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Connections 3
involved in
- Clinton’s remarks in Guatemala City, 1999 spoken at the National Palace of Culture Primary record 1
- The 1954 coup in Guatemala where the new U.S. ambassador, John Peurifoy, arrived in October 1953 Primary record 2
location of
- STD experiments in Guatemala Primary record 3
Proof 3 sources
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Remarks by the President in Roundtable Discussion on Peace Efforts, Guatemala City, 10 March 1999, The White House, 10 Mar 1999.
Primary record
National Palace of Culture Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
Primary record
Archived copy
John Peurifoy, new US Ambassador, arrives in Guatemala City.
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"Ethically Impossible": STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Sep 2011.
Primary record
PASB built and supplied a venereal disease research laboratory in Guatemala City to support the work
Subjects were exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, and included prisoners, soldiers from several parts of the army, patients in a state-run psychiatric hospital, and commercial sex workers.
who in most cases were also intentionally infected with STDs, were used to transmit disease
Of the 1,308 subjects exposed to a STD, the researchers documented some form of treatment for 678 subjects
the researchers conducted diagnostic testing of 5,128 subjects
Not only was there no evidence of voluntary consent by the subjects, but also they were clearly exposed to the risk of serious physical harm posed by contracting various diseases.
The records show that these events involved many officials and researchers in the United States as well as Guatemala.
Moreover, much of the available information was written retrospectively by Dr. Cutler years after the experiments were actually conducted.
Documents were requested from the government of Guatemala as well, though none were received.
The de facto standards that they applied in the Terre Haute prison, particularly with respect to written consent, stand in stark contrast to those in the Guatemala experiments.
While some of the subjects involved in the diagnostic testing were also involved in the intentional exposure experiments
Dr. Cutler’s contemporaneous records note 83 deaths during the course of the experiments.
The exact relationship between the experimental procedures and the subject deaths is unclear.
The researchers conducted physical examinations, blood draws, and, in some cases, lumbar punctures, on 1,384 Guatemalan children between 1 and 18 years of age.
The Commission further concludes that the individuals who approved, conducted, facilitated, and funded these experiments are morally culpable to various degrees for these wrongs.
records reveal the unconscionable ways in which the researchers sometimes used people as a mere means
Subjects in Guatemala were deliberately exposed to infections
the majority of the subjects were not already infected, again unlike Tuskegee
In February 1948, Berta was injected in her left arm with syphilis.
Berta was not treated for syphilis until three months after her injection.
That same day he put gonorrheal pus from another male subject into both of Berta’s eyes, as well as in her urethra and rectum.
Several days later, Berta’s eyes were filled with pus from the gonorrhea, and she was bleeding from her urethra.
Berta died.
Three days later, on August 27,
Her age and the illness that brought her to the hospital are unknown.
Cutler wrote that Berta appeared as if she was going to die, but he did not specify why.
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