Most of us have at least heard of COINTELPRO, Iran Contra, Tuskegee Experiment but what are some others that are important to understand how these agencies run?

The one that comes to mind for me is in the :ukkk: they created fake love interests with activists and had children with them. I’m not sure if that one has a name yet.

  • Dewot523 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It isn't really one particular thing but I'm currently reading How to Hide an Empire and I had never realized the sickening extent to which we used Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans as chemical and medical lab rats. Birth control pills were first tested over there in unsafe dosages for eugenics reasons, heavily promoted sterilization campaigns, vaccination trial runs you couldn't do on whites, weapons testing that poisoned the soil, and even trying out chemical weapons on PR people to see if there were any race-based effects. Check this out: https://www.npr.org/2015/06/22/415194765/u-s-troops-tested-by-race-in-secret-world-war-ii-chemical-experiments

    All to American people on American soil.

    • BigBird [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      That’s fucked! I remember reading about The whole part of the island where bombs had been tested and will now be unusable land for centuries.