EXCLUSIVE: Exposing the FBI’s Human Experimentation Studies "Who has my saliva from ten years ago?" On the FBI studies involving serial killers, twins, facial recognition, and genetics “You’re only going to create a real problem for an FBI employee if you call ‘em direct this way.” Senior FBI official Thomas Gregory Motta was upset that I dared to call him to talk about the bureau’s hidden experiments on humans. He joined the bureau in 1998 and was promoted to the FBI’s senior ranks nearly 20 years ago. During his tenure, the bureau has grown proficient at snooping on journalists — as documented in a secret government report published by Racket — without having to face their questions. Motta is a decorated FBI veteran, credited with an intelligence community award in 2007 for modernizing the American government’s most important foreign espionage tool and having worked on the secretive “going dark” national surveillance program. After internal criticism surfaced more than a decade ago involving the bureau’s experiments on humans, the FBI put Motta in charge of an internal team revamping its approach to human subjects research. In 2023, Motta delivered a presentation detailing the government’s work on secret human experiments, going all the way back to a catastrophic project that saw a CIA scientist drugged with LSD plunging to his death from a hotel room window 70 years earlier. The government labeled his presentation, “NOT AUTHORIZED FOR POSTING ON THE INTERNET.” Here is Motta’s presentation to the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research conference, posted on Racket in full, with only Motta’s personal information removed: Among the types of human experiments undertaken by the FBI, as detailed by Motta, are research involving facial recognition studies and algorithm testing, genetics, violent extremism, interrogation science, and more. What is the bureau’s “oldest, continuous human