FOIA Request on Informed Consent in Research Involving Radiation to Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2015 Never Acknowledged

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I hereby request the following records:

For all ongoing, currently-underway bio-medical, bio-behavioral, behavioral, socio-behavioral neuroscience, sociological, psychological, psychiatric or other scientific research/experimentation/clinical trial projects in Massachusetts involving the use/effects of radiation, whether ionizing or non-ionizing, and therefore the use of radiology, and using “human subjects,” whether classified or unclassified, covert or overt, “witting” or “unwitting;” and funded fully or partly by any Government agency such as an agency of Justice/Intelligence/Defense/Air Force/Navy/Special Ops, including but not limited to DARPA, DIA, CIA, NSA, DHS, FBI, and being run either jointly with a Justice/Defense/Intelligence agency or contractor or separately, at research institutions, hospitals, medical centers, and Universities studying any of the following, for any purpose whatsoever:

1) Physical or mental or neurological or psychological disease onset and/or progression and/or outcomes/effects involving any human organ/any part of the human anatomy–whether cancer, COPD, macular degeneration, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, liver disease, depression, schizophrenia, or any other disease or medical/psychological condition/syndrome whatsoever;

2) Human bio-effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation–such as radio and microwave frequencies, scalar waves, and sonic/ultrasonic waves;

3) The use of radiology/genetics/radiogenetics/histology/pathology to determine tissue/gene/plasma/cell degradation due to the application of radio-frequencies;

4) Human bio-effects of directed-energy weapons;

5) Human bio-effects of Radio Frequency neurotechnology or neuroweaponry;

6) Human bio-effects of nanotechnology, and/or radio frequency RFID nanotechnology, and/or MEM (microelectricmechanical) systems

7) Human behavioral effects on individuals and groups of covert or overt military/ civilian PsyOps or psychological/behavioral stimuli;

8) Human behavioral effects on individuals, groups, and networks of Artificial Intelligence-created, run, or controlled scenarios;

Please Provide:

a) A list of all such research projects being conducted in Massachusetts, naming both the project, research institution, and source of funding.

b) The complete contract including the Statement of Work with the researching institution or university detailing the research project in full, the Principal Investigators, and the exact methodology of research.

c) Documentation of the nature of classification or openness of the project, and information on whether human subjects are voluntary or involuntary, witting or unwitting, aware or unaware, informed or uninformed by means of actual and complete research project information actually being provided to them.

d)Documentation of Informed Consent from all “human subjects” being experimented on, to include lists of human subjects, and clear evidence of informed consent from each individual subject.

e)Documentation of Compliance with Informed Consent Rules such as the Belmont Report, to include any Massachusetts rules for compliance, Federal Wide Assurances signed by the Office of Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services, and other Assurances from Institutional Review Boards involved; with further information on the constitution and operation of the relevant IRB.

f) Documentation of Exemptions to Informed Consent, and detailed information as to the reason for the exemptions, and who grants the exemptions, and on what basis, in respect to which public statute or law.

g) Documentation of Waivers to Informed Consent from the Secretary of the Department of Defense, if such exist, with specific reference to the public statute or law permitting such waivers.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest, as suggested but not stipulated by the recommendations of the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

I expect the request to be filled in an accessible format, including for screen readers, which provide text-to-speech for persons unable to read print. Files that are not accessible to screen readers include, for example, .pdf image files as well as physical documents.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Ramola Dharmaraj

2. Reminder of FOIA request sent in November, 2015: