The USA employed Nazi scientists after WW2.
The program, called Operation Paperclip, was exposed in media outlets like the New York Times in 1946.
Some of these scientists were involved in Project MK-ULTRA. Von Braun, who was the main subject of controversy, was appointed director of the Development Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. He was heavily involved in the moon landing and developed the Jupiter-C rocket used to launch America’s first satellite. Before that, he had been involved in the V-2 rocket program, where he used prisoners from the concentration camps to assist him. Others in the program had similarly dodgy pasts, with some having even been tried at Nuremberg.
Von Braun in 1960.
The CIA really did experiment with mind control.
Papers released in the seventies revealed the secret service really had been dabbling in mind control, psychological torture, radiation, and electric shock therapy in a series of studies into behavioral modification known as “Project MK-ULTRA”.
“MK-ULTRA is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency—and which were, at times, illegal. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. The project was organized through the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA and coordinated with the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. Code names for drugs-related experiments were Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke.
The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967, and recorded to be halted in 1973. The program engaged in many illegal activities,] including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as its unwitting test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate people’s mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.”
The public was mislead about the risks of smoking.
Smoking increases your risk of stroke, emphysema, infertility, and a whole host of cancers. But less than a lifetime ago, tobacco companies were trying to convince the public that smoking was even considered healthy, and was promoted by health professionals such as dentists. Tobacco companies were generous donors to political campaigns. Essentially, they were able to buy favour with politicians and others in positions of power, meanwhile denying the science behind the health risks, claiming they were uncertain. It was not until the nineties, that corporations began to admit there were health risks associated with cigarette smoking, and by this point there was so much evidence supporting the health risks, that the companies just had to admit it.
And in 2006, after a seven-year-long lawsuit, Judge Gladys E. Kessler found the tobacco companies guilty of conspiracy, having “suppressed research, destroyed documents, manipulated the use of nicotine so as to increase and perpetuate addiction”.
