The House Oversight Committee will hold hearings next week regarding the CIA’s Cold War-era MKUltra program, which reportedly attempted to create mind controlled assassins.
“Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Taskforce,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) announced on X last week.
The MKUltra experiments were intended to test the effects of hallucinogenic and psychoactive drugs, as well as forms of psychotherapy – including electroshock therapy – on human subjects, aiming to research and perfect torture and interrogation methods, which could be used to create “Manchurian candidates,” who could be “programmed” to carry out acts, including assassinations.
The experiments were supplemented by other CIA programs including MKNAOMI, which tested the effects of biological and chemical agents and delivery systems for covert operations and assassinations, and MKDELTA, which put MKULTRA methods into operation in the field.
A predecessor of the program, Project Artichoke, also investigated how drugs and chemicals could be covertly distributed to populations, including via food, water, beer, and vaccinations.
Rep. Luna follows in the footsteps of other lawmakers who have previously attempted to shed light on the MKUltra program.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford directed his vice president, Nelson Rockefeller, to investigate the CIA’s domestic activities and reports of unwitting MKUltra test subjects, known as the Rockefeller Commission.
That same year, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) also led a Senate select committee, known as the Church Committee, investigating reported CIA abuses, surveillance and rumored assassination plots.
At one point during the hearing, lawmakers showed a gun retrofitted to shoot poison darts that could covertly kill a subject by supposedly causing a heart attack.
A hearing in 1977 conducted by Sen. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.), Robert. F. Kennedy Jr.’s uncle, also sought to uncover more details about the MKUltra’s human experimentation, drug testing and behavioral modifications.
It will be very interesting to see what new findings are uncovered in the House’s upcoming probe.
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