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School of the Americas founded
The School of the Americas was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training." By 2000 the School of the Americas was under increasing criticism in the United States for training students who later participated in undemocratic governments, and committed wholesale human rights abuses. -
Guatemala Syphilis Experiment
Guatemala Syphilis Experiment United States led human experiments conducted in Guatemala where doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects, and treated most subjects with antibiotics. -
Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by CIA to influence media.The organization recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA's views, and funded some student and cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA. -
Operation ARTICHOKE
Operation ARTICHOKE studied hypnosis, forced morphine addiction (and subsequent forced withdrawal), and the use of other chemicals, among other methods, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects. -
Radioactive Iodine Experiments
Radioactive Iodine Experiments In 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ran several studies on the health effects of radioactive iodine in newborns and pregnant women at the University of Iowa. -
MKUltra founded
MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and torture. -
Operation AJAX
Operation AJAX The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project). -
Operation Castle
Operation Castle was a United States series of high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. There were technical difficulties with some of the tests: one device had a yield much lower than predicted, while two other devices detonated with over twice their predicted yields. One test in particular, Castle Bravo, resulted in extensive radiological contamination. -
Operation Success
Operation Success The 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état was the CIA covert operation that deposed President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán with a paramilitary invasion by an anti–Communist army of liberation, titled Operation PBSUCCESS. -
Whooping Cough Experiment
Whooping Cough Experiment In 1955, the CIA conducted a biological warfare experiment where they released whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people. -
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Mosquito Trials
Mosquito Trials In 1956 and 1957, several U.S. Army biological warfare experiments were conducted on the cities of Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida. Army bio-warfare researchers released millions of infected mosquitoes on the two towns, in order to see if the insects could potentially spread yellow fever and dengue fever -
COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. -
Operation Plumbob
Operation Plumbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding Project 58. -
Irradiation of poor, black cancer patients
Irradiation of cancer patients funded by the Defense Atomic Support Agency, performed whole body radiation experiments on more than 90 poor, black, terminally ill cancer patients with inoperable tumors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Dr. Eugene Saenger forged consent forms, and did not inform them of the risks of irradiation. -
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. The report of 2001 by the Belgian Commission mentions that there had been previous U.S. and Belgian plots to kill Lumumba. Among them was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored attempt to poison him. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. A counter-revolutionary military trained and funded by the United States government's CIA, Brigade 2506 fronted the a rmed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the revolutionary left wing government of Fidel Castro. -
Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a series of false flag proposals that originated within the U.S. government in 1962, but were rejected by the Kennedy administration. The proposals called for the CIA, or other operatives, to commit perceived acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. -
Project 112
Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. It primarily concerned the use of aerosols to disseminate biological and chemical agents that could produce "controlled temporary incapacitation". The test program would be conducted on a large scale at extracontinental test sites in the Central and South Pacific and Alaska in conjunction with Britain, Canada and Australia. -
Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the CIA, United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, and South Vietnam's security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the NLF. -
Operation Power Pack
Operation Power Pack was the second United States occupation of the Dominican Republic began when the United States Marine Corps entered Santo Domingo on April 28, 1965 in the Dominican Civil War. -
Military Chemical Tests on Prisoners
Military Chemical Tests on Prisoners in Holmesburg, PA began when the U.S. Army paid Dr. Albert Kligman to apply skin-blistering chemicals to the faces and backs of inmates at Holmesburg to, in Kligman's words, "learn how the skin protects itself against chronic assault from toxic chemicals, the so-called hardening process." -
Assassination of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was a Black Panther who was assassinated by the CPD and the FBI. -
Chilean coup d'état
Chilean coup d'état Chile elected a populist president in 1970 and by 1973 there was economic chaos and a U.S. supported coup to put Augusto Pinochet, then commander of the Chilean Army, into power. What followed was a 25+ year dictatorship which saw the torture, execution and impriosnment of tens of thousands of individuals. -
Operation Condor
Operation Condor was a campaign of political repression and terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The United States provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants until at least 1978, and again after Republican Ronald Reagan became President in 1981. -
Iran-Iraq War
Iran-Iraq War was an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq. President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran". -
El Mozote Massacre
The El Mozote Massacre was when the Salvadorean Army killed more than 800 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War. The unit of the Salvadoran army's Atlacatl Battalion was the first of its kind in the Salvadoran armed forces and was trained by United States military advisors. -
Iran Contra
Iran-Contra was a political scandal in the United States. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. -
Flight 655
Flight 655 was an Iran Air flight from Tehran, Iran, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It shot down by surface-to-air missiles fired by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz. The aircraft, which had been flying in Iranian airspace over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on its usual flight path, was destroyed. All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, perished. -
Afghanistan War
The Afghanistan War refers to the intervention by NATO and allied forces in the Afghan political struggle, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to dismantle the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and to remove from power the Taliban government, which at the time controlled 90% of Afghanistan and hosted al-Qaeda leadership. -
The Patriot Act
The Patriot Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President Bush. In 2011, President Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, a four-year extension of three key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records (the "library records provision"), & conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"—individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups. -
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a controversial United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Red Cross inspectors and released detainees have alleged acts of torture, including sleep deprivation, beatings and locking in confined and cold cells. The use of Guantánamo Bay as a military prison has drawn criticism from human rights organizations and others. -
Iraq War
The Iraq War was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. The first was an invasion of Iraq starting on 20 March 2003 by an invasion force led by the U.S. Prior to the war, the governments of the U.S. and the U.K. claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of WMD posed a threat. Ultimately, no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were ever found. -
Project Gunrunner
Project Gunrunner is a project of the ATF intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico, in an attempt to deprive the Mexican drug cartels of weapons. In early 2011, the project became controversial when it was revealed that Operation Wide Receiver (2006–2007) and Operation Fast and Furious (2009–2010) had allowed guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. -
Oscar Grant killing
Oscar Grant was fatally shot by BART police Officer Mehserle. Officer Johannes Mehserle and another officer were restraining Grant, who was lying face down and allegedly resisting arrest. Mehserle stood and, according to his attorney, said: "Get back, I'm gonna tase him." Then Mehserle drew his gun and shot Grant once in the back. The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation, though no charges have been filed to date. -
Disposition Matrix
The Disposition Matrix is a database that United States officials describe as a "next-generation capture/kill list".[1] Developed by the Obama Administration beginning in 2010, the "Disposition Matrix" goes beyond existing kill lists, and creates a blueprint for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the US government. It is intended to become a permanent fixture of American policy. -
Bradley Manning Imprisoned
Bradley Manning is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after releasing the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public. He was held from July 2010 to April 2011 under Prevention of Injury status, which entailed de facto solitary confinement and other restrictions that caused domestic and internanational concern. -
Raytheon Tests Heat Weapons on Prisoners.
Raytheon Ray gun testing on prisoners began when Raytheon partnered with a jail in Castaic, California in order to use prisoners as test subjects for a new non-lethal weapon system that "[...] penetrates about a 64th of an inch under your skin. That's about where your pain receptacles are. So it's what it would feel like if you just opened up the doors of a blast furnace." -
Occupy Wall St. Observation
Occupy Wall Street is the name given to a protest movement that began in NYC in 2011. On December 29, 2012, Naomi Wolf of The Guardian newspaper provided U.S. government documents which revealed that the FBI and DHS had monitored Occupy Wall Street through its Joint Terrorism Task Force, despite labelling it a peaceful movement. -
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki Assassination
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed at the age of 16 in an American drone strike on October 14, 2011, in Yemen, along with alleged al-Qaeda members two weeks after the assassination of his father. -
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