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MKUltra & CIA Mind Control Timeline

The CIA's decades-long mind-control program, the lies told to Congress, and the receipts that keep surfacing.

11documented receipts·1951 — 2023timeline span·9years covered

MKUltra wasn't a conspiracy theory — it was a line item in the CIA's black budget. From Sidney Gottlieb's LSD experiments to subproject 68's unwitting subjects, this timeline collects every declassified memo, FOIA release and Church Committee finding that proves the program was real, illegal, and larger than anyone admitted.

1951

1 receipt

PENDING REVIEWAugust 20, 1951·Intelligence

The CIA's Project Artichoke tested whether they could program unwitting people to become assassins using drugs and hypnosis

Project Artichoke (1951-1953, precursor to MKUltra) investigated whether an individual could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. The CIA administered morphine, mescaline, and LSD to unknowing CIA agents to produce amnesia. The program explored whether hypnosis combined with drugs could create unwitting assassins - a 'Manchurian Candidate' scenario that was dismissed as fiction until documents were declassified.

▲ 0💬 43— CIA (declassified)

1953

1 receipt

CONFIRMEDApril 13, 1953·Health & Pharma

The CIA bought the world's entire LSD supply and tested it on unwitting Americans — then destroyed most of the evidence

Project MK-Ultra (1953-1973) saw the CIA conduct mind control experiments using LSD, electroshock, sensory deprivation, and hypnosis on unwitting subjects including prisoners, mental patients, and drug addicts — 'people who could not fight back.' CIA director Sidney Gottlieb purchased the world's entire LSD supply for $240,000. Director Richard Helms ordered most records destroyed in 1973. The program was only confirmed in 1977 when 20,000 surviving documents were discovered. Over 1,200 records are now declassified.

▲ 0💬 178— CIA (declassified)

1955

1 receipt

PENDING REVIEWJanuary 1, 1955·Intelligence

The CIA ran secret brothels in San Francisco to drug unwitting men with LSD and watch through one-way mirrors

Operation Midnight Climax was a sub-project of MKUltra where the CIA set up safe houses in San Francisco and New York, hired prostitutes to lure men, dosed them with LSD without consent, and observed through two-way mirrors. The operation ran from 1954 to 1966, using taxpayer money to fund drug-fueled sex experiments on American citizens.

▲ 0💬 56— CIA (declassified)

1960

1 receipt

CONFIRMEDJanuary 1, 1960·Intelligence

The CIA conducted secret mind control experiments on unwitting American and Canadian citizens

MK-Ultra was a covert CIA program that used LSD, electroshock therapy, and other techniques to develop mind control methods. The program ran from 1953 to 1973 and was confirmed through Church Committee hearings.

▲ 0💬 33— CIA (declassified)

1975

1 receipt

PENDING REVIEWNovember 20, 1975·Intelligence

CIA Sent Poison to Kill Congo's First Democratically Elected Leader

The Church Committee confirmed that President Eisenhower authorized the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo. MKUltra chief Sidney Gottlieb personally carried lethal toxins to Africa. When the poison plot failed, the CIA funded and supported rival leaders who captured and executed Lumumba in January 1961, then installed the dictator Mobutu who ruled for 32 years.

▲ 0💬 37— Church Committee

1977

3 receipts

CONFIRMEDAugust 1, 1977·Intelligence

CIA-Funded Psychiatrist Permanently Destroyed Patients' Minds in Montreal Hospital

Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, funded by the CIA's MKUltra Subproject 68 at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, subjected patients admitted for minor conditions to 'psychic driving' (forcing them to listen to messages 500,000 times), medically induced comas lasting months, and electroshock therapy at 30-40 times normal power. Patients were permanently debilitated, losing memories and basic functions. The Canadian government paid $100,000 to each of 77 victims in 1992.

▲ 0💬 61— MKUltra Survivors

CONFIRMEDAugust 3, 1977·Intelligence

MKUltra: LSD at 44 universities, Black prisoners dosed 77 days straight, evidence destroyed

1953-1964: 44 universities, 12 hospitals, 3 prisons. All world LSD bought for $240K. Kentucky: 7 Black men, 77 days. Helms destroyed files; 20K survived by accident.

▲ 0💬 212— Viral Posts / Conspiracy Researchers

CONFIRMEDAugust 3, 1977·Media & Propaganda

Project Artichoke: CIA Tested Mind Control Techniques on Unwitting Subjects for Interrogation

Declassified CIA documents revealed Project Artichoke used drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation on subjects without consent to develop interrogation techniques, later informing media portrayals of brainwashing.

▲ 0💬 78

1994

1 receipt

CONFIRMEDNovember 28, 1994·Intelligence

CIA Scientist Secretly Dosed with LSD Then Thrown from a 13th-Floor Window

In 1953, CIA biochemist Frank Olson was secretly dosed with LSD by MKUltra chief Sidney Gottlieb at a retreat. Nine days later, he fell to his death from a 13th-floor hotel window in New York City, ruled a suicide. When his body was exhumed in 1994, forensic scientist James Starrs found cranial injuries consistent with a blow to the head before the fall, and the manner of death was changed to 'unknown.' The CIA paid the family $750,000 in 1975.

▲ 0💬 52— James Starrs

2002

1 receipt

CONFIRMEDJanuary 1, 2002·Intelligence

The CIA operated secret 'black site' prisons across the globe where detainees were tortured using techniques from its own MKUltra research

After 9/11, the CIA operated secret prisons (black sites) in countries including Poland, Romania, Thailand, and Lithuania where detainees were subjected to 'enhanced interrogation techniques' including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions. The 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report found the CIA rendered hundreds of people to countries known for torture. Some techniques traced back to MKUltra behavioral research.

▲ 0💬 62— US Senate Intelligence Committee

2023

1 receipt

PENDING REVIEWJanuary 9, 2023·Health & Pharma

FDA Commissioner joined Pfizer board in 3 months, flagged vaccine-critical tweets for censorship

Gottlieb: FDA May 2017-April 2019, Pfizer board June 2019. Twitter Files: flagged tweets as Pfizer child vaccine pending. Twitter found no violation but labeled anyway.

▲ 0💬 189— Media Critics

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