The US Congress will have hearings about the CIA and their use of drugs on citizens without their knowledge...

That's the good news

The bad news is that it happened in the 1950s and 1960s.

Way to keep current, you civil servants, you!!!

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MoveAlong · 70-79, M

Drugs..in the 60s? Hell, I'd volunteered had they asked.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

Are they still doing it? Free drugs would be nice. 😏

MasterLee · 56-60, M

Maybe recriminalization of weed

ArishMell · 70-79, M

Have they been kept secret until now? If so, it may be unfair to blame the civil-servants for doing what they were ordered to do.

We've a parallel in the UK, with rumblings about the way successive governments have tried to suppress knowledge of the long-term health effects of the 1950s nuclear-weapon tests on Services personnel ordered to "witness" them.

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Gibbon · 70-79, M

@Pretzel it's been covered on Secrets Declassified on the History Channel

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Gibbon Which? The CIA or the nuclear experiments?

It's hard to keep illness from radiation secret but the problem is continual official reluctance to admit it.