10 of the Most Gruesome Experiments Carried Out On Humans By The Government

6. Project MK-ULTRA, the code name given for a CIA mind-control research program.

The CIA conducted a mind-control program called Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA. The experiment which originally started in the 1950’s, was run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. For over 10 years, the experiments involved the surreptitious use of various drugs and methods that was used to manipulate an individual’s mental state to even altering his/her functionality. CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, patients and the public were given LSD to study the difference in reaction to the drug. The subjects who were part of the experiment were not aware of the situation or the fact that they were being given drugs. This experiment was a violation of the Nuremberg Code. In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered to have all the files related to the experiments destroyed. Since most of the data about the MKULTRA project wasn’t recoverable, an extended investigation was never performed. (source 1, 2)

7. Camp 22, where North Korea conducts experiments on humans.

Though North Korea denies any violation of human rights or abuses within its borders, there has been several reports of such activities. North Korea has been known to conduct several inhumane experiments on its prisoners. An escapee from a North Korean concentration camp explains how fifty healthy women were chosen to participate in an experiment that included eating poisoned cabbage leaves. Despite the pain and cries from other prisoners who had taken it, the women were forced to eat every piece. If they violated the orders, their families would have to pay the ultimate price with their lives. All 50 women died within 20 minutes of consuming the poison filled leaves. Several other experiments take place in Camp 22 that include gas and blood tests on family members. A former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, Kwon Hyok, describes how a family of four were sealed in a chamber filled with poisonous gas, while the researchers watched them die slowly through glass doors. (source)

8. Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12 and “The Chamber”, the Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services.

For decades, the Soviet Union actually created and maintained a secret lab, known as the Kamera, or The Chamber, whose purpose was to create new methods of poisoning people. The covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet tested a number of deadly poisons on prisoners. The objective behind the sinister experiment was to discover a tasteless and odorless chemical that would be undetectable during an autopsy. The victims were unaware of the poison being fed to them through food and drinks. The experiment did yield a substance, which according to witnesses made the victim fall ill, silent and die within 15 minutes. (source)

9. Project 4.1

The United States, as a part of a medical study, conducted tests on residents of the Marshall Islands who were exposed to radioactive fallout from March 1, 1954. The Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll of 1954, exposed 239 Marshallese to high levels of radiation. The exposed ones didn’t show signs immediately but within days, the radiation sickness caused them to lose hair and develop several skin diseases. For the first decade after the tests, the experiment caused miscarriages among women to impaired growth in children. The Marshallese view the experiment as being treated like guinea pigs. (source 1, 2)

10. The Stateville Penitentiary malaria research.

The military-sponsored research project began during the Second World War. Inmates who were inside the walls of the Stateville Penitentiary were infected with malaria and treated with experimental drugs. The untested drugs had vicious side effects but the inmates agreed to participate since they would have a chance for early parole or even shortened sentences. The prisoners were sent into a reservoir filled with mosquitoes and they themselves recorded the data of one another. Thus, they were prisoners who were the subjects of an experiment and were also deeply constitutive of the research project. Even though it was risky, 441 inmates agreed to participate. Each patient received around 10 bites and the experiment went on for 29 years. Both the media and the public have praised the experiment as well as the inmates for their efforts. (source 1, 2)

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