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It has all the drama of a whodunnit page-turner. “Unintended” chimp 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 maintained 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 more twisted than a Tony Hillerman whodunnit? No, it’s the true story of the Coulston Foundation (TCF), a former research laboratory that subjected hundreds of animals to experiments 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 horror story authored mainly by the United States government.
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