DNSA: CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA

The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA collection is an archive of over 1,200 documents compiled by George Washington University, which was one of the university sites previously used by Project MKUltra. Many of the newest documents came from John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Proquest published the full collection on MKUltra – over 1,200 documents – in its Digital National Security Archive (DNSA): CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA collection. This collection was last updated in December 2024 with the newly-released CIA Personnel File of Sidney Gottlieb’s, and Gottlieb’s 1983 Deposition Testimony.

Oct 2025: The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later from George Washington University’s archive

The Black Vault Collection

The Black Vault’s extensive CIA MKULTRA Collection allows you to freely download:

downloads of the original 2004 CDs released about MKULTRA, exact reproductions of the documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, over 1GB in total.
the October 2018 MKULTRA documents
The November 2018 Behavior Modification MKULTRA documents
plus additional declassified documents

The Internet Archive of The Black Vault MKUltra files

Download the huge Black Vault zip file archive from the Internet archive. Over 3 million pages.

The CIA Reading Room

Declassified Project MKULTRA Freedom of Information Act files are available direct from the CIA Reading Room on the CIA website.

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

View or download the Joint Hearing with Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (August 3, 1977) directly from the US Senate website.

MKULTRA Victim Testimonies at the US Senate Hearing Videos

Digitised videos of a number of MKULTRA survivors giving oral evidence to the US Senate Committee hearings are available below.
These videos are hosted on YouTube channels outside our control. If would be helpful if you could report any broken links.

Archived sources

1977 Senate MKULTRA Hearing. The complete 171-page record, including testimony and dozens of MKULTRA documents on various subprojects.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170106195030/propagandamatrix.com/archive_mind_control.html

CIA and Mind Control An archived copy if an Irish site with links to MK-ULTRA documents.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150104034508/http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/mkultra2.htm

A list of 309 declassified MK-ULTRA Project Documents
https://web.archive.org/web/20130210215221/http://www.michael-robinett.com:80/declass/c000.htm

MK-ULTRA on Parascope: Transcripts of selected documents.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120510061755/http://www.parascope.com/ds/mkultradocs.htm

Research, books and notable publications on MKULTRA

Harper, D (2021). Afterward: Dr Ewen Cameron’s “de-patterning” experiments and the CIA’s MK-Ultra programme in Page, R. & Casagrande, O. (eds), The American Way: Stories of Invasion. Manchester: Comma Press

Marks, J. (1988). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. New York: W.W. Norton.

Ross, Colin A. (2006). The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists. Manitou Communications. ISBN-10: 0976550806 ISBN-13: 9780-976550806, eBook ISBN: 9780982185193. Originally published as BLUEBIRD: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality By Psychiatrists, 2000, ISBN 0-9704525-1-9.
Note: The appendices contain copies of the following documentation on MK-ULTRA, and related projects.

Appendix A G.H. ESTABROOKS Documents
Appendix B BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE Documents
Appendix C MKULTRA Contracts and SELECTED Documents
Appendix D MKSEARCH Contracts
Appendix E Doctors in the Network (Diagrams only – Funding Fronts For ClA Mind Control Research, Manchurian Candidate – Creation and Denial, and Brain Electrode Implant Research)
Appendix F MARTIN ORNE CIA and Military Contracts
Appendix G JOLLY WEST CIA and Military Contracts
Appendix H EWEN CAMERON Documents. Includes nursing notes of MK-ULTRA survivor Linda MacDonald.
Appendix I Agents Tested on Humans by the U.S. Army, including Viruses, Bacterial, Vaccines and Mind Control Drugs
Appendix J Other CIA Documents
Appendix K PROJECT OFTEN Documents
Appendix L The AMES LEAF Room (photos only)

updated 2026-02-03

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