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Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification
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“The records of all these activities were destroyed in January 1973, at the instruction of then CIA Director Richard Helms.”
printed p. 3 · PDF p. 7 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“These new records were discovered by the agency in March. Their existence was not made known to the Congress until July.”
printed p. 3 · PDF p. 7 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“The records reveal a far more extensive series of experiments than had previously been thought. Eighty-six universities or institutions were involved.”
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“In my letter to you of July 15, 1977, I reported our recent discovery of seven boxes of documents related to Project MKULTRA, a closely held CIA project conducted from 1953-1964.”
printed p. 4 · PDF p. 8 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“In 1953 Dr. Olson, a civilian employee of the Army at Fort Detrick, leaped to his death from a hotel room window in New York City about a week after having unwittingly consumed LSD administered to him as an experiment at a meeting of LSD researchers called by CIA.”
printed p. 4 · PDF p. 8 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“First, there are 149 MKULTRA subprojects, many of which appear to have some connection with research into behavioral modification, drug acquisition and testing or administering drugs surreptitiously.”
printed p. 5 · PDF p. 9 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“13. Single subprojects in such areas as effects of electro-shock, harassment techniques for offensive use, analysis of extrasensory perception, gas propelled sprays and aerosols, and four subprojects involving crop and material sabotage.”
printed p. 6 · PDF p. 10 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“2. Research on hypnosis: 8 subprojects, including 2 involving hypnosis and drugs in combination.”
printed p. 6 · PDF p. 10 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“We are now in possession of the names of 185 non-government researchers and assistants who are identified in the recovered material dealing with the 149 subprojects. The names of 80 institutions where work was done or with which these people were affiliated are also mentioned.”
printed p. 7 · PDF p. 11 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“the fact that the Technical Service Division of CIA had initiated 144 subprojects related to the control of human behavior between 1953-1963”
printed p. 7 · PDF p. 11 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“a subject known as Project MKULTRA, a project which took place from 1953 to 1964. It was an umbrella project under which there were numerous subprojects for research, among other things, on drugs and behavioral modification.”
printed p. 8 · PDF p. 12 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“a report of the CIA's Inspector General written in 1963, and which led directly to the termination of this activity in 1964”
printed p. 8 · PDF p. 12 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
“with the concurrence of the then Director of Central Intelligence and under the supervision of the Director of the Office of Technical Services that supervised Project MKULTRA.”
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“Thirteenth, there are single subprojects in such areas as the effects of electroshock, harassment techniques for offensive use, analysis of extrasensory perception, gas propelled sprays and aerosols, and four subprojects involving crop and material sabotage.”
printed p. 11 · PDF p. 15 · RENDERED AND READ BY EYE, 2026-09-02. The page was rasterised from the held PDF at 170 dpi and read as a picture. The document's OCR text layer was used only to decide which pages to render and no word above was taken from it. Proof that the layer is OCR and not born-digital: it renders this document's own title as "PROJECT MKIULTRA" and "RESEARCH INBEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION".
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What this document is used for, page by page
Every claim on this map that rests on this document, and every claim tested against it and deliberately not used — in the order you would meet them reading the file itself. Where the check was written down, our wording is followed by the document’s own sentence, so you can hold the two side by side. 5 of 5 name a page.
Printed page 31 claim
What this page does not carry. THIS IS A SENATOR SPEAKING, NOT THE AGENCY. Five pages later the Director of Central Intelligence describes the same destruction and does NOT name the DCI who authorised it - his words at printed 8 are "with the concurrence of the then Director of Central Intelligence". The attribution to Helms is Kennedy's and is recorded as his.
Printed page 42 claims
What this page does not carry. The causal claim is Turner's own: he gives Olson's death as the reason MKULTRA surfaced during the 1975 investigations. No date more precise than the year is given for the death anywhere on the pages read.
Printed page 61 claim
Central Intelligence Agency→MK-ULTRA
ran it, and counted extrasensory perception among its fifteen research categories
On the page
The claim appears twice in one hearing - written, in the prepared statement at printed 6, and spoken, at printed 11. Both pages were rendered and read.
What this page does not carry. ONE CLAUSE IN A LIST OF FIFTEEN, AND NOTHING MORE. The hearing gives this subproject no number, no researcher, no institution, no date and no result. It does not say the work was done at SRI, that Gottlieb directed it, that it produced anything, or that it connects to any later programme on this map. What the page supports is that the category existed and that the Director of Central Intelligence told the Senate so.
Printed page 81 claim
What this page does not carry. TURNER IS DESCRIBING THE 1973 DESTRUCTION when he says this, and the supervision he names is supervision of the destruction as much as of the programme. The clause "that supervised Project MKULTRA" is his and is what this link rests on. Note also that the office is called the Technical Services Staff, the Technical Service Division and the Office of Technical Services at different points in this one hearing; this corpus files them as one entity and that is an editorial decision, not the record's.