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==Secret detention camps==
In areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly [[Japan]], [[West Germany]] and the [[History of the Philippines (1946–1965)|Philippines]], the CIA created secret detention centers ([[Black site]]s) so that the U.S. could avoid criminal prosecution. The CIA captured people suspected of being enemy agents and other people it deemed "expendable" to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds.<ref name="npr.org"/>