Frank church headed the church committee, an investigation into the practices of the us intelligence agencies. Jan 17, 2017 the news turned out to be straightforward. In 1973, with the governmentwide panic caused by watergate, the cia director richard helms ordered all mkultra files destroyed. Readers are encouraged to verify given information for themselves. Topsecret history of kgb, 1977, chapters 112 and appendix. Project mkultra was the name given to an illegal program of human experimentation conducted by the us central intelligence agency, which investigated mind control. Mkultra was a topsecret cia project in which the agency conducted. In a rare article in the washington post see below, a few of the. In 1977, a foia request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents 7 relating to project mkultra, which led to the senate hearings of 1977. It has been mutually agreed that documentation and account. What did macedonias enemies say about macedonia and the macedonian people. These historical documents are pdf images of formerly classified carbon paper and reports that have been declassified.
Joint hearing before the select committee on intelligence and the subcommittee on health and scientific research of the committee on human resources, united state senate, ninetyfifth congress, first session. Ive included the mori id to official documents obtained via the freedom of information act. The 1975 church committee hearings exposed the operation and on july 20, 1977 a freedom of information act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to it. Mkultra documents 1977 senate mkultra hearing in june 1977, a rare cache of mkultra documents were discovered, which had escaped destruction by the cia. Project mkultra, the cias program of research in behavioral modification.
Shown here are correspondences between jack kerouac, timothy leary, and aldous huxley. The mk of mk ultra stands for mind kontrolle german spelling of control, with a nod to the german nazi scientists who developed it for the cia who were brought in under paperclip. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973. A second source of documentary information is the declassified documents reference system, which provides assorted declassified materials for the period 1941 to the present. Mkultra cia mind control research and documentation author. After muckrock foia lawsuit, cia publishes declassified.
Project mkultra, or mkultra, was the code name for a covert, illegal human research program, run by the cias office of scientific intelligence. Project mkultra also known as mkultra was the code name for a cia mindcontrol research program that began in the 1950s1, and continued until the late 1960s2. Who, when, what, where, why, and how, and links to foia documents available for each subproject. During your research, you may come across withdrawal notices or forms that indicate a record is restricted and not available to the public. Also included are a number of onceclassified documents obtained through the freedom of information act.
This afternoon, the cia carried through on its commitment from october 2016, making nearly a million individual archived documents available to the public online in its. While the department of state declassified its cables and records that provided evidence of human rights abuses, it withheld some information for national security classification or statutorybased restrictions. The draft is dated 17 august 1960, while the approval date is 9960. The cia has been involved in developing sophisticated mind control programs since the early 1950s. Some documents of this mkultra precursor explain the desire to create. The project was organized through the scientific intelligence division of the cia, the project coordinated with the special operations division of the u. Project mkultra or mkultra, also called the cia mind control program, is the code name. Argentina declassification project the dirty war 197683 1 apply argentina declassification. Project mkultra, the cias program of research into behavioral modification. The declassification of records is an important part of the archival process.
Project mkultra was a cia project concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in. The purpose of this project is to provide funds to carry out. Cia mkultra mind control collection the black vault. Sidney gottlieb, chief of the chemical division of the agencys technical services staff. Nsa korean war commemoration national security agency. Project mkultra was a cia project concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. Sidney gottlieb goedgekeurd van een mkultra subproject op lsd in dit 9 juni. The documents were provided by the central intelligence agency under a subsequent freedom of information act request in 1995. Utilizing the freedom of information act foia, the black vaults founder john greenewald, jr. The black vault has more than 2,000,000 pages of declassified u. Stansfield turner, and from other agency witnesses on issues concern ing new documents supplied to the committee in the last week on drug testing conducted. The complete 171page record is included here, including testimony and dozens of mkultra documents on various subprojects.
It is impossible to give information on ritual abuse, and about peoples opinions about ritual abuse, in a way that is not upsetting andor triggering. Appendix c documents referring to subprojects document begins view jpeg document scan of this page draft 1 may 1953 memorandum for the record subject. Joint hearing before the select committee on intelligence and the subcommittee on health and scientific research of the committee on human resources, united states senate, ninetyfifth congress, first session. Although the cia insists that mkultra type experiments have been abandoned, 14year cia veteran. Project mkultra or mkultra, also called the cia mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the u. The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and. The senate select committee on intelligence held a hearing on august 3, 1977, to question cia officials on the newlydiscovered documents. Department official, john marx, has obtained a number of other documents on mkultra. Project mkultrasometimes referred to as the cias mind control programwas the code name given to an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the united states central intelligence agency cia. Declassified mkultra document about subproject 119. Subproject 2 is being set up to provide a secure and efficient means to exploit deletion in regard to the mkultra program. To check the veracity of this mkultra document, order it directly from the cia as an individual document, or as part of the three cd set of declassified cia mind control documents.
Note that this is a proprietary database, available through research libraries including the university of arizonas library. How much did governments in the 1940s know about the macedonian question. Mkultra vrijgegeven documenten, pdfformaat us supreme court, cia v. This topsecret 639page history of the soviet state security organs was completed in 1977 under the auspices of viktor chebrikov, the deputy head of the kgb who later became head of the agency. Skip to main content this banner text can have markup. Documents on cheney coverup of olson assassination pdf. Digital archive the digital archive contains oncesecret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of. Project mkultra or mkultra is the most infamous of these, yet thanks to a virtual media blackout on the subject, very few people are aware of any of these disturbing programs. Dec 12, 2016 make previously withheld information from the department of states 2002 declassification project available to the public. General declassification and transparency documents declassified by the national security agencycentral security service. Mkultra files dealing with behavioral modification had been. This document will provide the justification for investing in the project.
This a page from the declassified documents of mkultra. Aug 15, 2016 most archival records held by nara are available to the public for research and are either unclassified or declassified. Top 10 declassified documents that rocked the world enkivillage. Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine. If you are a survivor, please be careful in reading the information compiled here. Central intelligence agency, some of which were illegal. Topies include gulf of tonkin, unidentified flying objects ufos, u. Senate, select committee on intelligence, and subcomirrtee on health and scientific research of the committee on human resourges, washington, d. Jun 05, 2018 once you have the answer to some of these questions you can then begin to gather and develop the project documents you may need to be successful with your project. In the 1950s, the general conspired with the cia to prepare for a communist takeover, going so far as to set up a training camp in sardinia and stockpile weapons in. Operation mk ultra operation mk ultra has become so infamous that the term is basically synonymous with mind control.
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