MKULTRA
MKULTRA was the CIA’s covert program of human experimentation into mind control, interrogation, and behavior modification, run from 1953 into the 1970s. Most program records were destroyed in 1973, but a cache of budget and administrative files survived and was released under FOIA.
Search the surviving MKULTRA documents below — the financial records, sub-project files, and correspondence that document one of the most controversial chapters in Agency history.
What you’ll find
- MKULTRA sub-project files and funding records
- Behavioral-research and interrogation experiments
- Correspondence on “psychic driving” and drug testing
- Related programs: MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, ARTICHOKE
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