1960 Central Intelligence Agency / MKULTRA

Introduction

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In July 1959, a professor of Social Psychology at Texas Christian University wrote the Human Ecology Fund (a CIA front organization) regarding the possibility of a modest grant (by today's standards) to study environmental affects on human behavior. He said he was planning to make this his main research interest for the next several years. But after a visit from someone at the Agency, he wrote that he was prepared to immediately begin "a critical review of literature and scientific developments related to the recording, analysis and interpretation of bioelectric signals from the human organism and activation of human behavior by remote means". His proposal, as modified, became MKULTRA, Subproject 119. He also sent the Agency a proposal he had made elsewhere to build a powerful EEG machine with an inbuilt capacity for the "diagnostic and scientific interpretation of the recorded brain waves", but there is nothing in the file to indicate what became of this proposal.

Because the CIA has recently offered for sale a CD set containing 18,000 pages of mind control documents they have already declassified, we are displaying here only one, three-page document. It was not taken off the CIA disks but is from the collection of documents author John Marks donated to the National Security Archive, a non-profit organization associated with George Washington University, Washington, D.C. His book, "The Search for 'The Manchurian Candidate:' The CIA and Mind Control", Times Books, NY, 1979, remains the classic work on the CIA's notorious MKULTRA program.

Note particularly John Marks' handwritten note in the left margin of page 3: "ability to program a killer".

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