By Robert Wabash
The U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane and grisly experiments on humans without their consent and often without their knowledge. Here are the 13 most evil, for lack of a better word, cases of human-testing as conducted by the United States of America.
1. Mind Control, Child Abuse – Project MKULTRA, Subproject 68
The CIA-ran Project
MKULTRA paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, which would be
experiments involving mind-altering substances. The entire goal of the project
was to probe examination into methods of influencing and controlling the mind
and being able to extract information from resisting minds. So in order to accomplish
this, the doctor took patients admitted to his Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal and conducted
“therapy” on them. The patients were mostly taken in for issues like bi-polar
depression and anxiety disorders. The treatment they received was life-altering
and scarring. In the period he was paid for (1957 – 1964) Cameron administered
electroconvulsive therapy at 30-40 times the normal power. He would put
patients into a drug-induced coma for months on-end and playback tapes of
simple statements or repetitive noises over and over again.
The victims forgot how to talk,
forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia. And all of this was
performed on Canadian citizens because the CIA wasn’t willing to risk such
operations on Americans. To ensure that the project remained funded, Cameron,
in one scheme, took his experiments upon admitted children and in one situation
had the child engage in sex with high-ranking government officials and film it.
He and other MKULTRA officers would blackmail the officials to ensure more
funding.
2. Mustard Gas Tested on Soldiers via Involuntary Gas Chambers
As bio-weapon
research intensified in the 1940′s, officials also began testing its
repercussions and defenses on the Army itself. In order to test the effectiveness
of various bio-weapons, officials were known to have sprayed mustard gas and
other skin-burning, lung-ruining chemicals, like Lewisite, on soldiers without
their consent or knowledge of the experiment happening to them. They also
tested the effectiveness of gas masks and protective clothing by locking
soldiers in a gas chamber and exposing them to mustard gas and lewisite,
evoking the gas chamber image of Nazi Germany.
EFFECTS OF LEWISITE:
Lewisite is a gas that can easily penetrate clothing and even rubber. Upon
contact with the skin, the gas immediately causes extreme pain, itching,
swelling and even a rash. Large, fluid-filled blisters develop 12 hours after
exposure in the form of intensely severe chemical burns. And that’s just skin
contact with the gas.
Inhaling of the gas causes a burning
pain in the lungs, sneezing, vomiting, and pulmonary edema.
EFFECTS OF MUSTARD GAS: Symptomless
until about 24 hours after exposure, Mustard Gas has mutagenic and carcinogenic
properties that have killed many subjected to it. Its primary effects include
severe burns that turn into yellow-fluid-leaking boils over a period of time.
Although treatment is available, Mustard Gas burns heal very, very slowly and
are extremely painful. The burns the gas leaves on the skin are sometimes
irreparable.
It was also rumored that along with
the soldiers, patients at VA hospitals were being used as guinea pigs for
medical experiments involving bio-warfare chemicals, but that all experiments
were changed to be known as “observations” to ward off suspicions.
3. U.S. Grants Immunity to Involuntary-Surgery Monster
As head of Japan’s
infamous Unit 731 (a covert biological and chemical warfare research and
development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World
War II), Dr. Shiro Ishii (head of medicine) carried out violent human
experimentation of tens of thousands during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World
War II. Ishii was responsible for testing vivisection techniques without
any anesthesia on human prisoners. For the uninitiated, vivisection is the act
of conducting experimental surgery on living creatures (with central
nervousness) and examining their insides for scientific purposes.
So basically, he was giving unnecessary surgery to prisoners by opening them all the way up, keeping them alive and not using any anesthetic. During these experiments he would also force pregnant women to abort their babies. He also subjected his prisoners to change in physiological conditions and inducing strokes, heart attacks, frost bite, and hypothermia. Ishii considered these subjects “logs”.
Following imminent defeat in 1945, Japan blew up
the Unity 731 complex and Ishii ordered all the remaining “logs” to be
executed. Not soon after, Ishii was arrested. And then, the respected General
Douglas McArthur allegedly struck a deal with Ishii. If the U.S. granted Ishii
immunity from his crimes, he must exchange all germ warfare data based on human
experimentation.
So Ishii got away with his crimes because the US became interested in the results of his research. While not directly responsible for these acts, the actions of the American government certainly illustrated it was more than willing to condone human torture for advancements in biological warfare that could kill even more people.
Not a surprise, considering its past
resume. Ishii remained alive until 1959, performing research into bio-weaponry
and probably thinking up more plans to annihilate people in different ways to
his dying day.
4. Deadly Chemical Sprays on American Cities
Showing once again
that the U.S. always tends to test out worse-case scenarios by getting to them
first and with the advent of biochemical warfare in the mid 20th century, the
Army, CIA and government conducted a series of 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 air strikes/naval attacks:- The
CIA released a whooping cough virus on Tampa Bay, using boats, and so caused a
whooping cough epidemic. 12 people died. The Navy sprayed San
Francisco with bacterial pathogens and in consequence many citizens
developed pneumonia.
Upon Savannah, GA and Avon Park, FL, the army released millions of mosquitoes in the hopes they would spread yellow fever and dengue fever. The swarm left Americans struggling with fevers, typhoid, respiratory problems, and the worst, stillborn children.
Even worse was that after the swarm, the Army came in disguised as public health workers. Their secret intention the entire time they were giving aid to the victims was to study and chart-out the long term effects of all the illnesses they were suffering.
5. US Infects Guatemalans With STDs
In the
1940′s, with penicillin as an established cure for syphilis, the US decided to
test out its effectiveness on Guatemalan citizens.
To do this, they used infected
prostitutes and let them loose on unknowing prison inmates, insane asylum
patients and soldiers. When spreading the disease through prostitution
didn’t work as well as they’d hoped, they instead went for the inoculation
route.
Researchers introduced syphilis
bacteria onto men. In some cases, they even inoculated the men through spinal
punctures.
After all the infections were transmitted, researchers then gave most of the subjects treatment, although as many as 1/3 of them could have been left untreated, even if that was the intention of the study in the first place. Since many subjects never got penicillin, its possible and likely that someone spread it to future generations.
6. Secret Human Experiments to Test the Effects of The Atomic Bomb
While
testing out and trying to harness the power of the atomic bomb, U.S. scientists
also secretly tested the bomb’s effects on humans.
During the Manhattan Project, which gave way to the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, U.S. scientists resorted to secret human testing via plutonium injection on 18 unsuspecting, non-consenting patients.
This included injecting soldiers with micrograms of plutonium for Project Oak Ridge along with later injecting three patients at a Chicago hospital. Imagine you’re an admitted patient, helpless in a hospital bed, assuming that nothing is wrong when the government suddenly appears and puts weapons-grade plutonium in your blood.
Out
of the 18 patients, who were known only by their code-names and numbers at the
time, only 5 lived longer than 20 years after injection.
Along with plutonium, researchers also had fun with uranium. At a Massachusetts hospital, between 1946 and 1947, Dr. William Sweet injected 11 patients with uranium. He was funded by the Manhattan Project.
He would keep dead tissue from the body of the people he killed for scientific analysis on the effects of uranium exposure.
7. Injected Prisoners with Agent Orange
The dermatology aspect was testing out product the effects of Agent Orange on the skin. Needless to say the injecting of, or exposure to, dioxidin is beyond monstrous to voluntarily do to any human. Kligman (the experimenter), though, injected dioxidin (a main component of Agent Orange) into the prisoners to study its effects.
What did happen was that the prisoners developed an eruption of chloracne (all that stuff from high school combined with blackheads and cysts and pustules) that develop on the cheeks, behind the ears, armpits, and the groin — yes, the groin.
Kligman was rumored to have injected
468 times the amount he was authorized to. Documentation of that effect has,
wisely, not been distributed.
The Army oversaw while Kligman
continued to test out skin-burning chemicals to (in their words) “learn how the
skin protects itself against chronic assault from toxic chemicals, the
so-called hardening process” and test out many products whose effects were
unknown at the time, but with the intent of figuring that out.
During these proceedings, Kligman was reported to have said, “All I saw before me were acres of skin … It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time.” Using that analogy, it’s easy to see how he could plow straight through so many human subjects without an ounce of sympathy.
8. Operation Paperclip
While the Nuremberg trials
were being conducted and the ethics and rights of humanity were under investigation,
the U.S. was secretly taking in Nazi scientists and giving them American
identities. Under Operation Paperclip, named so because of the paperclips used
to attach the scientists’ new profiles to their US personnel pages, Nazis who
had worked for in the infamous human experiments (which included surgically
grafting twins to each other and making then conjoined, removing nerves from
people’s bodies without anesthetic, and testing explosion-effects on them) in
Germany brought over their talents to work on a number of top secret projects
for the US. Given then-President Truman’s anti-Nazi orders, the project was
kept under wraps and the scientists received faked political biographies,
allowing these monsters to live on not only American soil, but as free men. So
while it was not direct experimentation, it was the U.S. taking some of the worst
people in the world and giving them jobs here to do unknown, horrible
experiments / research.
9. Infecting Puerto Rico With Cancer
In 1931, Dr.
Cornelius Rhoads was sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute to conduct experiments
in Puerto Rico. He infected Puerto Rican citizens with cancer cells, presumably
to study the effects. Thirteen of them died. What’s most striking is that the
accusations stem from a note he allegedly wrote: “The Porto Ricans are the
dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to inhabit
this sphere… I have done my best to further the process of extermination by
killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more… All physicians
take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects.” A man that
seems to be hell-bent on killing Puerto Rico through a cancer infestation would
not seem a suitable candidate to be elected by the US to be in charge of chemical
warfare projects and receive a seat on the United
States Atomic Energy Commission, right?
But that’s exactly what happened. He
also became vice-president of the American Cancer Society. Any shocking
documentation that would have happened during his chemical warfare period would
probably have been destroyed by now.
10. Pentagon Treats Black Cancer Patients with Extreme Radiation
In the 60’s, the
Department of Defense performed a series of irradiation experiments on
non-consenting, poor, African-American cancer patients. They were told they
would be receiving treatment, but they weren’t told it would be the “Pentagon”
type of treatment: meaning to study the effects of high level radiation on the
human body. To avoid litigation, forms were signed only with initials so that
the patients would have no way to get back at the government. In a similar
case, Dr. Eugene Saenger, funded by the Defense Atomic Support Agency, conducted
the same procedure on the same type of patients. The poor, black Americans
received about the same level of radiation as 7500 x-rays to their chest would,
which caused intense pain, vomiting and bleeding from their nose and ears. At
least 20 of the subjects died.
11. Operation Midnight Climax
Operation
Midnight Climax involved safe houses in New York and San Fransisco, built for
the sole purpose to study LSD effects on non-consenting individuals. But in
order to lure the individuals there, the CIA made these safe houses out to be,
wait for it, Brothels. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll lured “clients” back to
the houses.
Instead of having sex with them,
though, they dosed them with a number of substances, most famously LSD. This
also involved extensive use of marijuana. The experiments were monitored behind
a two-way mirror, kind of like a sick, twisted peep show.
Furthermore, it’s alleged that the
officials who ran the experiments described them as…” it was fun, fun, fun.
12. Fallout Radiation on Unsuspecting Pacific Territories
After unleashing
atomic bombs upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States embarked on
numerous thermonuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in response to increased
Soviet bomb activity.
They were intended to be a secret affair. However, this secrecy would fail.
Detonated in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Castle Bravo was
the most powerful nuclear device the US ever set off. What they didn’t expect was
for the fallout from the blast to inadvertently be blown upwind onto nearby
residents of other islands. The suffering included birth defects and radiation
sickness. The effects were greater felt in later years when many children whose
parents were exposed to the fallout developed thyroid cancer and neoplasms.
This created Project 4.1, a study to examine the effects of radiation fallout
on human
beings. Essentially, it was the latest in a long string of studies where
humans act as guinea pigs without giving consent and a project remembered by
the US as a way to gather data that would otherwise be unobtainable. The US
moral standard that history best remembers is that even though the radiation
fallout on the people of the Marshall Islands was an accident, it might as well
have been intended. In addition, perhaps as nature’s way of adding insult to
injury, a Japanese fishing boat was caught in the fallout. The fishermen all fell
ill and one died, making the Japanese livid that the US was still affecting
them with nuclear devices.
13. Tuskegee
The recent
uncovering of the US exposing Guatemalans to syphilis brings back to mind this
infamous study. In between 1932 and 1972, researchers recruited 400 black
share-croppers in Tuskegee, Alabama to study the natural progression of
syphilis. But the scientists never told the men they had syphilis. Instead,
they went around believing that they were being treated for “bad blood” disease
as researchers used them to find out the extent of syphilis symptoms and
effects. In 1947, penicillin became the standard cure for syphilis. But along
with withholding information about the disease, scientists also “forgot” to
tell their subjects that what they were being treated for had a cure. And so
the study continued for nearly 30 years more. Once it was discovered, the
backlash to the study was so fierce that President Bill
Clinton made formal apology, stating he was sorry that the government
“orchestrated a study that was so racist”. Sadly enough, it would be horrific,
but one of the more docile evil human experiments ever conducted by the U.S.
Government.
