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Lethal Kinship

A report on the chimpanzees of The Coulston Foundation

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Introduction

It has all the drama of a whodunit page-turner.  “Unintended” deaths.  Federal agents.  Cover-ups.  Government bailouts.  Whistleblowers. Sexual harassment.  Grim medical experiments.  Unlicensed doctors.  Citizen lawsuits.  Missing videotape.  Financial disaster. 

And behind it all an elderly “Dr. Strangelove,” who maintains that “DDT is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, and it doesn’t thin bird eggs” and that “lead levels in the blood have no effect on intelligence.” (The New York Times, February 4, 1997)

Sound like a Tony Hillerman whodunit?   No, it’s The Coulston Foundation (TCF), an animal testing laboratory in Alamogordo, New Mexico.  How its founder—toxicologist Frederick Coulston--came to “manage” the world’s largest captive chimpanzee colony—650 at its peak-- is a tragi-comedy authored mainly by the United States government. 

 

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