
Episode 482: MK Ultra Part I - The Manchurian Candidate
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Camp Dietrich - The First Rule of Secrecy
Baldwin was scientific director of the army biological warfare laboratories and built a new facility just 50 miles outside of washington, d c. The installation was shrouded in the deepest secrecy because military commanders thought it, thought that if news of research into germ warfare leaked out, americans would panic at the possibility of a biological attack. All of them were forced to sign a vow of secrecy. They didn't even have autonomy over their own dead bodies. If they died while they were working at camp dietrich, they had to immediately be sealed in an air tight coffin. Only people allowed to do autopsies on camp scientists were other camp dietric scients who it some point, don't
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