Project MKUltra was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to … See more

The CIA exported experiments to Canada when they recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" … See more

In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding … See more

Origin of the project
During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau conducted interrogation … See more

CIA documents suggest that they investigated "chemical, biological, and radiological" methods of mind control as part of MKUltra. They … See more

In areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly Japan, West Germany and the Philippines, the CIA created secret detention centers ( See more

Several known deaths have been associated with Project MKUltra, most notably that of Frank Olson.
Already in 1951 Frank Olson was a United States Army biochemist … See more