Letter from Roy Bercaw
to US Senator John Glenn
Nov. 29, 1997
From: Roy Bercaw roybercaw@hotmail.com
To: senator_glenn@glenn.senate.gov
Subject: Your comments on Human Research Protection Act
[See S.193]Hon. John Glenn, US Senator
United States Senate
Washington D C
Dear Senator Glenn,As a still suffering victim of involuntary human experimentation by government agents, I thank you for your legislative efforts to curb future abuses. In 1973 I was an involuntary human experiment in druggings and conditioning conducted by the NIMH. I was not institutionalized. I write today about your comments made on Jan. 22, 1997 when you introduced the Human Research Protection Act.
You said there are no laws, "there are no criminal fines or penalties for violating the spirit or the letter of the Nuremberg Code." I have not researched that agreement yet, so I may write again if I learn something new. If it is like the international agreement on genocide, there is an obligation to act on the part of foreign countries. It was an issue raised recently when the US failed to act in the face of genocide in Rwanda.
You do mention the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons . . . shall not be violated." I do not know if there is any case law on that anywhere. I will look.
You also said, "there is no explicit statutory prohibition against improper research." But each state has assault and battery statutes actively enforced. There is a substantial body of case law which makes such experimenting a serious and actionable tort. It is a remedy for subjects of such experimentation; if they have access to an attorney. As you well know there is no right to an attorney to redress civil harms.
One problem encountered by subjects of "illegal" experimentation occurs when approaching local and state authorities to get relief from the obvious criminal assaults and batteries. Local and state authorities defer willingly to federal authorities who claim "national security" for their experiments and their subjects or targets. Many people including ministers are fearful of even talking about such "national security" issues.
The FBI which I believe knows about these abuses pretends to be unaware of the use of psychologists and electronics for experimentation. They dismiss the subjects/targets when they complain, as mental cases. That is the exact same reaction to the radiation subjects when they complained to the Department of Energy. (See Michael D'Antonio, "Atomic Guinea Pigs," The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 31, 1997, page 38, where US Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary is quoted) Electronic weapons were developed for the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense.
In your bibliography of other experiments, you did not mention five books about D. Ewen Cameron's vile CIA funded experiments conducted at McGill University, through the Society of Human Ecology, a CIA front at Cornell University (John Marks, "Search for the Manchurian Candidate") The other books are
Harvey Weinstein, "A Father, A Son, and the CIA." This author is a Stanford University Psychiatrist whose father was a Cameron victim.
Anne Collins, "In the Sleep Room."
Don Gilmor, "I Swear by Apollo."
Gordon Thomas, "Journey into Madness."All of these are about the Cameron experiments. Marks' book is a rewrite of CIA files released under FOIA about many CIA projects including MKULTRA, etc. He began the job. There are many files not reported to the public.
So there is a problem with laws being available to curb such experimentation. But the abuses of federal agents (and cooperation of local authorities) using false "national security" claims prevent the state laws from operating. It is also due to the apparent collapse of the Tenth Amendment.
My repeated requests to state and local authorities and even to US Attorneys has not curbed the ongoing assaults I encounter daily at my home, from criminal psychologists and others using electronics for assaults. There is a state statute in Massachusetts, the only one I know of in the country which prohibits possession of such electronic weapons. The law is Massachusetts General Law Chapter 140, Section 131 J, which became law in 1986. It too is not enforced.
Thanks again for your efforts. In addition to US Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV, (West Virginia) whose Veteran Affairs Committee studied experimentation, I only know of US Rep. Christopher Shays from Connecticut who is concerned about these abuses. I am told regularly "No one cares." That applies to the US representatives from Massachusetts who joined in the coverup and the campaign to discredit me and to harass me.
Roy Bercaw
E-mail: roybercaw@hotmail.com