THE MKULTRA FILES: YOUR TRUST ISSUES ARE UNDERSTANDABLE.

MKULTRA WAS REAL. YOUR TRUST ISSUES ARE UNDERSTANDABLE.

For years, it sounded like the plot of a badly written science-fiction movie. Unfortunately, the paperwork says otherwise.

In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency authorized a classified research program known as MKULTRA.

Its objective involved investigating ways to influence human behavior, including the use of drugs, psychological techniques and other experimental methods.

The program eventually expanded into approximately 150 research subprojects involving universities, hospitals, prisons, researchers and other institutions.

Some participants knew they were part of experiments.

Others did not.

The program remained largely hidden until congressional investigations in the 1970s brought its activities into public view.

In 1973, most of the substantive MKULTRA records were destroyed on orders from senior CIA leadership, making it difficult to reconstruct the full extent of the experiments.

Yes. Records documenting a secret human experimentation program were destroyed.

Because apparently, transparency was not included in the original budget.

THE UNCOMFORTABLE PART

The existence of MKULTRA is not a conspiracy theory.

It is documented history.

What remains incomplete is the full picture of who participated, who was harmed and how many experiments were never properly documented.

SOUR TRIP CLASSIFIED OBSERVATION

If someone tells you that questioning authority is irrational, remind them that history occasionally requires a second opinion.

Preferably one that doesn't come with a classified file number.

REPORTED BY: AGENT 071

Formerly assigned to the Department of Institutional Memory. Currently denied access to his own personnel file.