet on October 14, 2000, an article entitled "War children, LSD and CIA". In the Chronicle, Price reviews the book "Journey into Madness" by British journalist and BBC producer Gordon Thomas. Referring to Thomas, Pryser writes:

"What is noteworthy in the Norwegian context is Gordon Thomas' claim that" the CIA was using German SS prisoners and Norwegian quislings taken from jails and detention centers as guinea pigs to test Cameron's theories about mind control. The Agency preferred to conduct such clinical trials outside the US because sometimes they were terminal - the guinea pig ended up dead. ”

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«At the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Oslo, German prisoners of war, prison inmates, psychiatric patients and so-called war children-children are re-admitted for human trials. In Latvia, it was the descendants of Norwegian women who became pregnant by German occupying soldiers. After the war, the children were forcibly separated from their mothers and housed in orphanages, homes for heavy-duty or mentally ill. In several dozen of the five- to ten-year-old children, studies were conducted under the leadership of Professor Sem-Jacobsen in clinics and in Modum and Gaustad attempts with LSD; three obviously received such high doses that they did not survive the trials. "

..In his book, Tranøy writes that Sem-Jacobsen's "efforts in the field of LSD research began in 1955 on American soil, specifically Rochester State Hospital, Minnesota - - the site was also revealed to have received research assignments paid by the CIA." 70 Further writes Tranøy that Sem-Jacobsen collaborated with the so-called Tulane group, led by Robert G. Heath, who according to Tranøy's information was a well-known CIA doctor.

Tranøy himself seems to belittle this claim by referring to two articles. 72 First, he refers to the article " Effects of Mescaline, LSD-25 and Adrenochrome on Depth Electrograms in Man, " which Sem-Jacobsen, in collaboration with Bert E. Schwartz and Magnus C. Petersen, published while staying at Rochester State Hospital. Second, he refers to the article « Correlations of rhineceohalic electrograma with behavior », Authored by RRMonroe, G. Heath, WAMickle and RCLlewellyn, published in Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 9: 1957 pp. 623-624. The Commission does not see that Tranøy, by referring to these articles, can document the claims that Sem-Jacobsen cooperated with a "known CIA doctor". The Commission also cannot see how the information in Tranøy's book can substantiate the claims made by Koch and Welch that Sem-Jacobsen conducted experiments with LSD on war children or others.

A cover up then by the Norwegian Government. I note the review reference: NOW 2003: 33