FMPU Intelligence Brief (Special Report) - MK Ultra
MKUltra: What the Documents Actually Say (vs. What Congress Wants You to Think They Say) The nugget: MKUltra isn't a mystery. It's one of the best-documented abuses in CIA history — and that's exactly why the current circus around it is so obnoxious. The actual paper trail Start with what's real, because it's damning enough without embellishment. Between 1953 and 1964, the CIA ran 149 subprojects under the MKUltra umbrella, testing drugs and psychological manipulation on subjects who mostly had no idea they were being experimented on. The stated goal, straight from the CIA's own files: developing the ability to control a person completely — even overriding their own instinct for self-preservation. That's not a conspiracy theorist's paraphrase. That's the agency's own language, declassified. In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the files destroyed — full stop, as Watergate closed in. But he missed a batch: roughly 20,000 pages h...