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CASE #NHLN4M · 3 entities · 6 connections
MKUltra
The CIA dosed its own citizens with acid. On purpose.
Between 1953 and 1973, the CIA ran a program of human experimentation using LSD, hypnosis, and other methods to research mind control, often on subjects who had not given informed consent. Surviving documents were declassified after a 1975 Senate investigation.
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Quick facts
- →Unwitting subjects — patients, prisoners, people at parties — were given LSD without consent.
- →In 1973, CIA director Richard Helms ordered nearly all MKUltra files destroyed.
- →It still came out: a 1975 Senate panel, the Church Committee, forced the surviving documents into daylight.
- →No one was ever criminally charged.
Entities on file
CIA (organization)
Central Intelligence Agency; alleged by some theories to have had a role in the assassination, without documentary proof.
Also appears in: Operation Ajax, Operation CHAOS, The October Surprise Theory, JFK assassination, The Iraq War WMD Claims
→ possibly connected to death of → John F. Kennedy~speculative
→ employed to run MKUltra → Sidney Gottlieb✓documented
→ employed the officer who led → Kermit Roosevelt Jr.✓documented
→ ran, despite its own charter barring domestic operations → Operation CHAOS✓documented
→ produced the central intelligence assessments behind → Iraq War WMD claims✓documented
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Sidney Gottlieb (person)
CIA chemist who ran MKUltra.
No outgoing connections on file.
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Church Committee (organization)
1975 Senate investigation that formally confirmed CIA assassination plots and FBI COINTELPRO abuses, directly leading to permanent congressional intelligence oversight.
Also appears in: The Church Committee
→ investigated and exposed → CIA✓documented
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