Doc 0000184489
CIA
This document, part of the CIA's MKUltra collection, appears to be a letter or report from May 1961 discussing enthusiastic interest in practical applications of principles from an attached page, with redactions obscuring specific details.
This is one record. The archive holds the rest — ask it anything across the MKUltra files and every answer is cited to the page.
Ask the archive about this →·-·-· _...----· . .. ... - .~ ·:.•. . .' .. _ ~ _. ,. .. . . --;.. . . · As you will see fronl th~underinlcr buckslips, I for'warded this to before gi~it ·to you. Today _had a short talk with ....t which tin1e he expressed ·-t. real enthusiasm for investigating son1e practical application of the principles :.~nvot".e.d ~n the attached p~ This gets very exotic very fast, bu~ts convinced ·-' ·that there ~re numerous very interesting __ ,·things that could be aone within the present · ·state-~ .this _·particular art. He asked me for -an opinion -as ·-to whether you would look. , - tfavorabty_:t:in his pursuing this fairly··_..:_. ·· '" ·:vi_gorously.--to include spending ·some - --,money. -1 said 1 was !easonably sure you -..Would be ,;and that you would wish to discuss this with lrlm in due course. ;. <--. \ c. -~ I ... - _. ... ...... j;• . ---· _...._.-;~_ { •· ;" ... . ~' -· - • .. .,., ; . _t:,. . " '~ ·-""!""
The page features a digital rendering of a vault door on the left, possibly symbolizing secure storage of information. The rest of the page is filled with text, indicating that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents. Specifically, it is housed in the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection and contains over 20,000 pages declassified by the CIA. The text also provides a URL for accessing the collection. There are no photographs of people, locations, or equipment, nor are there any handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.
The document contains handwritten annotations at the top, including the word "File" and "May 1961". There are several redacted black boxes obscuring text and potentially images. Towards the bottom center, there's a circular ink stamp that appears to be a signature or marking. The page also has the number "76" written in the bottom right corner. The overall page is heavily filled with typed text and appears to be a letter or report, with the annotations and redactions suggesting it's not a blank form or standard document.
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