MKUltra: Difference between revisions

MKUltra was revealed to the public in 1975 by the [[Church Committee]] of the [[United States Congress]] and [[Gerald Ford]]'s [[United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States]] (the [[Nelson Rockefeller|Rockefeller]] Commission). Investigative efforts were hampered by CIA Director [[Richard Helms]]'s order that all MKUltra files be destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the small number of documents that survived Helms's order.<ref name="Cia">{{cite news | title=An Interview with Richard Helms | date= 2007-05-08| url = https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no4/html/v44i4a07p_0021.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100427043605/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no4/html/v44i4a07p_0021.htm | archive-date = April 27, 2010 | publisher = [[Central Intelligence Agency]] | access-date = 2008-03-16 }}</ref> In 1977, a [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings.<ref name="nytimes.com" /><ref name="mk1977">{{cite news |title=Private Institutions Used In C.I.A Effort To Control Behavior. 25-Year, $25 Million Program. New Information About Funding and Operations Disclosed by Documents and Interviews Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Plan |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9902EED9113FE334BC4A53DFBE66838C669EDE |quote=Several prominent medical research institutions and Government hospitals in the United States and Canada were involved in a secret, 25-year, $25-million effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to learn how to control the human mind.{{nbsp}}[...] Dr. [[Harris Isbell]], who conducted the research between 1952 and 1963, kept up a secret correspondence with the C.I.A. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=August 2, 1977 |access-date=2014-07-30 }}</ref> Some surviving information about MKUltra was declassified in 2001.

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