Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or inform
A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.
Doctor draws blood from a subject involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, circa 1932
Government report on government experimentation during Project MKUltra
Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra.
Gottlieb approved Project MKULTRA's "Subproject 8" on LSD in this June 1953 memo. (Redactions obscure much of the context.)