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OK that risk wasn't really on my radar, because I live in a country where such things have never been known to happen.
That's the thing about being paranoid about MkUltra - it was actively suppressed and denied while it was happening (according to FOI documents) - and they say that they stopped, but if it (or some similar successor) was active they'd certainly say that it's not happening now...
At the time there were active rumors around town about influenza propagation studies being secretly conducted on the local population... probably baseless paranoia... probably.
Now, as you say, your (presumably smaller) country has never known such things to happen, but...
I live in Danmark, and I was taught already in public school how such things were possible, most notably that Russia might be doing experiments here, because our reporting on effects is very open and efficient. So Denmark would be an ideal testing ground for experiments.
But my guess is that it also may makes it dangerous to experiment here, because the risk of being detected is also high.