Americans were then left reeling in 1977 when a Freedom of Information Act request returned 20,000 hidden documents about the top secret MKUltra program, which were then investigated thoroughly by Senate hearings .. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf .
In 1995, then US president Bill Clinton apologised for the thousands of government-sponsored experiments ..
.. to “understand the effects of radiation exposure on the human body” which had taken place at hospitals, universities and military bases across the country.
In 1945, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, a subcommittee established by the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was tasked with retrieving German scientists, doctors and engineers who were identified as intellectually vital to the Third Reich.