QUESTION
What did the CIA's MKUltra program actually do — and how do we know?
ANSWER
SOURCED · 3 RECORDSMKUltra was a CIA program, approved in 1953, that funded mind-control and interrogation research — including dosing people with LSD without their knowledge.[1] In 1973, director Richard Helms ordered its files destroyed.[2] About 20,000 documents survived because they had been misfiled. A FOIA request surfaced them in 1977,[3] and the Senate held public hearings that August.[2]