REVISION OF "THE VAGUS NERVE IS A HIDDEN NETWORK(BUT NOT THE ONLY HIDDEN NETWORK)"

I have significantly revised and expanded the first section of "The Vagus Nerve Is A Hidden Network(But Not The Only Hidden Network)". Since the original posting, my situation has become more difficult. If it does not improve, I will be posting more shortly about what is occurring.

THE VAGUS NERVE IS A HIDDEN NETWORK(BUT NOT THE ONLY HIDDEN NETWORK)

"Science will sooner or later bring the obtained objective results to our
subjective world, and will at once illuminate our mysterious nature, will explain the mechanism and vital meaning of that which eternally occupies the human mind - it's conscience, and it's tribulations." -- I. Pavlov

The 2006 article "Does vagus nerve constitute a self-organization complexity or a 'hidden network'?", http://www.bmj.sk/2006/10701-01.pdf is a significant contribution to the realization of Pavlov's prediction. The authors write :

"We suggest that the vagus nerve might constitute a highly differentiated
complex system which modulates various functions. Moreover, we propose that the
vagus nerve as a complex system might participate in constitution of a
biological compartment of conscious."

My 2001 Hill News Vagus Nerve Advertisement

Although I did not use the phrase "hidden network", I discussed the importance of the vagus nerve to Chinese medicine in my 2001 Hill News advertisement, "East Meets West". http://www.healthycitizens.com/east_west.htm#ad20010314 . A strong argument can be made that Chinese medicine is the "highly differentiated complex system". The Chinese thousands of years ago knew much of what we are discovering today.

Daniel Brown makes a similar statement in "The Energy Body and Its Functions:Immuno-Surveillance, Longevity and Regeneration". http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/rapidpdf/annals.1393.019v1?ck=nck .

"First, I believe that Western research on the immune system has
over-emphasized the biochemical signaling system and under-emphasized the
energy information signaling system, which is so much the focus of traditional
Eastern healing systems like traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine.
Modern Western energy medicine is just rediscovering an energy signaling system
first described nearly four thousand years ago and mapped out in detail about
five hundred years ago."

The Shanghai College of Medicine in Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text further confirms the meridian system is a "hidden network". From "The Channels and Conductivity" section:

"...although the acupuncture channels are closely related to the nervous system,
it is hypothesized the channels constitute a similar, though independent system
of conduction....researchers believe that the channels comprise a kind of
conduction system, possibly distributed superficially over the body, which is
relatively independent and obeys strict rules." (Shanghai College of
Medicine, Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text, Translated and Edited by Dan Bensky and John O'Connor.Eastland Press,1981, pg.114)

The knowledge of the substances that can obstruct this system would be invaluable to militaries and intelligence agencies who wish to render their enemies helpless. It is my opinion that the development of "nonlethal" biological weapons has been one of the goals of the involuntary human experimentation programs. which a researcher told me, over ten years ago, were no longer experiments but policy. It is also beneficial to create diseases that the average physician is incapable of making a diagnosis. In The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, John Marks wrote : "The Inspector General noted that the whole program could be compromised if an outside doctor 'made a correct diagnosis of an illness' Thus the MKULTRA program not only made some people sick but had a vested interest in keeping them from finding out what was really wrong." ( John Marks,The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, W.W. Norton & Co., pg. 106.) If Viktor Yushchencko and Alexander Litvinenko hadn't been important individuals, it is very possible, there would never have been a diagnosis. We also may never have heard of them. Moreover, even though they were familiar with the operations of intelligence agencies, neither could avoid being poisoned.

The Chinese had over 2000 years of experience learning what substances obstruct the channels. Paul Unschuld in Medicine in China refers to "The Concept of Ku" in describing one kind of poisoning. The victims were often enemies of the society: oppressors and those whose life style was judged improperly greedy. An example of the latter would have been finding possessions in the road and taking them home. In other words, finders keepers, finders weepers. Even worse than weeping: death. Paul Unschuld quotes from De Groot by Feng and Shryock in describing how the society dealt with oppressors:

"The chiefs of Yuan-chiang have handed down the method of producing ku. The
medicine is not beneficient, but is poisonous. An astonishing fact is that when
a new magistrate arrives, the people must prepare a feast to welcome him, and
they poison him then. The poison does not become effective during his term of
office, but the pupils of his eyes turn from black to blue, and his face becomes
pale and swollen. Then some months after he leaves office, his whole family
dies"(Paul U. Unschuld, Medicine In China: A History of Ideas, Berkeley.
Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1985, pg.49)

A swollen abdomen, emaciation and paranoia, some of the symptoms of Ku poisoning, show an early Chinese awareness of metabolic psychiatric disorders. Yan De-xin writes Traditional Chinese Medicine has treated diabetes for thouseands of years. "In the medical history of the world, the earliest knowledge of this disease is found in TCM." (Yan De-xin, Aging and Blood Stasis: A New TCM Approach to Geriatrics, Blue Poppy Press, Colorado, June 1995. pg. 192). Chinese medical science advanced with the development of antidotes to ku posoning.

The military and pharmaceutical companies have been the beneficiaries from programs investigating the validity and mechanisms of Chinese medicine If the research benefited from secret U. S.-Chinese military agreements, this possibility needs to be investigated. To the extent that Chinese medicine has received the U. S. Government's seal of approval, the public has also benefited, but it is a benefit that should never been necessary.The reality is the public should should never have been deprived the benefits of Chinese medicine In the early 19th century Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, practiced acupuncture. How acupuncture and homeopathy disappeared is an article for another time. My concern is the slow reappearance of complementary medicine in the post World War II era. What was known? When was it known? Why has knowledge been hidden? Who has benefited and who will benefit?

II. THE TREATABLE VAGUS NERVE

"The vagus nerve (pronounced /ˈveɪˌgəs/) (VĀ-gəs) (also called pneumogastric nerve or cranial nerve X) is the tenth of twelve paired cranial nerves, and is the only nerve that starts in the brain stem (within the medulla oblongata) and extends, through the jugular foramen, down below the head, to the neck, chest and abdomen, where it contributes to the innervation of the viscera." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve.

Medical studies have demonstrated the vagus nerve's connection to the following diseases and conditions: cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, depression, schizophrenia, immune system disorders, heart disease, obesity, loss of memory, and hiccups. In 1999 I saw a small article in The New York Times "Slowing the Heart, Extending the Life" http://healthycitizens.googlepages.com/SlowingtheHeartExtendingtheLif It quoted Dr. Lauer, a Cleveland Institutes's cardiologist, that there was "no treatment for abnormalities of the vagal system". I knew this to be wrong. I knew Chinese medicine treated the vagus nerve.In 1968, in the Handbook of Auricular Therapy, P. Nogier whom the Chinese consider as the father of modern auricular acupuncture was one of the first major acupuncturists to discuss the treatment of the vagus nerve. Today, there are many acupuncture and Chinese herbal books that discuss treatment of the vagus nerve.

I was first told about the suspected connection between Chinese Medicine and the vagus nerve in 1975 when I was traveling throughout the United States and much of Europe seeking medical assistance. Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) had cured me the previous year of a disease that literally affected me from head to foot. The doctor who cured me refused to tell me what disease I had had. She referred to it as "Chinese kidney". When I pressed her for a Western name for the disease, All she would say was I would find my way. To me this sounded like a saying from a fortune cookie and not what I would expect from a physician. I began to worry that I would become sick again.

III. SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE I HAD

In 1974, I was congested with mucus, suffered from headaches, had chronic sore throats and irregular bowels. My physician who was director of immunology at a leading New York hospital began an antibiotic treatment(Tetracycline) for what he described as low grade infection. He also tested for an allergy condition that have been affecting my immune system. Some of the symptoms disappeared with Tetracycline, but reappeared within days after discontinuing the medication. After the first Tetracycline prescription, I thought I was cured. My sexual energy improved greatly. In 1974, it was very difficult confiding to a physician sexual difficulties. Impotency was considered psychosomatic.

In the ensuing months my tongue became very swollen and painful. I began to have difficulty talking and my ears and sinuses became blocked with mucus. My urine was scanty In a few months I was hardly urinating and I became extremely constipated. My constipation was so severe, lasting more than a week that I could relate to Eric Erickson's thought that constipation was like a pregnancy. At times, my urethra was so swollen I needed to use a urethra suppository. I was having pains throughout my upper and lower back. I had constant headaches and extreme facial pain. The physician sent me for consultations to various specialists: a neurologist for slipped disc possibility, a urologist for my problems with urination(cystoscope) and gastroenterologist for my bowel problems(upper GI series, barium enema).ear nose and throat specialist for a possible deviated septum. The latter provided a few hours temporary relief by opening my sinuses. None of the physicians were able to provide a diagnosis and had no idea on how to alleviate the symptoms. With pains literally from head to feet, I began an exploration of alternative medicine: acupuncture and chiropractic.

During my journeys throughout the United States and much of Europe trying to understand what disease I had had, Chinese physicians and academics told me it was their belief that much of Chinese medicine could be explained by the vagus nerve. At that time I knew nothing about the vagus nerve One time this knowledge was confided to me after an acupuncture treatment in the acupuncturist's consultation room. Another time, this was told to me in the middle of an acupuncture treatment as the acupuncturist inserted needles in my back. At that time I had no idea what the vagus nerve was and had no idea how important the vagus nerve was to my health. Neither did any of the Western physicians I spoke with. They felt the Chinese physicians were "playing doctor".

I will write more in future posts about my experiences with western and complementary medicine and the physicians who treated me. I will state it is my experience human experimentation programs took place in doctor's offices and hospitals as well in public establishments: restaurants, hotels, trains etc. The programs continue today. They are no longer experiments. They are policy.

IV. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND CHINESE MEDICINE

Captain Paul E. Tyler in "The Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low-Intensity Conflict" states "that electromagnetic radiation has been reported in the literature to induce or enhance the effects of acupuncture". ((Lt Col. David J. Dean, Editor,Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology. Air University Press, 1986, pg. 250) https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9nr55viSJuqMGU3MTAzYTgtZDYwNC00NWMwLWI1NDAtMGFjMWZhOTQ3MTgz&hl=en

In The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing:Guarding the Three Treasures(Shambhala, Boston 1995. pg.159), Daniel Reid writes:"The electromagnetic nature of human energy has been recognized by

traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist alchemy for at least 5000 years and as
recorded in the Internal Medical Classic over 2000 years ago. This energy was to
flow through human body via a complex network of channels(mai), meridians(jing)
and capillaries(luo). "

Reinhold Voll, a physician I visited in 1975 in Germany, believed Chinese meridian theory could be explained by understanding the mouth, especially the temporal mandibular joint and teeth. According to Voll, each tooth represented an organ(s) e. g. heart, liver, kidney,lungs, spleen- pancreas. Voll diagnosed and treated with electromagnetic radiation and homeopathic remedies. During the 1960's and 1970's he taught American dentists and was a leading developer of the field of biological dentistry.

Three Descriptions of Reinhold Voll's Research

Reinhold Voll, utilized:

"electronic devices to diagnose and treat for several decades. These devices are
founded upon the electromagnetic fields of the body and the acupuncture points and meridians. On a meter these instruments measure the degrees of bioelectric resistance at acupuncture test points. On a meter these instruments measure tiny degrees of bioelectric resistance acupuncture test points. On a meter thinstruments can depict organ weakness, excess, and degeneration with a precision and clarity..."
(Clark Manning and Louis Vanrenen, Bioenergetic Medicines East and West:
Acupuncture and Homeopathy, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California pg. 232

"In the 1950s, Renihold Voll, M.D. of Germany,
discovered that each tooth in the mouth relates to a specific acupuncture
meridian. Using his electroacupuncture biofeedback technique, he found that if a
tooth became infected or diseased, the organ on the same meridian could also
become unhealthy. He found that the opposite held true as well, that dysfunction
in a specific organ could lead to a problem in a corresponding tooth"(From
Alternative Medicine, The Definitive Guide, by the Burton Goldberg Group, 1994)

"R. Voll: used electrodermal measurements in the early 50's and
found that specific acupuncture points on the hand related to specific autonomic
ganglis.Was able to establish first list of environmental toxins found in
ganglsi noninvasively and also found effective antidotes."(Dietrich Klinghardt
MD,PhD.,Toxicity of Autonomic Ganglia and Plexi: Diagnosis and Treatment. 23rd
AnnualInternational Symposium on Man and his Environment, Dallas, Texas, June
9-12, 2005.)
http://www.neuraltherapy.com/ToxicityofAutonomicGangliaandPlexi.pdf

My View of Reinhold Voll's Research

Reinhold Voll was a significant researcher who correlated Chinese medicine with homeopathy. I do not know whether Reinhold Voll participated in United States military and medical research but I believe his ideas influenced post World War II military-medical knowledge and policy. Although I do not know whether Voll was directly involved in the development of the programs that discombobulate and render victim's helpless, I believe his ideas were utilized in developing torture programs. Germany was involved with electromagnetic radiation decades before World War II. In fact, after Germany's defeat, the United States in Operation Paperclip placed those with knowledge of radar high on the list of occupations to recruit.

I remember visiting his office and reading citations and awards from international medical organizations. I also remember seeing a chronology of his career on the wall of his waiting room with the World War II years left blank. Voll knew significantly more about me than I had told him. He made disparaging remarks about me to an acquaintance and seemed to know much about my background including knowledge that my father was a famous western physician.

Voll taught American dentists how to treat temporomandibular joint syndrome(TMJ). He understood the effect of radiation on the jaw and the effect of toxins on health. It is highly likely he understood the effect of radiation and toxins on the vagus nerve. There is no doubt he understood the immune system in which the vagus nerve plays a major role. Though he did not practice Traditional Chinese Medicine, he was a healer who utilized Chinese medical theory. There is also no doubt he understood the effects of toxins on the hypothalamus and pituitary, two endocrine entities that the National Institute of Health (NIH ) concluded in 1996 were affected by acupuncture. Was Voll aware of the effect of environmental toxins in the development of diseases and conditions that are of concern today? Schizophrenia? Diabetes? Cancer? Dementia? Impotency?

I argued in "American Guinea Pig: My Struggle for Health and Freedom" that one of the purposes of MKULTRA was to understand the effects of toxins. I linked to an interview John Marks did with Victor Cohn, a George Washington University professor of pharmacology. http://www.healthycitizens.com/CohnInterview.pdf It is my view the experiments were conducted to advance medical knowledge as well as to develop effective biological weapons. The cooperation between the military and the medical academic community did not begin with Guantanamo and if we had not been negligent in failing to address these ethical issues, there might never been a Guantanamo. If there were a President George W. Bush, his administration might have been quite different.

Radiation to the jaw can be a very unpleasant experience. At times your lower teeth can press against your upper teeth with force. For a period in the mid 1990's, sometimes when I ate my teeth would strike against each other with extreme force. This repeated until a tooth was knocked out. Perhaps, this is one of the reason the detainees at Guantanamo requested a dentist Since 1996, an attack on my mouth has occurred many times, often resulting in the loss of a tooth and an accompanying dysfunctional state. It is my belief an exploited dysfunctional vagus nerve can result in the "Learned Helplessness" condition that Jane Mayer mentions in her July 14, 2008 Harpers' interview with Scott Horton. http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003234

http://www.acupunctureinmedicine.org.uk/servearticle.php?artid=233 is a good introduction to some of Reinhold Voll's ideas.

V. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION'S EFFECT ON THE VAGUS NERVE

I believe the knowledge that electromagnetic radiation injures the vagus nerve has been known for years The following quote is from Captain Paul E. Tyler's essay in Low Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology http://tinyurl.com/2g499bd

"Using relatively low-level RFR, it may be possible to sensitize large military groups to extremely dispersed amounts of biological or chemical agents to which the unirradiated population would be immune.(1) "

Captain Tyler is quoting from a 1982 Air Force review of biotechnology. The vagus nerve is not named, but it is obvious the military was aware of the effect of radiation on immunity. It is very possible this knowledge was gathered from the 1970's Guinea Pig vagus nerve experiments I have tried to expose. It was only in 2000 that Kevin J. Tracey published his work describing the vagus nerves importance to immunity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11427490?ordinalpos=14&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

There appears to be a significant delay in publishing the research and most likely this is because much of this research has been viewed as potentially militarily important. Top Secret classifications delayed the publication of health information that could have significantly advanced medical knowledge. In Chinese medicine the immune system correlates with the Chinese concept of protective qi, the individual's body armor against disease. http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/principles/qi.html is a good discussion of the Chinese concept of qi. The United States electromagnetic radiation and biological programs have the ability to affect all types of qi.

Two months ago I spoke briefly with Dr, Tracey and mentioned briefly Chinese Medicine's concept of protective qi which he told me he knew nothing about. I found Dr. Tracey very open and receptive to discussion. I do have a problem, that he and other researchers involved with the vagus nerve, enteric nervous system, spleen-pancreas and hypothalamus have told me they do not know anything about Chinese medicine. The Chinese copy our DVDs and we copy their medicine, a 21st century quid pro quo.

VI. CONCLUSION: PAVLOV'S DREAM

Pavlov:s Dream is being realized. The question is does achieving this great dream justify the means that are being utilized? Could this dream have been accomplished without excessive secrecy and unethical human experimentation? Did top secret classifications delay the publication of health information that significantly advanced medical knowledge. Throughout my research I have been concerned with two questions. What was known? When was it known? The military's relationship to post World War II medical research has never been sufficiently addressed. Those who are concerned about physicians cooperating with unethical programs in Guantanamo must realize this is not a recent phenomena. I agree with Jane Mayer when she states the torture programs will not be exposed because:

"keymembers of Congress sanctioned this program, so many of those who might
ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised." (Scott
Horton Interview with Jane Mayer, Harpers, July 14, 2008)
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003234

However, it is not just the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib detainee programs that key members have sanctioned. It is not just Congress. It involves key institutions that form our society: academic, religious, corporate, medical and legal. The Bush Administration did not begin these programs. They carried them forward. Significant involuntary human experimentation programs lasted decades before they were exposed. How and why are the important questions?

AFTERWORD

I am 63. Until recently, I have felt I would regain my health and freedom and discover what type of human being I am. Now after years of struggling for my health and freedom I feel I am justified in making the statement, "The United States human experimentation programs and torture/disease programs have taken my life." My future is only in explaining these programs.

"East Meets West" was one of my first Hill News Advertisements. It was intended to establish my credibility and help me attain my health and freedom. Seven years later, I am still seeking what may very well be the "impossible dream". The Vagus Nerve is a Hidden Network(But Not The Only Hidden Network) was written three months ago. Since the writing, my vagus nerve and hypothalamus have been re-injured. The United States cerebral cortex programs are the 21st century equivalent of Gulags and concentration camps. They do not just take place in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib or secret prisons. They take place in open global society. Such is their power. As I wrote in "American Guinea Pig: My Struggle for Health and Freedom" http://healthycitizens.googlepages.com/americanguineapig:

"It doesn't matter if you are in a taxi on Rockville Pike or Sukhumvit
Road in Bangkok, Thailand ; your apartment in Washington D C or your hotel in
London, England ; an internet cafe in Hong Kong or a library in Washington D.C.
As an old time taxi cab driver in 1970 said to me, describing the violence to
cabbies in Boston , Massachusetts ,"if they're going to get you, they're going
to get you." Neither Gandhi nor Dr. King would have succeeded if the climate had
been as repressive. The threat of an unchanging sterile society is very
real."

They result in a victim becoming Ignored, Isolated and Injured. Every essential aspect of personal freedom is infringed. I can document my medical and legal experiences. I need the reader's assistance.

All legitimate victims need the reader's assistance.

Commentaries on "Does vagus nerve constitute a self-organization complexity or a 'hidden network'?" may be viewed at http://www.bmj.sk/2006/10708-1-4.pdf .

(Hidden Network is the first of a series of posts discussing the military medical complex and my view that medical knowledge is delayed by "national security" concerns from benefiting the public)

THE RETURN OF THE GUINEA PIG

In "Apathy", my Feb. 7, 2008 posting, I wrote: "I am presently in a very bad situation which I will write about in future posts. It's deja vu all over again." It was not my intention for the future to be 4 months, Like many victims, I was just wishing my problems would go away. Instead I have been tortured severely and my vagus nerve and hypothalamus appear to have been re-injured. I had hoped I had reached a stage in my life when events like this would no longer happen. I am disappointed that the many people I contacted would offer no assistance: legislators, attorneys, journalists, physicians, clergy. Among these are well-known academics and journalists who have stated and written that I am a good researcher but when the going got tough, they got going. This has been my experience since I realized I had major problems 30+ years ago. As long as there is official denial of these programs and pathological apathy amongst the public, these programs will prosper. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter referred to "a crisis of of confidence affecting our society". Today this malaise is malignant and threatens our democracy.

I had hoped by showing restraint and by not being overly confrontational, my problems would go away. By not blogging I have made my situation much worse. The meek become meeker. The road to medical programs affecting hundreds of thousands of citizens(GAO figure) has been filled with people who gave our government the benefit of the doubt. There are reasons why human experimentation programs have lasted decades before they are exposed.

MEET JOE HARDING

Joe Harding was not a human experimentation victim but his death from exposure to plutonium was covered up."Stricken with cancer, his body mottled with painful sores, uranium worker Joe Harding picked up a pen for a final postscript to his nine-year struggle against the U.S.-owned factory he blamed for his fatal illness. "It is absolutely futile," he wrote just before his 1980 death, "like fighting a tiger with a toothpick. Two decades later, Harding is being proclaimed a "Cold War hero" by the same government that brushed aside his claims of dangerous radiation inside the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky."(Washington Post, 8/11/99). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/paducah11.htm

EVERYONE IS A VICTIM OF A COVER-UP

We would not have some of the national policy embarrassments we have today if the public had been more involved. Many of the Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib interrogation techniques originated with the programs I address. Significant health research originated from these programs but there has been unwarranted delays releasing this knowledge? One example is the 1996 NIH acknowledgment of the effectiveness of acupuncture upon the hypothalamus and pituitary. I believe that knowledge was known as early as 1980, if not before, How could there be a computer blackberry age if carpal tunnel syndrome and the possibility of more serious illnesses were acknowledged? I believe knowledge about the harmful effects of mobiles are buried in these programs as well as the harmful effects of other toxins.

NETIZENS: AN INITIAL STEP

I would be helped greatly if the readers of this blog would file FOIA requests regarding the programs I have blogged about. I have no problem being an open book and would appreciate help attaining all my files to establish my credibility in order to better defend myself and expose these programs. An inspection of my legal and medical records will validate my claims In addition, my father, Bernard Harold Perlman was a very well known New York City physician, a former president of the New York Cardiological society. a New York City deputy commissioner of health. His patients included New York's political and religious elite. I will not name them out of respect for physician-patient confidentiality, but in his position as physician and implementer of health policies, it is very possible he knew about these programs, In future posts, I will provide the names of my physicians including some of those involved with toxins and electromagnetic radiation. Unlike many victims, my physicians in the early 1970's were involved with electromagnetic radiation, toxins, hypothalamus and vagus nerve research. Some published their research.

My hope is not with the the journalists, attorneys, or the members of congress I have communicated with over the past 15+ years. The solution is with you, the Netizen community. If presidential candidates can raise millions for their campaigns on the Internet, victims should be able to protect themselves. This is not just about me. This also applies to individuals like the Canadian citizen who has been prevented from returning to Canada from Sudan.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080422.wabdelrazik0428/BNStory/National/home
Netizen civic responsibility should not be a feel good enterprise. It requires an effort: people becoming involved, not just with causes but with each other. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/opinion/23lovenheim.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=op-ed&st=nyt&oref=slogin . In an ideal post 9/11 world, our government should be as open as it is asking its citizens to be.

I would like to avoid Joes Harding's fate. FOIA helps level the playing field. Congressional or presidential post humous apologies are the equivalent of a of a "hardy handshake" in WC Fields' "The Bank Dick". There is a pattern to react with indignation to crimes we learn about 20 years too late, The same indignation must be voiced at today's crimes

THE FUTURE

Soon, it may become too late to expose the United States' post World War II Medical programs. Many of the researchers and victims will have passed. These programs influenced the world we live in today. The post World War II period is the innocent child that has resulted in George Bush, the Patriot Act, and large increases in Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and diabetes . It is becoming evident that some of the "nonlethal" biological programs may be exposed soon. Only if citizens become involved will the truth triumph over disinformation. The recent Pentagon FOIA release "Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons",
http://www.freedomfchs.com/usarmyrptonmicrowavefx.pdf , raises many questions which I will be blogging about in future posts. I will also provide more chronology on my experiences the past 4 months.

AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: MY STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH AND FREEDOM

“No Democracy Can Exist Unless Each Of Its Citizens Is As Capable Of Outrage At Injustice To Another As He Is Of Outrage At Unjustice To Himself." ~ Aristotle

Introduction

The programs I address would not be occurring if more people were familiar with this Aristotle quote. "American Guinea Pig" is a "brief" introduction to my ideas and experiences. Although much of this letter is about "me", it is also about all of "us". In fact, I am very uncomfortable writing about my personal experiences. I am much more comfortable addressing the reasons these programs are occurring unimpeded in the United States and the implications of this phenomena. These programs affect all Americans, their health and their freedom. I do believe there would not have been a torture issue if I had been successful exposing the human experimentation programs that were the basis of the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib programs.
I would not be writing this letter if I had been able to attain closure after regaining my health for the first time in twenty-five years in 1998-2000. I am embarrassed to admit if I had been able to address my father's estate, been free to live and work where I wanted to and had been free to love and screw up like every other American, I would have walked away and would have forgotten about the past 30+ years. Life is short; I have paid my dues. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how these issues are resolved, I am needing to write letters like this literally begging not only for my health and freedom but for all Americans to be involved with the issues of health and freedom. As Fats Waller said, "One never knows, do one."

Sincerely,
Richard Perlman


AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: MY STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH AND FREEDOM

I have addressed post World War II United States guinea pig programs from the perspective of a guinea pig as well as a researcher. As a result, I have had an interest in the programs the United States undertook immediately after World War II (what was learned from the Nazi's and Japanese). These medical-military programs were involved from the start with understanding the effects of toxins for the 1) understanding and prevention of disease, 2) the development of weapons, and 3) the prevention of terrorism. The full story has not been told.

The United States medical military programs because of their longevity and scope are difficult to describe in an introductory letter especially from the combined roles of guinea pig and researcher. Up until ten years ago, I eagerly awaited the morning New York Times expecting an article leading to the exposure of these programs. I viewed them as aberrations of a few "rogue" employees, not as an entrenched policy. My views changed when I began to read the MKULTRA documents at the National Security Archives and when I read the medical journals at NIH's libraries and university libraries. I began to understand the motivations behind these programs, from the perspective of 2005 as well as the perspective immediately after World War II.

In 1946, investigating the cerebral cortex was the equivalent of investigating outer space today. Huge projects were undertaken to benefit medicine and the military. Research from Japanese and German experiments were highly valued and many Japanese and Germans were pardoned no matter how heinous their crimes from trials in exchange for their information. The "Pardoning of Ischii", < http://healthycitizens.com/war%20crimes%20office.pdf>, which I have posted on my website demonstrates the high priority placed on this information. In retrospect, too many bites were taken from these "forbidden fruits". Decades later there has still been little confession or contrition. There is an eerie, unpleasantly obvious reluctance to discuss the full dimensions of these programs. These dimensions are many of the health problems we face today: diabetes, mental illness, Alzheimer's, obesity.etc.

At http://www.healthycitizens.com/, I document in my research and writings that the post World War II United States program, MKULTRA, never ended and that what was once involuntary human and social experimentation has now become policy. As a guinea pig, the question of why has always bothered me. It is important to realize these programs are more than about ethical lapses and they are more than about medicine. In order for these "cradle to grave" programs to last decades required the compromising of many of our values. For the guinea pig, these are programs affecting not just health but life and liberty. There is no pursuit of happiness. My problems became worse when in 1975 I asked questions about a disease I had just recovered from. I asked too many questions and became a victim of a program it was impossible to escape from. Those who survived the concentration camps were able to raise families and pursue careers. I am 60 and for decades have sought my health and freedom. The United States programs do not take place behind barbed wires but in the bustle of our open society.

Decades of Torture

Almost 3 years ago, I left the United States to get a life. I recognized I was approaching 60 and feared if I didn't act quickly, I would soon find myself in an old age home. I have lost most of my creative years to the United States' chemical and biological programs and although intellectually I was committed to their exposure, there were few others who had my commitment. In my last 5 years in Washington DC, I became more and more convinced that a great many knew about these programs and accepted them. Without any support, t here would soon be little future. Only a past. At 57, I could still be successful in a life pursuit. I could also still have a family. At 60, I would have to soon realize these common human desires will be unattainable. This, I have decided not to tolerate. I came to Washington with two inseparable goals: my health and freedom. Health which I achieved for the first time in 30 years became a cruel joke without the freedom to enjoy it. In fact, as I feared, my regaining my health was another experiment.
Until recently, I would reinforce my resolve to defend myself and expose the programs by telling myself a "mistake" was made when I was selected as a "guinea pig". I would teach them. I was different from other victims! In some ways I was. I am the son and grandson of physicians and two of my uncles were also physicians. Add to this background a strong idealism exemplified by a desire to serve my country and my fellow man(Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service) and a desire to communicate a vision(University of Iowa Writers Workshop), it truly bothers me that I have failed to defend myself and protect my health and freedom. I must confront the possibility I was chosen as a guinea pig because I was all of the above. This thought truly frightens and disturbs me, just as it should disturb you. I still hope I have been underestimated.

I was a highly political student at the School of Foreign Service. As early as the fall of 1963 I demonstrated for civil rights and marched against the appearance of Madame Nhu under the banner of "No Nhus is good Nhus. I was anti-Vietnam war, pro civil rights and so gung ho government that I believed that Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was going to succeed. As a sophomore, I had established my own anti-poverty group. Citizens for Oppressed Peoples(COP) named with the Birmingham Police and their chief, Bull Connor) in mind. Lyndon Johnson had me convinced there was no need for any Utopian remedies. So much for my point of light. I didn't realize the other 999 might have served me well in my journey into darkness. There was MKULTRA activity on the Georgetown campus and during my 21/2 years there I was introduced to psychedelics, hypnosis and EEG experiments. In fact, the CIA built a wing there to facilitate Dr. Charles Geschickter's experiments. In a little over 2 years I would withdraw from the university. I no longer cared. Though I was very concerned about these personality changes, I found it difficult to verbalize what I was experiencing and just accepted them.

Later, I was to attend the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. I was, I believe, the first to attend the program without an undergraduate degree. I developed two years later what I thought was "writer's block" and filed for a leave of absence. I returned to New York where I began to develop symptoms from head to toe: inability to urinate, difficulty speaking and hearing, backaches, trigeminal neuralgia etc. A physician told me that my condition was more than writer's block which, at the time, because of my innocence and immaturity relieved me. I wanted a real illness, one I could show to my physician father! I didn't know I would become critically ill from this illness and nobody would tell me what it was. I didn't know that Western medicine at the time could not treat every illness and I would be introduced to Chinese Medicine where the diagnosis can be kidney but the illness can be in the brain. Because I could not receive a western diagnosis for the illness, when I knew there was an explanation, I would travel throughout the United States, Europe and Japan investigating Asian medicine. During this time I learned from prominent acupuncturists about the vagus nerve acupuncture connection. I also learned that Chinese medicine could affect the endocrine system. Still I had no idea what had happened to me. I wanted the disease to have a name. Anything that caused me so much suffering should have a name!

In retrospect, I was lied to and injured intentionally by physicians. I was also denied treatment by many, some who admitted they knew about my situation. As long as I wasn't going to die, it bothered no one what happened to me. One time a physician in San Francisco placed a powder in the back of my throat and it was as if my brain imploded, Soon my waist would expand 12+ inches and the Japanese woman who had divorced her husband to be with me returned to Japan. I was no longer the same man Kayoko once loved. Another physician would tell me that he knew what happened to me and it was my "facial nerve". He told me I would be dead in 6 years and refused me treatment. It was not until 1998-2000 that I was allowed to heal.

My Inability to Defend Myself

These programs affect every aspect of a victim's life: ability to retain a lawyer, visit the physician of his choice, and freedom to live where he wants (safehouses). In fact, for the victim the United States becomes one large laboratory maze. One of my Hill advertisements discussed my inability to retain an attorney, even when hit by a car crossing the street or addressing irregularities in my father's will, which was issued the day before he died with his name signed by a third party. Suspected terrorists are not the only ones who can't retain attorneys. At least journalists have made the public conscious of their plight. In fact, I and other "guinea pigs" have less of a chance of retaining counsel to protect our health and freedom than alleged terrorists and detainees. We do not exist despite presidential commissions, congressional hearings and extensive documentation.

Many sympathize with the guinea pig's plight but are in conflict about what their response should be, very likely because these programs research diseases that they or their family members may someday require treatment: Diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, dementia. How can research be harmful to the society? Why is the response "thank God it is not happening to me" not the natural if not correct response of citizens? This is a valid question, one that the victorious allies confronted upon discovering the concentration camp research. Does the end not justify the means? Was the medical research conducted at the concentration camps not justifiable on the basis of German national security? It is so easy to rationalize and disregard the importance of the means. The means may be so evil that the goal is corrupted and becomes captive to it. After 50 years, this is the result of the United States ' post World War II Medical and anti-terrorism research programs.

The political intentions of these programs represent an assault on democracy. These programs are more than human experimentation but represent an attempt by the government to transform citizen's relationship with each other. Not only was the research conducted in "various types of institutions" but as the U.S Senate Select Committee in Intelligence reported in 1977: "The research and development of materials to be used in normal life settings"(pg 390). In other words a place of work, a restaurant, a movie theater, a home or automobile etc would all qualify as normal life settings. Thus requiring a chemical militia as well as citizens' silence. Early in the program a restaurant would serve an suspecting customer a drink laced with LSD. My experience is the substances were much more powerful than lsd and I have documented at http://www.healthycitizens.com/many of the program's chemicals. ht tp://www.healthycitizens.com/CohnInterview.pdf . In the1980's the program's activities seemed to take place more and more outside physician's offices and institutions. Physicians refused to treat victims and would quickly exit the consultation rooms saying almost nothing. It is not one act that produces an authoritarian society but it is cumulative insults to the values of the society.

When a government can deny an individual access to legal assistance, that individual's freedom is in jeopardy. When a government can deny an individual access to physicians, that individual's health is in jeopardy. When a government has the ability to create illnesses that physicians cannot or choose not to diagnose, no individual can defend himself and that society is not free. Viktor Yuschenko, the President of Ukraine had to go to Holland to receive a diagnosis of dioxin poisoning. Would you or I have this ability? 1

Hypothalamus And Vagus Nerve

When you visit my website, you will notice there is much emphasis on the vagus nerve and hypothalamus. http://www.healthycitizens.com/east_west.htm#ad20010314and http://www.healthycitizens.com/east_west.htm#a20021026. 2 As the Gulf War Veterans' experiences demonstrates, illnesses to either one are extremely difficult if not impossible to diagnose. Diabetes, depression, obesity, impotence, abdominal distention, high blood pressure are some of the other conditions connected with a dysfunctional vagus nerve and hypothalamus. Hypothalamus and vagus nerve is what much of the past 35+ years of my life as a guinea pig have been about. In the nineteen seventies at least three of my physicians unbeknownst to me were involved in research involving hypothalamus vagus nerve research. In my "East Meets West" Hill advertisement, I argue these conditions are treatable and treatments have been known for decades. I placed this Hill advertisement in response to a New England Medical Journal article where the authors wrote that a dysfunctional vagus nerve can result in four times the deaths from heart attacks and stated there is no treatment. This North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute news release, "DOD Awards North Shore-LIJ $1.6M Research Contract To Combat Bioterrorist Agents", http://www.healthycitizens.com/bioterroristAgents.pdf , will give you a better understanding of the vagus nerve's significance. I have taken stands not just for my self aggrandizement. There are many important questions that have to be asked not just because of the immorality of the experiments but because the truth may improve the health and freedom of millions of Americans as well as millions throughout the world.

Over 20 years before an NIH committee concluded that acupuncture can affect the hypothalamus and pituitary, Mary Austin, a United Kingdom acupuncturist was writing that the triple warmer meridian treated the hypothalamus. The triple warmer meridian governs sleep, sex and appetite. Drugs to the hypothalamus have the potential to generate Viagra like sales figures. A lesion of the hypothalamus can result in diabetes. In fact, researchers at Brown University have recently published a study showing that the brain as well as the pancreas produces insulin. There are many who believe the Alzheimer's insulin connection should be pursued and that Alzheimer's may very well be a metabolic disease. Did nerve gas experiments at the concentration camps and later reproduced in the United States and United Kingdom produce Alzheimer's conditions ? Early Johns Hopkins University studies by David Grob showed nerve gases to affect metabolism.

Conclusion

Americans as well as all other peoples must recognize the importance of protecting each other when confronting natural disaster, terrorism, or crimes against humanity. Governments cover-up for their survival. Citizens for their survival must never blindly aid and abet cover-ups. Yet, this has been the guinea pig's experience. Little has changed in the past thirty years except governments have become emboldened by their citizens' increasing passivity. "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out" is one of the vilest phrases that ever became a mantra for a generation. As long as we think our government will not wire tap and invade privacy in an age of terrorism, when they have invaded privacy for decades constructing these programs, to paraphrase Thomas Wolfe, we cannot go home again.

Yet, human nature, as demonstrated by Stanley Milgram's and Phillp Zimbardo's obedience research at Yale and Stanford Universities, is all too eager to follow orders with a large percentage enjoying being told to torture. How much government programs have consciously taken advantage of our flaws needs also to be researched to determine how intentionally deleterious are government programs to the fabric of the society. The medical researchers who benefit from the Pentagon and C.I.A monitoring should not be naive to think that someday these programs will not be used against them or their relatives and friends. The buck stopped with them. They also can't go home again. They should have spoken out decades ago. When asked to participate in an unethical medical program why wasn't their response, "get out of my office." These programs would not exist in the United States if there were not intimidation and fear.
My happiness will come with the exposure of these programs. My sadness is the effect they have had on American society and as a consequence, much of the world. My sadness is also that I may never enjoy the pleasures that most individuals throughout the world take for granted. There is no way an individual can protect himself from the weapons and technologies governments have at their disposal. In the early years of MKULTRA, there was an interest in utilizing magician tricks to drug their victims. Today the "knockout" technologies have achieved what was only a dream in 1950. http://www.healthycitizens.com/unwitting.pdf, http://www.healthycitizens.com/east_west.htm#aYourBrain. It doesn't matter if you are in a taxi on Rockville Pike or Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok , Thailand ; your apartment in Washington D C or your hotel in London , England ; an internet cafe in Hong Kong or a library in Washington D.C. As an old time taxi cab driver in 1970 said to me, describing the violence to cabbies in Boston , Massachusetts , "if they're going to get you, they're going to get you." Neither Gandhi nor Dr. King would have succeeded if the climate had been as repressive. The threat of an unchanging sterile society is very real.

I am in a very serious situation. In fact, I am reconciled to possibly being significantly injured. My vagus nerve and hypothalamus are once again being re-injured. These toxic exposures result in reversible lobotomy and reversible impotency. I used to like to say I have been rendered impotent more times than I have been busted in card games. My first ad in the Hill newspaper was "Human Experimentation and the Loss of Face" http://www.healthycitizens.com/east_west.htm#ad20001101. In the last month my face is beginning to change significantly. Writing is becoming more and more difficult. Today, I can't afford to advertise in The Hill because my advertising rates were increased 5 times the rate of two years ago. An ability to place advertisements in a newspaper read by Congress was an important part of my strategy to protect myself and achieve credibility. My emails often do not arrive and when they do, I am told they are garbled. A writer feels his work is like his child when he sends it off to the world. Babysitting an email to be sure it "safely" reaches its destination is a burden I didn't expect when I opened my email accounts.

As you read my writings and get to know me, you will realize I have not had an easy life, but I want to emphasize I also believe this life is a wonderful opportunity. In 1960, if I had been told that I would be addressing issues of this magnitude, I would have felt "blessed". Today I still feel blessed but frustrated. I wonder is it hopeless? 3 I grew up believing certain acts by government cannot be tolerated and one of these acts is the purposeful destruction of a citizen's life. As a child, my first consciousness of pain and suffering was the awareness of polio and Nazism. I pledged to myself as a five year old that I would never succumb to either without a fight. The child is the father of the man. I look forward to dialoguing with you and hope you can be of assistance.


Please note: The roles of victim and activist are difficult to describe in an introductory letter. I will provide you with more biographical and historical details in future letters and conversations.

1 In "Explanation of Healthycitizens.com 's Documents", which I am forwarding separately, I present other examples of Government biological programs affecting the democratic process and violating human rights.

2 Both of these "Positions Advocated" were originally advertisements in The Hill newspaper, a weekly newspaper published for those involved with Congress and the legislative process .

3 When I was 13, before I knew who George Orwell was, I memorized this quote from 1984 : "Being a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." Little did I realize it would be my life's mantra. Once again the child is the father of the man.