Project MK ULTRA was the code name for the CIA mind control research program lasting from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1964 the project was renamed MK-SEARCH. MK ULTRA was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles in April of 1953 largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean mind control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea. Because most of the MK ULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1972 by order of then director Richard Helms it is impossible to have a complete understanding of the more than 160 individually funded research projects sponsored by MK ULTRA and the related CIA programs. Experiments included radiation, LSD..experiments included dosing CIA employees, military personnel, other government agents, prostitutes, mental patients, and members of the general public with LSD to study their reactions, usually without the subjects knowledge.
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