Freedom of information act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to. The documents were provided by the central intelligence agency under a subsequent freedom of information act request in 1995. The politics of serial murder by david mcgowan pdf operation midnight climax wikispooks. This 8dvdrom boxed and shrinkwrapped digital library is the mother lode of documents for anyone who wants to research mkultra. Senate select committee on intelligence and committee on. What remains has all been declassified, and can now be freely downloaded. Over the past twelve years, the archive has become the worlds largest nongovernmental library of declassified documents. If you are a survivor, please be careful in reading the information compiled here. Dissecting the cias lies regarding mkultra muckrock. Mkultra was a topsecret cia project in which the agency conducted hundreds of clandestine experimentssometimes on unwitting u. Declassified mkultra documents pdf ubytovani podhajska. Senate, select committee on intelligence, and subcomirrtee on health and scientific research of the committee on human resourges, washington, d. In 1977, a foia request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents 7 relating to project mkultra, which led to the senate hearings of 1977.
My book, the cia doctors, i is based on 15,000 pages of documents i received from the cia through the freedom of information act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. Project mkultra senate select committee on intelligence. Due to the age and poor quality of some of the pdf images, a screen reader may not be able to process the images into word documents. Stansfield turner, and from other agency witnesses on issues concern ing new documents supplied to the committee in the last week on drug testing conducted. The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and. Mkultra secret cia project mkultra on mind control heading mkultra was a cia chemist named sidney gottlieb.
Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a pdf, save and print for later use. It is impossible to give information on ritual abuse, and about peoples opinions about ritual abuse, in a way that is not upsetting andor triggering. I have no knowledge of the ultra type materials havin. It was part of the us governments illegal mkultra project, which ruined the lives of many innocent and. Central intelligence agency, some of which were illegal. Ross, psychiatrist, author, the cia doctors, military mind control and project bluebird september 3, 2009. Project mkultra also known as mkultra was the code name for a central intelligence agency mindcontrol research program that began in the 1950s. Cointelpro has become a famous word of its own, derived from the full operational name counter intelligence program. Enclosed are copies of the 233 documents, consisting of 2316 pages, as cited in our 24 october 2018letter under attachment a. The guidance, produced in 1983 and modified the following year, was intended for cias deputy directors, the executive director, the director of public affairs and all agency. Project mkultra or mkultra, also called the cia mind control program, is the code name. In 1977, a freedom of information act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project mkultra, which led to senate hearings later that same year.
Project mkultra was a cia project concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. Mkultra files dealing with behavioral modification had been destroyed. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the. The black vault and the 2004 foia document release. Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine.
This fee covers the cost for the documents offered to you on 24 october 2018 in connection with your 21 february 2018 freedom of information act request pertaining to the mkultra. This was a program run by the fbi under hoover which started in 1956. John greenewald, founder of the black vault, a site specializing in declassified government records obtained via freedom of information act foia. Kesey, the author of one flew over the cuckoos nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement, was first exposed to lsd and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the mkultra project while still a graduate student at stanford university. Otherwise, the list of mkultra unclassified documents re ritual abuse, ritual crime and healing are listed below this information was transcribed from faxes and brochures which are available from. Discover everything scribd has to offer, including books and audiobooks from major publishers. More than 4,000 new mkultra documents requested from cia. Pdf the poster outlines the activities of psychiatrists commissioned by the cia to conduct mind control. Declassified mkultra documents pdf items lawsuit forces cia confession on mkultra know if the drug actually could induce loss incidents in their lives, the documents report. Craziest thing ive heard about this is allegations that 2 psychiatrists back in the 60s one of whom was apparently working on mkultra produced a lengthy biblelike text from some channeled being. Mkultra declassified documents the national security archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation under the foia and sought a centralized repository for these materials.
The following documents were obtained by the authors in researching acid dreams. These papers report the results of research funded by the air. In july 2001, some surviving information regarding mkultra was declassified. Mkultrarelated documents, which had been missed in the previous sea rclu. Ritual abuse, ritual list of mkultra crime and healing. Click here for pdf file about list of mkultra unclassified documents including subprojects regarding ritual abuse, ritual crime and healing, if you want to download and save. The draft is dated 17 august 1960, while the approval date is 9960. He came to be involved in the study almost by accident, as a neighbor of keseysa psychologistsigned up for the. Project mkultra also known as mkultra was the code name for a cia mindcontrol research program that began in the 1950s. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the.
There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of electronic signals to alter brain functioning. In congressional testimony, gottlieb, who died in 1999, acknowledged that the agency had administered lsd to as many as 40 unwitting subjects, including prison inmates and patrons of brothels set up and run by the agency cia. Mkultracia mind control research and documentation author. To check the veracity of this mkultra document, order it directly from the cia as an individual document, or as part of the three cd set of declassified cia mind control documents. Mkultra file from archiv ieb, former ranch fileswere destroyed on 31 january 1973. Mkultra never learned anything that we dont know now. Project mkultra or mkultra, also called the cia mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the u. Declassified mkultra document about subproject 119. Cia mkultra mind control collection the black vault. Utilizing the freedom of information act foia, the black vaults founder john greenewald, jr.
The mkultra documents disclose postwar mind control experiments, carried out by american intelligence agencies, on hapless, nonconsenting us citizens. The purpose of this project is to provide funds to carry out the isolation and characterization of the intoxicating substances. With that in mind, here is a list of 20 declassified files most from the us government proving the very real crimes it has been engaged in, spanning a variety of areas including forced sterilization, mind control, weather modification, false flag operations and igniting war. The subproject is substantially about recording, analyzing and interpreting bioelectric signals from the human organism, and activating human behavior by remote means. Shown here are correspondences between jack kerouac, timothy leary, and aldous huxley. Also included are a number of onceclassified documents obtained through the freedom of information act. From a purely scientific perspective, theres nothing there that isnt old hat to modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology. In sum, the agency failed to uncover these particular documents in 1973, in the process of attempting to destroy them. Programmed to kill by david mcgovern overview programmed to kill. This memo, written by the cias sidney gottlieb, is one of the earliest records available from the mkultra project. There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of. John marx, has obtained a number of other documents on mkultra. This a page from the declassified documents of mkultra. Cointelpro was a series of undercover operations that targeted people and groups the us government deemed were a problem, such as the communist party.