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Henry K. Beecher person

also: Henry Knowles Beecher, Beecher

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CIAintelligence service · 2Operation Paperclipoperation · 1Operation Artichokeoperation · 1Dachauplace · 1Camp Kingplace · 1Massachusetts General Hospitalorganization · 1

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Henry K. Beecher member_of CIA documented
“More than 1,600 of the Nazi scientists recruited for the U.S. research projects like this would be comfortably resettled as UNI's neighbor during Operation Paperclip. One of the CIA-sponsored researchers who worked at the artichoke interrog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 15:13

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The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 15:13 More than 1,600 of the Nazi scientists recruited for the U.S. research projects like this would be comfortably resettled as UNI's neighbor during Operation Paperclip. One of the CIA-sponsored researchers who worked at the artichoke interrog…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 15:40 He was brought to Camp King by the agency to advise on the best way to induce amnesia in Soviet spies after they were subjected to the interrogation methods. Beecher, the anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was an …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 16:06 But he was one of many prominent American doctors and scientists who lost their moral direction during the Cold War. Enticed by the generous CIA patronage and featured virtually unlimited funds and unrestricted research parameters. Lured in…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 16:37 After reading a captured Gestapo report in 1947 that indicated that mescaline could be an effective interrogation tool, Beecher set off on a decade-long search for a magical truth serum that would compel unwitting subjects in Germany as wel…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 17:04 Beecher subjected his involuntary subjects to severe overdoses of hallucinogenics, despite knowing that it caused acute panic, paranoid reactions, and other trauma. The psychosis, in miniature, he coolly observed in one government report, o…