Background The Guatemala syphilis experiments were United States-led human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The experiments were led by physician John Charles Cutler who also participated in the late stages of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects. The experiment resulted in at least 83 deaths. Serology studies continued through 1953 involving the same vulnerable populations in addition to children from state-run schools, an orphanage, and rural towns, though the intentional infection of patients ended with the original…
Author: John Greenewald
Background This record was released in 1997 through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It is often referred to as the “CIA’s Assassination Manual” and was written in the early 1950s. It was released in conjunction with many other files dealing with the CIA-backed overthrow of the then newly-elected leader of Guatemala, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Document Archive A Study of Assassination – The CIA’s Assassination Manual, 1950s [21 Pages, 1.2MB] Text Version The below was created by the National Security Archive, and originally published here. Special thanks to them for creating the below text version of the above document.…
Background The following is a CD-ROM document archive, created by the CIA. The Black Vault had filed a FOIA request for ALL manufactured CD-ROMs/DVDs available for purchase, and this was one of them. It is not clear exactly what documents are catalogued on this disc, or why it was created, but within it are multiple CIA histories, along with a long list of NIEs. Below, you will find an index, exactly how it was received from the CIA. Document Archive .Zip Archive .Zip File of the below archive [4,370 Pages, 256MB] CD-ROM Index The below file index is categorized how…
Background Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. A department within the CIA was established in 1967 on orders from President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson and later expanded under President Richard Nixon. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms, by chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober. The program’s goal was to unmask possible foreign influences on the student antiwar movement. Below, you will find the documents collected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),…
Background In October of 2002, the Department of Defense introduced DoD 5040.6-M-1, Decision Logic Table Instructions for Recording and Handling Visual Information Material. Within this manual, it provided “guidelines for both the recording of visual information (VI) in the field by camera operators and the accessioning of such VI as VI records into a records center, such as the Defense Visual Information Center (DVIC).” Throughout the manual, there are various categories and designations for the types of VI, and the procedures on how to handle it. You will note, some had higher priority than others. Interestingly, one section category was,…