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April 13, 1953: CIA OKs MK-ULTRA Mind-Control Tests. 1953: Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorizes the MK-ULTRA project. The agency launches one of its most dubious covert programs ever, turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs. More than a decade before psychologist Timothy Leary advocated the benefits of LSD and urged everyone to “turn on, tune in, drop out,” the CIA’s Technical Services Staff launched the highly classified project to study the mind-control effects of this and other psychedelic drugs, using unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as lab mice. Dulles wanted to close the “brainwashing gap” that arose after the United States learned that American prisoners of war in Korea were subjected to mind-control techniques by their captors.

Loathe to be outdone by foreign enemies, the CIA sought, through its research, to devise a truth serum to enhance the interrogations of POWs and captured spies. Olson was a 43-year-old civilian germ-warfare researcher for the U.S. Dissecting CIA’s Lies About MKULTRA – Glomar Disclosure.

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Project MKUltra. Declassified MKUltra documents Project MKUltra — sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — was the code name given to an illegal and clandestine program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control.

Organized through the Scientific Intelligence Division of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the project coordinated with the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. " Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the U.S. Background[edit] Dr. Precursor experiments[edit] MKUltra[edit] Goals[edit] Drugs[edit] Projet MK-Ultra. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le projet MK-Ultra[1] (ou MKUltra), dévoilé en 1975, est le nom de code d'un projet secret illégal de la CIA des années 1950 à 1970 visant à manipuler mentalement certaines personnes par l'injection de substances psychotropes ou par signaux bioélectriques (sous-programme 119).

De 1951 à 1963, il se nommait projet Artichoke ; le projet Bluebird (1951-1953) lui est apparenté [réf. à confirmer][2]. Citation[modifier | modifier le code] « Le directeur adjoint de la CIA a révélé que plus de trente universités et institutions avaient participé à un large projet de tests et d'expérimentations qui incluait des tests de médicaments cachés sur des sujets non-volontaires de toutes les catégories sociales, hautes et basses, américains et étrangers. . — Sénateur Kennedy. Origines[modifier | modifier le code] En 1964, le projet fut renommé MKSEARCH. En 1972, Richard Helms, directeur de la CIA ordonna la destruction des archives du projet. A. B. C. D. E. Donald Ewen Cameron.

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