Some background info on clandestine government labs for the younger folk here

[hedgehog]

I mentioned this story to my daughter, and she'd never heard about it. The point is, if the CIA was playing with LSD in the fifties, how do we know they weren't playing with anthrax recently?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

[glowing]

1. It could be any govt agency.. or one we've never even heard of?

[hedgehog]

2. Not to mention this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair

[hedgehog]

3. Or this:

The real October Suprise:

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/coupreaganbush.htm

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Don't forget all these secret military/govt offices Logos

The author has more than 75 different ones




The classified budget of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly doubled in the Bush years, to $32 billion. That is more than the combined budgets of the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Those billions have expanded a secret world of advanced science and technology in which military units and U.S. government contractors push back the frontiers of warfare. In the past, such handiwork has produced some of the most advanced jets, weapons and spy satellites, as well as notorious boondoggles.

Budget documents tell little. This year, for instance, the Pentagon says Program Element 0603891c is receiving $196 million but will disclose nothing about what the project does. Private analysts say it apparently aims at developing space weapons.

Trevor Paglen, an artist and photographer finishing his Ph.D. in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, has managed to document some of this hidden world. The 75 patches he has assembled reveal a bizarre mix of high and low culture where Latin and Greek mottos frame images of spooky demons and sexy warriors, of dragons dropping bombs and skunks firing laser beams.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/01/healthscience/01patc.php