Documents Reveal Just How Crazy The CIA’s MKULTRA Mind-Control Program Really Was
A new collection of over 1,200 documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) infamous mind control program, MKULTRA, was published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest on Monday.
The collection was announced 50 years after Seymour Hersh’s New York Times investigation illuminated the program’s abuses, according to the Archive. It was also published 70 years after the U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, Eli Lilly & Company, became the CIA’s primary source of the psychoactive drug LSD, the Archive added.
The MKULTRA project was conducted in the 1950s, and most of the original records were destroyed by CIA director Richard Helms and head of the Technical Services Staff (TSS) of the CIA’s Chemical Division Sidney Gottlieb, according to the Archive. Gottlieb would eventually serve as director of the agency’s Technical Services Division (TSD).
CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection https://t.co/YNvZYxBxbD
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The collection includes records that managed to survive the agency’s “purge” of secretive documents, according to the Archive. (Read more from “Documents Reveal Just How Crazy The CIA’s MKULTRA Mind-Control Program Really Was” HERE)
