Us Government Against Its Own Citizens
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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…