By R. C. Rivaz

First released in 1943, this is often the gripping tale of 1 man's involvement in RAF Bomber Command's fledgling offensive among August 1940 and December 1941. Dick Rivaz used to be tail gunner to Leonard Cheshire, probably the most well-known RAF pilots of the second one global conflict, flying in Whiteleys with 102 Squadron and latterly in Halifaxes with 35 Squadron. certain between wartime memoirs, Tail Gunner was once written inside of months of the occasions defined, with all of the immediacy of being on the very middle of the motion. Rivaz graphically describes his reviews on evening bombing assaults opposed to seriously defended enemy pursuits like Duisberg, Dusseldorf and Essen, and relates a dramatic shoot-out with German combatants over l. a. Rochelle in large sunlight in the course of July 1941. Rivaz unearths the tremendous spirit of comradeship wich constructed in RAF bomber crews in the course of the moment international struggle. Having survived the battle, together with rescues from the North Sea, he was once killed in October 1945, elderly simply thirty-seven.

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The US Army tried to develop nonlethal biological agents that could be used as safe simulants for a real bioweapons attack on the US population. The most commonly used simulants were serratia marcescens and bacillus subtilis (bacillus globii) (Cole, 1988, 167). These two microorganisms were sprayed as aerosols in combination fluorescent particles from ships on six separate tests, lasting 30 minutes each, in the San Francisco Bay in a simulated biowarfare attack during 20th and 27th September 1950 (Cole, 1988: 79).

PBS, 2013) What became clear from the chemical and biowarfare simulations of this era is that populations are highly vulnerable to such attacks and that attacks could be conducted covertly without anybody noticing until it was too late. 3╇ Electromagnetic ‘mind control’ research In the 1950s, the primary emphasis of CIA mind control research was on the use of psychoactive drugs, especially LSD. However, several MK ULTRA subprojects also investigated the influence of electromagnetic fields and waves on brains and behaviour.

Details regarding Olson’s mysterious death first emerged in a 1976 newspaper story, which led to a lawsuit by Olson’s family against the CIA. The Agency admitted to negligence. They had to apologize to the family and offered $750,000 in an out-╉of-╉court settlement, which the family accepted (Bowart, 1978: 89).  Starrs from George Washington University seems to have provided some ambiguous forensic evidence that the scientist was indeed murdered: he ‘had an unexplained lump on his forehead’.

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