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US Government Against Its Own Citizens 20 Unit 731 data US government gave Japanese war criminals immunity in exchange for human experiment da
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 1947, the U.S. government granted immunity from war crimes prosecution to Shiro Ishii, the commander of Japan’s Unit 731—a biological warfare prog…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 19 Holmesburg Prison experiments prisoners used as test subjects for pharmaceutical and chemical compan
THE HOLMESBURG PRISON EXPERIMENTS: THE DOCUMENTED TRUTH THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1951 and 1974, at least 80 pharmaceutical and chemical companies—including Johnson &a…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 18 Green Run Hanford Site deliberately released radioactive iodine over Washington and Oregon in 1949
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On December 2–3, 1949, the U.S. government deliberately released 7,800 curies of radioactive iodine-131 from the Hanford Site in Washington state—eno…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 17 Willowbrook hepatitis experiments mentally disabled children deliberately infected with hepatitis fo
THE WILLOWBROOK HEPATITIS EXPERIMENTS: THE DOCUMENTED TRUTH THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1956 and 1971, researchers at Willowbrook State School in New York deliberately i…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 16 Navajo uranium miners deliberately not told of radiation risks used as labor in nuclear weapons prog
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1944 and 1986, the U.S. government and private mining companies employed at least 3,000 Navajo men to extract uranium from the Navajo Nation—…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 15 Operation Midnight Climax CIA ran safe houses where unwitting subjects were given LSD while agents o
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1955 and 1965, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated at least three safe houses in San Francisco and New York where prostitutes, hir…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 14 Stanford Prison Experiment government funded study on prisoner abuse stopped after 6 days shaped det
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT WAS NEVER AN EXPERIMENT—IT WAS A PERFORMANCE The U.S. Office of Naval Research, which funded the Stanford Prison Experiment, received a final report …
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 13 Henrietta Lacks cells taken without consent in 1951 became most used cell line in medical history fa
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took cells from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman with cervical cancer, without her knowledge or consent. Tho…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 12 Agent Orange US veterans exposed VA denied connection to illnesses for 15 years despite internal kno
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1969, a U.S. National Institutes of Health study confirmed that Agent Orange—a herbicide sprayed over Vietnam—caused birth defects in laboratory a…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 11 Atomic veterans 400000 soldiers exposed to nuclear tests without protection or informed consent
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1945 and 1962, the United States government ordered 400,000 of its own soldiers to stand within miles—sometimes mere yards—of nuclear detonat…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 10 Church Committee revelations Senate investigation found CIA had conducted 150 covert domestic operat
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1975, the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had conducted at least 150 covert domestic operations—inclu…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 09 Cointelpro FBI ran domestic surveillance and sabotage program against civil rights leaders including
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1964, the FBI mailed Martin Luther King Jr. a letter urging him to commit suicide, accompanied by recordings of his extramarital affairs—material …
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 08 Forced sterilization 60000 Americans sterilized under state eugenics laws Supreme Court approved in
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Buck v. Bell that the state of Virginia could legally sterilize Carrie Buck, a 17-year-old girl deemed "feeb…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 07 Operation Paperclip recruited Nazi scientists concealed war crimes used their research on American s
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1951, the U.S. Army’s Edgewood Arsenal began human experiments using mescaline and LSD on soldiers and civilians—including at least one test subje…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 06 Japanese American internment 120000 citizens incarcerated without charge property seized never fully
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans—two-t…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 05 Plutonium injection experiments 18 patients injected with plutonium without consent at government di
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between April 1945 and July 1947, U.S. government physicians injected 18 hospital patients with plutonium—some as young as four years old—without the…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 04 Radium Girls government contracted facilities used women as human radiation experiments denied knowl
THE RADIUM GIRLS: THE GOVERNMENT KNEW THEY WERE POISONING THEM THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1924, the U.S. Radium Corporation’s chief chemist, Dr. Edwin Lehman, wrote in an in…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 03 Operation Sea-Spray US Navy sprayed bacterial agents over San Francisco in 1950 monitored hospitaliz
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On September 20, 1950, the U.S. Navy sprayed Serratia marcescens—a bacterium later linked to urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and endocarditis—ov…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 02 MKUltra CIA dosed American citizens with LSD without consent to study mind control 1953-1973
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1953, the CIA dosed Frank Olson, a U.S. Army biochemist working on classified programs, with LSD without his knowledge during a retreat at a remot…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 01 Tuskegee Syphilis Study 399 Black men with syphilis denied treatment for 40 years to study disease p
THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY: WHAT THE DOCUMENTS REVEAL THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1972, when the U.S. Public Health Service finally halted the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 28 of…