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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
i don't want to highjack the thread, but do you have examples of this?
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MKULTRA for one, a CIA project administering LSD to subjects without their knowledge or informed consent (Operation Midnight Climax is a particularily interesting sub-project) in order to test its viability as a mind-control drug. Part of their research was also done on Canadian mental patients with the help of a psychiatrist named Donald Ewen Cameron.
Some more:
From wikipedia:
In 1956 and 1957, several U.S. Army biological warfare experiments were conducted on the cities of
Savannah, Georgia and
Avon Park, Florida. In the experiments, Army bio-warfare researchers released millions of infected
mosquitoes on the two towns, in order to see if the insects could potentially spread
yellow fever and
dengue fever. Hundreds of residents contracted a wide array of illnesses, including fevers, respiratory problems, stillbirths,
encephalitis, and
typhoid. Army researchers pretended to be public health workers, so that they could photograph and perform medical tests on the victims. Several people died as a result of the experiments.
Regarding human radiation experiments:
The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or
conscientious objectors, inserting
radium rods into the noses of soldiers, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.
Better yet, just read this whole page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_e..._United_States
Most of the information seems to cite legitimate sources, and I know we should take everything on Wiki with a grain of salt, but it's convenient in this instance.
The point I'm trying to make is that while these may be decades-old examples, we are naive if we think they're not still going on, just further away from prying eyes. The US (although I'm certainly not excluding other countries) has quite a colourful history in this regard. I am interested to see, decades from now, what kind of information is released in regards to the things they are doing today.
And sorry for the hi-jack, perhaps we should start a new thread if we want to continue this discussion.