Doc 0000144828
CIA
This is an excerpt from a CIA Office Memorandum dated August 6, 1951, concerning "Bluebird Project," which requests the addition of information to a security briefing list.
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 provided image is a webpage graphic, not a declassified document page. It features a stylized illustration of a vault door on the left side, rendered in shades of gray and blue. The text on the right side, in white and yellow, explains that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection and providing a URL. There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures present on this graphic.
The document is an official "Office Memorandum" from the United States Government, dated August 6, 1951. It has a handwritten notation "45" circled in the upper right corner, possibly indicating a file number or reference. The subject line reads "Bluebird Project," and the main text is a single numbered point requesting that the recipient add information to a security briefing list covering the project. There are several areas of the document that appear to be heavily redacted or obscured with ink smudges and what look like censor marks, particularly around the "TO" and "FROM" fields and a large horizontal area below the subject line. No photographs, diagrams, or experimental details are visible.
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