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154. COINTELPRO was a documented FBI campaign to interfere with political organi
COINTELPRO was a documented FBI campaign to interfere with political organizing inside the United States. It went beyond watching people or investigating crimes: the Bureau secretly tried to damage organizations, discredit leaders, and undermine relationships among activists and their supporters. The Church Committee established these…
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The Church Committee
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153. Sugar Land 95 slavery in Texas
Sugar Land 95 slavery in Texas reveals how Texas used its criminal justice system to supply forced labor after slavery ended—and how the people who died doing that work nearly disappeared from public memory. Their cemetery, rediscovered during school construction in 2018, connects prison records, plantation ownership, skeletal evidence, and an…
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Sugar Land 95 - Fort Bend Independent School District
Sugar Land 95 - Fort Bend Independent School District
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152. American forced sterilization
152. American forced sterilization was built and maintained by people holding respected positions in science, medicine, philanthropy, universities, government, and the courts. Their policies allowed officials to decide whose children should exist—and to enforce that decision through surgery.
The National Human Genome Research Institute…
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Eugenics and Scientific Racism
Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
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151.Guatemala experiments were a documented U.S. government research program.
Guatemala experiments were a documented U.S. government research program that deliberately exposed people to sexually transmitted infections without informed consent. U.S. Public Health Service researchers worked with Guatemalan officials and institutions. The evidence includes researchers’ correspondence, experiment logs, patient records,…
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150. Major royal scandals include sexual-abuse allegations
Major royal scandals include sexual-abuse allegations, admitted affairs, concealed paternity, corruption, questionable financial arrangements, racism controversies, and abuse of power. These cases differ greatly: an affair, an accusation, a civil settlement, and a criminal conviction should not be treated as equivalent.
I have focused on the…
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The Royals And The Press | Princess And The Press | FRONTLINE | PBS
The Royals And The Press | Princess And The Press | FRONTLINE | PBS
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149. Pike Committee was the House of Representatives’ major 1975–1976
Pike Committee was the House of Representatives’ major 1975–1976 investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies. It examined abuse, but also asked fundamental questions: How much did intelligence actually cost? Did it provide reliable warnings? Who authorized covert operations? Could Congress obtain the information necessary to oversee them?
Its…
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148. Nedzi Committee was the first version of the House’s 1975 investigation
Nedzi Committee was the first version of the House’s 1975 investigation into U.S. intelligence agencies. It was named for Representative Lucien Norbert Nedzi of Michigan, its chairman. Created on February 19, 1975, it was replaced on July 17, 1975, by a reconstituted committee chaired by Otis Pike.
Its central controversy was extraordinary:…
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147. CIA’s “Family Jewels” documents are an official internal record
CIA’s “Family Jewels” documents are an official internal record of activities that CIA employees identified as potentially outside the agency’s legal authority. They document assassination plotting, surveillance of Americans and journalists, secret mail opening, confinement of a Soviet defector, drug experiments on unsuspecting people, and…
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146. U.S. agencies conducted experiments on people without their knowledge
U.S. agencies conducted experiments on people without their knowledge, or concealed information necessary for informed consent. Below is a documented list with dates, responsible people or organizations, and recorded results.
This is not a complete victim roster. Many names are missing, redacted, or lost. The CIA acknowledged in 1977 that…
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Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)
Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)
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145. 53 healthy newborns given radioactive iodine-131
53 healthy newborns given radioactive iodine-131 to study thyroid function. both newborn experiments are documented in U.S. Department of Energy records and published medical research. Together, The evidence confirms the experiments, but important questions about parental permission and the children’s later health remain unresolved.
The report…
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