Project MK-Ultra

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD in this June 9, 1953 letter.

Aims
	The Agency poured millions of dollars into studies probing literally dozens of methods of influencing and 
controlling the mind. One 1955 MKULTRA document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort; this 
document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows: [12]

  1.  Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be 
       discredited in public. 
  2.  Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception. 
  3.  Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 
  4.  Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 
  5.  Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they 
       may be used for malingering, etc. 
  6.  Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. 
  7.  Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion during 
       interrogation and so-called "brain-washing". 
  8.  Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use. 
  9.  Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of 
       surreptitious use. 
10. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. 
11. Substances which will produce "pure" euphoria with no subsequent let-down. 
12. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become 
       dependent upon another person is enhanced. 
13. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it 
       difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning. 
14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in 
       undetectable amounts. 
15. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without 
       permanent effects. 
16. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which 
       will be safe to use, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis. 
17. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will 
       make it impossible for a man to perform any physical activity whatsoever.   ”

Experiments
	CIA documents suggest that "chemical, biological and radiological" means were investigated for the 
purpose of mind control as part of MKULTRA.[1] Early efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many 
of MKULTRA's programs. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, 
other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study 
their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge and informed consent, 
a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after WWII. Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, 
even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in 
the United States until 1967). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men 
who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, and the brothels were 
equipped with one-way mirrors and the "sessions" were filmed for later viewing and study.[13]
	Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in many of these cases, the subjects appeared to be 
singled out for even more extreme experiments. In one case, volunteers were given LSD for 77 days straight.[14]
LSD was eventually dismissed by MKULTRA's researchers as too unpredictable in its effects.[2] Although useful 
information was sometimes obtained through questioning subjects on LSD, not uncommonly the most marked effect 
would be the subject's absolute and utter certainty that they were able to withstand any form of interrogation attempt, 
even physical torture.
	Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV 
into the other.[15] The barbiturates were released into the subject first, and as soon as the subject began to fall asleep, 
the amphetamines were released. The subject would begin babbling incoherently at this point, and it was sometimes 
possible to ask questions and get useful answers. Other experiments involved heroin, mescaline, psilocybin, 
scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, and sodium pentothal.[16]
	There is no evidence that the CIA (or anyone else) has actually succeeded in controlling a person's actions 
through the "mind control" techniques that are known to have been attempted in the MKULTRA projects. However, 
historians[17] have learned that creating a "Manchurian Candidate"-style subject was undoubtedly a goal of MKULTRA 
and related CIA projects.
	In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed—and it is believed that most CIA 
documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of the project all but impossible.

Budget
	A secretive arrangement granted a percentage of the CIA budget. The MKULTRA director was granted six 
percent of the CIA operating budget in 1953, without oversight or accounting.[3] 

Canadian experiments
	The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish physician Donald Ewen Cameron, 
creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found particularly interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct 
schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and completely rebuilding the psyche. He commuted from Albany, New York 
to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University and was paid $69,000 dollars from 1957
to 1964 to carry out MKULTRA experiments there. 
	In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy 
at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for 
weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His 
experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety 
disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions.[18] His treatments resulted 
in victims' incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their 
parents.[19]
	It was during this era that Cameron became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World Psychiatric 
Association as well as president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations. Cameron had also been a 
member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal only a decade earlier.[20]

Revelation
	In December 1974, The New York Times reported that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, 
including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by both the U.S. Congress 
(in the form of the Church Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller Commission) into the 
domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related agencies of the military.
	In the summer of 1975, congressional hearings and the Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public 
for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both cogniscent and unwitting 
human subjects as part of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive 
drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means. They also revealed that at 
least one subject had died after administration of LSD.
	Frank Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his 
knowledge or consent in 1953 as part of a CIA experiment, and mysteriously committed suicide a week later following a 
severe psychotic episode. A CIA doctor assigned to monitor Olson's recovery claimed to be asleep in another bed in 
a New York City hotel room when Olson jumped through the window to fall ten stories to his death. [21]
	Olson's son disputes this version of events, and maintains that his father was murdered due to his knowledge of 
the often-lethal interrogation techniques employed by the CIA in Europe, used on Cold War prisoners. Frank Olson's body
was exhumed in 1994, and cranial injuries indicated Olson had been knocked unconscious before exiting the window.
	The CIA's own internal investigation, by contrast, claimed Gottlieb had conducted the experiment with Olson's 
prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed the exact nature 
of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion. The report further suggested that Gottlieb was nonetheless due a 
reprimand, as he had failed to take into account suicidal tendencies Olson had been diagnosed as suffering from which 
might well have been exacerbated by the LSD. [21]
	The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church, concluded that 
"prior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects". The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored 
by these researchers . . . call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments." (Documents 
show that the CIA participated in at least two of the DOD committees whose discussions, in 1952, led up to the issuance 
of the memorandum by Secretary of Defense Wilson which initiated the project.)
	Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first 
Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human 
subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" 
and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter 
and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.
	Following on the heels of the revelations about CIA experiments were similar stories about the Army. In response, 
in 1975 the Secretary of the Army instructed the Army Inspector General to conduct an investigation. Among the findings 
of the Inspector General was the existence of the then-still-classified 1953 Wilson memorandum. In response to the Inspector 
General's investigation, the Wilson Memorandum was declassified in August 1975. The Inspector General also found that 
the requirements of the 1953 memorandum had, at least in regard to Army drug testing, been essentially followed as written. 
The Army used only "volunteers" for its drug-testing program, with one or two exceptions. However, the Inspector General 
concluded that the "volunteers were not fully informed, as required, prior to their participation; and the methods of procuring 
their services, in many cases, appeared not to have been in accord with the intent of Department of the Army policies 
governing use of volunteers in research." The Inspector General also noted that "the evidence clearly reflected that every 
possible medical consideration was observed by the professional investigators at the Medical Research Laboratories." 
This conclusion, if accurate, is in striking contrast to what took place at the CIA.
	In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in 1984 on a Canadian Broadcasting 
Corporation (CBC) news show, The Fifth Estate. It was learned that not only had the CIA funded Dr. Donald Ewan 
Cameron's efforts, but perhaps even more shockingly, the Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later 
provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments. This revelation largely derailed efforts by the victims to 
sue the CIA as their U.S. counterparts had, and the Canadian government eventually settled out of court for $100,000 to 
each of the 127 victims.

U.S. General Accounting Office Report
	The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 
and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments 
involving hazardous substances.
The quote from the study:
... Working with the CIA, the Department of Defense gave hallucinogenic drugs to thousands of "volunteer" soldiers in 
the 1950's and 1960's. In addition to LSD, the Army also tested 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate, a hallucinogen 
code-named BZ. (Note 37) Many of these tests were conducted under the so-called MKULTRA program, established 
to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing techniques. Between 1953 and 1964, the program 
consisted of 149 projects involving drug testing and other studies on unwitting human subjects...[22]

Legal issues involving informed consent
	The revelations about the CIA and the Army prompted a number of subjects or their survivors to file lawsuits 
against the federal government for conducting illegal experiments. Although the government aggressively, and sometimes 
successfully, sought to avoid legal liability, several plaintiffs did receive compensation through court order, out-of-court 
settlement, or acts of Congress. Frank Olson's family received $750,000 by a special act of Congress, and both 
President Ford and CIA director William Colby met with Olson's family to publicly apologize.
	Previously, the CIA and the Army had actively and successfully sought to withhold incriminating information, 
even as they secretly provided compensation to the families. One subject of Army drug experimentation, James Stanley, 
an Army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit. The government argued that Stanley was barred from 
suing under a legal doctrine—known as the Feres doctrine, after a 1950 Supreme Court case, Feres v. United 
States—that prohibits members of the Armed Forces from suing the government for any harms that were inflicted "incident 
to service."
	In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this defense in a 5–4 decision that dismissed Stanley's case 
(483 U.S. 669). The majority argued that "a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would 
call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion 
upon, military matters." In dissent, Justice William Brennan Jr. argued that the need to preserve military discipline 
should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights:
The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human 
subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a 
standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects. . . . [I]n defiance of this 
principle, military intelligence officials . . . began surreptitiously testing chemical and biological materials, including LSD.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing a separate dissent, stated:
" No judicially crafted rule should insulate from liability the involuntary and unknowing human experimentation alleged 
to have occurred in this case. Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in 
the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the 
standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the 
'voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential . . . to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.' If this 
principle is violated, the very least that society can do is to see that the victims are compensated, as best they can be, 
by the perpetrators.
	This is the only Supreme Court case to address the application of the Nuremberg Code to experimentation 
sponsored by the U.S. government. And while the suit was unsuccessful, dissenting opinions put the Army—and by 
association the entire government—on notice that use of individuals without their consent is unacceptable. The limited 
application of the Nuremberg Code in U.S. courts does not detract from the power of the principles it espouses, 
especially in light of stories of failure to follow these principles that appeared in the media and professional literature 
during the 1960s and 1970s and the policies eventually adopted in the mid-1970s.
	In another law suit, Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshall, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink 
with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without 
their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims 
of MKULTRA. She dismissed the case in 2005.

Conspiracy theories
	There are also conspiracy theories which claim that the MKULTRA project was also linked with the 
assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Some have argued that there is evidence that the assassin, Sirhan B. Sirhan, 
had been subjected to mind control, though such ideas are generally dismissed due to a lack of supporting evidence. 
Recently, these views have become more widespread after the evidence cited by Sirhan's most recent lawyer 
Lawrence Teeter, in the June 11th, 2003 Interview with Sirhan's attorney Lawrence Teeter on KPFA 94.1 / Guns & 
Butter show.
	After Leo Ryan was murdered at Jonestown, his children filed a lawsuit claiming that the CIA had been 
operating Jonestown as part of their MKULTRA program, and that Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission from 
the US Embassy who had organized the trip on Ryan's behalf, was a CIA agent. The lawsuit was dismissed for 
reasons that have never been made public, and the majority of U.S. government records concerning Jonestown 
remain sealed to this day.[23][24]

Popular culture
•	Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, volunteered for MKULTRA 
	experiments while a student at Stanford University. Kesey's ingestion of LSD during these experiments led 
	directly to his widespread promotion of the drug and the subsequent development of hippie culture. 
•	MKULTRA is referenced in the plots of The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum, 
	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 
	Firestarter by Stephen King, 
	Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito, 
	Murder in the CIA by Margaret Truman, and 
	The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon; 
	the films Conspiracy Theory (1997) with Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewart, The Good Shepherd 
	and Jacob's Ladder; 
	the television series Angel and The X-Files; 
	the games Conspiracy X and The Suffering: Prison is Hell; the character Deathstroke the Terminator in 
	the Teen Titans by DC Comics. 
•	The bands mk Ultra and MK-ULTRA took their names from these projects. 
	MKULTRA is also mentioned in songs or liner notes of such artists as Fatboy Slim, Fatjacket Circus, 
	Green Magnet School, Immortal Technique, The Manic Street Preachers, Muse, The Orb, Sirius Isness, 
	and Lustmord side project Terror Against Terror. 
•	The Canadian band Tokyo Police Club uses scenes of a film based on MK Ultra in their video 
	for "Citizens Of Tomorrow". 
•	MKULTRA also provides a name for a move by professional wrestler Sterling James Keenan and a strain 
	of medical marijuana. 
•	The 1998 Canadian television film The Sleep Room dramatized the project. 

Sources

References
1.	    Chapter 3, part 4: Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human 
	Subjects Research Scandals. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Final Report. 
	Retrieved on August 24, 2005. "The CIA program, known principally by the codename MKULTRA, began in 1950" 
2. 	    U.S. Congress: The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence 
	Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence (Church Committee report), report no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 
	(Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1976); p. 392 "According to the CIA, the project MKULTRA was decreased significantly 
	each budget year until its complete termination in the late 1960s." 
3.	    The referenced sentence was originally sourced from here; it is not obvious what the context of this reference was. 
4.	    http://www.skepticfiles.org/socialis/marcheti.htm, retrieved 22 August 2007 
5.	    John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti, quoted in Martin Cannon, "Mind Control and the American 
	Government", Lobster Magazine 23, 1992 
6.	    This quote is from the Opening Remarks by Senator Ted Kennedy during the August 3, 1977 meeting of 
	the U.S. Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, and Subcommittee On Health And Scientific Research of 
	the Committee On Human Resources; online version from the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy, a unofficial website. 
7.	    Church Committee; p. 390 "MKULTRA was approved by the DCI[Director of Central Intelligence] on April 13, 1953" 
8.	    Chapter 3, part 4: Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human Subjects 
	Research Scandals. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Final Report. 
	Retrieved on August 24, 2005. "MKULTRA, began in 1950 and was motivated largely in response to alleged 
	Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean uses of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea." 
9.	    Church Committee; p. 391 "A special procedure, designated MKDELTA, was established to govern the use 
	of MKULTRA materials abroad. Such materials were used on a number of occasions." 
10.	    Church Committee; "The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator 
	Frank Church, concluded that '[p]rior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects.'" 
11.	    Chapter 3, part 4: Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human Subjects 
	Research Scandals. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Final Report. 
	Retrieved on August 24, 2005. (identical sentence) "Because most of the MKULTRA records were deliberately 
	destroyed in 1973 ... MKULTRA and the related CIA programs." 
12.	    Senate MKULTRA Hearing: Appendix C--Documents Referring to Subprojects, [page 167, in PDF document 
	page numbering.]. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Committee on Human Resources 
	(August 3, 1977). Retrieved on 22 August 2007. 
13.	    Marks 1979: 106-107. 
14.	    NPR Fresh Air. June 28, 2007 and Tim Weiner, The Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. 
15.	    Marks 1979: pp 40-42. 
16.	    Marks 1979: chapters 3 and 7. 
17.	    Ranelagh, John O'Beirne, The agency : the rise and decline of the CIA, Simon and Schuster, 1986 
18.	    Marks 1979: pp 140-150. 
19.	    Turbide, Diane (1997-04-21). Dr. Cameron’s Casualties. Retrieved on 2007-09-09. 
20.	    Marks 1979: p 141. 
21.	    a b Marks 1979: chapter 5. 
22.	    Quote from "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans Health? Lessons Spanning Half A Century", 
	part F. HALLUCINOGENS 103rd Congress, 2nd Session-S. Prt. 103-97; Staff Report prepared for the 
	committee on veterans' affairs December 8, 1994 John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia, Chairman. Online 
	copy provided by gulfweb.org, which describes itself as "Serving the Gulf War Veteran Community 
	Worldwide Since 1994". (The same document is available from many other (unofficial) sites, which may or 
	may not be independent.) 
23.	    Richardson, James. Jonestown 25 Years Later: Why All The Secrecy?. Retrieved on 2007-03-08. 
24.	    Taylor, Michael (1998). Most Peoples Temple Documents Still Sealed. San Francisco Examiner. 
	Retrieved on 2007-03-08. 

U.S. Government Documents
•	[4] U.S. Congress: The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence 
	Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence (Church Committee report), report no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 
	(Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1976), 394. 
	      A link to the first page on MKULTRA. 
	      A link to the first page on Frank Olson. 
•	[5] U.S. Senate: Joint Hearing before The Select Committee on Intelligence and The Subcommittee on Health 
	and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. August 3, 1977 
•	[6] U.S Department of Energy: Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human 
	Subjects Research Scandals 
•	[7] U.S Department of Energy: The Records of Our Past 
•	[8] Office of the Director of Central Intelligence (ODCI): Studies in Intelligence - Fifteen DCIs' First 100 Day 
•	Entire MKULTRA Document Archive 
•	Entire MKULTRA Document Archive in PDF formats 

Articles
(sorted by date)
•	"Book Disputes CIA Chief on Mind-Control Efforts", by Bill Richards. The Washington Post, January 29, 1979, page A2. 
•	"The CIA's Attempt At Mind Control: Bad Trips?", The Washington Post, February 15, 1979, page C2. 
•	"Canadians Sue U.S. Over CIA Tests Of Behavior Modification Methods", by Laura A. Kiernan. The Washington Post, 
	    December 12, 1980, page A44. 
•	"Tests Contradict U.S. Story of Man's Suicide; Family Suspects CIA Killed Researcher", by Brian Mooar. The Washington Post, 
	    July 12, 1994, page B1. 
•	"New Study Yields Little on Death of Biochemist Drugged by CIA", by Brian Mooar. The Washington Post, Nov. 29, 1994, page B3. 
•	"Mk Ultra", by Mark Jenkins. The Washington Post, September 25, 1998, page N15. 
•	"CIA Official Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies", by Bart Barnes. The Washington Post, March 11, 1999, page B5. 
•	"The Coldest", by Ted Gup. The Washington Post, December 16, 2001, page W9. 
•	"Government-linked 'suicide' probed", H.P. Albarelli Jr., 8 September 2002. 
•	"Operation Midnight Climax", by Lawrence Segel. The Medical Post, September 17, 2002, Volume 38 Issue 33. 
•	"Woman awarded $100,000 for CIA-funded electroshock" - CBC news, 10 June 2004 
•	"Brainwash victims win cash claims" - Sunday Times, October 17, 2004 

Books
•	Black, David (1998). Acid: The Secret History of LSD. London: Vision. ISBN 1-901250-11-3.  Later edition exists. 
•	Bowart, W. H. (1978). Operation Mind Control: Our Secret Governments's War Against Its Own People. New York: Dell. 
	    ISBN 0-440-16755-8.  
•	Camper, Frank (1997). The Mk/Ultra Secret. Savannah, GA: Christopher Scott Publishing. ISBN 1-889149-02-0.  
•	Collins, Anne ([1988] 1998). In the Sleep Room: The Story of CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada. 
	    Toronto: Key Porter Books.  ISBN 1-55013-932-0.  (Reprint edition.) 
•	Douglass, Joseph (2002). Betrayed. 1st Books Library, 492. ISBN 140330131X.  
•	Douglass, Joseph (1999). Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America and the West. Edward Harle, 178. ISBN 1899798048.  
•	Fahey, Todd (1996). Wisdom's Maw. Far Gone Books, 224. ISBN 0-965-18390-4.  
•	Hubbard, L. Ron (1951). Science of Survival, Book 2, chapter 17.
•	Lee, Martin; Shlain, Bruce (1985). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. 
	    New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3062-3.  
•	Marks, John (1979). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-0773-6.  
•	McCoy, Alfred (2006). A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror. 
	    Metropolitan Books, 21 sqq.. ISBN 0-8050-8041-4.  
•	Ranelagh, John (1988). The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. Sceptre, 208-210. ISBN 0-340-41230-5.  
•	Ronson, Jon (2004). The Men Who Stare at Goats. Picador. ISBN 0-330-37548-2.  
•	Stevens, Jay (1987). Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3587-0.  
•	Thomas, Gordon (1989). Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse. 
	    New York: Bantam. ISBN 0-553-28413-4.  
•	Vankin, Jonathan; Whalin, John (2004). 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-2531-2.  
	    Chapter 1, "CIAcid Drop". 

Links
•	Inventory list of materials in the National Security Archive's collection from John Marks' FOIA request results 
	    (which he utilized while researching his book, The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, 
	    The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, W. W. Norton, 1979; published as Norton paperback in 1991,ISBN 0-393-30794-8 ). 
•	The Frank Olson Project  - a website created by Frank Olson's family to explore the issues surrounding his death. 
•	Declassified MKULTRA Documents at the Black Vault - the full 4-CD collection of MKULTRA (and related) FOIA documents, online. 
•	Declassified MKULTRA Project Documents 
•	The Most Dangerous Game: Downloadable 8 minute documentary by independent filmmakers Guerrilla News Network (GNN).
•	Results of the 1973 Church Committee Hearings, on CIA misdeeds, and the 1984 Iran/Contra Hearings, 
•	XXVII. Testing and Use of Chemical and Biological Agents by the Intelligence Community 
•	U.S. Research on Hypnosis and Mind Control Begins 
•	Amy Goodman Interviews Professor Alfred McCoy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
•	mindkiller.org's archive of MK-ULTRA declassified files 19900+ from the Freedom of Information act requested in early 2003. 
•	Interview with a Canadian victim of CIA and Canadian Government Brainwashing, The Hour, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 
	    January 9, 2007. 

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