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The acronym stands for Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center – now known as the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI).
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“A component of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The role of [AFMIC / NCMI] is described in DoD Instruction 6420.01. Headquartered at Fort Detrick, Maryland, [its] mission is to monitor, track and assess health events that could negatively impact the health of U.S. military and civilian populations.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Medical_Intelligence
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Connection with the Manhattan Project…
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[In] 1944 the medical team of the Manhattan Project, headed by Stafford Warren, concluded that a controlled experiment on humans was necessary. They came up with a plan to inject radioactive elements, including polonium, plutonium, and uranium, into civilian patients around the country. Between April 1945 and July 1947, eighteen subjects were injected with plutonium, six with uranium, five with polonium, and at least one with americium. The experiments were performed at Manhattan Project-affiliated hospitals in Rochester, New York; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois; and San Francisco, California.
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/human-radiation-experiments
Telegram from Robert M. Fink to Dr. Wright Langham (11/30/1945)
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H.P.-3 AND H.P.-4 INJECTED TUESDAY, NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVENTH. H.P.-5 INJECTED FRIDAY, NOVEMBER THIRTIETH.
To begin to decode this message, one would have had to know the occupations of the sender and recipients: Robert M. Fink was a physician at the University of Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital, where the toxicity of radioactive isotopes was being studied; Wright Langham, a chemist, led the Biological Research Division at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a nuclear weapon was being secretly developed as part of the Manhattan Project; and Louis Hempelmann was a physician and director of the Health Group at Los Alamos. “H.P.” was an abbreviation for the disconcerting term human product. Human products 3, 4, and 5 were patients at Strong Memorial, and they had been injected with plutonium without their consent as part of a highly sensitive experiment to determine the effects of the new element on the human body. Fifteen additional patients were subjected to the experiment at other hospitals—at the University of California, at the University of Chicago, and in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. All four locations were Manhattan Project sites.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/physicians-of-the-manhattan-project
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