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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:
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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

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“Kgs:

Did he know what was going on?

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