According to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, a recently aired Danish documentary called "Looking for Self", disclosed The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) suspected of funding a secret human experiment on 311 Danish children in the 1960s. Most of these children were adopted or from orphanages and were never informed of the specific purpose of the experiment. reported that the experiment was secretly conducted in the basement of Copenhagen Municipal Hospital to study the link between schizophrenia and genetic or environmental. The project was funded by US medical institutions and received support from 4.6 million Danish kroner this year in the first year alone. A foundation that operates behind CIA has also provided substantial funding for the project. The idea of the project originated from an American psychologist, but because it is difficult to find a suitable "sample" in the United States, American institutions have turned their attention to Denmark and collaborated with a Danish psychiatrist named Fini Shursinger to conduct decades of research in Denmark. Danish Broadcasting Company report screenshot Documentary director and one of the experiment witnesses Per Winnick tells the story of his childhood in the laboratory. Winnick said when he was 11, he was asked if he wanted to do something "funny" at Copenhagen Municipal Hospital. In order to get rid of the boring life in the orphanage, Winnick agreed to this request, and he also received 16 Danish kroner. But the experiments conducted underground in the hospital exceeded his expectations. Winnick recalled that he needed to undergo a series of "tests" regularly, and what he remembered most was an experiment to test whether children had "psychopathy". In this experiment, Winnik was asked to sit in a chair with electrodes tied to him and was forced to listen to the loud and harsh noise. Image from the second episode of the documentary
"This is very uncomfortable. This is not only something I have experienced, but also a common experience for many children." Winnick said, "I think this violates my civil rights. I think it's strange that some people know more about me than myself."
This shocking children's experiment was disclosed, thanks to Winnick's courage to find the truth. It was reported that until more than three years ago, Winnick accidentally saw an experiment in an American documentary that studied the connection between mental problems and genetics or environment, which reminded him of his own experience, and he was determined to figure out what he had experienced as a child.
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After searching for a large number of old public documents and materials, Winnik finally "followed the clues" and found some information at the time in the Denmark National Archives. This shows that the underground research of Copenhagen Municipal Hospital was funded by American medical institutions.
reported that the project received about DAKK 300,000 to DAKK 400,000 in the first year alone, which is equivalent to DAKK 4.6 million today. Winnik noticed that an institution called the Human Ecology Foundation is also the main funder of the project, which is operated behind the scenes by the CIA.
However, Winnick's investigation into his "shadow of childhood" finally hit a wall. Danish Broadcasting Corporation mentioned that Winnik learned that the Glostrup Psychiatry Center in Vidovour, Denmark, had some research materials stored, , but when he applied to check the materials, the center began to destroy relevant materials. Met Betelson Fredsgarde, head of the center of
, explained to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation that they realized that the storage time of relevant documents had been "exceeded the deadline", so they needed to crush the files as soon as possible to avoid violating relevant regulations.
In response, Kent Christensen, associate professor of health law at the University of Southern Denmark criticized: "It is not reasonable for the institution to insist on destroying the documents after Winnik applied to review the materials, which deprived the victims of the opportunity to explore their past experiences."
Historical researcher Jacob Knatch Rasmussen of the Social Welfare Museum in Svenburg, Denmark, said that he has been exposed to many records of orphanages, , but this is the first time that there are records that children in orphanages in Denmark are used for "research".
"I have never heard of this before, whether in Denmark or throughout Scandinavia. This shocking news clearly violates the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which puts clear ethical restrictions on human trials. The code requires subjects to be informed and voluntarily agreed to the experiment, which is the core principle of research in today's world," Rasmussen said.
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