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Project MKUltra [a] was a human experimentation 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 individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. [1]
Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans. This category contains articles about persons or groups which are reliably sourced as being related to this project.
The MKULTRA project was under the direct command of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the Technical Services Division. [136] The project received over $25 million, and involved hundreds of experiments on human subjects at eighty different institutions. In a memo describing the purpose of one MKULTRA program subprogram, Richard Helms said:
Louis Jolyon West (October 6, 1924 – January 2, 1999) was an American psychiatrist involved in the public sphere, known mainly for his work/involvement with the MKUltra project, a CIA mind control project in the 1960s.
Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. It was initially established in 1954 by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Boston, Massachusetts with the "Federal Narcotics Agent and CIA consultant" [1] George Hunter White under the ...
Project Artichoke was a mind control program that gathered information together with the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and FBI.In addition, the scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that asked, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self ...
Project MKUltra is the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. MKULTRA or MK-ULTRA may also refer to: MK Ultra, 2022 psychological thriller film written and directed by Joseph Sorrentino; mk Ultra (California band), a defunct alternative band; The MK Ultra, a music project by British rock musician James Ray
William Joseph Bryan Jr. held an MD, JD, and PhD. He started his career as a military psychiatrist, and was involved in research for the CIA, including the Project ARTICHOKE and its successor, the Project MKUltra (popularly known as the CIA's mind control program), a research project into behavioral engineering of humans.