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Tuesday 14
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U.S.
Illegal
Experiments
Went Far
Beyond
Guatemala
GUATEMALA
- The
illegal
experiments
conducted
on human
beings
by a
U.S.
medical
team in
the
1940s
went far
beyond
Guatemala,
according
to local
news
reports.
The team
headed
by Dr.
John
Cutler
did the
same
thing in
the
United
States,
India,
and
African
nations,
said
Leon
Arango,
member
of the
commission
in
charge
of
investigating
the
experiments
on
Guatemalans,
quoted
in the
Diario
de
Centro
America
newspaper
on
Monday.
Cutler
headed a
team
that
from
1946 to
1948
intentionally
infected
610
Guatemalans
with
venereal
diseases,
including
prostitutes,
prisoners,
soldiers,
and
mentally
disabled
people,
according
to a
report
published
by a
U.S.
investigator.
That
disclosure
triggered
a wave
of
indignation
in that
country.
President
Alvaro
Colom
called
the
incident
a crime
against
humanity,
and
ordered
the
creation
of a
commission
to make
the
corresponding
investigations.
Arango
said he
had
information
that
showed
the
experiments
were
also
conducted
on U.S.
prison
inmates
and
citizens
from a
community
in
Alabama,
as well
in
African
countries
and in
India.
As was
the case
in
Guatemala,
the
alleged
studies
to find
medicines
to fight
venereal
diseases
were
allowed
by
authorities
in
Africa
and
India in
return
for the
setting-up
of
clinical
labs.
The
former
chief of
the
Public
Health
Department
for
Venereal
Diseases,
Juan
Funes,
was the
one who
encouraged
those
experiments.
At that
time, he
was
being
trained
at a New
York
institute
for
research
on
venereal
diseases,
Arango
said.
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