Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection, 1995-2003

Summary

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.

Extent:

Number of containers: 1 carton, 72 sound cassettes, 6 compact discs Linear feet: 1.25

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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