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Declassified records and Senate hearings confirm Project MKUltra's covert LSD and behavior-control experiments (1953–1964) and systemic CIA oversight failures.

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CIASidney GottliebAllen DullesFrank OlsonSenate Select Committee on Intelligence (Church Committee)Richard HelmsSeymour HershHistory.comBritannicaBookey/Stephen Kinzer

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CIA FOIA reading room (declassified records), History.com (April 10, 1953 reference), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1977 hearings), Britannica (Mar 3, 2026), Wikipedia, Bookey summary of Stephen Kinzer's Poisoner in Chief (Feb 2026), New York Times (Seymour Hersh, 1974), Family Jewels report (1973), 1994 New York City medical examiner reinvestigation

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Provide a detailed report of the CIA MK Ultra Program, covering its origins, key experiments, institutional oversight failures, and long-term consequences on policy and public trust.

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