1 / 10 Project Sunshine: Steal corpses
In the 1950s, in an effort to study the effects of nuclear weapons, the federal government established a worldwide network to secretly collect tissue samples from more than 900 human cadavers. The “body snatching” took place in secret, without notification or permission from each deceased’s next of kin.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton formed an advisory committee to investigate so that these government secrets wouldn’t stay secret or continue to inspire conspiracy theorists. The result was a 900-page report acknowledging the unethical and illegal actions taken during Project Sunshine.