Thesis:
Project MKUltra was completely unethical and also illegal, violating subject's rights as US citizens. According to ethical guidelines for psychological experiments the formal consent must be given from the subject of the experiment, the subject must be briefed on the full extent of the experiment before it takes place, and by no means is the experiment to cause any harm to the subject, in any form. MKUltra did not follow a single one of those guidelines.
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"Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general. The knowledge that the agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles."
Excerpt from a journal written by CIA Inspector Lyman Kirpatrick |