Author: Pedro Martínez
Essay
PROYECT MK-ULTRA Project MKUltra sometimes referred to as CIA’s mind control program; they made human experiments, they tortured and created problems with foreigner people, U.S.A civilians and Russian spies, some of the problems were diseases and violations of human rights, the goal was search of techniques for Cold War. Before this project, some precursor’s experiments were made by the Nazi’s Scientifics. As a result, they began MKUltra; a small amount of members of the government knew its existence. The CIA made this program for Cold War causing and making experiments and tortures; they made goals for this project, they thought this would be a good excuse for mind control experiments but they don’t imagined the damages and the consequences they would create, abusing civilians and making experiments with LSD. The program began in the early 1950’s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, the meaning of MKUltra; MK is a cryptonym for secret programs, followed by the word Ultra which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of WWII intelligence, the project was sponsored by the agency’s Technical Services Staff. In 1945 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip a precursor experiment, the program recruited former Nazi scientists after several programs, they created MKUltra. Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, The project was started on the order of CIA by director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953. Its aim was to develop mind-controlling drugs, as well as, use this against the soviet bloc in Cold War. Most MKUltra records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of Richard Helms, of then CIA director; it has been difficult, if not impossible, to investigate and understand of the more than 150 sub-projects sponsored by MKUltra and related programs. 11