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Sidney Gottlieb

1953–1999

CIA chemist who directed MK-ULTRA and led the Agency's Technical Services Division, the office responsible for its most secret behavioral, chemical, and technical programs - the bureaucratic ancestor of the CIA office that would later bankroll psychic research at SRI.

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Connections (2)

confirmedMK-ULTRA

directed the program

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

confirmedCentral Intelligence Agency

headed its Technical Services Division (chemical/behavioral programs)

Source: CIA records; Church Committee (1975)

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