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This document, from the CIA's MKUltra program, outlines a proposal for a research trip to investigate the feasibility of establishing a research project involving interrogation techniques using drugs, hypnosis, and polygraphs, as well as exploring other offensive capabilities.
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The page features a digital graphic of a bank vault door on the left, rendered in shades of grey and blue. The text on the right announces that the document originates from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection compiled by the CIA. The text also provides a URL for downloading the collection. There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures present on this page.
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