MKULTRA and Other Documented U.S. Government Mind Control Programs

 

MKULTRA was a U.S. government research program on mind and behavior control which ran from the early 1950s into the 1960s.  Rather than being terminated, though, MKULTRA was "rolled over" into other programs such as MKSEARCH.  To dispense with such name-change games, MKULTRA is occasionally used to generically refer to U.S. government mind control operations, particularly those of the CIA.

 

Parascope has some MKULTRA documents online, including the 1977 Senate MKULTRA hearing.

The Ritual Abuse, Ritual Crime, and Healing site has online a listing of MKULTRA documents, including subprojects, in the John Marks Collection [*] at the National Security Archive.  The page does not give details of Subproject 119, which was a study of bioelectrical sensors, recording and analysis techniques, and "techniques of activation of the human organism by remote electronic means."  Subproject 94 dealt with improving techniques already developed for "conditioning and control of animals" using "miniaturized stimulating electrode implants in specific brain areas."

A court ruled in Aug., 2002 that the CIA must disclose its MKULTRA operational documents to a reporter.  It turns out that the CIA cannot exempt operational files dealing with matters that have been investigated by certain oversight committees.  The article is at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press site, and is titled "CIA must disclose some operational files." [*]

A great many raw MKULTRA and similar files can be found at http://intellnet.org/mkultra/.

Four disks containing 18,000 MKULTRA and other mind control related documents can be ordered from the US government.  Here are the ordering instructions, [*] from the wanttoknow.info group.

Frank Olson was a CIA employee, working under cover as a civilian employee of the Army, doing biological warfare research.  In 1953 he was dosed with LSD without his consent by Sidney Gottlieb of the CIA.  He suffered psychological repercussions from this nonconsensual experimentation, and tried to resign from the agency.  He was taken by the CIA to New York where he ended up "falling" out a hotel window to his death.  It now appears that he was directly murdered.  See this New York Times article, "What Did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father?" for more information.  Eric Olson also has a web page, www.frankolsonproject.org, with news and many articles about his father's death.  The page also has some information about questions of whether the CIA was involved in the death of Paul Robeson. (Here is a better formatted version.)

See also the pages Mind Control and Children and Hypnosis and Trauma Conditioning.