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... GL@BAL NEWS ... NEWS GM TEST SCIENTISTS PAID BY LEADING GM FOOD COMPANY applying his personality theories to the selection of agents and, presumably, also to interrogation. As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, Murray zeal- ously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward experiments in mind control con- ducted by Nazi doctors in the concentra- tion camps. The overall program was under the control of the late Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's Technical Services division. (Source: Los Angeles Times, 9 July 1999) immediate fear is that the CIA is working hand in glove with Monsanto [the US biotechnology company] to do anything they can to force this technology down our throats, whatever democratic politicians say. It would be dynamite if this file has anything about Michael Meacher's track- record on genetically modified crops and foods. What business is it of the CIA to worry about any politician's views about biotechnology products?" With the US pressing for GM products to be allowed more freely into Britain— despite British consumers’ worries—GM food is emerging as a potential source of conflict between the two countries. Within the government, Mr Meacher has been the most cautious on GM crops, insisting that none should be grown com- mercially before trial plantings establish whether they pose an environmental risk. He is also reconstituting the main commit- tee advising ministers on GM foods, to reduce the number of members with links to the biotechnology industry. He is well regarded by environmentalists. (Source: By Andrew Gilligan, Rob Evans and Greg Neale, The Telegraph, London, , 11 July 1999) wo scientists responsible for indepen- dently verifying the safety of the UK Government's controversial genetically modified (GM) food trials are also being paid by a leading GM company. Bob May and Alan Dewar of the Institute of Arable Crops Research, an organisation subsidised by the govern- ment, were appointed in June to help lead a team of "world-class scientists" to look at the potentially adverse impacts of the farm trials. They had earlier been commissioned by Norfolk-based GM company AgrEvo to look for the environmental benefits of the company's crops. Dr May and Dr Dewar are testing AgrEvo's crops for the Department of the Environment. In the past year, the UK Government has made great play that all official GM com- mittees should be seen to be completely independent, after it was shown that many of its advisers had direct involvement with the biotechnology industry. "How can scientists be working for the biotech companies on the benefits of the crops even, as they are supposed to be car- rying out independent research on their risks?" asked Adrian Bebb of Friends of the Earth. "The farm-scale trials are becoming a farce." (Source: By John Vidal and James Meikle, The Guardian, , 4 August 1999) CIA ADMITS SPYING ON ANTI-GM BRITISH MINISTER gents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have secretly investi- gated the UK Environment Minister, Michael Meacher. Mr Meacher said last night [10 July] that he was "astonished" after the US Government confirmed that the CIA keeps a file on him. Compiled recently, it is believed to contain details of Mr Meacher's reservations about genetically modified foods which Washington promotes in Europe. The CIA has refused to release details of the contents of its file, described by anoth- er department as a "biographical profile". However, enquiries by the Telegraph have uncovered no other files compiled by the CIA on British ministers. Environment groups expressed alarm over the CIA's actions. Charles Secrett, director of Friends of the Earth, said: "The UN FOOD AGENCY SUPPORTS EUROPEAN MORATORIUM ON MONSANTO'S GM MILK lhe Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United Nations food and drugs safety agency representing 101 nations worldwide, has ruled unanimously in "UNABOMBER" WAS A CIA MIND-CONTROL VOLUNTEER I turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, aka the "Unabomber", was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, The United States of America vs Theodore John Kaczynski, notes that at some point in his Harvard years—1958 to 1962—Kaczynski agreed to be the subject of "a psychological exper- iment". Mello identifies the chief researcher for these experiments only as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, work- ing for the CIA's predecessor organisation, the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). In fact, the man who experimented on the young Kaczynski was Dr Henry Murray, who died in 1988. Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the war, (_¢ ao be (ev WONDER 1€ oa ( BEE GENETICALLY MODIFIED 2 ee a? Zz \- Y oF —~ NEXUS 7 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 1999