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Project MKUltra [a] [b] was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.
- Project Artichoke
Project Artichoke (also referred to as Operation Artichoke)...
- Richard Helms
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002)...
- Donald Ewen Cameron
Donald Ewen Cameron (() 24 December 1901 – () 8 September...
- Montauk Project
The Montauk Project is a conspiracy theory that alleges...
- CIA Activities in The United States
According to the Church Committee, as part of the MK-ULTRA...
- Unethical Human Experimentation in The United States
— April 17, 1947 Atomic Energy Commission memo from Colonel...
- Project Artichoke
MK-Ultra. Three days after his speech decrying Soviet tactics, Dulles approved the beginning of MK-Ultra, a top-secret CIA program for “covert use of biological and chemical materials.”...
Jun 16, 2017 · MK-Ultra was a top-secret CIA project in which the agency conducted hundreds of clandestine experiments—sometimes on unwitting U.S. citizens—to assess the potential use of LSD and other...
- MK-Ultra
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Sep 9, 2019 · MK-ULTRA, which operated from the 1950s until the early '60s, was created and run by a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. Journalist Stephen Kinzer, who spent several years investigating the...
- Terry Gross
Jul 8, 2022 · Updated May 1, 2024. During the 1950s and '60s, the CIA used brainwashing, hypnosis, and torture on thousands of subjects brutalized by the infamous Project MK-Ultra experiments. Though they may sound like science fiction and though the CIA tried to deny them for years, the mind-control experiments of project MK-Ultra were all too real.
Oct 21, 2020 · During the Cold War, the CIA secretly funded mind-control experiments on unwitting Canadians in a program codenamed MK-ULTRA. The experiments laid the groundwork for modern-day torture...
Dec 14, 2021 · Published Online December 14, 2021. Last Edited December 14, 2021. Between 1957 and 1964 (though possibly beginning as early as 1948), psychiatric experiments were conducted at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal — a psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with McGill University.