1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.
1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.
1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm

There's also a declassified CIA file in the public record dated to the late fifties iirc, in which some brothels were used as fronts to administer LSD to american civilians without their knowledge, visitors to the brothel kept under surveillance to record the effect upon their personal and professional lives.

It was part of a psychological warfare study to compete with the Russians at that stage.
Before that it was ze germans.
Before that the Romans I guess.

It's strange that americans just don't get all this world terrorism, reds under the bed, muslim bombvest extremists, it's all the same fictions about the last fictional alien invaders a major power was going on about.
It's so childish the pentagon and whitehouse international and national securities policies. Infantile. You guys should vote all the politicians out and select a new set of better ones.

Unethical human experimentation in the United States.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
Throughout the 1840s, J. Marion Sims , who is often referred to as "the father of gynecology ", performed surgical experiments on enslaved African women, without anaesthesia . The women—one of whom was operated on 30 times—regularly died from infections resulting from the experiments. [ 2 ] In order to test one of his theories about the causes of trismus in infants, Sims performed experiments where he used a shoemaker's awl to move around the skull bones of the babies of enslaved women. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
In 1874, Mary Rafferty, an Irish servant woman, came to Dr. Roberts Bartholow of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati for treatment of her cancer. Seeing a research opportunity, he cut open her head, and inserted needle electrodes into her exposed brain matter. [ 5 ] He described the experiment as follows:
When the needle entered the brain substance, she complained of acute pain in the neck. In order to develop more decided reactions, the strength of the current was increased ... her countenance exhibited great distress, and she began to cry. Very soon, the left hand was extended as if in the act of taking hold of some object in front of her; the arm presently was agitated with clonic spasm; her eyes became fixed, with pupils widely dilated; lips were blue, and she frothed at the mouth; her breathing became stertorous; she lost consciousness and was violently convulsed on the left side. The convulsion lasted five minutes, and was succeeded by a coma. She returned to consciousness in twenty minutes from the beginning of the attack, and complained of some weakness and vertigo.
—Dr. Bartholow's research report [ 5 ]
In 1896, Dr. Arthur Wentworth performed spinal taps on 29 young children, without the knowledge or consent of their parents, at the Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts to discover whether doing so would be harmful. [ 6 ]
From 1913 to 1951, Dr. Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at the San Quentin Prison , performed a wide variety of experiments on hundreds of prisoners at San Quentin.

Mr Smart, many of us are well aware of the criminally horrific things our governments have always routinely done to their subjects in the name of nothing at all, just whimsy and the personal agendas of those involved.

You're effectively making a social statement. But we can see the painting without the narration, in the world around us by simply opening our eyes. Those who need to be told aren't of much help to you.

So your point is?

Good points here Van!

Not exactly an exhaustive history, is it, of America experimenting on its own people

cant they just water board every 84 times after they have confessed to being a mad loon

Mr. Smart has a long habit of posting old news without any associated comment to set the reason for discussion. In cases like this, you are free to make of it what you will and take the OP to mean anything you want it to mean.

For example:

Yes, the US government will lie to the public. How many times have they lied in the last year?

The United states have a long sordid history of using chemical warfare on its citizens. C.I.A. introduction of crack in the intensities (iran /contra) and the exploding aids in the black community. All around the same times

naturalnews.com covers some of this shiz