On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA to fund research into drugs, interrogation, and behaviour change. Twenty years later, most of the program's files were destroyed, yet the dates 1953, 1963, and 1973 still carry its central charge: the CIA tested ways to interfere with people's minds and erased much of the trail.
On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA. The CIA did not open one laboratory. It built an umbrella program that paid for research into drugs, biological materials, interrogation, and behaviour change. The official reason was fear that the Soviet Union and China had developed "brainwashing." The records show a wider aim than defence. The agency wanted ways to affect memory, will, and a person's ability to resist.
On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA to fund research into drugs, interrogation, and behaviour change. Twenty years later, most of the program's files were destroyed, yet the dates 1953, 1963, and 1973 still carry its central charge: the CIA tested ways to interfere with people's minds and erased much of the trail.
On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA to fund research into drugs, interrogation, and behaviour change. Twenty years later, most of the program's files were destroyed, yet the dates 1953, 1963, and 1973 still carry its central charge: the CIA tested ways to interfere with people's minds and erased much of the trail.
On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA to fund research into drugs, interrogation, and behaviour change. Twenty years later, most of the program's files were destroyed, yet the dates 1953, 1963, and 1973 still carry its central charge: the CIA tested ways to interfere with people's minds and erased much of the trail.
On April 13, 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles approved Project MKULTRA to fund research into drugs, interrogation, and behaviour change. Twenty years later, most of the program's files were destroyed, yet the dates 1953, 1963, and 1973 still carry its central charge: the CIA tested ways to interfere with people's minds and erased much of the trail.