Project MKULTRA

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Better Essays

    Project MKULTRA

    • 1825 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Project MKULTRA is code name for an underground, illegal Central Intelligence Agency’s human research program. The program is provided direct oversight and control by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This covert government operation started its operation in the early 1950’s and officially ended in 1973.This program was the last in its era to study interrogation, mind control, behavior modification and human experimentation. The preceding project included Project CHATTER (1947) and Project BLUEBIRD

    • 1825 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Project Mkultra Ethics

    • 420 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Project MkUltra, a “mind control program” instated by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1973, is a prime example of an ethics violation, that is still discussed today and even used as a basis for tv series’ (Stranger Things) due to its immorality. During this time period, the American Central Intelligence Agency conducted tests on human subjects, without their consent or knowledge. This was an effort to control minds and discover a drug that could force prisoners to answer questions truthfully

    • 420 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    August 3, 1977; the CIA went to court for being accused of forming a mind control research project called MKULTRA. The United States government started the MKULTRA project to teach CIA agents how to avoid the use of mind control in other countries. Laura Knight-Jadczyk said “Convinced that German scientists could help America’s postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize “Project Paperclip,” a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America’s behalf during

    • 999 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Project Mkultra Project

    • 1035 Words
    • 5 Pages

    group project with several classmates on a topic that is rather unheard of. The topic we discussed during our class period was called Project MKUltra. Project MKUltra was a project created by the CIA. The CIA did illegal experiments on numerous human subjects from the United States and Canada in order to develop drugs, such as LSD, in order “to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to for confessions through mind control” (“CIA MKUltra Collection”). The project began

    • 1035 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    were much more radical: international codes violated, laws broken, and basic human rights disregarded. The illegal and unethical nature of the project supplies reasonable cause for reprimands. Congress should punish the CIA for a series of inhumane experiments which took place throughout the 1950’s. The experiments in question are referred to as “Project MKUltra”. They were put into place after alleged mind-control techniques were performed on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea. The CIA desired similar

    • 431 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Project MKUltra, sometimes referred to as Project Monarch, is a program of many different experiments tested on American Citizens by the CIA. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control. Project MKUltra started in the 1950’s and lasted around 20 years. The CIA experimented on

    • 1329 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    intelligence to U.S President and officials. The CIA created a top secret experiment to try and control people’s mind. According to the CIA’s file, “MK-ULTRA/Mind Control Experiments”, which started in 1953 and continued to 1964. The main goal for this project was to to brainwash people and reprogram their minds. At first, the CIA denied of doing such thing, but later on admitted that they have done mind control experiments on nonvoluntary people. Although, they said that they have stopped completely since

    • 1373 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    the last few decades there has been a war going on, not a war of bullets or missiles but a war of ideas and control. A group of individuals wishes nothing more than to control the world’s population and resources. It all started with Project MKULTRA. Project MKULTRA was started in the 1950s by the United States Government to study the psychological states of a human in different situations and environments and whether or not a human could be programmed or controlled- it has come much farther than

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    started in the 50’s during the Korean War.” Concerned about the rumors of Communist brainwashing of POWs, the CIA director Allen Dulled sanctioned the MKULTRA program in April 1953.Project MKULTRA is one of the most famous activities relating to the CIA’s efforts toward mass mind control. There were many different tests conducted as a part of the project, including some conducted on volunteers, inmates, and unsuspecting targets. (Wolfe 1) It later became scandalously known for the many abnormal and

    • 1461 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    MK Ultra was a project formed by the CIA as a mind control program (“Project MKULTRA,” 2016). This program implemented a new way to interrogate by using torture and drugs such as marijuana and LSD (“Project MKULTRA,” 2016). The reason for these tactics were to weaken the individual so the agency could get a confession through mind control (“Id,”2016). Headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, MK Ultra was started officially on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953 (“Id,”2016). The

    • 1862 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
Previous
Page12345678950