Random Most Unethical US Government Experiments On Humans (13 items)

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  (#5) The US Government Approved Spraying Deadly Chemicals Over American Cities

  Showing once again that the US tends to test worse-case scenarios by getting to them first, the US military and the CIA conducted a series of biochemical warfare simulations upon American cities to see how the effects would play out in the event of an actual chemical attack.

  They conducted the following campaigns, without public knowledge:
   

  • In 1950, the US Navy sprayed bacterial pathogens in the sky above San Francisco; it claimed the bacteria were harmless, but many people developed respiratory infections, with at least one fatal case.
  • The CIA released whooping cough virus in 1955 near Tampa, FL, using boats, and nearly caused an epidemic. Twelve people succumbed to the illness.
  • Between 1956 and 1958, the US Army unleashed millions of mosquitoes carrying the yellow fever virus in the vicinity of Savannah, GA, and Avon Park, FL. The resulting infections caused many people to suffer acute and chronic symptoms including fevers, bronchitis, encephalitis, and stillbirths. Adding insult to injury, Army personnel, posing as public health workers, arrived after each swarm to photograph, document, and test victims, after which they simply left.
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  (#11) Operation Midnight Climax Was Even More Than What It Sounds Like

  Here's a government experiment that, when you Google it, has completely different image results from its web results. Operation Midnight Climax involved safe houses in San Francisco, built to study LSD's effects on unaware individuals. The CIA enlisted the help of prostitutes to lure men to the houses, where the ladies slipped them LSD so agents could study the drug's effects via two-way mirrors and hidden microphones. 

  Furthermore, it's alleged that those who ran the so-called “CIA carnal operations” enjoyed their assignment perhaps a bit more than they should have. According to George White, a high-ranking member of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics: “I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun!”
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  (#8) American Prison Inmates Were Agent Orange Guinea Pigs

  With funding he received from the US Army and the Dow chemical company (main producer of Agent Orange), Dr. Albert Kligman used prisoners at Pennsylvania's Holmesburg Prison as subjects in what was deemed “dermatological research.” The dermatology aspect was testing the effects of Agent Orange (a highly toxic dioxin plus two forms of acetic acid) on human skin. 

  Kligman injected dioxin into non-consenting prisoners to study its effects, which included severe, disfiguring skin lesions as well as respiratory issues. He allegedly exposed his subjects to more than 400 times the “recommended safe dosage” of the chemical. His documentation, if any, has never come to light. He did, however, describe a goal of “learn[ing] how the skin protects itself against chronic assault from toxic chemicals, the so-called hardening process.”

  He even described his excitement when presented with his incarcerated test subjects from Holmesburg: 

  All I saw before me were acres of skin… It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time.
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  (#7) Operation Paperclip

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  Following WWII, the American government covertly instituted Operation Paperclip, a program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency and Office of Strategic Services in which approximately 1,600 German scientists and engineers (and their families) from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries were brought to the US for employment.

  This took place in part to keep German scientific expertise and knowledge from the Soviet Union and to keep post-war Germany from redeveloping its military research capabilities. The US government "bleached" the scientists of their Nazi ties, removing and/or destroying any documents or records tying them to the party.

  Any Germans had special skills or knowledge were taken to detention centers, to be held and interrogated. Some were then driven to countryside towns without actual research facilities; they received stipends to purchase necessities, but also received orders to check in at police headquarters twice weekly, ostensibly to prevent them from trying to leave. A US Joint Chiefs of Staff directive stated they should only be released "after all interested agencies were satisfied that all desired intelligence information had been obtained from them."
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  (#9) An American Oncologist Infected Puerto Ricans With Cancer

  In the early 1930s, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, an oncologist, was sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute to conduct experiments in Puerto Rico. He infected citizens with cancer cells, presumably to study the effects. Thirteen of them didn't survive. Even more striking is the doctor's lack of compassion: 

  They [Puerto Ricans] are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. It makes you sick to inhabit the same island with them. They are even lower than Italians.

  It's not clear how someone of Rhoads's caliber was appointed to the US Atomic Energy Commission to study the effects of radiation - but it happened all the same. In the 1970s, the American Association for Cancer Research even created the annual Cornelius Rhoads award to recognize exemplary cancer researchers. In 2003, however, the program ceased.
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  (#1) Project MKUltra, Subproject 68 Involved Child Abuse

  The CIA-run Project MKUltra (also written MK-Ultra) paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, AKA experiments involving mind-altering substances. The entire goal of the project was to look into methods of influencing and controlling people's minds and extracting information from resisting minds.

  To accomplish this, the doctor took patients admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital's Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal (mostly for issues like bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders) and conducted "therapy" on them - treatment that was life-altering and scarring.

  Between 1957 and 1964, Cameron administered electroconvulsive therapy as frequently as twice daily, as opposed to the recommended limit of three times a week. He would put patients into drug-induced comas and play back tapes of simple statements or repetitive noises over and over again.

  The victims often lost the ability to speak, forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia. All of this was performed on Canadian citizens because the CIA wasn’t willing to risk such operations on Americans. To ensure funding, Cameron experimented upon admitted children, and in one situation filmed a child engaging in intimate acts with high-ranking government officials, thus securing himself a valuable bargaining chip - blackmail.

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