MKULTRA
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| Type | Program or study |
|---|---|
| Also known as | MK-ULTRA |
| On the Timeline | 1 event, 1952 |
MKUltra was a secret CIA program, run from 1953 to 1972, that experimented with drugs — especially LSD — and other techniques for mind control and interrogation, often on people who had not given their consent. Its exposure in the 1970s became one of the best-documented examples of real government secrecy, and it is often cited in UFO and conspiracy literature.[1]
The program
MKUltra was approved on 13 April 1953 under CIA director Allen Dulles and led by chemist Sidney Gottlieb. It was partly a response to fears that the Soviet Union, China and North Korea had developed brainwashing techniques. The CIA funded more than 150 subprojects at more than 80 institutions, often through front organisations so that researchers did not know the money came from the CIA. Many subjects were given LSD without their knowledge.[1]
Frank Olson
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In November 1953 Army biochemist Frank Olson was secretly given LSD; about a week later he died after falling from a hotel window in New York City. His family received a $750,000 settlement in 1975.[1]
Canada
From 1957 to 1964 psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron carried out CIA-funded experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, using drug-induced comas and endlessly repeated tape-recorded messages on patients. The Canadian government later paid compensation to victims.[1]
Exposure
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Gottlieb ordered the program halted in 1972, and in 1973 CIA director Richard Helms ordered most of its files destroyed. The Church Committee of the U.S. Senate and the Rockefeller Commission revealed its existence in 1975. In 1977 about 20,000 surviving documents were found after a Freedom of Information Act request, leading to Senate hearings that year.[1]
In conspiracy literature
Because the program was real and its records were deliberately destroyed, MKUltra is frequently cited by believers in other secret programs; it is linked, for example, to the claims of the "Montauk Project" about experiments at Camp Hero on Long Island.[1][2]
On the UAP Timeline
- Project Moonstruck brain-stimulation claim (1952) — An alleged CIA project is said to study long-range brain stimulation by radio frequencies.
References
- MKUltra — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Camp Hero State Park — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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