Doc 0000184549
CIA
This document is a declassified CIA memorandum from September 29, 1953, which has been heavily redacted and contains handwritten annotations and an approval for release stamp dated June 1, 1978.
This is one record. The archive holds the rest — ask it anything across the MKUltra files and every answer is cited to the page.
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The image is a graphic overlay on a black background, featuring a stylized depiction of a bank vault door on the left side. The vault is metallic with visible gears and locking mechanisms, illuminated by a blue glow. To the right of the vault, the title "THE BLACK VAULT" is displayed in a large, distressed, white font with a blue outline. Below the title, white text describes the document's origin from an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection housed at "The Black Vault," and provides a URL for online access. There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.
The document is a declassified CIA memorandum, heavily redacted and visually aged. Several rectangular blocks of black ink obscure portions of the text. Handwritten annotations, including checkmarks and what appear to be initials ("H", "B", "C"), are scattered throughout the document. An official stamp indicates "APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: 1-JUN 1978". There is also handwritten numbering in the bottom right corner, "4-248" and "99". The document contains typed text, implying official correspondence, with some handwritten date "29 September 1953". No photographs, diagrams, or structures are present.
Original source: view the released document