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incautioua experiments.
I thought they were morally
wrong.
SSH:
Are you talking now about the human experiments?
KGS:
Yes.
SSH:
And he went ahead and did those.
KGS:
Yes, he did, and hé did the first one with my help.
SSH:
That was the plutonium?
KGS:
Plutonium-248, which we gave to this nice man who was
scheduled for stomach surgery.
They were suregp Earl
Miller, for example, was surethat he had cancer of the
stomach$” nd his probable survival wasn't very great),
he was 55, maybe, ora) when I first found him.
(and?
we injected him with plutonium-238, and the story of it is
that he didn't have a cancer that anyone could demonstrates
Earl Miller got very upset withSiew knd looked for days
at slides of thie man's post~op remains cx and he just
didn't have it. ‘I got very interested in him as a person,
and I contracted§/through the laboratoryto buy all of
his urine and feces, for which he would get a monthly
check.
GFve would go up once a weeksf/and pick it up,?
ih
ose.
ama acid carbolim in various bottles we left up there
with him.
SSE:
.
Never told him.
SSE:
KGS:
What waa the-outcome?
Finally, the Laboratory wouldn't pay for hia feces anymore.
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He was in excellent health.
His sister was a nurse and
iy
“Kgs:
Did he know what was going on?