Intelligence history · Ethics
MKULTRA: The CIA and Human Experimentation
A real, secret CIA programme involving drugs, coercion and nonconsensual experimentation. Its history is disturbing without requiring mythical powers of mind control.
MKULTRA was a covert CIA research programme involving unethical experimentation. Surviving documentary records inform historical investigation of its scope and oversight failures.
Claims about particular projects or individuals should be traceable to archival documents rather than folklore or later retellings.
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