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CIA Mk-Ultra: The Korean War POW Experiments

CIA Mk-Ultra: The Korean War POW Experiments

Central Intelligence Agency

Paperback

International Relations

ISBN13: 9798259504325
Publisher: Nimble Ultra
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 908
Weight: 4.54
Height: 1.79 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

From July 1951 to at least 1963, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted a systematic program of research into mind control, behavioral modification, and human experimentation under the operational designations ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA. The programs emerged from anxieties about Communist brainwashing during the Korean War and drew on the institutional momentum of wartime interrogation research. They eventually encompassed hypnosis, chemical agents (including LSD, mescaline, and barbiturates), sensory deprivation, electroconvulsive therapy, and other coercive techniques applied to subjects who typically had no knowledge they were participating in government experiments. The program was directed for most of its operational life by Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist who served as chief of the Technical Services Division and who later acknowledged his central role in Senate testimony and in civil litigation. Most of the program's records were destroyed in 1973 on orders from CIA Director Richard Helms, an act that has permanently limited the historical record. What survived became public through the Church Committee investigations of 1975 and a 1977 Senate hearing specifically on MKULTRA.

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