Doc 0000144740
CIA
This document is a declassified CIA memorandum from September 23, 1952, concerning Project ARTICHOKE, with significant redactions obscuring details of the discussion and participants.
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 →.. . , , . . SUDJF..:T: ARTICHOKE .. 11ot !u1ve boen c:(plorin~ this fu:-ther c:'l_ th~ cec~si:;:~. of 19 Scpt~b~r -~sit nnd, tllthoug!:· ;.:r.~..ttii~~~C.ccs not this to b.c the c~se, he vill check .... ith CT3. ' .• . 1.. Cn 2:3 Septe!'!lb~r, Col. &..::::0:.~ called to r.:!y th~ =:. h.J had t~l~:cd to Col. ~f the SurGe~;n Ge:-:cral1 s C!'ficc ~~9.. ...... , th : 3, t ~ • , :> ; _ ~ ., : ~ · • a d ac • v J. • S C:l • h J • .m ~ • . l 1a t h e t: • :1 ' . n.1- :s ·.:erj' } l.._f gn'-.,;. 7 o .f..' ~ r. ~ • . . .• : •. a .. .'.-..".; -a. •~" .r-- e.nd that it vill b~ essential to ~:cap hir.'l C'..!t iZlto tha pict•.::-,): ·I adv"lscxi~~;;'~~ of 1:1y co::vcrs!ltic:l \lit.h !·:r. ~:~band. cf the prcccd~.o.rc outlined by hi."J.. Col. ~is v;ry ple:~sd \lith this UT~~~C~:'H:>nt nnd considers .that thiS CCOr~nnti~:l \::_ll give. hi."l L"'..:!.)~..L."'l CIA support. 0 •
The image displays a textual overlay on a dark background, featuring a stylized graphic of a vault door on the left. The text explains that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically within the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection. It further states that the collection contains over 20,000 declassified pages from the CIA and is available for download at a provided URL. No photographs, handwritten annotations, stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures are present. The visual content consists solely of the vault graphic and explanatory text.
The page is a typewritten memorandum with a date of "23 September 1952" at the top. There are several handwritten annotations, including a circled number "169" in the upper right corner and "S" next to it. The body of the text contains numerous redactions, obscuring names and specific details throughout the document. Some of these redactions appear as solid black bars or smudged areas. There are no photographs, diagrams, stamps, or forms visible on the page. The document is solely text and handwritten annotations.
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