Government / Military

MK-ULTRA

1953–1973

The CIA's illegal Cold-War mind-control and behavioral-modification program (1953-73), run out of the Agency's Technical Services Staff under Sidney Gottlieb. The same CIA technical-services lineage that had pursued drugs, hypnosis, and interrogation later funded the SRI remote-viewing program - the institutional root of the Agency's interest in the powers of the mind.

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Connections (3)

confirmedSidney Gottlieb

directed the program

Source: CIA MK-ULTRA records; Church Committee (1975)

confirmedStanford Research Institute

the CIA technical-services lineage that funded SRI's psi program had earlier run it

Source: histories of CIA psi funding and the Office of Technical Service

confirmedCentral Intelligence Agency

the CIA's Cold-War mind-control program

Source: CIA MK-ULTRA records; Church Committee (1975)

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