CIA mind-control program: not gone, not forgotten.

“In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in an
extensive program of human experimentation [MKULTRA], using drugs,
psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human
behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes… Most of
the MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by the order of
then DCI Richard Helms…Helms testified that he agreed to destroy the
records because ‘there had been relationships with outsiders in
government agencies and other organizations and that these would be
sensitive in this kind of a thing but that since the [mind-control]
program was over and finished and done with, we thought we would just
get rid of files as well, so that anybody who assisted us in the past
would not be subject to follow-up questions, embarrassment, if you
will.’”



Helms was not only admitting he destroyed the records, he was stating
that the MKULTRA program deployed, through contracts, “outsiders” to
carry out mind control experiments. He was determined to protect the
outsiders, to keep their identity and work secret. He was also dedicated
to preventing these people from exposing the nature of their
mind-control work.
 


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