Psychoactives, War, and Covert Operations
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| Apr 13, 1953 |
| CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes Project MKULTRA under the direction of Sidney Gottlieb. Gottlieb later testifies that MKULTRA's mission was "to investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual's behavior by covert means."
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| The operational division is called MKDELTA, and the whole project is run out of the CIA Technical Services Staff. |
| References Marks J. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. W. W. Norton & Co, 1979. |
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