Newly released documents shed light on the CIA's controversial MKULTRA program, detailing experiments with drugs, hypnosis, and other mind control techniques during the Cold War.
Newly declassified records on the CIA 's infamous MKULTRA program have been published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest.The collection, which was released on Monday, includes over 1,200 documents detailing the CIA 's experiments with drugs, hypnosis and other mind control techniques during the Cold War .Newsweek has contacted the National Security Archive and the CIA via email for comment. MKULTRA remains one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history.
Its experiments often targeted unwitting individuals and left lasting psychological damage on participants.The declassified documents shed light on a program shrouded in secrecy since then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered most of its records destroyed in 1973. The documents will prompt further discussions on MKULTRA's implications on ethical boundaries in scientific research and governmental oversight.The CIA explored mind control techniques during the Cold War under code names MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE. Experiments included administering LSD, employing sensory deprivation and inducing amnesia on unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens.The newly published records include a 1950 plan for 'interrogation teams' to use drugs and hypnosis and a 1956 memo approving high-dose LSD experiments on federal prisoners.Another document describes the 1963 CIA inspector general report that questioned using unknowing Americans as test subjects.The records also delve into the mysterious 1953 death of Frank Olson, a scientist covertly dosed with LSD who died 10 days later in a fall from a New York hotel. Officially ruled a suicide, Olson's death remains a focal point for conspiracy theories alleging CIA foul play.Due to most MKULTRA documents having been destroyed in the 1973 cover-up, most surviving files come from Freedom of Information Act requests and contributions from whistleblowers and historian
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