Once again " Not an excuse for what he did" but these were CIA agents deliberately trying to cause a psychotic break in a vulnerable young man.
Other government studies on Americans in the 50's
- Giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut
- Squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland
- Injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.
- Tuskegee syphilis study where 600 black men in Alabama who had syphilis but didn't give them adequate treatment.
- Study the transmission of a deadly stomach bug by having young men swallow unfiltered stool suspension.
- Injected 11 public service employee volunteers with malaria, then starved them for five days.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-flna1c9465329