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Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA interrogation research program, run by the Office
of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in
the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used United
States citizens as its test subjects.^[1][2][3]
The published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the
surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to
manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.

Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through
investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential
commission known as the Rockefeller
Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA
Director Richard Helms
ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and
Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct
participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived
Helms’ destruction order.^[4]

Although the CIA insists that MK-ULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned,
14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various
interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA
mind control research
continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that
MK-ULTRA was abandoned a "cover story."^[5][6]

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and
institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program
which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels,
high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the
administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social
situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The
Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The
agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.^[7]

To this day most specific information regarding Project MKULTRA remains
highly classified.^[8]

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Title and origins

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

The project’s intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph
MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency’s Technical
Services Division, followed by the word ULTRA (which had previously
been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related
cryptonyms include MK-NAOMI and MK-DELTA.

A precursor of the MK-ULTRA program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives
Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation
Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a program to recruit former Nazi scientists. Some of
these scientists studied torture and
brainwashing, and several had just been identified
and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.^[9][10]

Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip.
These projects included Project CHATTER (established 1947), and Project
BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was renamed Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was
to study mind-control, interrogation, behavior modification and related
topics.

Headed by Dr. Sidney
Gottlieb, the MK-ULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen
Dulles on April 13, 1953,^[11] largely in
response to Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on U.S.
prisoners of war in
Korea.^[12]
The CIA wanted to use similar methods on their own captives. The CIA was also
interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques,^[13] and would later
invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro.

Experiments were often conducted without the subjects’ knowledge or
consent.^[14] In some cases,
academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations
were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes.^[15]

In 1964, the project was renamed MK-SEARCH. The project attempted to produce
a perfect truth drug for use
in interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War, and generally to explore any other
possibilities of mind control.

Another MK-ULTRA effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy’s top secret "Perfect
Concussion" program, which used sub-aural frequency blasts to erase memory.^[16]

Because most MK-ULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of
then CIA Director Richard
Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a
complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research
sub-projects sponsored by MK-ULTRA and related CIA programs.^[17]

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Goals

The Agency poured millions of dollars into studies examining methods of
influencing and controlling the mind, and of enhancing their ability to extract
information from resistant subjects during interrogation.^[18][19]

Some historians have asserted that creating a "Manchurian Candidate" subject through
"mind control" techniques was a goal of MK-ULTRA and related CIA projects.^[20] Alfred McCoy has
claimed that the CIA attempted to focus media attention on these sorts of
"ridiculous" programs, so that the public wouldn’t look at the primary goal of
the research, which was developing effective methods of torture and
interrogation. Such authors cite as one example, the fact that the CIA’s KUBARK interrogation
manual refers to "studies at McGill University", and that most of the techniques
recommended in KUBARK are exactly those that Cameron used on his test subjects
(sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc).^[19]

One 1955 MK-ULTRA 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:^[21]

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.

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Budget

A secretive arrangement granted the MK-ULTRA program a percentage of the CIA
budget. The MK-ULTRA director was granted six percent of the CIA operating
budget in 1953, without oversight or accounting.^[22]
An estimated $10 million USD or more was spent.^[23]

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Experiments

CIA documents suggest that "chemical, biological and radiological" means were
investigated for the purpose of mind control as part of MK-ULTRA.^[24]

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Drugs

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LSD

Early efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many of MK-ULTRA’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 or informed consent, a
violation of the Nuremberg
Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II.

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 October 6, 1966). 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, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the
sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.^[25]

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 consecutive days.^[26]

LSD was eventually dismissed by MK-ULTRA’s researchers as too unpredictable
in its results.^[27] 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.

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Other drugs

Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other.^[28]
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, morphine, temazepam (used under code name MK-SEARCH),
mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, sodium pentothal,^[29]
and ergine (in Subproject 22).

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Hypnosis

Declassified MK-ULTRA documents indicate hypnosis was studied in the early 1950s. Experimental
goals included: the creation of "hypnotically induced anxieties," "hypnotically increasing ability to learn
and recall complex written matter," studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, "hypnotically increasing
ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects," and
studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis."^[30]

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Canadian experiments

The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist 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 reprogramming 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 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.^[31] His treatments
resulted in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their
parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.^[32]
His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist Dr William Sargant at St Thomas’
Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also involved in the
Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without
their consent, causing similar long-term damage.^[33]

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 in
1946–47.^[34]

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Revelation

In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files
destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were
destroyed, making a full investigation of MK-ULTRA impossible.

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 the U.S. Congress, in the form of the
Church Committee,
and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller
Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related
agencies of the military.

In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the
presidential Rockefeller
Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and
the Department of Defense had
conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant 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. Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller
Commission learned about MKULTRA was contained in a report, prepared by the
Inspector General’s office in 1963, that had survived the destruction of records
ordered in 1973.^[35]
However, it contained little detail.

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". The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored by these
researchers … call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix
guidelines for experiments."

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.

On the heels of the revelations about CIA experiments, similar stories
surfaced regarding U.S. Army experiments. 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 a 1953 memorandum
penned by then Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson. Documents show that
the CIA participated in at least two of Department of Defense committees during
1952. These committee findings led to the issuance of the "Wilson Memo," which
mandated—in accord with Nuremberg Code protocols—that only volunteers be
used for experimental operations conducted in the U.S. armed forces. In response
to the Inspector General’s investigation, the Wilson Memo was declassified in
August 1975.

With regard to drug testing within the Army, the Inspector General found that
"the evidence clearly reflected that every possible medical consideration was
observed by the professional investigators at the Medical Research
Laboratories." However the Inspector General also found that the mandated
requirements of Wilson’s 1953 memorandum had been only partially adhered to; he
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."

Other branches of the U.S. armed forces, the Air Force for example, were
found not to have adhered to Wilson Memo stipulations regarding voluntary drug
testing.

In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, to look further into MKULTRA, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then
Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of
records, consisting of about 20,000 pages,^[36] that had survived
the 1973 destruction orders, due to having been stored at a records center not
usually used for such documents.^[35]
These files dealt with the financing of MKULTRA projects, and as such contained
few details of those projects, but much more was learned from them than from the
Inspector General’s 1963 report.

In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in
1984 on a CBC news show, The
Fifth Estate. It was learned that not only had the CIA funded Dr. 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. None of Dr.
Cameron’s personal records of his involvement with MKULTRA survive, since his
family destroyed them after his death from a heart attack while mountain
climbing in 1967.^[37]

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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 1950s and 1960s. In addition to LSD,
the Army also tested 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…^[38]

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Deaths

Harold Blauer, a
professional tennis player in New York City, died as a result of a secret Army
experiment involving MDA.^[39]

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 died
under suspicious circumstances (initially labeled 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 thirteen stories to his death.^[40]

Olson’s son disputes this version of events, and maintains that his father
was murdered due to the belief that he was going to divulge his knowledge of the
top-secret interrogation program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.^[41]
Frank Olson’s body was exhumed in 1994, and cranial injuries indicated Olson had
been knocked unconscious before exiting the window.^[42]

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 as to 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 Olsen’s already-diagnosed suicidal tendencies, which might
well have been exacerbated by the LSD.^[40]

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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 Supreme Court affirmed this
defense in a 5–4 decision that dismissed Stanley’s case.^[43]
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 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 and dismissed the case in 2007.^[44]

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Extent of
participation

Forty-four American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical
or pharmaceutical companies and the like
including Sandoz (currently Novartis) and Eli Lilly & Co., 12 hospitals or
clinics (in addition to those associated with universities), and 3 prisons are known to have participated in
MKULTRA.^[45][46]

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Notable subjects

A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that
Theodore
Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored
MK-ULTRA experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959
through the spring of 1962. .^[47] During
World War II, Henry Murray, the lead
researcher in the Harvard experiments, served with the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS), which was a forerunner of the CIA. Murray applied for a grant funded by
the United States
Navy, and his Harvard stress experiments strongly resembled those
run by the OSS.^[47]
Beginning at the age of sixteen, Kaczynski participated along with twenty-one
other undergraduate students in the Harvard experiments, which have been
described as "disturbing" and "ethically indefensible."^[47][48]

Merry Prankster
Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, volunteered for MK-ULTRA experiments while he was 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.^[49]

Candy Jones, American
fashion model and radio host, claimed to have been a victim of mind control in
the ’60s.^[50]

Infamous Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger volunteered for testing
while in prison.^[51]

Robert Hunter is an American lyricist,
singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Hunter was
an early volunteer test subject for the MKULTRA program. He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, then report on his experiences, which were
creatively formative for him:

Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of
crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly
mist…and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand,
every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver
vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells….By my
faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
[McNally 42-43]^[52]

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Conspiracy theories

MK-ULTRA plays a part in many conspiracy
theories given its nature and the destruction of most records.^[53]

Lawrence Teeter,
attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, believed Sirhan was under the
influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Teeter linked the
CIA’s MKULTRA program to mind control techniques that he claimed were used to
control Sirhan.^[54]

Jonestown, the Guyana location of the Jim Jones cult and Peoples Temple mass suicide, was thought to be a
test site for MKULTRA medical and mind control experiments after the official
end of the program. Congressman Leo
Ryan, a known critic of the CIA, was assassinated after he personally
visited Jonestown to investigate various reported irregularities. ^[55]

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Popular 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, Infinite Jest by David Foster
  Wallace, Just a Couple of Days by Tony
  Vigorito, The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, The
  Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley; and The
  Watchmen by John Altman; the films The
  Bourne Ultimatum, Conspiracy Theory, The Good
  Shepherd, Jacob’s Ladder, The Killing Room,
  Masquerade
  by Gayle Lynds, and
  The Men Who Stare at
  Goats; the television series Angel, Bones, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse
  Ventura, Fringe, The
  Lone Gunmen, Numb3rs,
  Quincy
  M.E., The West
  Wing, 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, MK-ULTRA, and a side project of Frank Tovey
  took their names from these projects. MKULTRA is also referenced by such musical
  artists as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Canibus, Exit Clov, Fatboy Slim, Green Magnet School, Immortal
  Technique, Manic Street Preachers, Muse, The Orb, Sirius Isness, Lustmord side project Terror Against Terror, Tokyo Police Club,
  and Unwound.
• MKULTRA also provides a name for a move by professional
  wrestler Sterling James Keenan.

• MKULTRA is the name given to an award winning type of cannabis. 1st place in
  the Indica Cup, 2003 High
  Times Cannabis Cup,
  and the 2004 High Times Cannabis Cup, 2nd place for the Indica Cup. It is a
  cross between G-13 and OG’er
  Kush.

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