Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification
| Author | U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research |
|---|---|
| Published | August 3, 1977 |
| Format | Report |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — The record of the August 1977 Senate hearing on MKULTRA, the CIA’s secret 1950s–60s program of drug and behavior-modification research, including tests on unwitting people.
A joint hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (chaired by Daniel Inouye) and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources (chaired by Edward Kennedy), held August 3, 1977, in the 95th Congress, and printed by the Government Printing Office.
It followed the discovery that year of financial records from MKULTRA that had survived the 1973 order to destroy the program’s files. The record includes testimony from CIA Director Stansfield Turner and other officials, and appended documents describing subprojects that funded research at universities, hospitals and prisons on drugs such as LSD, hypnosis and interrogation, including the testing of drugs on people who did not know they were being dosed.
This file is a reformatted transcription of the printed hearing (each page carries a running header) rather than a scan of the GPO volume.
What it is: an official U.S. Senate hearing record and primary source; the documented basis behind much later writing about MKULTRA.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Original source: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
238 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.