Overseas military labs build influence and are not purely scientific

Evidence

Albania was an experimental animal. (“Our ‘allies’ wanted to make use of Albania as a guinea pig, without caring about human losses,” said one survivor, Abas Ermenji.) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 349 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The CIA treated foreign nations as laboratories for experimentation. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 349; Institute research projects often served tactical legitimacy-building aims rather than pure science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 688

Broader Connections

• The CIA treated foreign nations as laboratories for experimentation. #corroborates (0.65) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 349