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Late last Tuesday evening, a plane departed from Washington with an unusual passenger list: two high-level officials from the CIA bound for Moscow. The delegation's mission was straightforward if somewhat naive: give Russian authorities a chance to limit the diplomatic fallout caused by the arrest of Aldrich Ames, the American accused of spying for Moscow. To do that, the CIA officials insisted, the Russians must honor a previous promise to cut the number of their spies operating in the U.S. by half and identify their top intelligence officers in New York City and San Francisco. Most important, Moscow...
This week's latest revelation--that Harvard doctors used children as young as one-year-old in a Wrentham State School experiment to determine the human thresh-old for nuclear fallout--is particularly gutwrenching...
...Harvard Medical School assistant professor and a Harvard researcher working at Wrentham gave radioactive iodine to retarded children ages one to 11 in an attempt to determine the consequences of nuclear fallout...
...absolutely shocking that the arrogance of the atomic age and the paranoia of the Cold War resulted in the designation of tiny children at the Wrentham School as 'desirable' subjects for tests related to radioactive fallout," Markey said in a written statement...
...study was contained in a series of documents which were provided by officials from Harvard University which has been working and cooperating with the Task Force and its work. The article echoes the fears and concerns of the Cold War and the health risks to the general population of fallout from nuclear explosions. The study examined the possibility of increasing the body's ability [to] absorb the effects of nuclear fallout by administering smaller doses to increase tolerance levels...