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BANC MSS 2004/220 z
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Collection Title: Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1995-2003
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2004/220 z
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 carton, 72 sound cassettes, 6 compact discs
Linear feet: 1.25
Linear feet: 1.25
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Series of fourteen interviews and related papers with persons in military intelligence and civilians. A wide range of topics
is covered, primarily on military and political intelligence, and weapons research with human subjects. Other topics include
human radiation experiments, nuclear testing (including Nevada test sites), the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, South
America intelligence operations, East German Stasi operations, the Tibetan government and Chinese occupation of Tibet, Vietnam,
torture interrogation, shock treatments, and the hermaphroditism of one of the interviewees. Commentaries from relevant persons
supplement several of the interviews.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Portions of the collection are restricted. See container listing for details.
Copyright has been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must
be submitted in writing to the appropriate curator or the Head of Public Services for forwarding. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and the copyright.
Ethics of intelligence and weapons development oral history collection. BANC MSS 2004/220 z, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Lawrence Rockwood papers are located at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Germany (East). Ministerium f#ur Staatssicherheit.
National Association of Radiation Survivors (U.S.)
Intelligence service--Moral and ethical aspects.
Military intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects.
Chemical weapons--Moral and ethical aspects.
Radiation victims.
Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl#, Ukraine, 1986.
Intelligence service--Germany (East)
Intelligence service--South America.
Shock therapy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Hermaphroditism.
Tibet (China)--Politics and government--1951-
Oral histories.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Arrigo, Jean Maria.
Allan, Richard, 1946-
Allingham, Fred, 1941-
Bovar, Luna, 1939-
Brody, Hal, 1944-
Gelman, Boris, 1926-
Garcia, Ernest, 1928-
Hormuth, Stefan E.
Kendall, Kenneth, 1930-
Namgyal, Tashi.
Rich, Harvey, 1930-
Rockwood, Lawrence.
Rood, Harold W.
Stapleton, Robert, 1923-
Tegtmeyer, Raye, 1919-
Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony.
Donated oral histories collection.
The Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development oral history collection was given to The Bancroft Library by Jean Maria
Arrigo on May 11, 2004.
The Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection is a series of fourteen interviews and related
papers with persons in military intelligence and civilians. A wide range of topics is covered, primarily on military and political
intelligence, and weapons research with human subjects. Other topics include human radiation experiments, nuclear testing
(including Nevada test sites), the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, South America intelligence operations, East German
Stasi operations, the Tibetan government and Chinese occupation of Tibet, Vietnam, torture interrogation, shock treatments,
and the hermaphroditism of one of the interviewees. Commentaries from relevant persons supplement several of the interviews.
Summaries of each of the oral histories follow.
The interviews were conducted by Jean Maria Arrigo beginning in 1995 under the auspices of The Project on Ethics and Art in
Testimony (PEAT). PEAT engages social science scholarship and the creative arts to develop (1) testimony of suppressed, discredited,
and unarticulated social experience, and (2) standards of fidelity and value for such testimony. PEAT advances public moral
education and organizational ethics through applied testimony from agents and victims of social violence, exploitation, and
exclusion.
The primary domains of interest of PEAT are military and political intelligence, weapons research with human subjects, man-made
disasters and traumas, and social stigma. In such domains, PEAT seeks to articulate, explore, and help resolve moral dilemmas
rather than to apply outside political pressure.