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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1977-1978

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 29

Scope and Contents

Largely correspondence between the CIA and Everett regarding MKUltra, a CIA-sponsored research project seeking to design drugs for human behavior modification in the 1950s and 1960s. After aspects of this project were unearthed by the U.S. Senate's Church Committee in the 1970s, the agency came under increasing pressure to publicly release the full details of the project, including universities' involvement. Correspondence regards this release. Folder contains a report of two projects conducted at the New School in 1962 that received funding through MKUltra; the first attempted to discern relationships between body type and personality characteristics, and the second concerned graphology and psychopathologies. It appears that the researchers for at least one of these projects was unaware of CIA sponsorship.

Dates

  • 1977-1978