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Article: LSD troop tests `had secret agenda'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1996
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CHRISTOPHER BELLAMY
Defence Correspondent
Parliament was seriously misled over the purpose and extent of
secret experiments on British troops with the drug LSD in the 1950s
and 1960s, claims a Channel 4 documentary to be shown tonight .
The experiments took place at the top-secret chemical and
biological warfare establishment at Porton Down. The programme
includes newly released film, formerly secret, of servicemen given
LSD without their knowledge. LSD was also used on about 50,000
civilian psychiatric patients during this period until it was
classified as a dangerous, class A drug in 1966.
On 21 November 1994, in reply to a question from Dr David Clark,
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