MKUltra

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Location: United States of America
Dates Active: 1953 to 1973
Category: Conspiracies, Human Testing
Cause: Illegal government research
Status: Closed
Entry ID: 012824E-00049

Summery: 

A secret CIA program that used illegal human experimentation to develop drugs and/or torture that could be used to brainwash people or force confessions, and used both American and Canadian citizens as test subjects.

In Depth:

Project MKUltra was a previously classified program created by the Central Intelligence Agency in order to test various drugs and methods of torture in order to manipulate people's mental state in order to brainwash them or force confessions from individuals. The project ran from 1953 to 1973, and explored the covert application of drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal abuse, among others, in order manipulate people into certain states of mind for the purposes of both interrogation and mind control. Some of these tests were performed on the public in both the United States and Canada. The project was a continuation of experiments performed by Nazis before and during World War II, with some of the same German scientists being hired to work on the project as a part of Project Paperclip.

Much of the activities and experiments done through Project MKUltra were illegal, especially with regards to human experimentation. The tests were done under the guise of research through a number of different locations and businesses, such as pharmaceutical companies, colleges and hospitals. There were many different methods that were tried, with various intended applications ranging from better interrogation techniques to manipulating world leaders and the public.

The project also relied on secret detention camps in Europe and East Asia in order to conduct secret experiments on people suspected of being enemy spies or otherwise expendable. These camps were constructed in these parts of the world in order to avoid criminal prosecution back home.

In the aftermath of Watergate, then CIA Director Richard Helms ordered files from Project MKUltra to be destroyed. However, some of information from the project was leaked to the public in 1974, including information that the CIA was experimenting on U.S. citizens. This prompted the United States Congress to form the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission to look into the CIA's activities. In a stroke of luck, some 20,000 documents survived Helms' attempted purge of documents as they were misfiled in the CIA's financial records building, allowing for a partial investigation into the project resulting in Senate hearings regarding the project in 1977.

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Last Updated: March 16, 2024

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