Guide to the Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection
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Guide to the Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection
Collection number: BANC MSS 2004/220 z
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- Processed by:
- Terry Boom
- Date Completed:
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Collection Summary
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
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
Information for Researchers
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is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and the copyright.
Preferred Citation
Ethics of intelligence and weapons development oral history collection. BANC MSS 2004/220 z, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Related Collections
Lawrence Rockwood papers are located at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
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-
Genres and Forms of Material
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.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development oral history collection was given to The Bancroft Library by Jean Maria
Arrigo on May 11, 2004.
Scope and Content Note
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.
Allan, Richard 1946-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1946; former U.S. Army counterintelligence officer, founder of Sacred Sources, Inc.
Oral history: February 2, 2004, Crozet, VA
As a young counterintelligence officer in Germany during the Vietnam War, Richard "Freeman" Allan supervised the investigation
of U.S. Army soldiers who had deserted and gone to foreign countries to protest the war and treatment of black soldiers. Sensitized
to oppression by his prior sojourn in a fishing village in Ecuador, he came to agree with the conscientious black deserters
he interviewed, and he subsequently promoted their cause as a civilian journalist. But Allan devotes the majority of his narrative
to the tragic lives of two unnamed veterans, close friends of his, who were spiritually devastated through participation in
covert operations. The specter of Allan's father, a major who commanded combat troops in the assault on Iwo Jima, haunts Allan's
narrative.
carton 1, folder 1
Report from a Counterintelligence Officer on Two Devastated Veterans of Covert Operations
February 2, 2004
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:1-2.
Allingham, Fred, 1941-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1941, Seattle, Washington); Executive Director of the National Association of Radiation Survivors (NARS)
Oral history: February 23 and 24, 1995, Live Oak, CA
Allingham spent seven years in the Air Force as a communications technician for the Strategic Air Command, providing communications
between bombers and command headquarters in Spain and in Guam. His father died of leukemia shortly after participating in
the Marine clean up of Nagasaki at the end of World War, and this motivated Allingham's advocacy for radiation survivors.
A professional community organizer with an M.A. in political science, Allingham has served as Executive Director of the National
Association of Radiation Survivors (NARS) since 1988. He testified before the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
at the May 18-19, 1994 hearings. The interview surveys the development of NARS, the disparagement of atomic veterans by combat
veterans, and the mistreatment of radiation survivors by government agents, including the 1993 President's Advisory Committee
on Human Radiation Experiments.
carton 1, folder 3
Vicissitudes of the National Association of Radiation Survivors
February 23, 1995
Conditions of Use
Page 17 sealed until January 1, 2013.
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:3-4.
Bovar, Laura, 1939-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1939, Ukrainian Zaporochzje, Dneiper, Soviet Union; Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Emerita, Kiev, Ukraine.
Oral history: Philadelphia, PA, October 6, 1996
As a professor of pediatric surgery in the Ukraine, Bovar studied the sharp rise in congenital defects in infants born to
Chernobyl mothers after the nuclear reactor explosion in 1986 but was forbidden to publish her research. She left the Ukraine
in 1995 under death threats attributed to Ukrainian nationalists because of her Jewish background and her resistance to mandatory
retirement for women at age 50.
carton 1, folder 5
Pediatric Surgery on Chernobyl Infants
October 6, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:5-7.
Brody, Hal, 1944-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1944, Los Angeles, CA; design engineer and anti-nuclear activist.
Oral history: January 3, 1997, San Diego, CA
Brody worked as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, then designed and manufactured electric potters' wheels for 22
years. As an expert in hot-weather backpacking, in the late 1980s, under the auspices of American Peace Test, he led a party
of four into the Nevada Test Site to delay an underground nuclear test. Brody has taken a lead role in the Quaker non-violence
training program for prison inmates, Alternatives to Violence Project. The interview contrasts nonviolent with violent approaches
to national security at the level of the individual actor.
Rood's Assessment of Brody's Narrative of Nuclear Testing, interview commentary by H.W. Rood, February 14, 1997
carton 1, folder 7
Conscientious Sabotage at the Nevada Test Site
January 3, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:8-9.
carton 1, folder 8
Rood's Assessment of Brody's Narrative of Nuclear Testing by Harold William Rood
February 14, 1997
carton 1, folder 10
A Technological Intelligence Analyst Looks at Intelligence Ethics
February 4, 2004
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:10-11.
carton 1, folder 11
Child Military Intelligence Agent
September 2-3, 2002
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (6 compact discs) shelved as BANC CD 551.
Garcia, Ernest, 1928-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1928, Jemez Springs, NM, Chairman of Contaminated Veterans of America and Member of the National Association of Radiation
Survivors
Oral history: October 21 and 22, 1995, Albuquerque, NM
Torture Interrogation of Nazis and Terrorists, special interview on the theme of torture interrogation of Nazis and terrorists: March 1, 1997
Post-War Black Operations Revisited, follow-up interview on Garcia's report of abduction of street children and Amazonian Indians for radiation experiments, with
guitar accompaniment by John Crigler: June 6, 2001, Albuquerque, NM
The Military Chaplaincy and Spiritual Problems of Covert Operators, follow-up interview on spiritual distress following operations, preparatory to the Chaplain Service School Instructor training
sponsored by the TRADOC Chaplain, January 28, 2003, Springfield, VA.
Garcia was a covert operator in a U.S. Army unit assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War
II. He served officially for five years, primarily in Central and South America, but refers to participation in later operations.
At Edgewood Arsenal, MD, and elsewhere, Garcia reported he was subjected to radiation, biochemical, and psychochemical tests,
which devastated his health. His wife suffered six miscarriages and stillbirths. The interview focuses on (a) the participation
of scientists in weapons development using human subjects, (b) on Garcia's victimization, and (c) on Garcia's moral agency,
including his uninformed abduction of South American street children and remote indigenous peoples for fatal radiation experiments
in a preliminary stage of
Operation Sunshine. Garcia gave testimony to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments on January 30, 1995, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rood's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations, interview commentary by H. W. Rood, November 8, 1995
Stapleton's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations, interview commentary by R. Stapleton, December 16 and 17, 1995
Written commentary by N. Weissman, independent documentary filmmaker for the Army War College and other government agencies:
March 7, 1999 [1 page].
Written commentary by R. Schulmann, Director, Einstein Papers Project, Boston University: March 19, 1999 [1/2 page].
Written commentary by R.W. Seidel, Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Computing, University
of Minnesota: March 20 1999 [1/2 page].
Ely's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations, interview commentary by H. Ely, retired Chief of the Soviet Research and Development Plans Branch at the U.S. Army National
Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville, VA, and founder of the Eneagram Institute of Albermarle, VA: December 19, 2003
[not transcribed.]
carton 1, folder 12
Post-War Black Operations in South America
October 22, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (4 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:12-15.
carton 1, folder 13
Torture Interrogation of Nazis and Terrorists
March 1, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:16.
carton 1, folder 14
Post-War Black Operations Revisited
June 3, 2001
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:17-19.
carton 1, folder 15
The Military Chaplaincy and Spiritual Problems of Covert Operators
December 1, 2003
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:20.
carton 1, folder 16
Rood's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations by Harold William Rood
November 8, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:21-22.
carton 1, folder 17
Stapleton's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations by Robert Stapleton
December 16-17, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:23-24.
carton 1, folder 18
Ely's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations
December 9, 2003
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:25.
Gelman, Boris, 1926-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1926, Korosteny, Ukraine; electrical engineer for power plants, retired, Luvov, Ukraine.
Oral history: October 5, 7, and 8, 1996, Philadelphia, PA.
Gelman enlisted in the Soviet army in 1943, fought in the Battle of the Order, and participated in the occupation of Prague.
His patriotic service earned him the opportunity of post-war education, but he was driven from his field of community theater
because of his Jewish background. Subsequently, he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and developed a specialty
in high voltage systems. He led work teams to power plants in the Ukraine, Hungary, and elsewhere, to install and maintain
automated safety systems. His specialty was high voltage. After the Chernobyl explosion in 1986, Gelman was summoned to reactivate
a power substation to provide electricity for building a 70-story "sarcophagus" to contain the radiation. The interview explores
the interaction among politics, engineering, and anti-Semitism. The radiation exposure devastated Gelman's health, and he
immigrated to the United States in 1993.
Hull's Assessment of Gelman's Narrative of the Chernobyl Cleanup, interview commentary by David Hull, March 6, 1997, Claremont, CA
As a physical anthropologist working for a private corporation, Hull had developed "medical phantoms" (dummies) to train x-ray
technicians without exposing humans to radiation. The U.S. Navy purchased the phantoms for assorted radiological purposes.
Hull assesses the scientific and medical aspects of Gelman's Chernobyl report.
carton 1, folder 20
A Jewish Engineer's Experience of the Chernobyl Clean-up
October 5, 7, and 8, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (4 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:26-29.
carton 1, folder 21
Hull's Assessment of Gelman's Narrative of the Chernobyl Clean up. Interview with David Hull.
March 16, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:30.
Hormuth, Stefan E.
Scope and Content Note
Born 1949, Heidelberg, West Germany; Professor of Psychology, University of Dresden (now President of the University of Giessen).
Oral history: December 13, 1996; University of California, Irvine, CA
As a West German social psychologist, Hormuth took a major role in the reconstitution of East German universities after the
reunification of Germany. He was privy to parts of the political-moral review to remove from psychology departments the faculty
members who had collaborated with the East German secret police. The interview focuses on his social psychological understanding
of the review process.
Written commentary by former East German Professor Lothar Sprung, Ph.D., Humboldt: September 4, 2000 University, Berlin, Germany
[1 page].
carton 1, folder 23
Stasi Collaboration by East German Professors - Moral Assessment in an Institutional Context
December 13, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:31-32.
carton 1, folder 24
Written commentary on the Oral History of Stefan Hormuth by Lothar and Helga Sprung
September 4, 2000
Kendall, Kenneth, 1930-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1930, Marion, Illinois; Steel mill crane operator, retired, and Regional Vice-President of NARS
Oral history: January 14, 1996; April 6, 1997
Torture Interrogation in the Korean War, special interview on the theme of torture interrogation in the Korean War and of terrorists: April 6, 1996
Following heavy combat in the Korean War and trauma in the Hungnan Evacuation, Kendall served as a mechanic and chauffeur
in the scientists' motor pool at the Nevada Test Site. The radiation exposure resulted in severe consequences to his health
and may account for the unusual deaths of two children in infancy and the unusual illnesses of two daughters and a grandson.
Kendall testified before the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments on October 21, 1994.
Interview commentary by Mildred Kendall, wife: January 28, 1996 [1/2hour telephone interview to Portage, Indiana; unintelligible
recording.]
Effects of my Father's Radiation Exposure at the Nevada Test Site, interview commentary by Karen Batson, daughter: February 4, 1996, Evergreen CO
Karen Batson, born in 1957, daughter of Kenneth Kendall, discusses family issues pertaining to her father's army service at
the Nevada Test Site, such as his belief his irradiation resulted in the early deaths of two children and her own inordinate
medical problems and the deep silence between her and her father. She also considers her father's traumatization in the Korean
War.
carton 1, folder 25
My Life - Not the Lives of My Children - for My Country
January 14, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:33-35.
carton 1, folder 26
Torture Interrogation in the Korean War
April 6, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:36-37.
carton 1, folder 28
Effects of My Father's Radiation Exposure at the Nevada Test Site. Interview with Karen Kendall Batson
February 4, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:38. [Recording on side 2 with Kendall's wife Mildred is
defective]
Mercier, Paul [pseudonym]
carton 1, folder 29
Telephone interview regarding Vietnam experience as an Army medic
August 24, 27, 2003
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:39-40.
Conditions of Use
Tapes 39-40 sealed until January 1, 2019.
Namgyal, Tashi, 1952-
Scope and Content Note
Born approx. 1952, Eastern Tibet, Joint Secretary of the Department of Security for the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, 1998-1999;
Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Nepal, 1993-1998; 1992-1993 Deputy Secretary, Department of Health, Central
Tibetan Administration.
Oral history: January 15 and 16, 2000, Seattle, Washington.
The army of the Peoples Republic of China overran the nomadic encampment of Namgyal's family around 1958 and left him orphaned.
The interview covers the brutalities and organization of the Chinese occupation; Namgyal's early escape and two-year trek
across Tibet with neighbors; his education and care at the CIA-supported Tibetan guerilla camp at Mustang, Nepal; his trek
to India with Tibetan children destined for schools established by the Indian government; their meeting with the Dalai Lama;
Namgyal's high school and college education; and his 25 years of service to the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Supplementary materials include recordings of Namgyal's addresses at the Athenaeum Claremont McKenna College, on September
27, 2000, and at the Santa Monica Zen Center, on September 28, 2000, with audience discussion.
carton 1, folder 30
Sanctity-Security Dilemma for the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
January 15-16, 2000
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (4 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:41-44.
Rich, Harvey, 1930-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1930, Montreal, Canada; Professor of Political Sociology, Emeritus, University of Calgary, Canada
October 5 and 6, 1996, Philadelphia, PA
Following a difficult childhood during the depression, Rich had been a Zionist youth leader in Montreal. In 1953, exhaustion
from his political activities led to his voluntary, two-month commitment to Allan Memorial Hospital in Montreal, directed
by Ewen Cameron (later exposed as an MKULTRA researcher for the CIA). As a patient of one of Cameron's assistants, Rich was
subjected to thirteen electroshock and insulin shock treatments, without anesthesia. He afterwards embarked on a career as
a political sociologist.
carton 1, folder 32
Shock Treatments at Ewen Cameron's Allen Memorial Institute
October 5, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:45-47.
Rockwood, Lawrence
Scope and Content Note
Born 1958; former U.S. Army Captain in counterintelligence; lecturer in American history.
Two major themes alternate in Lawrence Rockwood's oral history: military life and religious practice. From a family dedicated
to military service since the Civil War, Rockwood, like his father, began as an enlisted man and rose to officer, to democratize
the officer elite. Raised as a Catholic by his mother, Rockwood aspired to be a monk, spent a year in seminary, suffered a
religious crisis, and later transitioned to Buddhist practice under two Tibetan lamas. As head of U.S. Army counterintelligence
during the 1994 United Nations intervention in Haiti, Capt. Rockwood conducted an unauthorized human rights inspection of
a prison where Haitian political prisoners were tortured and murdered by the outgoing regime. The narrative explores the circumstances
of this action, his court martial, and the moral significance.
carton 1, folder 33
Moral and Spiritual Initiative by a Counterintelligence Officer
November 18, 2003
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (4 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:48-51.
Scope and Content Note
Interview of April 4, 2004 (3 sound cassettes) shelved As Phonotape 3713 C:52-54.
Rood, Harold William, 1922-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1922; W. M. Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA.
Oral history: January 7, 2001, Claremont, CA. Interview jointly conducted by J.M. Arrigo and Grant Marler, doctoral candidate
in philosophy at Claremont Graduate University and former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer.
Rood's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations, interview commentary on Ernest Garcia: November 8, 1995, Claremont, CA
Interview commentary on Robert Stapleton: June 3 and November 29, 1995, Claremont, CA
Rood's Views on Torture Interrogation of Terrorists, interview commentary on the theme of torture interrogation: February 27, 1997, Claremont, CA
A World War II forward observer in an U.S. Army infantry unit, Rood later served as an intelligence analyst and an instructor
in field interrogation at military colleges. He also participated in preparation of a military handbook on the effects of
nuclear weapons. The oral history tracks moral themes in Rood's professional life as World War II soldier, later Army intelligence
officer, and professor of history, government, and political science.
Interview commentary by Robert Stapleton: December 17, 1995, Ventura, CA
carton 1, folder 35
Rood's Views on Torture Interrogation of Terrorists
February 27, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:55-57.
carton 1, folder 36
Moral Development of an Intelligence Officer in the Clash of Civilizations
January 9, 2001
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:58-59.
Conditions of Use
Page 25 and tape 59 sealed until January 1, 2020.
Stapleton, Robert, 1923-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1923, Minnesota; retired U.S. Air Force officer and First Vice President of NARS.
Oral history: June 3 and 4, 1995, Ventura, CA.
Stapleton's Assessment of Garcia's Narratives of Black Operations, interview commentary on Ernest Garcia; Stapleton's
Assessment of Tegtmeyer's Narrative of the Nevada Test Site, interview commentary on Raye Tegtmeyer; and Stapleton's
Response to Rood's Assessment of Stapleton's Nuclear Test Site Narratives, interview commentary on H.W. Rood: December 16 and 17, 1995, Ventura, CA
A career U.S. Air Force pilot, Stapleton ferried scientists by helicopter at the South Pacific and Nevada Test Sites during
35 nuclear tests. In the Korean War and the Cuban missile crisis he analyzed aerial photographs for Air Force intelligence.
After retirement, Stapleton became an independent nuclear activist and an advocate for native peoples harmed in the course
of nuclear weapons development. Stapleton testified before the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments on January
30, 1995, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rood's Assessment of Stapleton's Narrative of Nuclear Testing, interview commentary by H.W. Rood: November 29, 1995, Claremont, CA
carton 1, folder 38
A U.S. Air Force Pilot's Witness to Devastation of Native Lands and Peoples in Nuclear Testing
June 3-4, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (4 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:60-63.
carton 1, folder 39
Rood's Assessment of Stapleton's Narrative of Nuclear Testing. Interview with Harold William Rood
November 29, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:64.
carton 1, folder 40
Stapleton's Response to Rood's Assessment
December 17, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:65.
Tegtmeyer, Raye, 1919-
Scope and Content Note
Born 1919, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Life Member of the National Association of Radiation Survivors
Oral history: July 13 and 16, 1995, Albuquerque, NM
Loyalty to Country and Betrayal by Country, Revisited, follow up interview, January 2, 2001.
Tegtmeyer was a career U.S. Air Force safety director and undercover intelligence officer, assisted by a photographic memory.
He served at the Berlin Airlift and the Nevada Test Site, where he charted fall-out patterns. From 1950 to 1959 he was both
a witting and unwitting subject of radiation experiments, with devastating consequences to his health and family relationships.
The interview explores Tegtmeyer's agency and victimization in nuclear weapons development, with the recurring theme of his
experience as a congenital hermaphrodite in military settings.
Interview commentary by Ernest Garcia: October 22, 1995
Stapleton's Assessment of Tegtmeyer's Narratives of the Nevada Test Site, interview commentary by Robert Stapleton, December 16, 1995
My Trip to the Trinity Test Site with Major Raye Tegtmeyer, interview report by Nellie Amondson, Professor of Mathematics, San Diego Community College, on her day trip with R. Tegtmeyer
to Trinity Test Site and to his former home at Kirkland Air Force Base: July 17, 1995, Albuquerque, NM.
Amondson, born in 1922, was present during the initial oral history interview of Raye Tegtmeyer at the 1995 conference of
the National Association of Radiation Survivors in Albuquerque, NM. She accompanied Raye Tegtmeyer on a conference field trip
to Trinity Test Site and afterward to Kirkland Air Force base, where he had served. Amondson's account reaches more deeply
into Tegtmeyer's life as a dedicated military man who found himself changing gender in middle age after nine years of radiation
experiments.
carton 1, folder 42
Loyalty to Country and Betrayal by Country
July 13, 16, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (3 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:66-68.
carton 1, folder 43
Additional interviews
1995, 2004
Scope and Content Note
Original interviews (2 sound cassettes) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:69-70.
carton 1, folder 44
My Trip to the Trinity Test Site with Major Ray Tegtmeyer. Interview with Nellie Amondson.
July 17, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:71.
carton 1, folder 45
Commentary on Raye Tegtmeyer. Excerpt from Ernest Garcia Interview.
October 22, 1995
carton 1, folder 46
Stapleton's Assessment of Tegtmeyer's Narratives of the Nevada Test Site. Interview with Robert Stapleton.
December 16, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Original interview (1 sound cassette) shelved as Phonotape 3713 C:72.
carton 1, folder 48
God, Country, Honor, Family. Autobiography of Raye Tegtmeyer
2000