CIA MKUltra Experiments

This cluster discusses the CIA's Project MKUltra, a historical program involving illegal mind control experiments, LSD testing, and unethical human experimentation, with users sharing Wikipedia links, senate reports, and references to its reality versus conspiracy theories.

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elthran Feb 23, 2016 View on HN

Interesting idea - I wonder if this was investigated by the CIA during the MKUltra days?

aziaziazi Jan 2, 2026 View on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

lazide Oct 4, 2023 View on HN

Due to likely CIA sponsored mental abuse (MKULTRA), absurdly.

marrone12 Jun 16, 2021 View on HN

It really happened, there were senate hearings about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

rangibaby Aug 24, 2017 View on HN

CIA mind control program was (is?) real though

charonn0 Apr 16, 2015 View on HN

It sounds like conspiracy theorist fodder, but it's not: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/95mkultra.pdf

asveikau Jun 17, 2025 View on HN

Supposedly mkultra was also experimenting with that use case.

swebs Jan 19, 2022 View on HN

Sometimes conspiracy theories get proven right.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

ncmncm Jan 15, 2021 View on HN

Greenwald's behavior in recent years is, for all the world, like someone whose access to information is being ever-so-carefully managed so as to subconsciously lead him down a path to discredit himself and drive away his support group.If that is what is happening, it is terrifying that it has been achieved. Such a capability might have been a goal of the original MK-ULTRA project. Its original purpose was, by the evidence, to test, on the US public, methods of thought control. An early p

AndrewBissell Nov 23, 2020 View on HN

An interesting prior HN thread on MKULTRA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165137