Comments on: A Memoir of Chemical Weapons Research http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/a_memoir_of_chemical_weapons_r.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: lauri http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/a_memoir_of_chemical_weapons_r.html/comment-page-1#comment-731 lauri Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:22:28 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2007/03/a_memoir_of_chemical_weapons_research.html#comment-731 If the military is not objecting to this being published, then I am suspicious about its accuracy. Is this a limited hangout (a sanitized version)? And what does "not entirely flattering" mean? Flattering? You mean like Frank Olsen's murder, er, suicide? <i>[Skepticism in such matters is always appropriate, but the author has a serious professional track record that justifies attention. "Not entirely flattering" was my shorthand -- too short -- for the fact that the author and his colleagues engaged in practices and behaviors that are ethically questionable. Frank Olson died in the CIA's MKULTRA program, not in the Army research program the author writes about. --SA]</i> If the military is not objecting to this being published, then I am suspicious about its accuracy. Is this a limited hangout (a sanitized version)? And what does “not entirely flattering” mean? Flattering? You mean like Frank Olsen’s murder, er, suicide?

[Skepticism in such matters is always appropriate, but the author has a serious professional track record that justifies attention. "Not entirely flattering" was my shorthand -- too short -- for the fact that the author and his colleagues engaged in practices and behaviors that are ethically questionable. Frank Olson died in the CIA's MKULTRA program, not in the Army research program the author writes about. --SA]

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