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Project MKUltra
Sign in to saveAlso known as CIA's mind control program, MK ULTRA, MKULTRA
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Background
- Origin of the project
- Aims and leadership
- Applications
- Other related projects
- Experiments on Americans
- LSD
- Other drugs
- Hypnosis
- Experiments on Canadians
- Motivation and assessments
- Secret detention camps
- Revelation
- 1994 U.S. General Accounting Office report
- ''CIA vs Sims''
- <span class="anchor" id="Deaths"></span> Death of Frank Olson
- Legal issues involving informed consent
- Notable people
- Documented experimenters
- Documented subjects
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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MKUltra was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in altering human behavior. The term MKUltra is a CIA cryptonym: "MK" is an arbitrary prefix standing for the Office of Technical Service and "Ultra" is an arbitrary word out of a dictionary used to name this project. The program has been widely condemned as a violation of individual rights and an example of the CIA's abuse of power, with critics highlighting its disregard for consent and its corrosive impact on democratic principles.
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