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Declassified records and archival reporting show MKULTRA was not a single lab’s work but a wide network: at least 80 institutions and roughly 185 outside researchers participated, including universiti...
The most recent public releases include over 1,200 pages of MKULTRA-related records published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest, drawing on surviving FOIA and archive material that survive...
Several named MKULTRA victims — notably Stanley Glickman, Velma “Val” Orlikow and a cohort of patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill’s Allan Memorial Institute (including recent plaintiffs such as Ms....
Historians and archivists have rebuilt MKULTRA’s story not from a single archive but from scattered survivals — misfiled financial ledgers, a 20,000‑page cache uncovered in 1977, witness testimony fro...
New declassifications since 2018 expanded the documentary record of MKULTRA by adding thousands of previously withheld pages that clarify the program’s scale, methods and oversight failings: a 2018 FO...
MKUltra focused heavily on LSD and “psychedelic drugs,” often at high or experimental doses, and combined drugging with hypnosis, electroshock and sensory deprivation; CIA records and declassified mem...
The newly published declassification sets and archival collections identify Sidney Gottlieb as the central CIA official who signed off on hundreds of MKULTRA subprojects and built covert ties with uni...
Declassified records released by the National Security Archive and other archives add more than 1,200 pages of MKULTRA-era material to the public record and confirm the CIA ran behavior‑control resear...
Declassified materials and contemporary reporting name a number of specific universities and hospitals that received funds or hosted subprojects, but the surviving records are fragmentary and do not e...
Official records of and related human‑experimentation programs exist in scattered, partially declassified form: surviving CIA files and agency report caches, Senate and hearings and their appendices, ...
and concluded that was a umbrella program (1953–mid-1960s) that funded research into drugs and , including experiments that in some cases used unwitting or nonconsenting human subjects and produced ab...