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MKULTRA GAVE LSD TO PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT TOLD
The Central Intelligence Agency Ran Its Own Drug Research Programme
MKULTRA Was The Codename It Used
The Money Went Out As Separate Subprojects
Some Of Those Subprojects Gave LSD To People Who Were Not Told
The Programme Ended And The Agency Destroyed Nearly Every File
One Set Of Finance Folders Had Been Stored Somewhere Else
A Records Request Uncovered Them Years Afterwards
Senators Put What Those Folders Held On The Record
Those Folders Are Why The Subprojects Can Be Counted At All
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WHAT THE PROGRAMME WAS 🗂️
MKULTRA Was A Closely Held Central Intelligence Agency Programme
It Ran From 1953 To 1964
Sensitive Subprojects Were Funded Under That Name
Research On Drugs And Behavioural Modification Was Among Them
Part Of This Had Already Been Admitted To Congress
A Senate Health Subcommittee Heard It From The Deputy Director
He Said Over 30 Universities And Institutions Were Involved
The Work Was Called Extensive Testing And Experimentation
It Included Covert Drug Tests On Unwitting Citizens
The Phrase He Used Was At All Social Levels High And Low
That Description Covered Citizens And Foreigners Alike
Several Of Those Tests Administered LSD
The People Given It Were Unwitting Subjects In Social Situations
None Of Those Subjects Had Agreed To Anything
At Least One Death Resulted From The Activities
Senator Kennedy Named Frank Olson In The Same Statement
Whether It Was Good Science Was A Separate Question
The Agency Acknowledged That The Work Made Little Scientific Sense
Agents Doing The Monitoring Were Not Qualified Scientific Observers
Test Subjects Were Seldom Accessible Beyond The First Hours
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THE DEATH THAT MADE IT PUBLIC 🏨
Frank Olson Was A Civilian Employee Of The Army
He Worked At Fort Detrick In Maryland
In 1953 He Attended A Meeting Of LSD Researchers
The Central Intelligence Agency Had Called That Meeting
He Consumed LSD There Without Knowing It
About A Week Later He Died In New York City
He Went Through A Hotel Room Window
The Agency's Own Account Calls It A Leap
What Made The Programme Public Came Later
Two Investigations Examined The Agency In 1975
The Rockefeller Commission Was One Of Them
Congress Ran The Church Committee Inquiry
Details Of The Drug Related Death Were Publicised Then
That Is When The Codename Became Publicly Known
The Investigators Were Not Starting From Nothing
An Inspector General Report On The Programme Existed From 1963
Its Recommendations Ended Unwitting Testing On United States Citizens
It Contained Most Of What Was Known In 1975
That Report Reached The Church Committee Investigators
Staff On The Senate Health Subcommittee Received It As Well
It Also Described How Records Were Kept
Present Practice Was To Maintain No Records Of Test Programmes
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WHAT THE FOLDERS CONTAINED 📦
The Programme Files Were Destroyed In January 1973
Senator Kennedy Named Richard Helms As Ordering It
The Director Of Central Intelligence Gave A Different Attribution
He Named The Retiring Chief Of The Office Of Technical Service
Both Accounts Place The Destruction In 1973
One Set Of Papers Escaped It
Those Papers Were Finance Folders
A Finance Section Had Sent Them To A Records Centre In 1970
That Was A Departure From Normal Procedure
The Reason For It Is Not Known
Searches In 1975 Missed Them As Well
An Employee Answering Records Requests Found Them
Seven Boxes Were Recovered
That Discovery Happened In March
Congress Was Not Told Until July
The Hearing Was Held On 3 August 1977
Those Recovered Folders Listed 149 Subprojects Of The Programme
Another 33 Subprojects Had Nothing To Do With It
The Agency Sorted The 149 Into Categories
6 Of Them Involved Tests On Unwitting Subjects
14 Were Definite Tests On Human Volunteers
Another 19 Probably Did The Same
17 Probably Had No Human Testing At All
The Hearing Also Counted The Institutions Involved
Eighty Six Universities Or Institutions Took Part
The Earlier Figure Given To Congress Was Over 30
