MKULTRA

In 1953, as the Korean War was coming to a close, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States initiated a top-secret project that would experiment with psychoactive drugs on human beings in order to attempt to create some sort of mind-control effect, and for the next twenty years, this project would create a general sense of unease and distrust in the United States federal government... because most of the subjects had no idea they were being experimented on.