Air Force Intelligence: No Human Experimentation Here
In the United States Air Force, “intelligence components do not engage in experimentation involving human subjects for intelligence purposes.”
That unsolicited assurance was reiterated in the latest revision of Air Force Instruction 14-104, Oversight of Intelligence Activities, November 5, 2014.
“For purposes of this instruction, the term ‘human subjects’ includes any person, whether or not such person is a US person. No prisoners of war, civilian internees, retained, and detained personnel as covered under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 may be the subjects of human experimentation.”
The Instruction also addressed domestic imagery collection, reporting of “questionable intelligence activities,” and other topics.
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