"This was by no means the full extent of the Agency’s [CIA] role in experimenting on living people. As noted, in 1973 Richard Helms officially discontinued such work by the Agency and ordered all records destroyed, saying that he did not want the Agency’s associates in such work to be “embarrassed.”
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“Avenues to Control Human Behavior:” When the CIA Made Humans Glow - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/03/avenues-to-control-human-behavior-when-the-cia-made-humans-glow/

“Avenues to Control Human Behavior:” When the CIA Made Humans Glow
The CIA was part of the armed forces’ medical intelligence organization, created in 1948, where the Agency was put in charge of “foreign, atomic, biological, and chemical intelligence, from medical science’s point of view.” Among the more bizarre chapters in this mission was the dispatch of a team of agents to engage in a form of body-snatching, as they tried to collect tissue and bone samples from corpses to determine levels of fallout after nuclear tests. To this end they sliced tissue from some 1,500 bodies – without the knowledge or consent of the relatives of the deceased.