Lab U.S.A.: Illuminated Documents

by Kevin C. Pyle

Art. Cultural Writing. "For decades, the voracious appetite of the national security state has led Pentagon brass and allied CIA grey suits to conduct a parade of experimentation using human subjects - mostly without their consent and in strict secrecy. Kevin Pyle's five years of dogged research uncovering documents, combined with a powerful artistic hand, have created a volume that is absolute must reading for those who believe the unbounded immorality of the Nazi era was ended in 1945" - Louis Wolf, Covert Action Quarterly. "For readers who are soon to enter the shock corridors, experimental clinics, and field testing areas of Lab U.S.A., you are about to encounter one of the most secretive and loathsome narratives in the history of security systems management in the U.S. This collection is particularly gruesome, because it generally concerns itself with how the organic can be enculturated, secured, managed, and controlled so its destructive capabilities may be separated from the genera

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Pierce Delahunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Necessary read, if sometimes hard to stomach

[Kitap Yakıcı · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many 20th century scientists, whether working for the military, industry, or their own self-aggrandizement, have been responsible for perpetrating horrible shit against "the least of these": prisoners, women, minorities, the mentally retarded, and even children. Forced sterilizations, feeding radioactive isotopes to pregnant women, and keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades are just a few of the insidious activities carried out, not by the Nazis or Soviets, but good, red-blooded American researchers, for the sake of increased knowledge, control, and power (but never wisdom, it should be noted). This graphic (in every sense of that term) collection is disconcerting, in both form and content, and it did an excellent job of lowering this reader's already often abysmal estimation of his fellow human beings.