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

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Summary

Title:
Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development Oral History Collection,
Dates:
1995-2003
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
Preferred citation:

Ethics of intelligence and weapons development oral history collection. BANC MSS 2004/220 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Terry Boom.
Date Prepared:
© 2004
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by James Lake. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: November 2004.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Portions of the collection are restricted. See container listing for details.

Terms of access:

Copyright has been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the appropriate curator or the Head of Public Services for forwarding. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and the copyright.

Preferred citation:

Ethics of intelligence and weapons development oral history collection. BANC MSS 2004/220 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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