The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage

for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert

government operations over the course of three decades. Following a

trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical

journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical

secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK

assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into coverups of

cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS

virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.