MKUltra

Document describing roughly the use of LSD-25 in Project MKUltra

Project MKUltra was a human experimentation program carried out by the CIA with wide-ranging objectives, including study of the use of torture and the possibility of brainwashing. The program was carried out over several decades across multiple continents and involved the use of psychedelics, electronic shocks, sensory deprivation methods, and other methods of torture. The program was revealed by the Church Committee in 1975, and was ostensibly halted. However, most of the documents in CIA storage relating to MKUltra were destroyed.

Origins of the project

During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau conducted interrogation experiments on human subjects. Substances such as barbiturates, morphine derivatives, and hallucinogens such as mescaline were employed in experiments conducted on Jews and Russian prisoners of war which aimed to develop a truth serum which would, in the words of one laboratory assistant to Dachau scientist Kurt Plötner, "eliminate the will of the person examined". According to american historian Stephen Kinzer, the CIA project was a "continuation" of these earlier Nazi experiments, citing the numerous German scientists who were hired to work for the U.S. as part of Operation Paperclip

Drugs

Project MKUltra mainly used LSD-25 and Mescaline for purposes of manipulating the subjects.

Victims involved

Theodore Kaczynski is discussed to be one of the victims of MKUltra and exposed to inhumane stress situations as part of a experiment conducted by Henry A. Murray.